The Carleton Elliott Simensen Military Heritage Collection was created by the Chester Fritz Library to solicit written materials and photographs that document how communities and people of North Dakota and the surrounding region were affected by wars and military conflicts. Materials include photographs, correspondence, diaries, memoirs and books, containing information on the Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam conflict, and Gulf War. Materials at the beginning of the collection relate to Carleton Elliott Simensen and his family and friends. The collection includes information on: William Pratt, Frances Simensen Stensrud, Kenneth Simensen, Mabel Rutherford, Robert Chatfield, Rebecca Livengood Dyer, Orville Bergren, Senator Evan Lips, George Vaughan, Edwin Rupp, Russell Lake, La Veern Abelson, George Sawyer, William Bertram Coyle, Spanish American War Payroll Records for North Dakota Units, Hubert Harrington, Patrick D. O'Connell, George Olson, Kevin Bonham, John W. Kellogg, PT Boats, Inc., Eugene V. Schwartz, Charles Jacobi, Aaron Boetcher, Arthur Grant Anderson, Edna M. Boardman, Leo Bell, Bonnie Larson, Shirley Pietron, Gene Sibell, Robert George Bjoring, N. Manuel Lillehaugen, Edwin M. Tofte, Delcie D. Light, Bill Shemorry, David Johnson, Fran Kryszko, Nancy Harvey, South Dakota National Guard Museum, Robert C. Moore, Agnes Shurr, Ted Pedeleski, Linda Adams.
