Northern Normal and Industrial School (Aberdeen, S.D.)

This series contains the files for cases heard by the Dakota Territory Supreme Court, as well as miscellaneous documents and correspondence filed with the court. Case files may include transcripts of testimony, court proceedings, briefs, printed abstracts, filed motions, notices, and judgments. A name index is saved to Archives server, and is available upon request.

This collection consists of incoming letters (1896-1900) and outgoing correspondence in copybooks (1898-1901). All correspondence has been microfilmed (see MF 1750-1758). Also included in the collection is an oversize folder containing petitions requesting an individual be appointed to the position of Inspector of Mines (1896), as well as election returns and state institution statistics (1898).

This series consists of 14 volumes containing indemnity and endowment abstracts for educational and charitable lands in South Dakota. Information includes a legal description of the land, its estimated value, county, school/organization, and lease number.

This series consists of tract books for educational and charitable lands in South Dakota. Volumes give the legal description of the land, the total acreage, the land sale number, the patent number, the lease number and the lease expiration date. Notations about appraised value, easements, right of ways, covenants and history may be found.