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MD 66

 

Oversize Folder #1:

 

Certificate as County Chairman for War Savings.

 

Appointment as delegate to National Irrigation Congress.

 

Scrapbook.

 

Miscellaneous newspaper clippings.

 

"Map of a Branch of the Dakota-Central Railway," showing Fairbanks, Dakota Territory, 1883.

 

Plat map of "Fairbanks, Sully County, Dakota, n.d.

 

Plat map of Mitchell, South Dakota, 1903.

 

Plat map of Township 115, Range 81, showing Robinson's Little Bend Ranch, ca. 1912.

 

Outline may of South Dakota marked to show cement materials.

 

Mimeograph outline map of the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana, showing reservoirs, irrigation, and power facilities.

 

"The Robinson Pedigree."

 

"Ancestry and Posterity of George McCook Robinson."

 

Map of Long Island, New York.

 

Issue of the Dakota Farmer, Vol. 36, No. 7 (April 1, 1916), which contains "The Missouri's Call" and "Harnessing a Hope" both by Robinson.

 

"Are our Colleges Teaching Subversive Philosophy?" newspaper clipping by Ralph E. Duncan.

 

Tom Ayres Land Company Bulletin, July 20,1909.

 

Sparta, Monroe County, Wisconsin census of 1860 showing the Robinson Family.

 

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Oversize Folder #2:     Return to Top of Page

 

Pamphlet. "Navigation of the Missouri River through the Dakotas," put out by the Pierre Commercial Club, 1931.

 

Article. "State Must Develop Missouri River Project," 2 copies.

 

Article. Reprint of speech by Robinson promoting waterpower development, January 11, 1920.

 

Petition. Requesting vote on hydroelectric power plant, 1921.

 

Poster. "Vote Yes on Initiated Law No. 1 Stat Owned hydroelectric," 2 copies.

 

Sample Ballot. Hughes Country, November 7,1922. 2 copies.

 

Map. "Possibility of hydroelectric at Big Bend," by L.O. Berg, 1923.

 

Map. Little Bend proposed dam by the State Engineer.

 

Map. "C.B. Billinghurst's hydroelectric Power Map, 1918,2 copies.

 

South Dakota Leader, Mitchell, June 4,1921, Article and 2 letters regarding Teddy Roosevelt.

 

3 Drawings of proposed hydroelectric development near Mobridge.

 

 

BOX  3368A

 

DOANE ROBINSON PAPERS ADDITIONS     Return to Top of Page

 

Folder #1:       Letters, 1873-1924, to and from J.B. Irvine. There appears to be two J.B. Irvines involved. The oldest letters appear to have been written by the captain Irvine stationed at Fort Sully. The letters written in the 1920s appear to involve a Rev. J.B. Irvine.

 

Folder #2:      Letters, 1921-1925, concerning the possibility of extracting aluminum from shales in South Dakota.

 

Folder #3:      Letters, 1902-1925, to and from Gov. and Mrs. Charles N. Herreid.

 

Folder #4:       Letters, 1924-1939, concerning the first alfalfa grown in South Dakota. Includes LawrenceFox correspondence. Removed from collection to form collection H84.14­South Dakota Alfalfa Controversy Papers.

 

Folder #5:       Letters, 1904-1923, to and from Charles H. Burke, South Dakota Congressman and Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

 

Folder #6:       Letters, 1908-1913, to and from Coe I. Crawford. The bulk are from Crawford's term in the U.S. Senate.

 

Folder #7:       Letters, 1913-1925, to and from Charles L. Hyde.

 

Folder #8:       Letters, 1910-1917, concerning Richard Olsen Richards.

 

Folder #9:       Letters, 1924-1925, to and from various persons at the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Historical Society.

 

Folder #10: Letters, 1911-1913, to and from Gov. Frank M. Byrne.

 

Folder #11: Letters, 1922-1925, to and from O.B. Talley of Sioux City, Iowa.

 

Folder #12: Letters, 1905-1914, to and from Joseph Mills Hanson. Many of the letters show evidence of sever water damage.

 

Folder #13: Letters, 1903-1921, to and from Sen. R.F. Pettigrew.

 

Folder #14: Letters, 1913-1917, concerning the South Dakota Free Library Commission.

 

Folder #15: Letters and circulars, 1909-1911, concerning the activities of the Beadle Memorial Commission.

 

Folder #16: Letters, 1903-1912, to and from concerning General W.H.H. Beadle.

 

 

BOX  3368B

 

DOANE ROBINSON PAPERS ADDITIONS     Return to Top of Page

 

Folder #1: Correspondence, 1902

Folder #2: Correspondence, 1903-1905

Folder #3: Correspondence, 1910-1915

Folder #4: Correspondence, 1917-1921

Folder #5: Correspondence, 1922-1923

Folder #6: Correspondence, 1924

Folder #7: Correspondence, 1925

Folder #8: Correspondence, 1926-1939

 

Folder #9: Missouri River Bridge, 1923-1925

Folder #10: Animal teeth and skull correspondence, 1924-1925

Folder #11: Upper Missouri Historical Expedition, 1925

Folder #12: Board of Railroad Commissioners, 1921

Folder #13: Railroad, 1909-1925

Folder #14: Robinson Genealogy

 

Folder #15: Newspapers clippings

 

Folder #16: Undated Miscellaneous

 

Folder #17: Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 6, 1922-1923

 

Green Butte Ranch, A Pastoral in Three Episodes, by Doane Robinson

Midst of Coteaus of Dakota, verses by Doane Robinson, 1899

One of the Palls, a Comis Drama in four acts by Doane Robinson, 1891

 

Letter from Vice President Calvin Coolidge relating to his quotation from a Recent Opinion of the Massachusetts Supreme Court Pertaining to Fundamental Virtues, 1923

 

Investigations of Lignite Coal Relative to the Production of Gas and Briquets, by E.J. Babcock, University of North Dakota.

 

Address delivered by Doane Robinson at Wessington Springs, S.D. in Observance of the 33rd Anniversary of the Admission of South Dakota, 1922.

 

South Dakota, 1930

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