A Guide to our Collections

Below you will find nearly 100 finding aids for the collections we have processed. This is not the entirety of our inventory so if you are researching a topic not listed below, email Library Director Robert Russell at robert.russell@northern.edu for further information. We upload finding aids for each collection as soon as they are processed.

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Germans from Russia Collections

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Anne Roesch Larson Collection

Jakob and Klara Ochsner Family Collection

Julius Stangl Germans from Russia Photography Collection

Local Collections

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Aberdeen Area Retired Teachers Association Collection

Aberdeen Association of University Women Collection

Aberdeen Quintuplets Collection

Bernard Fischbach Collection

Brown County Landmarks Commission Collection

Clark Wold Collection

DeBolt-Fry Collection

Dr. Frederick A. Spafford Collection

Elizabeth Ehmke Collection

Evelyn Sapa Collection

Grand Army of the Republic Collection

South Dakota Film Festival Collection

The Wizard of Oz Collection

Warren Johnson Scrapbook

Woman's Relief Corps Collection

Northern State History Collections

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Annotated Pasque Collection

Association for Childhood Education Collection

Career Services Committee Collection

Commencement Collection

Epsilon Pi Tau Collection

Faculty Meeting Minutes Collection

Faculty Wives and Women Collection

File Folder Collection

File Cabinet Photo Collection

Gerber Family Collection

Gypsy Days Collection

Inauguration Collection

Industrial Technologies Material Collection

Johnson Family Collection

Walter King Collection

Leadership Club Collection

NSC Student Association

Northern Today Collection

NSU Athletics Collection

NSU Buildings and Grounds Collection

NSU Fine Arts Collection

NSU Handbooks Collection

NSU Recruiting Materials Collection

NSU Scrapbooks Collection

Francis J. Persun Collection

Phi Delta Kappa Collection

Pi Kappa Delta - Northern State Speech and Debate Team Collection

Traveling Classroom Program Collection

Keith Warne Collection

Larry Wild Collection

Williams Library Collection

NSU Alumni Collections

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Alumni Association Collection

Millicent Atkins Collection

Helen Bergh Collection

Blanche Brill Collection

Diane Evans Collection

Leonard Feickert Collection

Pat Fors Collection

Gladys Fulker Collection

Cecil E. Harris Collection

William C. Hauck

Dorothy Hooper Collection

Vernon E. Jensen Collection

David Markhardt Collection

Adda A. Pierce Collection

Connie Siewert Olympic Collection

Mark Stange Collection

Stelle Sisters Collection - Mellette, South Dakota

Cora Thornes

J. S. Urban Collection

Special Collections

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Benjamin Franklin Whitehouse Papers

George Nikolas Collection

South Dakota National Guard Historical Resource Collection

Digital Collections

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Aberdeen Area History

Aberdeen Area Historical Resources Collection

Beata Bauer Joachim Collection - Germans from Russia

DeBolt-Fry Family Collection

Eureka Pioneer Museum Collection

Frederick Historical Collection

Genealogy Collection

Germans from Russia Oral History Collection

George Nikolas Collection

German Mutual Insurance Collection - Germans from Russia

Harlan Luckhurst Collection

Harriet Montgomery Water Resources Collection

Hutchinson County Church Records Collection - Germans from Russia

Jacob Schnaidt Family Collection - Germans from Russia

Julius Stangl Photography Collection - Germans from Russia

McPherson County Herald

Merritt Johnson Music Collection

The Northwest Blade

NSU Exponent

NSU History Collection

NSU Pasque Collection

NSU Photo Collection

Ochsner Family Collection - Germans from Russia

Roesch Family Collection - Germans from Russia

Scotland Heritage Museum Funeral Records Collection - Germans from Russia

South Dakota Germans From Russia Collection

Sisseton Agency

South Dakota International Business Conference Proceedings

Content within the Northern State University Archives and Special Collections may contain outdated concepts, values, and language that do not reflect those of Williams Library, Northern State University, or its affiliates. Although some may regard certain materials as offensive, the items within the collections are historical in nature and are accessible for education and research purposes.