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Community History Archive Partner
Divide County Library
Alkabo, North Dakota
Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Alkabo.
1905 to 2024Dates represented
See individual titles for available dates.
334,624Archive pages
Historical pages reported for this collection.
Explore local history
Discover the people, places, and stories of Alkabo, North Dakota.
Explore the past of Alkabo, North Dakota through newspapers as well as yearbooks and annuals in the Divide County Library's digital archive. Its thirty-seven titles include material from 1905 to 2024.
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Selected titles
Explore titles such as “Ambrose Yearbooks” and “Alkabo Gazette”, shared by Divide County Library.
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No subscription or payment required.
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Different views of the past
Newspaper pages connect individual accounts with a wider story, preserving how events were reported and presented to the readers of the day. Yearbooks and annuals bring together the people and activities their editors chose to remember, offering a view of life within a particular year.
Reporting from the time can reveal how people described the events, work and concerns of their day, placing a local story within the history unfolding around it. Whether you are tracing a family connection, exploring a local event or sharing history with a class, there is more to discover than names and dates alone. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.
Explore the collection
Titles in this collection
Browse thirty-seven titles and 334,624 digitized pages, with material from 1905 to 2024. This collection is shared through Divide County Library's partnership with Advantage Archives. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.
Bring a person, place or date you recognize, and browse the titles below for a first clue in the story you want to follow.
Alkabo Gazette
2,620 pages from 1915 to 1919
Ambrose Herald
9,464 pages from 1927 to 1942
Ambrose Newsman
4,378 pages from 1908 to 1914
Ambrose Tribune
7,344 pages from 1909 to 1921
Ambrose Yearbooks
696 pages from 1949 to 1952
Census
5,252 pages from 1910 to 1925
Columbus Reporter
40,852 pages from 1908 to 1957
Columbus Yearbooks
1,000 pages from 1956 to 1967
Crosby Diamond Jubilee 1904-1979
208 pages in 1979
Crosby Eagle
5,268 pages from 1905 to 1916
Crosby Review
9,948 pages from 1905 to 1919
Crosby Yearbooks
512 pages from 1970 to 1974
Divide County Farmers Press
14,282 pages from 1919 to 1941
Divide County Farmers Press and Crosby Review
2,036 pages from 1942 to 1946
Divide County History
1,812 pages from 1964 to 1974
Divide County Journal
47,250 pages from 1916 to 1968
Divide County Yearbooks
772 pages from 2007 to 2011
Fortuna Leader
3,032 pages from 1914 to 1919
Fortuna Yearbooks
288 pages from 1958 to 1960
Journal
76,064 pages from 1968 to 2013
Kermit News
2,444 pages from 1907 to 1911
Kermit Republican
338 pages from 1906 to 1907
Mouse River Journal
36 pages in 2001
Noonan Miner
34,060 pages from 1913 to 1957
Noonan Republican
1,702 pages from 1909 to 1912
Noonan Yearbooks
2,196 pages from 1946 to 1981
Stady Leader
1,568 pages from 1909 to 1914
The Journal
19,174 pages from 1996 to 2024
Westby News
5,088 pages from 1913 to 1922
Wildrose Courant
92 pages in 1928
Wildrose Mixer
24,390 pages from 1917 to 1970
Wildrose Plainsman
3,272 pages from 1914 to 1919
Williams County Leader
892 pages from 1907 to 1909
Williams County Mixer
3,430 pages from 1907 to 1917
Williams County Plainsman
2,030 pages from 1908 to 1914
Williams County Plainsman and Paddington Journal
624 pages from 1910 to 1911
Willow Lake Wave
210 pages in 1909
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About the Archive
About The Divide County Library’s History Archives
Explore the Divide County Library ’s digital archives, made available through a partnership with Advantage Archives . These archives provide free access to historical yearbooks and newspapers that document the rich history of Divide County, North Dakota. These archives are an invaluable resource for research, genealogy, and preserving the past for future generations.
About the Library
About The Divide County Library
The Divide County Library was founded in 1912 under the leadership of Mrs. Guy Grove. Over the years, the library has grown and relocated several times to meet the needs of its patrons. Today, the library serves the community by providing access to a wide range of materials and resources, including a collection of yearbooks and historical newspapers that date back to the early 20th century.
Library History
Library History
In 1929, the Divide County Library and Museum Association was formed, and in 1974, the library became the first in North Dakota to operate a combined Public/School Library, housed at the Crosby Elementary School. The library has continually adapted to serve the changing needs of the community, from introducing microfilm archives to embracing digital technology.
Partner Story
Community Support and Recent Updates
The Divide County Library has received generous donations over the years that have allowed for renovations, upgrades, and new programming. In 2014 and 2016, significant contributions helped transform the library’s children’s area and storage facilities, enhancing the library experience for all visitors.
More ways to explore and share local history
Research Guidance
Look beyond a familiar name
A school story from Alkabo may begin with a class, activity, or organization. Use the dated pages in the yearbooks and annuals shared by the Divide County Library to follow that clue across a volume, and compare another source before treating a similar name as the same student. What a yearbook chose to celebrate reflects its publication and its time, not necessarily the full range of life in the community.
Where the available dates overlap, use a name, activity, or organization in a yearbook or annual as a starting point for a newspaper search. Compare the details carefully; a similar name is a lead to investigate, not an identification by itself.
Keep the title, date, page or item reference with each useful finding. Separate the words in a historical account from your interpretation, and note conflicting perspectives rather than choosing one too quickly. These notes help you connect a local story to its evidence and explain what remains uncertain.
Community Partnership
Keeping local history a community resource
This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Divide County Library, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.
Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.
Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.
Learn about partnerships
Stories, research tips, and archive news
Read All About It connects archive research with the people and institutions preserving local history. Explore partner and community stories, project updates, research ideas, and perspectives on digitization, education, and working with primary sources. Use the articles as a starting point for your next question or a new way to share a discovery.
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Why Microfilm is still important in 2023
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April 9, 2025
Unveiling the Hidden Mysteries: Exploring Cold Cases and Unconventional Clues
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April 1, 2025
This Week in History: March 31st through April 6th
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March 24, 2025
This Week in History: March 24th through March 30th
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March 18, 2025
It’s Your Community’s History, So Why Rent Something You Own?
We believe that history belongs to the communities where it was made - not locked behind paywalls or inaccessible due to budget restrictions. Subscription-based services and large content aggregators are generally more concerned with "content" and less concerned with the history that content contains. Their models typically involve a reoccurring charge for a plan that renews annually or licensing agreements with the library based on population served or circulation numbers. You are essentially Renting Access To YOUR History.
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