Neil C. Macdonald Papers, 1863-1970

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: "Foreword" to the collection, written by Kathrine Tiffany: 17 March 1955

Folder 2: Testimonials on character, ability, and achievements: 1920-1922

Folder 3: Newspaper clippings: 1911-1919

Folder 4: Materials from Harvard: 1920-1921

Folder 5: Illness: 1923

Folder 6: Death: 1923

Folder 7: Tributes: 1923

Folder 8: Educational Writings: 1911-1921

Folder 9: Educational Writings as Superintendent of Public Instruction: 1917-1918

Folder 10: Miscellaneous Correspondence: 1863, 1904, 1920

Box 2

Folder 1: Miscellaneous

Folder 2: Europe: 1909

Folder 3: Correspondence and newspaper clippings of relatives and friends

Folder 4: Correspondence of his mother

Folder 5: Souvenir battlefield stones

Folder 6: Teachers Contract and Teachers' Certificate for May S. Dickinson 1887, Ransom County

Folder 7: Teacher's Contract for Katherine Belanger: 1896

Folder 8: Property Tax Statement for Neil Macdonald: 1910

Folder 9: Correspondence to Neil Macdonald: 1922, 1924

Folder 10: Correspondence regarding the Neil Macdonald Scholarship: 1970

Folder 11: Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings

Photographs :

Separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets.

Photograph 1: Unidentified negatives

Photograph 2: Unidentified negatives

Photograph 3: Neil Macdonald, Harvard Graduation, June 1921

Photograph 4: Neil Macdonald, Harvard Graduation, June 1921

Photograph 5: Neil Macdonald, Harvard Graduation, June 1921

Photograph 6: Neil Macdonald, circa 1916

Photograph 7: Neil Macdonald, circa 1916

Photograph 8: Neil Macdonald, Superintendent of Public Instruction

Photograph 9: Neil Macdonald, at his office in Bismarck: 1917

Photograph 10: Neil Macdonald with other state employees and spouses at a picnic

Photograph 11: Neil Macdonald with other state employees and spouses at a picnic

Photograph 12: Neil Macdonald with other state employees and spouses at a picnic

Photograph 13: Neil and Kathrine Macdonald on the grounds of the State Capitol

Photograph 14: Kathrine Macdonald and Sport (hunting dog) - the photograph was taken outside of the Valley City home where Neil and Kathrine lived when Neil was the State Inspector of Elementary Schools, 1910-1916

Photograph 15: Neil Macdonald on a rural school inspection trip: circa 1910-1916

Photograph 16: Neil Macdonald on a rural school inspection trip: circa 1910-1916

Photograph 17: Neil and Kathrine Macdonald, along with E.J. Taylor, Superintendent of Public Instruction: circa 1910-1916

Photograph 18: Neil Macdonald in Shriner’s uniform

Photograph 19: Neil Macdonald in Mason’s uniform

Photograph 20: Neil and Kathrine Macdonald, August 1904

Photograph 21: Neil Macdonald at graduation from Mayville Normal School: 1896

Photograph 22: Neil Macdonald at graduation from UND: 1900

Photograph 23: Bachelor’s Club, Mayville Normal School: 1894-1895

Photograph 24: Neil Macdonald and other members of the UND Class of 1900

Photograph 25: Neil Macdonald: 1893

Photograph 26: (Misnumbered)

Photograph 27: Unidentified train

Photograph 28: Edith Jean Macdonald: 1939

Photograph 29: Neil Macdonald’s hunting dog, Sport

Photograph 30: Unidentified school

Photograph 31: Schulke Block, Langdon, North Dakota: circa 1916

Photograph 32: Freeman University, circa 1916

Photograph 33: 8th grade boys, Eden Valley School

Photograph 34: 8th grade boys, Eden Valley School

Photograph 35: “Growth of Consolidated Schools,” (Photograph of Chart): undated

Photograph 36: “Growth of Consolidated Schools,” (Photograph of Chart): undated

Photograph 37: “Growth of Consolidated Schools,” (Photograph of Chart): undated

Photograph 38: “Growth of Consolidated Schools,” (Photograph of Chart): undated

Photograph 39: “Growth of Consolidated Schools,” (Photograph of Chart): undated

Photograph 40: “Growth of Consolidated Schools,” (Photograph of Chart): undated

Photograph 41: “Growth of Consolidated Schools,” (Photograph of Chart): undated

Photograph 42: “Growth of Consolidated Schools,” (Photograph of Chart): undated

Photograph 43: “Growth of Consolidated Schools,” (Photograph of Chart): undated

Photograph 44: Unidentified School

Photograph 45: Unidentified School

Photograph 46: Manning School District #10

Photograph 47: Pisek, North Dakota, School

Photograph 48: Sarnia School, Whitman, North Dakota

Photograph 49: Dawson, North Dakota, High School

Photograph 50: “A Happy North Dakota Farmer & His Well Built Sod Cottage”

Photograph 51: Neil Macdonald (?) as a child

Photograph 52: Temporary Schoolhouse, Dunn County

Photograph 53: 14 year old boy kept out of school to assist in the harvest

Photograph 54: 14 year old boy kept out of school to assist in the harvest

Photograph 55: 10 year old boy kept out of school to assist in the harvest

Photograph 56: Depot and Train, Hannah, North Dakota: circa 1915

Photograph 57: Red River Oxcart

Photograph 58: 14 year old girl kept out of school to assist in the harvest: 1912

Photograph 59: Unidentified students at an unidentified school

Photograph 60: "Consolidated Schools in North Dakota," (Photograph of Chart): 1914

Photograph 61: Unidentified ledger book

Photograph 62: Brooklyn School

Photograph 63: “Consolidated Schools in North Dakota,” (Photograph of Chart): 1914

Photograph 64: Brooklyn School

Photograph 65: Unidentified School

Photograph 66: 8th Grade Girls: 1912

Photograph 67: Tractor

Photograph 68: Boy kept out of school to assist in the harvest

Photograph 69: Ox driven wagon

Photograph 70: 13 year old boy kept out of school to assist in the harvest

Photograph 71: “Map Showing Number and Location of Consolidated Schools in the United States,” (Photograph of Chart): 1921

Photograph 72: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 73: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 74: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 75: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 76: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 77: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 78: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 79: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 80: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 81: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 82: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 83: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 84: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 85: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 86: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 87: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 88: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 89: Neil Macdonald, 1917

Photograph 90: Neil Macdonald, 1917

Photograph 91: Neil Macdonald, undated

Photograph 92: Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital, Glasgow, Montana

Photograph 93: Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital, Glasgow, Montana

Photograph 94: Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital, Glasgow, Montana

Photograph 95: Linden School District: 1893 (Neil Macdonald - teacher)

Photograph 96: Macdonald family home, Hannah, North Dakota

Photograph 97: Neil and Isabelle (McLeod) Macdonald (father and mother): 1898

Photograph 98: John (brother) and Isabelle Macdonald

Photograph 99: Neil Macdonald and his sister, Charlotte, and her daughter, Evangeline

Photograph 100: Charlotte and Belle Macdonald (sisters): 1898

Photograph 101: N.R. Macdonald (brother) and his wife, Meda

Photograph 102: Charlotte and her husband, George, with their children: Howard, Donald, and Evangeline

Photograph 103: Isabelle Macdonald

Photograph 104: Alexander Macdonald, Blois, France: July 1918

Photograph 105: Colin C. Macdonald

Photograph 106: Isabelle Macdonald and four of her grandchildren

Photograph 107: Colin Macdonald (brother)

Photograph 108: Colin and Donald Macdonald (brothers)

Photograph 109: Evangeline George

Photograph 110: Neil A. Macdonald (nephew of Neil Macdonald)

Photograph 111: Macdonald Family Portrait

Photograph 112: Isabelle Macdonald

Photograph 113: Norman and Evelyn Macdonald

Photograph 114: Charles Y. Macdonald: 1914

Photograph 115: Henry McLean

Photograph 116: Helen Sullivan, Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction

Photograph 117: Alexander Macdonald, UND Graduation Picture: 1912

Photograph 118: John Wellington Macdonald, UND Graduation Picture: 1953

Photograph 119: Neil C. Macdonald (son of Neil Carnot Macdonald's’s brother, Donald)

Photograph 120: U.S. Senator Gerald Nye and John Wellington Macdonald

Photograph 121: Donald, Neil C., and John Wellington Macdonald

Photograph 122: Newspaper clipping of Edith Macdonald (daughter of Donald Macdonald, winning a bicycle contest): September 6, 1948

Photograph 123: Newspaper clipping of John Wellington Macdonald leaving UND to enter the U.S. Military: January 1951

Photograph 124: Newspaper clipping of Joyce Macdonald (daughter of Alexander C. Macdonald) at UND: December 1952

Photograph 125: Newspaper clipping of Donald C. Macdonald playing chess with Samuel Reshevsky, world famous chess player