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

MABEL BLIVEN ORAL INTERVIEWS

COLLECTION: OGL #790

DATES: 1916-1923

SIZE: .25 linear feet

INTRODUCTION

ACQUISITION: The Mabel Bliven Oral Interviews were deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by Susan Peterson, Department of History, University of North Dakota, on January 25, 1983 (Acc.#83-1056).

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

HISTORICAL SKETCH

On January 4, 1916, Mabel and Emery Bliven were married in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Two days later, they moved to a homestead forty miles east of Middle River, Minnesota, in rural Beltrami County. Mabel gave birth to a daughter, Dolores, on November 16, 1916, at her mother's house in Grand Forks. A second daughter, Harriet, was born in September 1918. After proving their claim, the Bliven family moved back to Grand Forks in 1921.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Mabel Bliven Oral Interviews consist of Mabel’s remembrances of living on the family homestead in Beltrami County. Other subjects are discussed, including the celebration surrounding the end of World War I, but the vast majority of the interview regards life on the homestead. A transcript, as well as the taped interview on two audio-cassette tapes, is included.

BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY

Box 1

Folder 1. Interview with Mabel Bliven, conducted by Susan Peterson and Richard 
          Beringer, Department of History, University of North Dakota, November 1982.

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