Joseph Kennedy Papers, 1879-1936

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence with Vilhjalmur Stefansson: September 1901 - June 1930

Folder 2: Correspondence with Webster Merrifield: March 1892 - January 1916

Folder 3: General Correspondence: January 1879 - February 1909

Folder 4: General Correspondence: January 1910 - March 1930

Folder 5: Correspondence with Dr. James H. Hyslop: March 1905 - July 1923

Folder 6: Biographical Material, Reminiscences, and Newspaper Clippings

Folder 7: Correspondence and General Materials Regarding Philosophy: 1909 - 1919

Folder 8: Manuscripts:

Item 1: “The Irish Question,” Letter to the Editor, Grand Forks Herald, April 29, 1921

Item 2: “The Need for Educational Research,” Phi Delta Kappan, October 1924

Item 3: Untitled Article for the Phi Delta Kappa Newsletter, May 4, 1929

Folder 9: Speeches:

Item 1: “Taking Stock,” Northeastern Division of the State Teachers’ Association Grand Forks, October 13, 1922

Item 2: “The Open Mind,” 1916

Item 3: “The Spirit of the Model High,” undated

Folder 10: Publication: “Geography of North and South Dakota” Supplement to Frye’s Geography by Joseph Kennedy and Willis E. Johnson. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1906.

Folder 11: Miscellaneous Material Regarding Will Duran

Folder 12: Speeches:

Item 1: “Human Ups and Downs,” Fortnightly Club, December 1926 “Toleration,” Fortnightly Club, 1922

Item 2: “Religion—Art or Science?”, Fortnightly Club, January 4, 1904 (includes references)

Item 3: “Religion, Its Nature and Purpose,” Circa 1918 (includes references)

Folder 13: Manuscripts:

Item 1: “The Power of Suggestion,” undated;

Item 2: “The Subjective or Objective,” January 1931;

Item 3: “The Relation of Normal Schools to the College and University,” undated

Folder 14: Manuscripts:

Item 1: “Out of Joint,” Western Journal of Education, September, 1912;

Item 2: “A Page or Two,” January 6, 1932;

Item 3: “Outlines of Lectures on Education,” undated

Item 4: “Educational Progress,” 1914 or 1915

Folder 15: Speeches:

Item 1: “School Libraries,” Southeastern Education Association, Hillsboro, May 10, 1902

Item 2: “Educational Progress in North Dakota,” North Dakota Education Association, Bismarck, November 2, 1917

Item 3: “The School Superintendent in Territorial Days,” Phi Delta Kappa, April 3, 1930

Item 4: “Prohibition,” March 16, 1931

Folder 16: Speeches:

Item 1: “High Schools, Modern,” UND Faculty Meeting, April 9, 1908

Item 2: “Education in the Large,” North Dakota Education Association, Grand Forks, November 8, 1928

Item 3: “Teaching as a ?Fine Art’,” UND, April 5, 1929

Item 4: “Educational Perspective,” UND, June 15, 1914

Item 5: “The Professional School, Its Function,” Southeastern Teachers’ Association, Hillsboro, May 7, 1904

Item 6: “Certificating Teachers,” undated

Folder 17: Manuscripts:

Item 1: “Confusion Worse Confounded”

Item 2: “The Practical and the Cultural”

Item 3: “Ideals”

Item 4: “Human Products”

Item 5: “Good Citizenship”

Folder 18: Speeches:

Item 1: “Elementary Schools -Teachers For,” March 1904, Minnesota Educational Association

Item 2: “Education, Some Thoughts on,” February 1899 and November 1900

Item 3: “The Influence in the Community of the Teacher’s Ideals,” Northeast Division, State Teachers’ Association, Grand Forks, October 18, 1923

Folder 19: Miscellaneous Material Regarding Evolution

Folder 20: Miscellaneous Materials Including a Ledger Book Containing Articles by Kennedy: 1885-1901

Folder 21: Manuscript, “Points of View in Education and Life,” Sections 1-115: 1928

Folder 22: Manuscript, “Points of View in Education and Life,” Sections 116-185: 1928

Folder 23: Manuscript, “Flashes”: 1934

Folder 24: Manuscript, “Introductory Ethics,” Chapters 1-10: 1935

Folder 25: Manuscript, “Introductory Ethics,” Chapters 11-26: 1935

Folder 26: Manuscript, “Introductory Ethics,” Chapters 1-10: 1936

Folder 27: Manuscript, “Introductory Ethics,” Chapters 11-27: 1936

Folder 28: Manuscript, “Modern Logic,” Chapters 1-14: undated

Folder 29: Manuscript, “Modern Logic,” Chapters 15-28: undated

Folder 30: Manuscript, “Principles and Problems of Education,” Chapters 1-11: 1934

Folder 31: Manuscript, “Principles and Problems of Education,” Chapters 12-23: 1934

Box 2

Folder 1: Manuscripts and Publications:

Item 1: “The Nature of Democracy,” Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota: October 1920

Item 2: “The Power of Suggestion,” undated

Item 3: “Good and Evil; Right and Wrong,” Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, July 1911

Item 4: “The Open Mind,” 1916

Item 5: “Toleration,” undated

Item 6: “Evolution,” undated

Item 7: “Philosophy and Democracy,” undated

Item 8: “Teachers and Standards,” Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, undated

Item 9: “An Epoch Maker: William James,” Western Journal of Education, October 1911

Folder 2: Speeches:

Item 1: “What of Philosophy?”, UND Philosophy Club, May 1933

Item 2: “The Fundamental Conflict,” UND Philosophy Club, October 1919

Item 3: “Whither Bound?”, Fortnightly Club of Grand Forks, October 1931

Item 4: “Good Citizenship,” North Dakota Education Association, October 1929 “Human Ups and Downs,” Men’s Club of Gethsemane Cathedral, Fargo, February 1927

Folder 3: North Dakota Education Association--Miscellaneous

Folder 4: University of North Dakota—Miscellaneous

Folder 5: Miscellaneous Certificates and Diplomas

Folder 6: Photographs 1-10

28-1: Joseph Kennedy's mother, undated

28-2: Mrs. Kennedy with sons James and Laurence on porch of house, 1895

28-3: Judge Grannis(?), undated

28-4: Mrs. Joseph Kennedy (Elizabeth), undated

28-5: Jacob Summers standing in oat field at site of the Bean School near Nicollet, MN, 12 July 1928

28-6: George A. MacFarland, 1929

28-7: Laurence Kennedy in cap and gown with unidentified man, undated

28-8: Unidentified woman with fish on shore of lake, undated

28-9: View of St. Peter, MN, from the west, 12 July 1928

28-10: Shoreline of Diamond Point, Bemidji, undated

Folder 7: Photographs 11-20

28-11: Logging camp, undated

28-12: Cattle in western North Dakota, undated

28-13 & 28-14: Site in field of former log cabin where Joseph Kennedy was born in 1858, 12 July 1928

28-15: Teams of horses plowing a field, undated

28-16: Indian camp near Grand Forks, September 1897 (one smaller, faded print along with a larger, black/white copy)

28-17: Postcard of old North Dakota capitol building in Bismarck, undated

28-18: Old capitol building in Bismarck, undated

28-19: House of Joseph Kennedy, May 1921

28-20: House of Joseph Kennedy, July 1920

Folder 8: Photographs 21-30

28-21: District 23 schoolhouse in Nicollet County, MN, with Mrs. Kennedy and Kate Gamble, 12 July 1928

28-22: Wright's house - University Avenue (possibly Christopher Wright, 1023 or 1025 University Ave.), ca. 1900

28-23 & 28-24: House at 1100 Broadway (later 1100 or 1102 University Avenue); first house Joseph Kennedy bought in Grand Forks, 1895

28-25: Porch of house at 1102 University Avenue (owned later by William McKinsey), ca. 1900

28-26: Living room of Kennedy house at 1112 University Avenue (the family moved here in the early 1900s), ca. 1905

28-27: Former schoolhouse at Oshawa, MN (District 23) where Kennedy attended as a child and later taught, undated

28-28: House in Hillsboro, North Dakota where James P. Kennedy was born, ca. 1890

28-29: House in Nicollet, MN, that once was the Bean schoolhouse where Kennedy first taught in 1876, probably July 1928

28-30: Hebron schoolhouse (now a barn) where Kennedy taught 1882-1883, 12 July 1928

Folder 9: Photographs 31-40

28-31: Panorama of UND campus, ca. 1900 (from left: Budge Hall, Old Main, Davis Hall with Chandler Hall in back, Macnie Hall)

28-32: Old Main with Davis Hall to the left, early 1900s

28-33: Panoramic postcard of UND campus, 1905

28-34: Kennedy cottage at Bemidji, 1911

28-35: Kennedy cottage at Bemidji with family members seated on steps, undated

28-36: Joseph Kennedy with dog on steps of Bemidji cottage, undated

28-37: Horse "Nellie" harnessed to carriage, 23 April 1898

28-38: Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Kennedy with unidentified woman holding a rabbit and seated on running board of car, undated

28-39 & 28-40: Mr. & Mrs. Kennedy (25th wedding anniversary), June 1914

Folder 10: Photographs 41-54

28-41: Overn (Alfred V.; Professor of Education) and Joseph Kennedy, 1931

28-42: House at 1208 University Avenue (birthplace of Laurence), photographed by Laurence, April 1916

28-43: Joseph Kennedy posing with a fish he caught, undated

28-44: Joseph Kennedy with dog Jack, undated

28-45: Joseph Kennedy as a boy, undated

28-46: Joseph Kennedy as a teenager, ca. 1870

28-47: Joseph Kennedy as a student at the University of Minnesota, ca. 1879

28-48: Portrait of Joseph Kennedy, undated

28-49: Joseph Kennedy - University of North Dakota, undated

28-50: Joseph Kennedy as an older man, undated

28-51: Joseph Kennedy with bicycle and red Buick automobile, 1922

28-52 & 28-53: Portrait of Kennedy, undated

28-54: James Kennedy as a young man, undated