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  1. Title: Minnesota Women's Press, Inc. Oral History Project
    Collections Online | Sound Recordings, Text | OH 75 (Library Call Number)
    Dates: Created: 06/04/1999 - 04/11/2000
    Places: Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States
    Interviews discuss the Minnesota Women's Press, Inc., a newspaper and publishing concern focusing on women and women's issues, from its inception to the present day. Subjects covered include publications, book groups, travel groups, and impact of organization on staff, readership, and group participants.

    Details: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10469047
  2. Title: Forest History Oral History Project
    Collections Online | Sound Recordings, Text | OH 142 (Library Call Number)
    Dates: Created: 1954 - 1977
    The Forest History Oral History Project is a group of 52 interviews conducted and compiled by John Esse on the history of northern Minnesota. These interviews capture the lives of people 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.

    Details: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=11109950

  3. Click to enlarge     Title: Amanda Olson and Andrew Anderson
    Collections Online | Photographs | 12690-A (Negative Number)
    Dates: Created: circa 1912, Content: circa 1912

    Details: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10841740

  4. Click to enlarge     Title: L to R: Dean Tresise, Ray Slewes(?), Ruben Bloom, Hilding Anderson, Nick Nieuie(?), Ole Olson
    Collections Online | Photographs | por 12878 r1 (Locator Number SV)
    Dates: Created: 1942, Content: 1942

    Details: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10760415

  5. Click to enlarge     Title: Astra Singing Society at Phalen Park, St. Paul.
    Collections Online | Photographs | N5.4 p68 (Locator Number SV)
    Dates: Content: circa 1917

    Details: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10746260
  6. Title: World War I bonus file, warrant number 117284: Anderson, Nels
    Collections Online | Text | 117284 (Warrant Number)
    Dates: Created: 1919 - circa 1943
    Places: Nelson, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States
    Deceased. Warrant issued to Edward Olson, guardian of warrantee.

    Details: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10869702
  7. Title: Winter Carnival royalty.
    Collections Online | Photographs | MR2.9 SP9.1 1941 p27 (Locator Number SV)
    Dates: Created: 1941, Content: 1941
    Places: Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States

    Details: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10667033
  8. Collection: Charles K. Dayton: An Inventory Of His Papers
    Collection Finding Aids | Text
    Dates: 1922-1979
    Places: Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.)
    Correspondence, legal documents, reports, printed matter, and background materials documenting Dayton's work as legal representative for the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, the North Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, and the Minnesota Federation of Ski Touring Clubs on litigation relating to snowmobiling and logging operations in the wilderness sections of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

    Details: http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/P1354.xml
  9. Collection: Hilding Alfred Swanson: An Inventory Of His Family Papers
    Collection Finding Aids | Text
    Dates: 1873-2015
    Places: Brainerd (Minn.)
    Legal and family papers of a Brainerd, Minnesota lawyer, state legislator, and civic leader. Includes notes and articles on the history of Crow Wing County and Brainerd; information on Ojibwe in Crow Wing County; Governor Luther W. Youngdahl's Interstate Indian Conference (1950); and correspondence, legal papers, notes, transcripts, and biographical data in cases involving the trial and imprisonment of several of Swanson's Ojibwe clients. Included as well are photographs, diplomas, certificates, and genealogical information relating to Swanson and his siblings and their parents, and some material relating to the Zeglin family, into which Swanson's niece married, and to their Coney Island of the West resort hotel located at Waconia, Minnesota.

    Details: http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/01244.xml

  10. Click to enlarge     Title: Minnesota Powerline Oral History Project
    Collections Online | Sound Recordings, Text | OH 25 (Library Call Number)
    Dates: Created: 01/03/1978 - 08/09/1979
    The Minnesota Powerline Oral History Project documents the controversy which arose from the routing of a high-voltage powerline through western Minnesota. The controversy escalated as costs of the project rose and additional frustration was created by cumbersome review processes, and by what many protesters saw as excessive concern by the federal and state governments for wildlife areas and highway right of way at the expense of protection for productive farmland. The narrators represent all major viewpoints including farmers and townspeople from the affected areas, officials from the Department of Natural Resources, officers and board members of the electric cooperatives building the line, representatives of the Governor's office, and several state legislators. The interviews varied with the nature of each narrator's involvement in the controversy, but all were correlated to provide a firm base for comparison of views and motivation.

    Details: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10469023
  11. Collection: Swedish Historical Society Of America: An Inventory Of Its Records And Collected Papers
    Collection Finding Aids | Text
    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.

    Details: http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/P1432.xml
  12. Collection: Forest History Oral History Project: An Inventory Of Its Oral Histories
    Collection Finding Aids | Text, Sound recordings
    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.

    Details: http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/oh142.xml

  13. Click to enlarge     Collection: 20th Century Radicalism In Minnesota Oral History Project.: An Inventory Of Its Records
    Collection Finding Aids | Text, Sound recordings
    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.

    Details: http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/oh30.xml
  14. Collection: Vince A. (vincent Alpheus) Day: An Inventory Of His Papers
    Collection Finding Aids | Text
    Dates: 1906-1945
    Places: Minnesota
    Correspondence, speeches, clippings, printed materials, scrapbooks, and other papers of Day, private secretary to Minnesota governor Floyd B. Olson (1931-1935) and a Minneapolis municipal and Hennepin County district court judge (1935-1945).

    Details: http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/01126.xml

  15. Click to enlarge     Title: Great Northern Railway Quartet
    Collections Online | Photographs | N5.4 p3 (Locator Number SV)
    Dates: Content: circa 1930

    Details: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10753509
  16. Title: Star Island Oral History Project
    Collections Online | Sound Recordings, Moving Images, Text | OH 48 (Library Call Number)
    Dates: Created: 1976 - 1995
    Star Island is a 1,163-acre island in Cass Lake, Minnesota. Most of the island is part of Chippewa National Forest, but since 1909 privately owned cabins have been built along the island's shoreline, primarily as summer residences. The Star Island Oral History Project consists of two sets of audio interviews with the island's residents and video footage of the area. The first audio set, done in 1976, deals mostly with the history of the island and its community. The second audio set, done in 1985 as part of interviewer Carol Ryan's doctoral dissertation on the development and history of the summer community, examines why people returned to the island year after year and generation after generation, and looks at meanings that residents saw in the island. The 1995 video includes scenes of Star Island and its environs, on the water and off, of the cabins, residents, and guests. It also includes an interview with the Mosedales transcribed in the video log.

    Details: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10389204
  17. Title: Twentieth Century Radicalism in Minnesota Oral History Project
    Collections Online | Sound Recordings, Text | OH 30 (Library Call Number)
    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.

    Details: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10469031
  18. Title: Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Alice Olson and Bergit Anderson
    Collections Online | Sound Recordings, Text | OH 142 (Library Call Number)
    Dates: Created: 09/22/1976
    Places: Bigfork, Itasca County, Minnesota, United States
    BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Alice Olson was born in Annandale, Minnesota in 1895. She spent much of her life in Bigfork, Minnesota. Bergit Anderson was born in Oklee, Minnesota in 1898. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life in Bigfork; being some of the earliest homesteaders to the area; other early settlers; comparing Bigfork to Deer River or Bemidji; Native Americans in the area and Busticogan; how farming took a while to get started, and how that affected them growing up; canning and root cellars; itinerant preachers; different settlements around Bigfork, including those from the Red River Valley and those who came straight to Bigfork from Norway; the Rajala family; the school as the center of the community; Rahier family and their dances; camping in the 1920s and 30s; dealing with mosquitoes; Bergit Anderson's life. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: Bergit Anderson had a solo interview with John Esse as part of the same Forest History project.

    Details: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=11124745

  19. Click to enlarge     Title: Ojibwe memorial quilt
    Collections Online | Artifacts | 2010.14.1 (Accession Number)
    Dates: Created: not earlier than 2009 - not later than 11/12/2009
    Places: Minnesota, United States
    A memorial quilt made for Margaret Hill, member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, in 2009. The quilt was created by two of her students, Jackie Anderson and Cecelia Olson. The rectangular machine-quilted quilt includes 15 color photo-transferred images showing Hill either teaching or working on basketry and beadwork projects and also illustrating her finished work.

    Details: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10610694

  20. Click to enlarge     Title: Quartet of MacPhail students.
    Collections Online | Photographs | N5.4 p39 (Locator Number SV)
    Dates: Content: 04/09/1940
    Places: MacPhail Center for Music, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States

    Details: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10726471



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