Title:
Manuscript by Margaret Kent Banks about the January 12, 1888 Blizzard
Record Group Number:
RG3658.AM
Collection:
January 12, 1888 Blizzard Club
Location:
HQ 02/22/07/03
Box:
Box 2
Folder:
Folder 9
Contributing Institution:
History Nebraska; https://history.nebraska.gov/
Creator:
Banks, Margaret Kent
Contributor:
Snodgrass, Grace
Contributor:
Pilger, Frank
Description:
Typed manuscript with an account of the January 12, 1888 blizzard as told by Margaret Kent Banks. She was a teacher in a rural schoolhouse near Faulkton, South Dakota. She and her students all survived, but she mentions another teacher who died in the blizzard.
Language:
eng
Subject (Topics) :
Blizzards
Subject (Topics) :
Reminiscing
Subject (Topics) :
Teachers
Subject (Topics) :
School children
Source (Names):
Knox, Amy
Source (Names):
Fluent, Frank
Source (Names):
Hayes, Willie
Source (Places):
Faulkton (S. Dak.)
Source (Events):
Children's Blizzard of 1888
Source (Temporal):
1940s
Source (Temporal):
1880s
Format-Extent:
2 pages
Format-Medium:
reminiscences
Format-Medium:
manuscripts (documents)
Type:
Text
Relation:
Original
Rights:
This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under U.S. copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The organization that has made this item available believes that the item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. (CC Public Domain 1.0 and RightsStatements.org NoC-US 1.0). The original object is available at History Nebraska. For more information contact: hn.web@nebraska.gov
File Format:
TIF
Date Digital :
2021-06-17
Identifier:
RG3658b002f009i0002-0003