City of Grand Forks Records, 1878-1981

City of Grand Forks Records

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Collection Overview

Title: City of Grand Forks Records, 1878-1981

ID: OGLMC778

Primary Creator: City of Grand Forks

Extent: 68.5 Linear Feet

Date Acquired: 09/00/1982. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: City of Grand Forks, North Dakota, Grand Forks

Languages: English

Abstract

Official records of the City of Grand Forks

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The City of Grand Forks Records has been divided into seven series:

Series 1: City Council Proceedings

Series 2: Record of Ordinances

Series 3: Police Department

Sub-Series 1: Police Magistrate

Sub-Series 2: Police Arrests

Sub-Series 3: Records of the Justice's Court

Sub-Series 4: Correspondence of Chief of Police

Sub-Series 5: Miscellaneous

Series 4: Fire Department

Sub-Series 1: Daily Journal

Sub-Series 2: Daily Journal, Southside Fire Hall

Series 5: Board of Health

Series 6: Scrapbooks

Series 7: Photographs

Subject/Index Terms

City of Grand Forks, North Dakota
Grand Forks

Administrative Information

Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections

Accruals: Additional City Council Proceedings donated by Alice Fontaine, City Clerk, on 20 August 2012 (2012-3182).

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

Acquisition Source: Grand Forks City Council (via Don Tingum, Auditor)

Acquisition Method: Donation (82-1029)

Related Materials:

C.P. O'Neill Papers, OGLMC 970:

https://apps.library.und.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=137

Michael Polovitz Papers, OGLMC 1481

Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). City of Grand Forks Records. OGLMC 778, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota.

Processing Information: Addition processed by Amber Bouret, Special Collections student assistant, in September 2012.

Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid added to Archon in Fall 2012. Extensive reprocessing of the collection was also undertaken at that time resulting in approximately 70 linear feet of non-historical records being discarded according to the records retention guidelines for the state of North Dakota.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: City Council Proceedings, 1882-1981],
[Series 2: Record of Ordinances, 1881-1965],
[Series 3: Police Department, 1878-1965],
[Series 4: Fire Department, 1904-1973],
[Series 5: Board of Health, 1894-1972],
[Series 6: Scrapbooks, 1956-1976],
[Series 7: Photographs, 1963, 1966, 1969],
[All]

Series 3: Police Department, 1878-1965

Sub-Series 1: Police Magistrate

Ledger 1: December 17, 1881- July 16, 1884
Ledger 2: June 18, 1884 - July 8, 1887
Ledger 3: July 25, 1887 - March 28, 1889
Ledger 4: April 5, 1889 - April 12, 1890
Ledger 5: April 12, 1890 - November 2, 1891
Ledger 6: November 2, 1891 - June 23, 1893
Ledger 7: June 23, 1893 - September 21, 1895
Ledger 8: September 21, 1895 - September 30, 1898
Ledger 9: September 30, 1898 - October 31, 1901
Ledger 10: October 31, 1901 - June 19, 1905
Ledger 11: June 26, 1905 - July 20, 1908
Ledger 12: July 21, 1908- April 1, 1911
Ledger 13: April 4, 1911 - September 28, 1912
Ledger 14: September 29, 1912 - September 8, 1913
Ledger 15: September 8, 1913 - August 13, 1914
Ledger 16: August 13, 1914 - August 20, 1915
Ledger 17: August 20, 1915 - April 14, 1917
Ledger 18: April 16, 1917 - August 20, 1919
Ledger 19: August 20, 1919 - October 1, 1922
Ledger 20: October 1, 1922 - July 26, 1926
Ledger 21: August 8, 1926 - December 27, 1927
Ledger 22: December 29, 1927 - March 30, 1931
Ledger 23: April 2, 1931 - March 7, 1936
Ledger 24: March 10, 1936 - December 2, 1937
Ledger 25: December 4, 1937 - May 10, 1939
Ledger 26: May 11, 1939 - September 28, 1940
Ledger 27: September 28, 1940 - January 10, 1942
Ledger 28: January 12, 1942 - June 28, 1943
Ledger 29: June 28, 1943 - February 9, 1945
Ledger 30: February 10, 1945 - April 8, 1946
Ledger 31: April 9, 1946 - January 9, 1947
Ledger 32: January 2, 1947 - October 31, 1947
Ledger 33: November 1, 1947 - July 28, 1948
Ledger 34: July 29, 1948 - April 26, 1949
Ledger 35: April 27, 1949 - December 2, 1949
Ledger 36: December 2, 1939 - October 31, 1950
Ledger 37: November 6, 1950 - November 3, 1951
Ledger 38: November 5, 1951 - October 11, 1952
Ledger 39: October 11, 1952 - June 30, 1953
Ledger 40: July 1, 1953 - May 10, 1954
Ledger 41: May 11, 1954 - February 18, 1955
Ledger 42: February 19, 1955 - January 10, 1956
Ledger 43: January 10, 1956 - September 15 1956
Ledger 44: September 15, 1956 - March 13, 1957
Ledger 45: March 13, 1957 - October 10, 1957
Ledger 46: October 10, 1957 - July 21, 1958
Ledger 47: July 21, 1958 - August 14, 1959
Ledger 48: August 15, 1959 - December 31, 1960
Ledger 49: January 3, 1961 - May 28, 1962
Ledger 50: May 25, 1962 - October 14, 1963
Ledger 51: October 15, 1963 - November 17, 1964
Ledger 52: November 17, 1964 - September 22, 1965
Ledger 53: May 3, 1906 - March 9, 1909

Sub-Series 2: Police Arrests

Ledger 1: March 3, 1904 - September 22, 1910
Ledger 2: September 22, 1910 - September 24, 1913
Ledger 3: September 24, 1913 - January 27, 1916
Ledger 4: February 6, 1916 - January 16, 1921
Ledger 5: January 17, 1921 - September 22, 1926
Ledger 6: September 22, 1926 - May 13, 1930
Ledger 7: May 17, 1930 - June 19, 1935
Ledger 8: June 22, 1935 - August 1, 1937
Ledger 9: August 1, 1937 - July 8, 1939
Ledger 10: July 9, 1939 - September 23, 1941
Ledger 11: September 23, 1941 - April 22, 1944
Ledger 12: April 24, 1944 - February 28, 1946

Sub-Series 3: Records of the Justice's Court

Ledger 1: March 7, 1878 - April 1879 (county only)

Ledger 2: June 23, 1880 - November 18, 1880 (county only)

Ledger 3: November 15, 1880 - March 12, 1881 (county only)

Ledger 4: December 25, 1878 - September 10, 1881 (city and county)

Ledger 5: September 14, 1881 - May 3, 1883 (city and county)

Ledger 6: May 1883 - May 1886

Ledger 7: May 20, 1886 - June 5, 1891

Ledger 8: June 6, 1891 - September 9, 1893

Ledger 9: September 25, 1894 - February 21, 1899

Ledger 10: February 20, 1899 - August 1906

Ledger 11: April 26, 1906 - March 29, 1912

Ledger 12: August 1906 - August 1917

Ledger 13: April 8, 1915 - March 23, 1918

Ledger 14: December 7, 1922 - November 1, 1926

Ledger 15: December 4, 1926 - June 30, 1930

Ledger 16: June 30, 1930 - August 22, 1931

Ledger 17: November 13, 1933 - August 30, 1937

Ledger 18: September 3, 1937 - December 1945

Ledger 19: January 1946 - September 29, 1951

Ledger 20: October 1951 - December 11, 1954

Ledger 21: December 11, 1954 - September 24, 1957

Ledger 22: September 30, 1957 - July 26, 1960

Ledger 23: July 26, 1960 - January 3, 1963

Ledger 24: January 1881 - May 1882

Ledger 25: April 3, 1882 - April 24, 1883

Ledger 26: May 1883 - April 1887

Ledger 27: April 1887 - November 28, 1891

Ledger 28: October 1891 - December 12, 1898

Ledger 29: November 10, 1898 - November 2, 1917

Ledger 30: January 16, 1913 - May 11, 1916

Ledger 31: May 11, 1918 - January 26, 1943

Ledger 32: January 14, 1931 - October 27, 1938

Ledger 33: August 18, 1938 - June 4, 1949

Ledger 34: December 17, 1881 - June 16, 1884

Box 31

Folder 3: Ledger, 1884

Sub-Series 4: Correspondence of Chief of Police

Box 13

Folder 1: Telegrams, 1902
Folder 2: Telegrams, 1903
Folder 3: Telegrams, 1904 - 1906
Folder 4: Telegrams, 1907
Folder 5: Telegrams, 1908
Folder 6: Telegrams, 1909 - 1910
Folder 7: Telegrams, 1911 - 1912
Folder 8: Telegrams, 1913
Folder 9: Telegrams, 1914
Folder 10: Telegrams, 1915
Folder 11: Telegrams, 1916
Folder 12: Telegrams, 1917
Folder 13: Telegrams, undated
Folder 14: Telegrams, undated
Folder 15: Telegrams, undated
Folder 16: Letters, 1893, 1893, 1900, January - July 1902
Folder 17: Letters, August - December 1902
Folder 18: Letters, January - May 1903
Folder 19: Letters, June - December 1903
Folder 20: Letters, January - May 1904
Folder 21: Letters, June - December 1904
Folder 22: Letters, January - May 1905
Folder 23: Letters, June - December 1905
Folder 24: Letters, 1906
Folder 25: Letters, 1908
Folder 26: Letters, Undated (1902 - 1908)
Folder 27: Letters, January - May 1909
Folder 28: Letters, June - August 1909
Folder 29: Letters, September - December 1909
Folder 30: Letters, 1910
Folder 31: Letters, Undated (1908-1910)
Folder 32: Letters, 1911
Folder 33: Letters, January - April 1912
Folder 34: Letters, May - August 1912
Folder 35: Letters, September - December 1912
Folder 36: Letters, 1913
Folder 37: Letters, January - March 1914
Folder 38: Letters, April - June 1914
Folder 39: Letters, July - September 1914
Folder 40: Letters, October - December 1914
Folder 41: Letters, 1915
Folder 42: Letters, January - April 1916
Folder 43: Letters, May - August 1916
Folder 44: Letters, September - December 1916

Box 14

Folder 1: Letters, January - April 1917
Folder 2: Letters, May - July 1917
Folder 3: Letters, August - September 1917
Folder 4: Letters, October - December 1917
Folder 5: Letters, January - May 1918
Folder 6: Letters, June - December 1918
Folder 7: Letters, January - June 1919
Folder 8: Letters, July - December 1919
Folder 9: Letters, January - April 1920
Folder 10: Letters, May - September 1920
Folder 11: Letters, October - December 1920
Folder 12: Letters, January - April 1921
Folder 13: Letters, May - August 1921
Folder 14: Letters, September - December 1921, undated
Folder 15: Letters, 1923
Folder 16: Letters, 1924 and undated
Folder 17: Letters, 1925
Folder 18: Letters, 1926
Folder 19: Letters, 1930 -1934
Folder 20: Letters, Undated

Sub-Series 5: Miscellaneous

Box 14

Folder 21: Registration of German Alien Enemies, 1918
Folder 22: Registration of Alien Enemies, 1918

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