Lux et Lex

Volume 3: Number 1
April 1995
The Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, in its mission to identify, preserve, and interpret the written heritage of North Dakota for future generations, has recently made available several manuscript collections for scholarly research. The collections span more than the last hundred years and uniquely document the political, economic and social history of the state, the Red River Valley and the city of Grand Forks.
Featured collections available in this issue:

Senator Quentin Burdick
Henrietta "Pat" Christopher
Paolo Conte
Judge Edward J. Devitt
Flickertail Girls State
Marius and Caroline Gjelsnes
Grand Forks County Register of Deed's Office
A. L. Hanson
Implement Dealers Mutual Fire Insurance Company
McCanna Farming Company
Thomas McGrath
Helen Normand Murphy
Nash Finch Company
Northern Packing Company
North Dakota China Painters Guild
Jane Sinner

Recently Acquired Microfilm Collections

Bureau of Customs. Record Group 36 reproduces copies of original passenger lists or abstracts of passenger lists of vessels arriving at 63 ports on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and at two ports on the Great Lakes, 1820-1873

Farmer's Wife Magazine. Published in St. Paul, Minnesota, this women's farm jounal documents agriculture, farm life and the activities of rural women from 1906 to 1939.

North Dakota Post Office. Records of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, and Reports of Site Locations, 1837-1950, detail the establishment of North Dakota post offices.

Papers of the St. Louis Fur Trade. Seventy-four indexed ledgers and account books, 1802-1871, reveal the business life of the Western Department of the American Fur Trade Company. The papers are particularly rich in economic information from the Jacksonian era through

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