Rudy Rudd photograph albums, 1911-1930.

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Rudd, Rudy (Rudolph Alexander), 1900-1940. Rudy Rudd photograph albums, 1911-1930.

Rudy Rudd photograph albums, 1911-1930.

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Scrapbook (1911-1930) compiled by Rudy Rudd documenting his career in music, both locally in Fargo, N.D. and nationally. It primarily consists of photographs, but there are many clippings, advertising, letters, mementos, and union cards. It includes many portraits of Mr. Rudd. Documented quite well is the Collegians band composed of five Fargo men who played on the S.S. President McKinley on a 1925 trip to Japan, China and the Philippines. The five men were Rudd, Roy L. Hellander, James G. Stamp, Hugh McGrath and Earl B. Olsen. Three of them were students at the North Dakota Agricultural College and the band was identified as from the NDAC. There is also substantial material on the Harry Smith and his Red Jackets band of Fargo-Moorhead and for which Rudd played piano for some time. Other band represented, primarily in photographs, include South Bound Shaffter, Leland Parker Hotel Band (Minot, N.D.), Butterfly Orchestra, Red Jackets, Fletcher Band, Loomis Orchestra, Earl Olsen and his Collegians, Hotel Statler Orchestra (Lopez Band, Buffalo, N.Y.), Norman Ostbye's Note Hawks, Leonard Dahl and his Orchestra, Norman Ostbye's Fargoans, Charles Dornberg, Ned E. Fryberg, and Cec Hurst and his Club Royal Band. Portraits include, although many are unidentified, of Kay Austin, Frank Daran, Elmo L. Einung, Paul Christensen, Norman Wright, Johnny Stove, Edward J. Wirtz, Mathew Phalen, Alyce L. Bennett, Ronnie Sinclair, George A. Osborn, Stanley Weiser, Florence Saxon, Pete Harmon, Hugo Menard, Helen Charleston, Francis Berry, George A. Osborn and Adela Verne. There is also views of bands at the Winter Garden ballroom in Fargo and other Fargo theaters, and of Russie Le Roy in boxing match at the Winter Garden. The photograph albums span the time period of 1917 to 1939 and contains mostly snapshots. Most are not identified but Rudd appears in many of the images, while others are of presumed friends and some of family in Fargo. Images include the S.S. President McKinley trip to the Orient. Location of other images is less certain, but there are snapshots taken in Yellowstone National Park, California, and Fargo. the vast majority are social scenes of people, both men and women, bands, band members and musicians with their instruments. There is an image of the Fargo Theatre and a band outside the Leland Parker Hotel in Minot, N.D.

2 photograph albums (963 photographic prints)

North Dakota State University Library