Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum and Memorial Society Records
Scope and Contents
Collection contains newsletters, recipes, clippings, Ingalls family tree, photographs, postcards, copies of articles from the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum in Mansfield, Mo. and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society in De Smet, S.D.
Dates
- 1938-1977
Creator
- Hodapp, Pat, (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Copyright
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from material in the collection should be discussed with the appropriate librarian or archivist. Permission for publication may be given on behalf of the Denver Public Library as the owner of the physical item. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained by the customer. The Library does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or publication rights of the manuscript held by the writer, heirs, donors, or executors. Reproduction restrictions are decided on a case-by-case basis.
Biographical / Historical
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born in Wis. in 1867 and spent her childhood in Wis., Mo., Kan., Minn., Iowa, and S.D. The Ingalls family stayed in S.D., and in 1885, Laura married Almanzo Wilder. The couple had a daughter, who became the author: Rose Wilder Lane. In 1894, the Wilder family left S.D. and moved to a farm in the Ozark mountains near the town of Mansfield, Mo. In the 1930s and 1940s, encouraged and aided by her daughter, Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote a series of books about her childhood on the frontier. Called the "Little House" books, they were published between 1932-1943, and chronicled her experiences from her earliest memories of her life in Wis. and the Kan. prairie to the year of her marriage. She died in 1957, shortly after her 90th birthday. Her books provided the inspiration for the long-running TV series: "Little House on the Prairie" (1974-1983), and the program's various sequels.
Extent
1 envelope
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, Pat Hodapp, 2004.
General
Catalog record based on preliminary inventory.
General
Collection contains former photo accession #2004.56.
General
Biography derived from on-line source.
- Clippings (information artifacts) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Historic house museums -- Missouri -- Mansfield. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Histories (literature genre) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum (Mansfield, Mo.)
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society.
- Newsletters Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Societies -- South Dakota -- De Smet -- History, organization, etc. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 -- Archives.
- Women authors, American -- West (U.S.) -- 20th century. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Denver Public Library, Western History and Genealogy Repository
