Comstock House, Moorhead, Minnesota (S5055)
HISTORICAL SKETCH
This collection of documents is a supplement to the Solomon Comstock Papers (S248), a prominent figure in the early history of Moorhead, Minnesota. For a full biographical sketch of Comstock, see the inventory for S248. The documents in this collection were preserved at the Solomon Comstock House in Moorhead, a property of the Minnesota State Historical Society. In 2003, the documents were transferred to the Northwest Minnesota Historical Center.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
This collection contains some correspondence of the Comstock family, including letters written by Solomon Comstock, his wife Sarah, his son George and daughter Ada. It also includes various postcards received by the Comstock family, magazines from the early 19th century that mention the Comstocks, and a set of maps of various towns in North Dakota in which the Comstock family had investments. The final box of the collection (Box 8) contains cassette tapes of twelve interviews conducted in the 1970s with people who knew one or more of the Comstock family. All documents are in very good condition.
Ada Comstock, Publications and Composition Books
Certificates
Correspondence - Ada Comstock. 1891-1925
- George Comstock. 1898-1945
- Jessie Comstock. 1901-05; 1908-50
- Miscellaneous
- Sarah Comstock. 1890-1947
- S. G. Comstock
- Business. 1875-1945
- Personal. 1874-95
Family Information
Financial
Maps
Miscellaneous - General
- House Information
Newspaper Clippings - Comstock Family. 1900-58
- Comstock Family Albums
- Events
- Fargo/Moorhead. 1882-1936
- Miscellaneous. 1876-1931
- Moorhead State Teachers College/State Normal School
- The Record. 1897-1898
Publications - Art Books
- Hill School
- Historical Magazine
- Bangor
- Maine
- The Literary Digest. 1922
- Maine, State of
- Miscellaneous
- Passenger Lists
- Smith College
- Tourist Guides. 1903-1943
- University Information
- Weekly Calendars
Photographs - California Localities
- Comstock House
- Family
- Florida Localities
- Jamaica Localities
- Miscellaneous
- Identified
- Unidentified
- People Identified
- People Unidentified
- Yellowstone Localities
Postcards [local post cards are indexed, see last page of inventory] - to Jessie Comstock
- to Sarah Comstock
- to S. G. Comstock
- to Susan Comstock
- to Ada Comstock
- to others
- not sent or received
- Fargo/Moorhead [indexed, see last page of inventory]
- Miscellaneous
Postcards - not sent or received continued
- folding postcards
Stereographs
Oversized Photographs
Scrapbooks
Military Documents of George Comstock
Maps - Auburn
- Bathgate, ND
- Bottineau, ND (Housed in large Map Case)
- Clay County. 1899
- Fisher, MN
- Grandin, ND
- Hillsboro, ND
- Mindot
- Ottenton
- Rugby Junction
- Sabin, MN
- Towner, ND
- Willow City
Inventory of Prints, Postcards, etc.
Cassettes Tapes (Housed in Tape Cassette Cabinet)
Cooper, James - Ada Comstock Notestein’s lawyer, New Haven, CT. 1974
Dustrud, Jean McConald - On early Moorhead and funeral of Jessie Comstock. 1981
Greirson, Margaret, Alice Heenan, Eleanor Lincoln, Mary E. Mensel, and Laura Scales – Interviews by Smith College at Nursing Home. 1978
Kreps, Wayne. 1979
Lovett, Reverend Sidney - Yale University, Remarks at funeral service for Ada Comstock Notestein. 1974
McKay, Ruth - Boston, MA. 1978.
Mendenhall, Dr. Thomas C. - Interview with President of Smith College, Northampton, MA at Harvard University. 1978; Interview with Miss Barbara Norton, Radcliffe College. 1989
Munn, Andre - On the Comstocks and early Moorhead. 1978
Notestein, Ada Comstock - Speech “Inauguration”
Shadrach, Mrs. Jean - Canton, Ohio. 1980
Solomon, Barbara - Interview on Radcliffe College. 1978
Tausch, Elizabeth - Interview in Wooster, Ohio. 1980
Unsworth, Mrs. Stephen - She and her first husband were maid and butler in Greenleaf House when Ada Comstock Notestein died there. Danvers, MA. 1978.
Index for Local Post Cards
Baudette, MN - Fish. SAC 93
- Fox Farm. ScC 2
Bismarck, ND - Street View (Stereo Card). ST PA 67
Detroit Lakes, MN - Chippewa Twins. J 287
- Edgewater Beach Hotel. SAC 75
- Fair Hills Resort. JC 48
- Fish. SAC 88
- Indian Papoose. JC 51
- Lake Sally. JC 154
Fargo, ND - Northern Pacific Depot. FPO 13
- Northern Pacific Park & Depot. No number
Grand Forks, ND - UND President’s Home. JC 301
Lake Itasca, MN - Others 259
Mayville, ND - State Normal School. SAC 15
Minneapolis, MN - Court House. Others 163
Moorhead, MN - Clay County Wheat Field. Others 23
- Concordia College. Others 297; No number
- Fairmont Creamery. Others 301
- Flower Garden, W. H. Davy. JC 215; Others 24
- High School. A 38; JC 73; Others 22
- State Normal School. A 38
- State Teachers College. Other 296
- Stodder Park Northern Pacific Depot. Others 26
- Storage & Transfer Co. Others 21a; Others 21b
- Tourist Camp on Red River. Others 300
Northern Minnesota - Downing Timber. JC 202
St. Paul, MN - Capitol. Others 155; Others 228
- Cathedral. FPO 2; JC 165; Others 234
- Northern Pacific. FPO 2
- Public Library. Others 232
Staples, MN - Duck Hunting. JC 63
Wadena, MN - High School. JC 156
Wahpeton, ND - Red River of the North. JC 184
Warroad, MN - Summer Camp. ScC 4