Lydia O. Jackson Papers, 1908-1985

Lydia O. Jackson Papers

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Collection Overview

Title: Lydia O. Jackson Papers, 1908-1985

ID: OGLMC987

Primary Creator: Jackson, Lydia O. (1902-1984)

Extent: 21.0 Linear Feet

Date Acquired: 08/00/1984. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Literary - Poetry, Women's History

Languages: English

Abstract

1902-1984; North Dakota Poet Laureate

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Lydia O. Jackson Papers consist primarily of autobiographical materials, correspondence, manuscripts, and publications containing her poetry. Also included in the collection is a series which contains pedigree information on John P. Jackson's, Lydia's father-in-law, Holstein cattle herd and the sale of the herd in 1925.

A variety of information can be elicited from the collection which in turn illuminates both the strengths and weaknesses of the Jackson collection. The papers reveal the picture of an intellectually curious and industrious farm homemaker and poet from the 1930s through the early 1980s. As social history, Lydia Jackson's correspondence and poetry detail the values held dear by many women of the time period, whether rural or urban: devotion and duty to family and home.

The autobiographical material describes only briefly the particulars of her life. It instead lists her literary achievements, a task she did almost yearly since 1951 to maintain her membership in the Fargo branch of the National League of American Pen Women. The short autobiographical notes she wrote for Who's Who entries also list her achievements.

Insights into Jackson's daily life and thought come mainly from a reading of her round robin correspondence with several poet friends across the country, none of whom she ever met. This correspondence lasted twenty-eight years, from 1943 to 1971. Additionally, two notebooks contain copies of letters written to relatives during the Depression. They describe living and farming conditions on the Jackson farm besides mentioning the groups and activities Lydia participated in off the farm. The collection, however, contains little other information regarding her club activities. Several of her essays are also autobiographical in nature.

Secondly, the collection reveals the publishing and editorial world of the small poetry magazine and newspaper poetry column, both of which published Lydia Jackson's poetry. Correspondence between Jackson and poetry editors describes the difficulties of maintaining the continued publications of these small magazines.

Social historians have recently addressed the question of women's friendships in the nineteenth century. Lydia Jackson, twentieth century woman of rural North Dakota, maintained many lasting friendships via pen and paper between not only poet friends, often publishing in the same poetry magazines, but also her poetry editors. Particularly noteworthy are the letters from Helen Lange, 1958 to 1984, editor of "The Lighter Side", a Chicago newspaper poetry column. These are located in the enclosure folders following Jackson's poetry notebooks.

Thirdly, the Jackson papers only minimally delineate Lydia's intellectual process of writing poetry. Several scraps of paper is all that is available to describe the process of rough draft to finished piece of poetry, although in one essay she reflects on various forms of poetry and illustrated each form with an example of her own poetry. Her round robin correspondence also mentions her excitement of attempting new forms of poetry and her successes and failures.

An interesting exception to the above are the letters from Hilario and Rosalia Nieves, Culion Sanitarium, in the Philippines. The Nieves were sponsored by the Jacksons and their correspondence vividly describes life in a leprosarium.

Collection Historical Note

Lydia O. Jackson was born near Grafton, North Dakota, March 5, 1902, to Karl Olaf and Inga Schelstad Svarte. Her father died when she was four years old and her mother remarried a year later to Edward Thompson. Lydia was the eldest of eight children. Her family moved frequently during her childhood, living in various places in North Dakota or Minnesota and one winter in Norway. As she was about to enter high school, her family moved to the Canadian Northwest, leaving Lydia behind to complete her high school education. She confessed that this event had a profound impact on her, leaving her to yearn for home and family. After graduating from high school in Grafton, she taught in a rural school for a short time before marrying Arthur Jackson, December 20, 1920. She then settled down to become a homemaker on a 280 acre farm near Grafton.

Lydia O. Jackson began writing poetry seriously in the early 1930's, recording her poem "Home", November 9, 1934, in the first of her thirty-four notebooks of poetry. Her lonely high school years and her longing for a home life influenced the themes of much of her poetry. Her 1183 poems reflect her thoughts of her home and family, her role as homemaker and mother, and the goodness she saw both in people and nature.

She is the author of one book of poetry, Selected Poems, published in 1962 and two booklets of poems, Rhymes For Every Season, 1943, and Pardon My Gaff, 1965. In 1967, she compiled a booklet of peace poems entitled, A Peace Garden Of Verses which contains her poetry and the poems of eight other North Dakota Pen Women poets. Her poetry also appears in over two hundred periodicals, newspapers and poetry anthologies, including popular magazines such as Ideals and Guideposts.

She was a member of various poetry organizations including the Fargo Branch of the National League of American Pen Women, Midwest Federation of Chaparral Poets, American Poetry League, American Poets Fellowship Society, Idaho Poets and Writers Guild, World Poetry Day Association, World Poetry Society, and Centro Studi E Scambi Internazionali. These organizations published a poetry magazine to which Lydia was a regular contributor.

In recognition of her poetry, Lydia was the recipient of several awards: the National Farmers Union Writers Award, 1950; Bronze Medal, 1965, and the Silver Medal, 1967 from Centro Studi E Scambi Internazionali; the fifth Poet Laureate of American Poets Fellowship Society, 1972-1973; Co-Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota, 1975, Co-Poet Laureate, 1979, and Poet Laureate of North Dakota, 1983. She is also included in the International Who's Who in Poetry, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in the Midwest, and the Dictionary of International Biography.

Lydia Jackson was a voracious reader believing it was essential to feed her mind as well as her body. To further this need, she belonged to the Sigma Rho Study Club. Additionally she was a member of the Riverside Women's Club, the Ladies Aid Society of the Federated Church of Grafton, Order of the Eastern Star, and served as treasurer of School District 22 from 1931 to 1962 and treasurer of the Walsh County School Officers Association from 1945 to 1962.

Lydia O. Jackson died April 3, 1984.

Subject/Index Terms

Literary - Poetry
Women's History

Administrative Information

Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections

Accruals: Additional material was donated by Elizabeth Fagerholt on March 8, 1985 (85-1356).

Access Restrictions: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.

Acquisition Source: Elizabeth Fagerholt (Lydia Jackson's daughter), Grafton, North Dakota

Acquisition Method: Donation; 84-1327

Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). Lydia O. Jackson Papers. OGLMC 987, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid added to Archon in January 2015.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Biographical Material],
[Series 2: Poetry],
[Series 3: Additional Unpublished Works],
[Series 4: Poetry Publications],
[Series 5: Correspondence],
[Series 6: Awards and Recognition],
[Series 7: Epsilon Sigma Omicron, Theta Chapter],
[Series 8: Jackson Holstein Cattle Herd],
[Series 9: Photographs],
[All]

Series 1: Biographical Material

Box 1

Folder 1: Autobiographies, 1945-1982
Folder 2: Correspondence with Relatives, 1933-1934
Folder 3: Correspondence with Relatives, 1934-1937
Folder 4: Round Robin Correspondence: with, Dorothy Bartlett, Veda Burnaugh Collins, May Fair, Remelda Nielson Gibson, Grace Smith, Olive Tidwell, Alice Waring, 1943-1947
Folder 5: Round Robin Correspondence, 1948-1952
Folder 6: Round Robin Correspondence, 1953-1957
Folder 7: Round Robin Correspondence, 1958-1962
Folder 8: Round Robin Correspondence, 1963-1964
Folder 9: Miscellaneous Round Robin Enclosures
Folder 10: Manuscript - Round Robin Correspondence, 1943-1958
Folder 11: Manuscript - Round Robin Correspondence, 1959-1971
Folder 12: Newspaper Clippings, 1970-1984

Box 15

Folder 20: Oral history interview cassette tapes

None of the six tapes have been transcribed

Cassette Tape 1: Interview of Arthur and Lydia Jackson by North Dakota Bicentennial Committee, 1976 (two tapes)
Cassette Tape 2: 1931 Botulism Outbreak in Grafton; Arthur Jackson, Warren Evans, and Bill Green, February 12, 1985
Cassette Tape 3: Achievement Day, 1976 and About Lydia Jackson, by Roberta Burger, grand-daughter
Cassette Tape 4: Art and Lydia Jackson and Family; Visit with Warren Evans at Farm Home, April 13, 1983
Cassette Tape 5: Art Jackson and Warren Evans - Discussion about Horses - August 9, 1983
Cassette Tape 6: Mother and Father

Series 2: Poetry

Sub-Series 1: Manuscripts

A portion of this subseries contains Jackson's poetry notebooks. These have been arranged in chronological order. The enclosures from each notebook have been placed in separate folders which are arranged directly behind their corresponding notebook.

Box 1

Folder 13: Poems, Fourth Grade and Age 14
Folder 14: Poetry Notebook 1, 1934-1942
Folder 15: Poetry Notebook 1 Enclosures
Folder 16: Poetry Notebook 2, 1942-1943
Folder 17: Poetry Notebook 2 Enclosures
Folder 18: Poetry Notebook 3, 1943
Folder 19: Poetry Notebook 3 Enclosures
Folder 20: Poetry Notebook 4, 1944
Folder 21: Poetry Notebook 4 Enclosures
Folder 22: Poetry Notebook 5, 1944-1945
Folder 23: Poetry Notebook 5 Enclosures
Folder 24: Poetry Notebook 6, 1945
Folder 25: Poetry Notebook 6 Enclosures
Folder 26: Poetry Notebook 7, 1945-1946
Folder 27: Poetry Notebook 7 Enclosures
Folder 28: Poetry Notebook 8, 1946-1947
Folder 29: Poetry Notebook 8 Enclosures
Folder 30: Poetry Notebook 9, 1947-1948
Folder 31: Poetry Notebook 9 Enclosures
Folder 32: Poetry Notebook 10, 1948-1949
Folder 33: Poetry Notebook 10 Enclosures
Folder 34: Poetry Notebook 11, 1949-1950
Folder 35: Poetry Notebook 11 Enclosures
Folder 36: Poetry Notebook 12, 1951-1952
Folder 37: Poetry Notebook 12 Enclosures
Folder 38: Poetry Notebook 13, 1952-1953
Folder 39: Poetry Notebook 13 Enclosures
Folder 40: Poetry Notebook 14, 1954-1955
Folder 41: Poetry Notebook 14 Enclosures

Box 2

Folder 1: Poetry Notebook 15, 1955-1956
Folder 2: Poetry Notebook 15 Enclosures
Folder 3: Poetry Notebook 16, 1956-1957
Folder 4: Poetry Notebook 16 Enclosures
Folder 5: Poetry Notebook 17, 1957-1958
Folder 6: Poetry Notebook 17 Enclosures
Folder 7: Poetry Notebook 18, 1959
Folder 8: Poetry Notebook 18 Enclosures
Folder 9: Poetry Notebook 19, 1960
Folder 10: Poetry Notebook 19 Enclosures
Folder 11: Poetry Notebook 20, 1961
Folder 12: Poetry Notebook 20 Enclosures
Folder 13: Poetry Notebook 21, 1961-1962
Folder 14: Poetry Notebook 21 Enclosures
Folder 15: Poetry Notebook 22, 1962-1963
Folder 16: Poetry Notebook 22 Enclosures
Folder 17: Poetry Notebook 23, 1963-1964
Folder 18: Poetry Notebook 23 Enclosures
Folder 19: Poetry Notebook 24, 1965
Folder 20: Poetry Notebook 24 Enclosures
Folder 21: Poetry Notebook 25, 1965-1966
Folder 22: Poetry Notebook 25 Enclosures
Folder 23: Poetry Notebook 26, 1966-1968
Folder 24: Poetry Notebook 26 Enclosures

Box 3

Folder 1: Poetry Notebook 27, 1968-1969
Folder 2: Poetry Notebook 27 Enclosures
Folder 3: Poetry Notebook 27 Enclosures
Folder 4: Poetry Notebook 28, 1970-1971
Folder 5: Poetry Notebook 28 Enclosures
Folder 6: Poetry Notebook 29, 1972-1973
Folder 7: Poetry Notebook 29 Enclosures
Folder 8: Poetry Notebook 30, 1974-1975
Folder 9: Poetry Notebook 30 Enclosures
Folder 10: Poetry Notebook 31, 1976-1977
Folder 11: Poetry Notebook 31 Enclosures
Folder 12: Poetry Notebook 32, 1977-1979
Folder 13: Poetry Notebook 32 Enclosures
Folder 14: Poetry Notebook 33, 1979-1981
Folder 15: Poetry Notebook 33 Enclosures
Folder 16: Poetry Notebook 34, 1982-1983
Folder 17: Poetry Notebook 34 Enclosures

Box 4

Folder 1: Manuscript - Selected Poems, 1962
Folder 2: Manuscript - A Peace Garden of Verses, 1967
Folder 3: Manuscript - More Gaff, no date
Folder 4: Manuscript - Homespun Verse, no date
Folder 5: Manuscript - Sense and Nonsense, no date
Folder 6: Manuscript - Roberta, no date
Folder 7: Manuscript - When Childhood Was In Flower, no date
Folder 8: Manuscript - Doggerel Rhymes, no date
Folder 9: Poetry - Rough Drafts

Sub-Series 2: Published

Box 4

Folder 10: Rhymes For Every Season, 1943
Folder 11: Rhymes For Every Season Publication
Folder 12: Selected Poems, 1962
Folder 13: Selected Poems, Publication and Distribution
Folder 14: Pardon My Gaff, 1965
Folder 15: Pardon My Gaff, Publication and Distribution
Folder 16: A Peace Garden of Verses, 1967
Folder 17: A Peace Garden of Verses, Publication and Distribution
Folder 18: "Prayer of a Homemaker", (1944-1945?)
Folder 19: "Prayer of a Homemaker", Publication and Distribution
Folder 20: Poems Honoring Dignitaries, 1947-1965
Folder 21: Handmade Poetry Folders of Published Poetry
Folder 22: Scrapbook - Published Poetry, Poetry Contests, and Memberships, 1940-1945
Folder 23: Enclosures - Scrapbook - Published Poetry, Poetry Contests and Memberships
Folder 24: Poetry Contest, 1942-1946
Folder 25: Scrapbook - Clippings of Published Poetry, 1941-1967
Folder 26: Published Poetry - Clippings, 1949, 1961-1984
Folder 27: Clippings - Poetry and Club Activities, 1950-1955
Folder 28: Poetry Clippings Sent to Poet Pen Pals

Series 3: Additional Unpublished Works

Sub-Series 1: Essays and Articles

Box 4

Folder 29: Essays - Articles, 1955-1963

Sub-Series 2: Minute Sermons

Box 4

Folder 30: Notebook - Minute Sermons and Poems, 1933-1941
Folder 31: Minute Sermons, Depression Years

Box 5

Folder 1: Notebook - Minute Sermons and Poems, approx. 1930's-early 1940's
Folder 2: Writing Techniques and Minute Sermons Regarding Success, 1938- 1944
Folder 3: Minute Sermons, 1945-1949

Sub-Series 3: Book Reviews

Box 5

Folder 4: Book Reviews, 1932-1971
Folder 5: Book Review Notebook, 1962
Folder 6: Book, Review Notebook, 1963
Folder 7: Book Review Notebook, 1964
Folder 8: Book Review Notebook, 1968-1969
Folder 9: Notebook Listing Books Lydia O. Jackson Read, 1940-1957
Folder 10: Books Lydia O. Jackson Read and Heard, (?)-1979
Folder 11: Notebook-Clippings of Published Minute Sermons, Essays and Articles, Book Reviews, 1932-1975
Folder 12: Enclosures from Notebook-Clippings of Published Minute Sermons, Essays and Articles, Book Reviews, 1932-1975

Sub-Series 4: Contest Entries

Box 5

Folder 13: Contest Entries, 1948-1972
Folder 14: Contest Entries Correspondence, 1931-1972

Sub-Series 5: Songs

Box 5

Folder 15: Songs, 1917, 1947-1967

Series 4: Poetry Publications

Sub-Series 1: Books

Box 5

Folder 16: Books Containing Lydia O. Jackson's Poetry, 1937-1981

Sub-Series 2: Magazines

Box 5

Folder 17: Listing of Periodicals and Newspapers Containing Lydia O. Jackson's Poetry
Folder 18: Poetry Associations - Memberships, 1943-1983
Folder 19: Adventures In Poetry Magazine, Stella Woodall, ed., 1980
Folder 20: Adventures In Poetry Magazine, 1980-1981
Folder 21: Adventures in Poetry Magazine, Correspondence, 1975-1981
Folder 22: The American Courier, Lewis DeHart, ed., April, 1941-July, 1942
Folder 23: The American Courier, August, 1942-April, 1943
Folder 24: The American Courier, May, 1943-Febuary, 1944

Box 6

Folder 1: The American Courier, March, 1944-December 1944
Folder 2: The American Courier, January, 1945-September, 1945
Folder 3: The American Courier, October, 1945 July, 1946
Folder 4: The American Courier, August, 1946-June, 1947
Folder 5: The American Courier, July, 1947-June, 1948
Folder 6: The American Courier, July, 1948-June, 1949
Folder 7: The American Courier, July, 1949-June, 1950
Folder 8: The American Courier, July, 1950-June, 1951
Folder 9: The American Courier, August, 1951-September, 1952
Folder 10: The American Courier, October, 1952-July, 1953
Folder 11: The American Courier, August, 1953-November, 1954
Folder 12: The American Courier, December, 1954-January, 1956
Folder 13: The American Poet, American Poets Fellowship Society, Stella Craft Tremble, ed., 1963-1974
Folder 14: The American Poet, 1975-1981 Ram-The Letter Box, 1982-1984
Folder 15: The American Poet Correspondence, 1963-1983

Box 7

Folder 1: American Poetry League Bulletin, 1955-1971
Folder 2: American Poetry League Bulletin, 1972-1977
Folder 3: American Poetry League Bulletin, 1977-1979
Folder 4: American Poetry League Roster, 1954 and History, 1964
Folder 5: American Poetry League Correspondence, 1951-1980
Folder 6: American Poetry League Clipping Service, Correspondence, 1951- 1982
Folder 7: American Poetry Magazine, Clara Prince, ed., 1945-1946
Folder 8: Bay Shore Breeze, Charles and Irene Cloos, eds., 1966-1967
Folder 9: Bay Shore Breeze, Correspondence, 1965-1966
Folder 10: Bouquets of Poems, Centro Studi E Scambi Internazionali, pub., 1964-1976
Folder 11: Bouquets of Poems, Correspondence, 1965-1983
Folder 12: Centro Studi E Scambi Internazionali Newsletter, 1966-1976
Folder 13: Centro Studi E Scambi Internazionali Newsletter, 1977-1981
Folder 14: California Chromatones, Lyra LuVaile, ed., 1946
Folder 15: Candor Magazine, Elvin Wagner, ed., 1941, 1945
Folder 16: The Chipmunk, Estelle Trust, ed., 1945 e
Folder 17: The Country Bard, Clarence Sharp, ed., 1941-1944
Folder 18: The American Bard, Rexford and Marjorie Sharp, eds., 1946-1952
Folder 19: The American Bard, Rexford Sharp, ed., 1954-1957 Edith Hope Genee, ed.,1960-1964
Folder 20: The American Bard, 1965- 1967
Folder 21: The American Bard, 1967, 1971
Folder 22: The American Bard, Correspondence, 1945-1966
Folder 23: Creative Writer, Phillip Marsden, ed., 1955
Folder 24: Down Ink Lane, Mary Louise Kitsen, ed., 1966
Folder 25: Down Ink Lane, Correspondence, 1965-1967

Box 8

Folder 1: Driftwood and Seashells, Mary Gilbert, ed., 1946-1950
Folder 2: Driftwood and Seashells, Correspondence, 1945-1950
Folder 3: Echoes, Dora Tompkins, Florence Unangst, eds., 1965-1966
Folder 4: Embers, Ted Snell, ed., 1944
Folder 5: Flower Show Booklets' 1954-1963 and Clippings, 1954-1958
Folder 6: Flower Show Booklets' 1964-1966
Folder 7: Food For Thot, Esther York Burkholder, ed., 1958-1984. 1954
Folder 8: Food For Thot, Correspondence, 1962-1983
Folder 9: Ford Farming, Tractor and Implement Division, Ford Motor Co., 1954
Folder 10: Fresh Furrows, North Dakota Farmers Union Writers Project, Poetry Awards, 1953-1962
Folder 11: From Sea to Sea in Song, Yearbook Anthology of American Poetry League, 1948-1960
Folder 12: From Sea to Sea in Song, 1961-1965
Folder 13: From Sea to Sea in Song, 1966-1968
Folder 14: From Sea to Sea in Song, 1969-1971
Folder 15: From Sea to Sea in Song, 1972-1976
Folder 16: Fun-Fab, Nan Houston, ed., 1958
Folder 17: Fun-Fab, Correspondence, 1958
Folder 18: The Furrow, John Deere Co., 1949
Folder 19: The Garret, Flozari Rockwood, ed., 1942
Folder 20: The Gold Star Family Album, Phyllis Hobe, ed., 1973
Folder 21: Guideposts, Norman Vincent Peale and Ruth Peale, eds., 1959- 1960, 1967
Folder 22: Guideposts, Correspondence, 1958-1971
Folder 23: The Guild, Helen Gee Woods, ed., 1961-1968
Folder 24: The Guild, William Moyer, ed., 1970-1972
Folder 25: The Guild, Correspondence, 1960-1970
Folder 26: Haiku Highlights, J & C Transcripts, pub., 1966
Folder 27: Harbor Lights, Audrey Malone, ed., 1962-1981

Box 9

Folder 1: Healthways, American Chiropractic Association, 1978
Folder 2: Ideals, Van B. Hooper, ed., 1961, 1963, 1969
Folder 3: Ideals, Maryjane Hooper Tonn, ed., 1974, 1976
Folder 4: Ideals, Colleen Gonring, ed., 1981-1982; Through the Kitchen Door, Ideals, pub., 1966
Folder 5: Ideals, Correspondence, 1955-1964
Folder 6: Ideals, Correspondence, 1965-1982
Folder 7: Inner Life of the New Order, Sun Center, pub., 1944
Folder 8: Ladies Camp Program, North Dakota Farmers' Union, 1956-1957
Folder 9: Ladies Delight Magazine, Nola Carroll, ed., 1967-1968
Folder 10: Library Notes and News, North Dakota State Library Commission, 1967
Folder 11: The Living Quill, Grace Smith, ed., 1944-1945
Folder 12: The Living Quill, Correspondence, 1944-1946
Folder 13: Mary's Scrapbook of Poetry and Beautiful Things, Mary Griffen, ed., 1969-1972
Folder 14: Memorabilia, Geneva Booker and Florence Wray, eds., 1965
Folder 15: Midwest Chaparral, Mildred Nye Dewey, ed., 1951-1970
Folder 16: Midwest Chaparral, 1971-1983
Folder 17: Midwest Chaparral, Correspondence and Bulletins, 1942-1982
Folder 18: Modern Bards, Flozari Rockwood, ed., 1946
Folder 19: The Muse, Mildred Howell, ed., 1961
Folder 20: National Pen Pal Magazine, Stephen Hollister, ed., 1942-1944
Folder 21: New Breaking, North Dakota Farmers' Union Department of Education, 1944-1945
Folder 22: North Dakota Clubwoman, 1944, 1950, 1961-1973
Folder 23: North Dakota Quarterly, 1962
Folder 24: North Dakota Teacher, 1964
Folder 25: The Notebook, Flozari Rockwood, ed., 1942
Folder 26: Now, Lucille Jackson, ed., 1944
Folder 27: Pacific Breeze, Charles Cloos, ed.., 1966
Folder 28: Palmetto Voices, Irez Franck, ed., 1951
Folder 29: The Penguin, Alice Waring, ed., 1948-1949
Folder 30: The Pen Woman, National League of American Pen Women, 1951-1966
Folder 31: The Pen Woman, Correspondence, 1964-1981

Box 10

Folder 1: The Posey Book, Helen Linham, ed., 1944-1948
Folder 2: Poet, World Poetry Society, Dr. Krishna Srinivas, ed., 1970-1975
Folder 3: Poet, 1976-1981
Folder 4: Poet, 1982-1984
Folder 5: Poetry Prevue, Florence Unangst, ed., 1968-1972
Folder 6: The Poet's Guild, Helen Gee Woods, ed., 1972
Folder 7: Prairie Poet, Stella Craft Tremble, ed., 1965-1967
Folder 8: Prairie Wings, North Dakota Poetry Society, 1939-1945
Folder 9: Prairie Wings, 1946-1947
Folder 10: Prairie Wings, Correspondence, 1944, 1952
Folder 11: Premier Poets, Anthology of World Poetry Society, 1975-1980
Folder 12: Premier Poets, 1981-1984
Folder 13: World Poetry Society, Correspondence, 1968, 1978-1984
Folder 14: The Provoker, John H. Tobe, ed., 1972
Folder 15: Reader's Fair, C.G. Norcom, ed., 1946
Folder 16: Reader's Fair, Correspondence, 1946-1950
Folder 17: Reflections, Mrs. J. Emmett Hamilton, ed., 1945-1953
Folder 18: Reflections, Correspondence, 1945-1948
Folder 19: The Saint, Florence Unangst, ed., 1966-1968
Folder 20: Sanctuary, Viola Colarocco, ed., 1942-1945
Folder 21: Sanctuary, Correspondence, 1943-1947
Folder 22: Scimitar and Song, Lura McNair, ed., 1941-1943
Folder 23: Seydell Quarterly, Mildred Seydell, ed., 1953-1960
Folder 24: Seydell Quarterly, Correspondence, 1959-1967
Folder 25: The Silver Lining, Mrs. W.J. Wallace, ed., 1944
Folder 26: Songs of the Chaparral, Margaret Heinrich, ed., 1980
Folder 27: Songs of the Chaparral, Correspondence, 1978-1984

Box 11

Folder 1: The Step Ladder, Order of Bookfellows, pub., 1944-1947
Folder 2: The Swordsman Review, Harry Theile Klein, pub., 1967-1969
Folder 3: Treasured Verses, Paul Warp, ed., 1962-1968
Folder 4: Treasured Verses, Correspondence, 1961-1966
Folder 5: Warp's Christmas Messenger, Warp Pub., 1961, 1966
Folder 6: The What-Not, Eleanor Totman, ed., 1943
Folder 7: Wildfire, Paul Heard, ed., 1944
Folder 8: World Poetry Day Magazine, Emma S. Wood, ed., 1970
Folder 9: Writer's Notes and Quotes, Dirk and Evelyn Johnson, eds., 1964
Folder 10: Writer's Digest, 1962-1963
Folder 11: Notations of Submissions to Periodicals, 1977-1983
Folder 12: Payment Receipts for Published Poetry, 1935, 1954-1975
Folder 13: Poetry Booklets Published by Round Robin Friends, 1957-1975
Folder 14: Published Poetry Booklets of Poets in the American Poets Fellowship Society, 1975-1980
Folder 15: Autographed Poetry Booklets and Cards
Folder 16: Autographs of Poets and Politicians
Folder 17: North Dakota Poets, Clippings, 1939-1966

Box 16

Folder 1: Adventures In American Poetry, 1979
Folder 2: The American Courier, July 1951
Folder 3: American Poetry League Bulletin, 1949-1961
Folder 4: American Poetry League Bulletin, 1962-1971
Folder 5: American Poetry League Bulletin, 1972-1978
Folder 6: Prairie Wings, May 1936-April 1939

Series 5: Correspondence

Box 11

Folder 18: "B", 1951-1964
Folder 19: "C", 1947-1973
Folder 20: Veda B. Collins, 1942-1943; 1972-1973
Folder 21: "D", 1962, 1975-1976
Folder 22: The Dakota Farmer, Correspondence, 1952-1953, 1961-1967
Folder 23: "F", 1950, 1956
Folder 24: Fargo Branch of the National League of American Pen Women, 1949-1955
Folder 25: Fargo Branch of the National League of American Pen Women, 1956-1975
Folder 26: The Farmer, Correspondence, 1947-1964
Folder 27: Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association, 1966-1968
Folder 28: "G", 194?, 1961-1967, 1971
Folder 29: Remelda Gibson, 1944-1984
Folder 30: "H", 1965-1971
Folder 31: International Writers League, 1950-1951
Folder 32: "J", 1965, 1984
Folder 33: "K", 1951-1968
Folder 34: KFJM Radio Station, 1954-1973
Folder 35: Koret Living Library, 1982
Folder 36: "L", 1968-1976
Folder 37: "M", 1945-1969
Folder 38: "N", 1961-1974
Folder 39: National Farmers Union, 1951
Folder 40: National Live Stock Producer, Correspondence, 1952
Folder 41: Hilario and Rosalia Nieves, Culim Sanitarium, Philippines, 1965-1983
Folder 42: North Dakota Farmers Union, Correspondence, 1944-1966
Folder 43: North Dakota Library Commission, 1964-1968
Folder 44: Order of Eastern Star, 1978-1979
Folder 45: "P", 1951
Folder 46: Paul E. Pross Jr., 1949
Folder 47: "R", 1944-1975
Folder 48: "S", 1965-1970
Folder 49: "W", 1964-1976
Folder 50: Young Publications, 1962-1964
Folder 51: Hubert Zlotos, 1948

Box 15

Folder 1: North Dakota Branch of the National League of American Pen Women 1966-1968
Folder 2: Sister Ione Hilger, 1966-1970
Folder 3: Stella Hochnke, 1967-1968
Folder 4: Nora Mohberg, 1967-1971
Folder 5: Ruth Ottinger, 1968
Folder 6: Prudence Sand, 1967-1968
Folder 7: Grace Watkins, 1966-1971
Folder 8: Clarice Ressler, 1967-1971
Folder 9: Rose Sackett, 1967-1968
Folder 10: Pen Women Round Robin Correspondence, 1944
Folder 11: Flozari Rockwood - Printing of Rhymes for All Seasons, 1943
Folder 18: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1943-1949, 1967
Folder 19: Miscellaneous Postcards, 1940-1962

Series 6: Awards and Recognition

This series has been arranged in chronological order.

Box 11

Folder 52: Regent for North Dakota Division of Midwest Federation Chaparral Poets, 1944-1954
Folder 53: North Dakota Farmers Union Writers Project Awards, 1945-1964
Folder 54: National Farmers Union Award, 1950
Folder 55: Achievement Reports to the Fargo Branch of the National League of American Pen Women, 1949-1983
Folder 56: International Who's Who in Poetry Entries, 1958-1975
Folder 57: Who's Who of American Women Entries, 1959-1984

Box 12

Folder 1: World Poetry Day Recognition, 1960-1971
Folder 2: Who's Who in the Midwest Entries, 1961-1975
Folder 3: Centro Studi E Scambi Internazionali Medal of Honor and Diploma of Merit, 1965-1970
Folder 4: American Poets Fellowship Society Poet Laureate, 1972-1973
Folder 5: North Dakota Poet Laureate - Legislative Resolutions, 1975-1983
Folder 6: North Dakota Poet Laureate - Congratulatory Letters, 1975-1983
Folder 7: North Dakota Poet Laureate - Clippings, 1963, 1975-1983
Folder 8: Henry Martinson Clippings, 1978-1981
Folder 9: Awards and Prizes - Clippings, 1944-1976

Series 7: Epsilon Sigma Omicron, Theta Chapter

Lydia Jackson was a member of Epsilon Sigma Omicron, an educational sorority affiliated with the General Federation of Women's Clubs. The purpose of the sorority was to foster and encourage the literary spirit among club women. As a member, Jackson was enrolled in reading courses administered by the Extension Division of the University of North Dakota. The addition contains her book reviews and critiques of those reviews by Beatrice Johnstone, administrator of the courses written in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Box 15

Folder 12: History and Biographical Sketches, 1952
Folder 13: Members, 1949-1951 and 1967-1971
Folder 14: Correspondence, 1949-1953 and 1967-1971
Folder 15: Course Work
Folder 16: Book Reviews
Folder 17: Book Review Notebooks

Series 8: Jackson Holstein Cattle Herd

Box 12

Folder 10: Pocket Herd Register, 1908-1917
Folder 11: Herd Register, 1912-1926
Folder 12: Herd Register Enclosures, 1910-1935
Folder 13: John P. Jackson & Son Herd Sale, 1925
Folder 14: Applications for Transfer Book, 1927-1930
Folder 15: The Holstein-Friesian Association of America Publications, 1921-1933

Box 13

Folder 1: The Dakota Farmer, 1952-1966
Folder 2: The Dakota Farmer, 1967-1970
Folder 3: The Farmer, 1969
Folder 4: Fletcher's Farming, 1941-1943
Folder 5: National Live Stock Producer, 1952
Folder 6: North Dakota Union Farmer, 1955-1956
Folder 7: The Think Tank, 1944-1946
Folder 8: Holstein Cattle Pedigree Papers, 1916-1928

Box 14

Folder 1: Scrapbook 1
Folder 2: Scrapbook 2

Series 9: Photographs

Separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets

Folder 1: Parents and Grandparents
Folder 2: Lydia in Her Youth
Folder 3: Lydia and Husband, Arthur, 1920, 1958-1970
Folder 4: Lydia and Arthur, 1979-1982
Folder 5: Lydia's Children
Folder 6: Lydia's Granddaughter, Roberta
Folder 7: Lydia's Grafton Home
Folder 8: Awards, Clubs and Miscellaneous
Folder 9: Poet Friends and Trip West
Folder 10: Holstein Cattle

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