ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202

JOSEPH BELL DEREMER PAPERS

COLLECTION: OGL #744 (addition)

DATES: 1920

SIZE: .25 linear feet

INTRODUCTION

ACQUISITION: This addition to the Joseph Bell DeRemer Papers was deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by Margery McCanna, McCanna, North Dakota, on May 29, 1990 (Acc.#90-1703).

ACCESS: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This addition to the Joseph Bell DeRemer Papers consists of building specifications, blueprints, and one photograph for the McCanna Family home, McCanna, North Dakota. The building was contracted by the McCanna Farming Company, and designed by Joseph Bell DeRemer in 1920.

The McCanna Family were pioneer farmers in Elm Grove Township, Grand Forks County, North Dakota. In 1881, Simon and David McCanna homesteaded and bought government land on the St. Paul Railroad right of way. The brothers formed a partnership for the purpose of farming, and they specialized in spring wheat, barley, durum, and oats. In 1890, the McCanna Farming Company began raising purebred Aberdeen Angus and Durham cattle. Simon McCanna founded a community that would later become the town of McCanna.

BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY

Box 1
Folder

8. Building specifications for McCanna Family home, a two-story frame dwelling.

SEPARATIONS RECORD

One photograph of the McCanna Family Home was separated and added to the Orin G. Libby Photograph Collection. The photograph was given number OGL#744-1. One oversize folder containing blueprints of the McCanna Family Home was placed in the Oversize File Cabinet. The material was placed in Oversize Folder #2.

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