Dates: Content: 11/27/1936

Dates: Created: 03/03/1991 - 07/26/1991
Places: Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States
Long time residents of St. Paul's East Side describe family owned businesses that have or are currently serving the community. Many of the businesses were on the major thoroughfares, Payne and Arcadia Avenue. They also describe the changes over time in regards to businesses, immigrant groups, and streetscape. Cataloged separately is "Up and Down the Avenue: 100 Years of Change", a volume featuring excerpts of and photographs relating to the oral history interviews.

Dates: Created: circa 1946, Content: circa 1946

Dates: Content: 1910

Dates: 1915-1990s
Mainly copies of photographs collected by the Metropolitan Airports Commission [MAC] from the private collections of Vince Doyle, Bill Ellis, and Noel Allard, and from the Minnesota Historical Society. Some but not all are identified with their original ownership. They are divided into four series: individuals, which are mainly MAC, Wold-Chamberlain Field, or Northwest Airlines employees and directors, including Charles Holman, or well-known visitors, including Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Bob Hope, Will Rogers, and Dean Martin; events and airport scenes; aircraft; and aerial views. The latter three are all arranged chronologically and are largely centered around Wold-Chamberlain Field. Included are views of the 1923 Wold-Chamberlain Field dedication; Howard Hughes' round the world flight refueling (1938); World War II military troops and aircraft; building construction, particularly the West Side and Lindbergh terminals; various airlines' terminal counters, hangars, and aircraft, particularly Northwest; airmail service; air crashes; DePonti Aviation Company, inc.; expansion, especially additional runways; the Navy Base; the 1930 visit of the Question Mark, the first plane flown non-stop from France to America; and refitting of Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's B-25s prior to the raid on Tokyo (1942). Other sites documented include Holman Field, the city of Minneapolis, Mississippi River flooding in St. Paul, and Lake Elmo, Duluth, Flying Cloud, and Crystal airports.

Dates: 1956-1982
Places: Minnesota
Oral history interviews conducted through the Minnesota Historical Society's Public Affairs Center documenting the political careers and experiences of those who held positions of national and international importance, were involved at local and state levels, and were in both major and minor political parties.

Dates: 1854-1962 (bulk 1905-1951)
Places: Bishop Hill Colony (Ill.)
Correspondence, organizational papers, speeches and articles, data on library holdings, and other records of an organization (founded in 1905) that was concerned with the preservation and documentation of Swedish history, culture, and literature among and for Swedish-Americans.

Dates: 1954-1977
The Forest History Oral History Project is a group of interviews conducted and compiled by John Esse on the history of northern Minnesota. These interviews capture the lives of men and women who homesteaded or came north to work in the lumber industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While some came from Europe and others from around the Midwest, their stories have a consistent message of community, hard work, and the nature surrounding them in northern Minnesota. Interviewees give numerous depictions of life in a lumber camp and the various jobs they held at lumber companies and mills. Several interviewees fought in World War I, and those experiences are included as well. Interviewed by John Esse, Stan Johnson, Robert C. Wheeler, Bruce Sunbauer, Allan Nevins, and Louis M. Starr.

Dates: 1972-1989
These 70 interviews document the role of left-wing radicalism in shaping Minnesota's political culture. Radicals who were active in the decades up to 1960 were interviewed, including men and women, members of various left-wing political parties and unaffiliated activists, artists, organizers and WPA workers. 37 interviews were generated between 1986 and 1989 as part of the Radicalism Project at the Minnesota Historical Society, under project director Carl Ross. 33 interviews were transcribed from previously collected interviews and added to the project.

Dates: 1855-2003 (bulk 1890-1943)
Places: Munich (Germany)
The papers and research notebooks of Alexander P. Anderson. The papers include correspondence, articles and essays, school and teaching materials, biographical information, family history, genealogical data, and photographs. Two sets of research notebooks focus on the process of puffing cereal grains and on Anderson's experiments with aerodynamics. A smaller set of notebooks focuses on other miscellaneous experiments, such as his experiments on the growth of fruit, watermelons, and puffing wood. The research notebooks on the process of puffing cereal grains and other starches are on microfilm.

Dates: Created: 1937, Content: 1937
Places: Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States

Dates: Created: 1972 - 1989
The Twentieth Century Radicalism in Minnesota Oral History Project consists of 37 interviews generated between 1986 and 1989 for the Project to Document Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Minnesota and 33 previously conducted interviews. Carl Ross, former Minnesota Communist leader, served as project director. This oral history project has been one part of a larger effort by the MHS Research Department to uncover the role of left-wing radicalism in shaping the state's political culture. Radicals who were active in the decades up to 1960 were interviewed, including men and women, members of various left-wing political parties and unaffiliated activists, artists, organizers, and WPA workers. The other major product of the MHS radicalism research was an annotated bibliography of sources on the subject in the collections of MHS and the University of Minnesota libraries, "Radicalism in Minnesota, 1900-1960: a survey of selected sources", published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press in 1994.