Frank L. Anders Papers, 1860-1966

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Personal Correspondence

This series consists of the personal correspondence of Anders for 1892 to 1966. It contains his personal records and awards, and correspondence of various organizations, such as the Medal of Honor, Legion of Valor and the Masonic Temple.

Box 1

Folder 1: Personal correspondence, 1892-1899

Folder 2: Personal correspondence, 1900-1904

Folder 3: Personal correspondence, 1905-1910

Folder 4: Personal correspondence, 1911-1915

Folder 5: Personal correspondence, 1916-1917

Folder 6: Personal correspondence, January-March, 1918

Folder 7: Personal correspondence, April-June, 1918

Folder 8: Personal correspondence, July-September, 1918

Folder 9: Personal correspondence, October-December, 1918

Folder 10: Personal correspondence, January-May, 1919

Folder 11: Personal correspondence, June-December, 1919

Folder 12: Personal correspondence, 1920

Folder 13: Personal correspondence, 1921-1925

Folder 14: Personal correspondence, 1926-1927

Folder 15: Personal correspondence, 1928-1929

Folder 16: Personal correspondence, 1930-1931

Folder 17: Personal correspondence, 1932-1933

Folder 18: Personal correspondence, 1934

Folder 19: Personal correspondence, 1935

Folder 20: Personal correspondence, 1936

Folder 21: Personal correspondence, 1937-1939

Folder 22: Personal correspondence, 1940-1941

Folder 23: Personal correspondence, 1942

Folder 24: Personal correspondence, 1943

Folder 25: Personal correspondence, 1944-1945

Folder 26: Personal correspondence, 1946

Folder 27: Personal correspondence, 1947-1948

Folder 28: Personal correspondence, 1949

Folder 29: Personal correspondence, 1950

Folder 30: Personal correspondence, 1951-1952

Folder 31: Personal correspondence, 1953

Folder 32: Personal correspondence, 1954

Folder 33: Personal correspondence, 1955

Folder 34: Personal correspondence, 1956

Box 2

Folder 1: Personal correspondence, 1957

Folder 2: Personal correspondence, 1958

Folder 3: Personal correspondence, 1959

Folder 4: Personal correspondence, 1960

Folder 5: Personal correspondence, 1961

Folder 6: Personal correspondence, 1962

Folder 7: Personal correspondence, 1963

Folder 8: Personal correspondence, 1964-1966

Folder 9: Correspondence about North Dakota

Folder 10: Dakota Territory Centennial Committee, 1961

Folder 11: Army awards and records

Folder 12: Biographical information

Folder 13: Personal army related correspondence

Folder 14: Family records

Folder 15: Personal records and awards

Folder 16: Awards

Folder 17: Letters of recognition to Frank L. Anders

Folder 18: Articles of philosophy and theology

Folder 19: Ripen College - miscellaneous

Folder 20: Engineering course notes from Ripen College

Folder 21: Army correspondence course, 1928

Folder 22: Diary of a trip to New York and California, 1955

Folder 23: Ledger, 1902-1903

Folder 24: Journal

Folder 25: Spanish American War - correspondence and records

Folder 26: Spanish American War - miscellaneous

Folder 27: First North Dakota Volunteer Infantry

Folder 28: Medal of Honor correspondence, St. Petersburg, Florida, School Children

Folder 29: Medal of Honor correspondence, 1906-1940

Folder 30: Medal of Honor correspondence, 1941-1943

Folder 31: Medal of Honor correspondence, 1947-1949

Folder 32: Medal of Honor correspondence, 1951-1954

Folder 33: Medal of Honor correspondence, 1955-1957

Folder 34: Medal of Honor correspondence, 1958-1959

Folder 35: Medal of Honor correspondence, 1960-1964

Folder 36: Medal of Honor legislation

Folder 37: Medal of Honor - miscellaneous

Folder 38: Medal of Honor essays and articles

Folder 39: Congressional Medal of Honor Bulletin and convention information, 1961-1965

Folder 40: Congressional Medal of Honor Newsletter and convention information, 1961- 1965

Folder 41: Congressional Medal of Honor correspondence and miscellaneous, 1910-1964

Box 3

Folder 1: Chevrolet Chronicles correspondence

Folder 2: Legion of Valor correspondence, 1925-1926

Folder 3: Legion of Valor correspondence, 1927

Folder 4: Legion of Valor correspondence, 1928-1929

Folder 5: Legion of Valor correspondence, 1930-1936

Folder 6: Legion of Valor correspondence, 1951-1965

Folder 7: Legion of Valor correspondence, undated

Folder 8: Legion of Valor memorabilia, 1924-1965

Folder 9: Legion of Valor publications and essays

Folder 10: Army and Navy Legion of Valor General Orders, 1924-1940

Folder 11: Army and Navy Legion of Valor General Orders, 1958-1962

Folder 12: Legion of Valor - miscellaneous

Folder 13: Masonic Temple membership papers

Folder 14: Miscellaneous memos

Folder 15: Miscellaneous

Series 2: Employment

This series deals with the various areas of employment in Anders’s life. Included is correspondence from 1892 to 1959. Also included are reports, speeches, blueprints, bills, publications, ledgers and notes, all relating to the various jobs Anders held during his lifetime. His work was in the areas of engineering, mining, design, and surveying.

Box 3

Folder 16: Business correspondence, 1892-1894

Folder 17: Business correspondence, 1895

Folder 18: Business correspondence, 1896

Folder 19: Business correspondence, 1897-1899

Folder 20: Business correspondence, 1900-1905

Folder 21: Business correspondence, 1906-1907

Folder 22: Business correspondence, January-May, 1908

Folder 23: Business correspondence, June-December, 1908

Folder 24: Business correspondence, 1909

Folder 25: Business correspondence, 1910-1911

Folder 26: Business correspondence, 1912-1914

Folder 27: Business correspondence, 1915-1916

Folder 28: Business correspondence, 1917-1919

Folder 29: Business correspondence, 1920-1922

Folder 30: Business correspondence, 1923-1925

Folder 31: Business correspondence, 1926-1927

Folder 32: Business correspondence, 1928

Folder 33: Business correspondence, 1929

Folder 34: Business correspondence, 1930-1931

Folder 35: Business correspondence, 1932-1934

Folder 36: Business correspondence, January-May, 1935

Folder 37: Business correspondence, June-December, 1935

Folder 38: Business correspondence, 1936

Folder 39: Business correspondence, 1938-1939

Folder 40: Business correspondence, 1940-1949

Folder 41: Business correspondence, 1950-1959

Folder 42: Mining correspondence

Folder 43: Receipt book from work with the capital commission, May-August, 1931

Folder 44: Historical Record Camp Utilities at Camp Dodge, Iowa, hardbound book

Box 4

Folder 1: Pony Mine, Montana-Misc., 1892-1911

Folder 2: Fond du Lac County Surveyor, 1904-1905

Folder 3: Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company, 1907

Folder 4: Utah Copper Company, 1907-1908

Folder 5: Freement Copper Mines and Copperfield Copper- 1908

Folder 6: Fargo Municipal reports and speeches, 1911-1917

Folder 7: Fargo Municipal reports and speeches, 1913-1917

Folder 8: Army orders and misc., 1918-1919

Folder 9: Historical Record of Camp Utilities at Camp Dodge, Iowa, 1919

Folder 10: Outline of roads, walks and drainage, Camp Dodge, Iowa, 1918-1919

Folder 11: Report on utilities operations at Camp Dodge, Iowa, February 1919

Folder 12: Camp Dodge, misc., 1917-1919, 1923

Folder 13: Report on Utilities operations at Fort Sheridan Illinois, July 1919

Folder 14: Camp Grafton range and target house, 1914, 1924-1925

Folder 15: Camp Grafton sewer and water, 1925-1926

Folder 16: Camp Grafton misc., 1926, 1928-1929

Folder 17: Camp Grafton plans and specifications, 1925-1926

Folder 18: Camp Grafton, 1926-1927

Folder 19: Blue prints for Fort Riley, Kansas, 1926

Folder 20: Lucky Strike Coal Company, 1921-1927

Folder 21: Iowa Development Company, Belshazzer Mine, 1926-1938

Folder 22: Zap Colliery Company, 1925-1927

Folder 23: Coal leasing and bills of sales, 1927

Folder 24: Mayville Light and Water Plant, 1930

Folder 25: Public Works Administration, 1935

Folder 26: Mining Reports, Alder Gulch, 1935

Folder 27: Montana Giant Mining Company, 1927-1939

Folder 28: Montana Coal, 1938

Folder 29: North Dakota work (other than Fargo) 1913, 1937

Folder 30: Minot work, 1923-1938, 1944

Folder 31: Schueler Mine Development, Minot, 1944

Folder 32: North Dakota Water Commission Conservation Report, 1954

Folder 33: Coal-misc.

Folder 34: Mining and Engineering misc., 1895-1956

Folder 35: Equipment advertisements and brochures

Folder 36: Fargo Water and St. Johns Hospital, 1954

Folder 37: Employment-misc.

Series 3: General George A. Custer

This series contains material relating to Anders’s historical study of General George A. Custer’s life and military career. The series includes correspondence dealing with Custer’s career and the Seventh Cavalry dating from 1892 to 1964. This series also contains the transcripts of the Reno Inquiry, historical notes and essays by Anders and others, microfilm about the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the Reno Inquiry, bibliographies of published Custer material and miscellaneous materials of various park and trails. It also contains materials about the Custer trail which Anders surveyed and explored.

Box 5

Folder 1: Custer correspondence, 1947-1953, with Brininstool, Boorap, Brooks and Buttz

Folder 2: Custer correspondence, Burnside, 1927, 1936, 1948-1949

Folder 3: Custer correspondence, Burnside, 1950

Folder 4: Custer correspondence, Burnside, 1951

Folder 5: Custer correspondence, Burnside, 1952-1953

Folder 6: Custer correspondence, Cartwright, 1939-1944

Folder 7: Custer correspondence, Cartwright, 1946-1948

Folder 8: Custer correspondence, Cartwright, 1949

Folder 9: Custer correspondence, Cartwright, 1950-1951

Folder 10: Custer correspondence, Cartwright, 1952-1954

Folder 11: Custer correspondence, Cartwright, 1955-1957

Folder 12: Custer correspondence, Falconer, 1925-1936

Folder 13: Custer correspondence, Falconer, 1938-1942

Folder 14: Custer correspondence, Frost, 1950-1964

Folder 15: Custer correspondence, Godfrey, 1892-1932

Folder 16: Custer correspondence, Hutchins, 1955-1960

Folder 17: Custer correspondence, Masen, Custer trail, 1934-1942

Folder 18: Custer correspondence, Masen, Custer trail, 1943-1953

Folder 19: Custer correspondence, Scott and Wallace, 1942, 1948

Folder 20: Custer correspondence, A - E

Folder 21: Custer correspondence, F - H

Folder 22: Custer correspondence, I - M

Folder 23: Custer correspondence, N - Z

Folder 24: Custer trail markers

Folder 25: Custer trail markers, 1876

Folder 26: Custer parks and programs

Folder 27: Diary of Ole Johnson - Sully Expedition, 1863-1865

Folder 28: Critical notes on the line of March, 1876

Folder 29: Custer Trail

Folder 30: Seventh Cavalry notes

Folder 31: Fort A. Lincoln, ration forms

Folder 32: United States Geological Survey

Folder 33: Custer maps

Folder 34: Handmade maps of the Custer trail

Folder 35: Frank L. Anders's essays

Folder 36: Colonel Benteen letters

Folder 37: Reno notes

Folder 38: Reno Inquiry, Chicago Times summary

Folder 39: Reno Inquiry, Chicago Times account, January 14-18, 1879

Folder 40: Reno Inquiry, Chicago Times account, January 19-25, 1879

Folder 41: Reno Inquiry, Chicago Times account, January 26-31, 1879

Folder 42: Reno Inquiry, Chicago Times account, February 1-6, 1879

Folder 43: Reno Inquiry, Chicago Times account, February 7 - March 7, 1879

Folder 44: Reno Court of Inquiry, Judge Advocate Generals Office, War Department Records, Day 1-7

Folder 45: Reno Court of Inquiry, Judge Advocate Generals Office, War Department Records, Day 8-11

Folder 46: Reno Court of Inquiry, Judge Advocate Generals Office, War Department Records, Day 12-15

Folder 47: Reno Court of Inquiry, Judge Advocate Generals Office, War Department Records, Day 16-18

Folder 48: Reno Court of Inquiry, Judge Advocate Generals Office, War Department Records, Day 19-21

Box 6

Folder 1: Reno Court of Inquiry, Judge Advocate Generals Office, War Department Records, Day 22-24

Folder 2: Reno Court of Inquiry, Judge Advocate Generals Office, War Department Records, Day 25 and exhibits

Folder 3: General notes before 1890

Folder 4: Yellowstone Exposition, 1873-1877

Folder 5: Little Big Horn Battle

Folder 6: Bibliographies of Custer's battles and Indian wars

Folder 7: Custer notes, 1860

Folder 8: Articles, essays and publications about Custer

Folder 9: Correspondence about Lt. Beaver, 1944-1951

Folder 10: Lt. Beaver notes

Folder 11: Dakota History

Folder 12: Microfilm, Roll 1, Battle of Little Big Horn accounts and maps

Folder 13: Microfilm, Roll 2, Chicago Times account of the Reno Inquiry

Folder 14: Microfilm, Roll 3, Records of the War Department, Reno Court of Inquiry, Judge Advocate Generals Office

Folder 15: Critical Notes on Line of March of Troops Serving in the Department of Dakota in the Campaign Against Hostile Sioux 1876, by Frank L. Anders, Major Engineer Reserve USA, 1939

Folder 16: Some Notes on the Early History of Dakota Territory and Some Personal Reminiscences, by Frank L. Anders. Speech delivered at Fargo Kiwanis Club, Fargo, North Dakota, July 1937

Folder 17: Reminiscences of Company L, 14th U.S. Infantry, from June 18, 1898 to August 16, 1899, by Private Peter B. Kyne of L Company

Series 4: Photographs

Separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets.

Folder 1: Yellowstone exposition photographs

Folder 2: Custer battlefield, photographs and narrative

Folder 3: Custer trail photographs

Folder 4: Dakota and Minnesota Territory photographs, forts and towns

Folder 5: Fargo Water Works Plant photographs, 1911

Folder 6: Fargo Water Works Plant photographs, 1912

Folder 7: Group photographs and portraits

Folder 8: Indian photographs

Folder 9: 7th Calvary photographs

Folder 10: Miscellaneous North Dakota photographs

Folder 11: Railroad photographs

Folder 12: Young Scouts and the Philippine Islands photographs

Folder 13: Glass plate photographs, Army Enlistment

Folder 14: Custer related photographs, negatives and data

Folder 15: Custer related photographs, negatives and data

Folder 16: Custer trail related photographs, negatives and data

Folder 17: Miscellaneous oversized photographs

Series 5: Oversize Materials

Box 7

Folder 1: Miscellaneous Awards and Certificates

Folder 2: Manila Times and Freedom newspapers, 1899

Folder 3: Newspaper clippings regarding Anders's work as an engineer

Folder 4: Miscellaneous maps drawn by Anders

Item 1: Map, Custer Trail in North Dakota, Surveyed by Anders

Item 2: Map, Custer Trail in North Dakota, Surveyed by Anders

Item 3: Map, Custer Trail in North Dakota, Surveyed by Anders

Item 4: Map, Custer Trail in North Dakota, Surveyed by Anders