Collection Overview
Title: Walter A. Canniff Papers, 1876-1961
ID: OGLMC/627
Creator: Canniff, Walter A. (1888-1967)
Extent: 0.5 Linear Feet
Date Acquired: 05/06/1981
Languages: English [eng]
Abstract
1888-1967; life-long resident of Grand Forks who worked for the US Post Office, in addition to being a volunteer firefighter
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Walter A. Canniff Papers, 1876-1961, regard the early history of the city of Grand Forks. The majority of the collection relates to the Grand Forks Fire Department, of which Canniff was a member for many years. Documents in the collection include programs, bulletins, and artifacts. There are also a number of photographs, many of which are of fires in Grand Forks.
Administrative Information
Accruals:
The Staceys donated additional items in May 1983.
Access Restrictions:
Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Acquisition Source:
Dr. and Mrs. Louis Stacey, St. Paul, Minnesota
Acquisition Method:
Donation; 81-757
Preferred Citation:
(Description of Item). Walter A. Canniff Papers. OGLMC 627, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota.
Finding Aid Revision History:
Finding aid added to Archon in August 2018.
Box and Folder Listing
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Program: "An Evening with Sigmund Romberg and His Concert Orchestra", undated
- Folder 2: Programs
- Item 1: Seventh Biennial Singing Festival, Northwestern Scandinavian Singers' Association, Grand Forks, North Dakota, July 1904
- Item 2: Fourth Annual May Music Festival, Grand Forks Oratorio Society, May and June 1910
- Item 3: Fifth Annual Spring Music Festival, Grand Forks Oratorio Society, April 1911
- Folder 3: UND Publications
- Item 1: Commencement Program, June 1904
- Item 2: "The Passing of 'Old Main'", December 1924
- Item 3: 50th Anniversary Observance of the Founding of UND, February 1933
- Folder 4: Programs from the Metropolitan Theater (Miscellaneous), 1898-1910
- Folder 5: Programs from O. Young's Music and Piano House, Grand Forks
- Item 1: Recital by Amelita Galli-Curci
- Item 2: Recital by John McCormack
- Folder 6: Program: 50th Anniversary of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Grand Forks, January 1931
- Folder 7: Publication: "The Opening of St. Mary's Church, Christmas Day, December 25, 1915"
- Folder 8: Publication: "A History of Fifty Years, 1892-1942: Grand Forks Deaconess Hospital"
- Folder 9: Publication: "History of Grand Forks County with Special Reference to the First Ten Years of Grand Forks City" by H.V. Arnold, 1900
- Folder 10: Map: U.S. Air Miles Lines, 1930-1931
- Folder 11: Artifact: Personal Wallet of J.H. Kelley of the Selkirk (Steamboat), Grand Forks, Dakota Territory, 1881
- Folder 12: Miscellaneous Items Regarding the Grand Forks Fire Department, 1897-1937
- Folder 13: Publication: "Constitution and By-Laws of Phoenix Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1: Organized December 11, 1882, at Grand Forks, Dakota"
- Folder 14: Miscellaneous Artifacts: Hotel Antler Key; Brunswick Hotel Key; Dakota Hotel Key; Badge of Fire Inspector; Chauffer Badge; Fire Chief Badge; Assistant Fire Chief Badge
- Folder 15: Assorted Ribbons from Grand Forks Events
- Folder 16: Record of Fires in Grand Forks, 1888-1889
- Page 71 and 72 from a ledger book
- Folder 17: List of Grand Forks Residences by Ward, circa 1895
- Folder 18: Program: "First Banquet Hotel Ryan: Honoring Miss Catherine Ryan August 30, 1927"
- Photographs :
- Separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets. Several oversize photographs were placed in the Oversize File Cabinets.
- Photograph 1: Dakota Theatre
- Oversize
- Photograph 2: Metropolitan Opera House
- Oversize
- Photograph 3: Sod House, Morraine Township, Grand Forks County, 1883
- Photograph 4: Ingalls House, 4th and Demers, Grand Forks, Following a Fire, March 1914
- Photograph 5: Opera House Block, Grand Forks, 1905
- Photograph 6: Grand Forks Street Fair, September 1897
- Photograph 7: City Hall under Construction
- Photograph 8: Grand Forks in 1876-Third Street Looking North
- Photograph 9: Grand Forks Street Scene, 1890
- Photograph 10: U.C.T. Convention in Grand Forks, June 1907
- Photograph 11: Dakota Hotel Ground Breaking
- Oversize
- Photograph 12: Horse Race at the Grand Forks Fairgrounds
- Oversize
- Photograph 13: Procession on the Way to University Grounds (for the laying of the cornerstone at UND), October 2, 1883
- Photograph 14: Downtown Grand Forks Street Scene
- Photograph 15: Valley Motor Company, North 4th Street and University, Grand Forks
- Photograph 16: B.O. Paulsness Plumbing and Heating, South 4th Street, Grand Forks
- Photograph 17: Sam Lee Laundry, 110 South 4th Street, Grand Forks
- Photograph 18: Hook and Ladder Company, Grand Forks Fire Departments, circa 1890
- Photograph 19: Grand Forks Fire Department Carriages Returning from a Fire in Fargo, June 1893
- Oversize
- Photograph 20: Hook and Ladder Companies on Parade, 300 Block of Kittson Avenue, Grand Forks
- Photograph 21: Unidentified Group of Men, 1887
- Photograph 22: Fireman on Parade, 1897
- Photograph 23: Grand Forks Fire Department, 1884
- Photograph 24: Three Unidentified Men
- Oversize
- Photograph 25: Ontario Store Basketball Team, 1898
- Oversize
- Photograph 26: Knights of Pythias Band, 1901
- Photograph 27: "Executed by Order of Judge Lynch, October 24, 1882. From the Great Northern Railroad Bridge, Grand Forks, North Dakota"
- Photograph of the 1882 lynching of Charles Thurber
- Photograph 28: "Wholesale District, Grand Forks, N. Dak"
- Photograph 29: Steamboats Docked Along the Red River in Grand Forks
- Photograph 30: "Steamboat Selkirk on Kittson Ave and 3rd St", Grand Forks, 1882
- Photograph 31: "Teaburg Farm 9 M. East of Mayville, N.D., March 1897"
- Blizzard photo; only the chimney of the house is above the snow
- Photograph 32: Six Grand Forks Firefighters Standing Outside the Fire Station
- Photograph 33: Three Firefighters Hosing Down Potatoes, October 1943
- Photograph 34: Fire at the Brunswick Hotel on DeMers Avenue, Grand Forks
- Photograph 35: Fire at the Brunswick Hotel on DeMers Avenue, Grand Forks
- Photograph 36: "The New Aerial Used as a Water Tower", 1946
- Photograph 37: Sig Odlaug Hardware Fire, Grand Forks, December 1946
- Photograph 38: Firefighters Assisting a Person down a Ladder
- Photograph 39: Tweet Super Market Fire, Grand Forks, 1943
- Photograph 40: "October 8, 1943. 17,000 Bushels of Potatoes Stored in Int. Har. Warehouse"
- Crowd watching the potatoes burn
- Photograph 41: Fire at 906 Master Service and Dixie Bar, South 4th Street, Grand Forks
- Photograph 42: Fire in Downtown Grand Forks, January 1946
- Photograph 43: Fire at Flatt's, North 3rd Street, Grand Forks, 1944
- Photograph 44: Firefighters Respond to a Fire in a Fire Engine
- Photograph 45: Tall Ladder Extended from a Fire Engine on the UND Campus in Grand Forks
- Photograph 46: Ladder Extended from a Fire Engine in Downtown Grand Forks
- Photograph 47: Tall Ladder Extended from a Fire Engine in Downtown Grand Forks
- Photograph 48: 4 Wheel Drive Fire Engine
- City Manager Rookwood and Chief Newark stand beside the fire engine
- Photograph 49: Firefighters M. Wilson, K. Rettke, Curtis Field and Sonny Coss, April 1961
- Photograph 50: Firefighters Berglund and Ron Nelson at the Simonson Lumber Fire, February 1961
- Photograph 51: Hotel Dacotah Fire, Grand Forks, December 1944
- Photograph 52: Flaat Farm Fire, 1944
- Photograph 53: Church of God Fire
- Photograph 54: Hotel Dacotah Fire, December 1944
- Photograph 55: Grand Forks Fire Department "Miss Flame"
- Robert Bundlie, Dewey Suedel, Kenneth Engen, Chief J.P. Newark, Sheila Sheik (Miss Flame), John Butler, Captain Emmett Dahl, Assistant Chief Clarence Coss, C.P. Coss and Inspector Clarence Sage
- Photograph 56: Frederick Hotel Fire, December 1944
- Photograph 57: Frederick Hotel Fire, December 1944
- Photograph 58: Fire Engine
- Photograph 59: Water Gushing Down a Stairwell, Tweet and McElroy Fire, 1944
- Photograph 60: Group Photograph of the Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1935
- Photograph 61: Horse Drawn Fire Wagon, circa 1906
- Photograph 62: Group of Men Outside of an Unidentified Building
- Photograph 63: Firefighters Stand beside a Fire Wagon, circa 1906
- Photograph 64: Four Firefighters in the Fire Hall, 1906
- Photograph 65: Parade in Grand Forks, April 1954
- Photograph 66: Wisner Block Fire, February 1907
- Photograph 67: Unidentified Fire
- Photograph 68: Frederick Hotel Fire, December 1944
- Photograph 69: Remains of the Hotel Dacotah Fire, December 1897
- Photograph 70: Margaret Murphy, 420 Reeves Drive, Grand Forks, circa 1910
- Photograph 71: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 72: Margaret Murphy and child, 420 Reeves Drive, Grand Forks, circa 1910
- Photograph 73: Grand Forks Post Office Staff, circa 1890
- Photograph 74: Inkster Comet Band
- Photograph 75: Harvest Workers at the Ed Taylor Farm, Grand Forks County, circa 1891
- Photograph 76: Wright House, Grand Forks, circa 1895
- Photograph 77: Unidentified Man in a Horse Drawn Carriage Outside the Hotel Arlington
- Photograph 78: Woolworth Department Store Workers, circa 1900
- Photograph 79: Grandstand at the North Dakota State Fair, July 1929
- Photograph 80: Goebel Motors, 213 North 4th, Grand Forks
- Photograph 81: UND Football Team, 1900
- Photograph 82: Hugh Ryan
- Photograph 83: Kate Ryan
- Photograph 84: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 85: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 86: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 87: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 88: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 89: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 90: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 91: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 92: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 93: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 94: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 95: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 96: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 97: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 98: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 99: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 100: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 101: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 102: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 103: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 104: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 105: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 106: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 107: D. McDonald, 1st Asst. No. 3, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 108: O. Winstrum, 1st Asst. No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 109: John Zerfassdr, 1st Asst. Chief, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 110: M.A. Walsh, 1st Asst. Hook and Ladder No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 111: B. Pringle, 1st Asst. Ext. No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 112: A. Bangs, 1st Asst. No. 4, circa 1882
- Photograph 113: George D. Lay, Foreman Hose No. 3, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 114: W.O. Palmer, Foreman Relief Hose No. 2, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 115: T.B. Winter, Foreman Alert Hose No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 116: F.C. Whitbeck, Chief, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 117: T.H. Snyder, Foreman, Phoenix Hook and Ladder No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 118: Robert Slaughter, Foreman, Active Hose No. 4, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 119: O. Hexom, 2nd Asst. No. 3, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 120: T.W. Crowell, 2nd Asst. No. 2, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 121: M. Reuth, Foreman, Ext. No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 122: T.C. Canniff, 2nd Asst. No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 123: T. Ryan, 2nd Asst. Chief, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 124: T. Rindskopf, 2nd Asst. Hook and Ladder No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 125: Thomas Smith, 2nd Asst. No. 1 Ext., Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 126: Charles L. Crandall, 2nd Asst. No. 4, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882