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

BRUFLAT ACADEMY, PORTLAND, NORTH DAKOTA RECORDS

COLLECTION: OGL #131 (addition)

DATES: 1913, 1917-1918

SIZE: 1 folder

INTRODUCTION

ACQUISITION: This addition to the Bruflat Academy Records was deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by Erling Erickson, Coldstream, British Columbia, Canada, on July 8, 2003 (Acc.#2003-2645).

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

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This addition to the Bruflat Academy, Portland, North Dakota, Records consists of an American history textbook, History of the United States, which was used at the Academy. The book was written by Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton, and published by D.C. Heath and Company in 1913. The book was used by Erling Erickson's mother, Anna Odegaarden (later shortened to Odegaard), at Bruflat during the 1917-1918 school year. The page opposite the title page lists the students in the class: Robert Dahl, Joseph Stockmoe, Edwin Kyllo, Joseph Gilbertson, Anna Odegaard, Olga Kville (Odegaarden's first cousin), Ovidia Rydland, Oline Viken, and Ida Hefta.

The book contains the type of scribbling and notes commonly found in high school textbooks. For example, page 344 contains backwards writing which must be held in a mirror to read. Page 345 contains a short poem written about Odegaarden's classmates, and study notes can be found written in the margins throughout the book.

BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY

Box 1
Folder

5. History of the United States: a textbook used at Bruflat Academy, 1917-1918

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