Dates: 1824-1966
Places: Bayfield (Wis.)
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, legal papers, genealogical materials, diaries, recipe books, and other papers pertaining to a fur trader, Minnesota territorial delegate to Congress, United States senator, and state public official and entrepreneur, his wife Matilda, and members of their extended family. Includes information about federal land surveying, Fort Snelling, Indian affairs, Rice's business affairs, the American Fur Company and individual fur traders, railroad construction, and a court-martial of a member of the 59th New York Volunteers. Papers for 1901-1966 are chiefly those of the Robert (Auerbach) Rice family and include information about their business affairs and the change of the family name from Auerbach to Rice.

Dates: 1859-1949 (bulk 1897-1935)
Places: Minnesota
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers of a Saint Paul mail carrier, wood carver, and member of the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers Association. Includes a brief history of the building of the first Catholic church in St. Paul with information about Father Lucien Galtier (May 1938).

Dates: 1739-2005 (bulk 1850-1960)
Places: Europe
Correspondence, biographical data, subject files, speeches, financial records, maps, publications, photographs, clippings and scrapbooks, and corporate records documenting the personal lives and business activities of the James J. Hill and Louis W. Hill families.

Dates: 1890-1982
Biographical materials, photographs, diaries, and World War I and World War II correspondence and papers of Saint Paul native David H. Backus and his family, including some photographs and papers related to Oak Hall School and its predecessor, Baldwin Seminary. Some of the material is in the French and Arabic languages.

Dates: 1866-1956
Places: Minneapolis (Minn.)
Letterpress books, employee's time and wage books, price books, pricing department memoranda books on employees, summaries of expenses and sales, and miscellaneous correspondence and financial records of this wholesale hardware firm managed by Thomas B. Janney, Frank B. Semple, and Horace M. Hill. Also included are photographs taken by Ralph Laird, an employee of Janney, Semple, & Hill hired to take pictures of client stores throughout the central part of the United States.

Dates: 1857-1969 (bulk 1880-1920)
Correspondence and subject files (1857-1969), property tax records, records of easements and permits granted, and land and timber examination files created by the Great Northern administrative department responsible for managing the company's right-of-way property.

Dates: [1883?]-1982 (bulk 1940-1978)
Places: United States
The Hubert H. Humphrey papers include several series of files detailing various aspects of his life and career, including his service as Minneapolis mayor (1945-1948) , his first tenure as United States Senator from Minnesota (1949-1964), service as Vice President of the United States (1965-1968), as well as materials pertaining to his family and personal life and his 1968 presidential and 1970 senate campaigns.

Dates: 1679-1970
Places: Becker County (Minn.)
Microfilm, photocopies, and transcripts of miscellaneous documents relating to the Hudson's Bay Company, a Canada-based fur trading company incorporated in 1670 with a royal charter from King Charles II, collected at various times by the Minnesota Historical Society.

Dates: 1882-1971
Minutes (1907-1934), cash books (1882-1949), statements of operations (1898-1899, 1950-1956), photographs, and miscellaneous materials documenting a series of hospitals organized for the medical care of Northern Pacific employees.

Dates: 1861-1970
Corporate records of the St. Paul-based Northern Pacific, its predecessors, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, documenting their operations across the northern tier of western states for more than one hundred years, until its 1970 merger with the Great Northern, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle that formed the Burlington Northern.

Dates: 1861-1989
Places: Europe
Business and personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, print materials, scrapbooks, diaries, personal reminiscences on a variety of topics and individuals, and other papers of a Minneapolis flour-milling executive who was an active participant in public affairs. Includes diaries of James Ford Bell's father, James Stroud Bell, and papers of other Bell family members.

Dates: 1862-1989
Places: Arriba (Colo.)
Biographical and genealogical data, including charts; extensive correspondence files (1862-1986); Women's Auxiliary Army Corps records and newsletters (1943-1946); school essays, report cards, and related papers (1901-1937); newspaper clippings (1939-1989); photographs (1906-1960); diaries (1912-1937); and other papers relating to the Sherman and Helen (Nellie) (Crapsey) Follett family of St. Paul (Minn.), with additional information on several related families.

Dates: 1867-1970
Correspondence and subject files (1870-1951), annual reports to regulatory agencies (1883-1967), corporate accounting records (1867-1970), and other miscellaneous records created or compiled by the Northern Pacific administrative unit responsible for the accounting, auditing, and statistical analysis functions of the railway company.