Dates: 1816-1857
Places: Crawford County (Wis.)
Photocopies of Crawford County, Wisconsin court records (1824-1857) concerning the fur trade and the history of Crawford County and Prairie du Chien, and typewritten transcripts of Crawford County quit-claim and mortgage deeds (1816-1844) made by an unknown person in 1955 from Wisconsin public records.

Dates: 1906-1988
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, historical information, agreements and contracts, bulletins, and similar files documenting the activities of a cooperative marketing association organized in 1915 to standardize practices in the marketing, pricing, and grading of dairy products among producers and dairies in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (Minn.).

Dates: 1995-2000
Places: Minnesota
Photographs, copies, work prints, exhibit prints, slides, and project files from the Minnesota 2000 Documentary Photography Project and Minnesota 2000 exhibit.

Dates: 1915-1940
Papers created and collected by Gertrude Louise Janssen Cooke Willius, who worked as the Art Director for The Golden Rule Department Store in the 1930s. Includes fashion designs and drawings pre-publication; press clippings with advertisements from The Golden Rule and other retailers; and select drawings, writings, and cartoons completed during Willius's childhood and art school education.

Dates: 1975-1998
Biographical information, clippings, correspondence, news releases, photographs, schedules, subject files, campaign files, speeches, and other miscellaneous papers of Sandra S. Gardebring, an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court (1991-1998), judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals (1989-1991), commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (1977-1978 and 1982-1984), chair of the Metropolitan Council (1984-1986), and commissioner of the Department of Human Services (1986-1989).

Dates: 1954-1976, 1981, 1997
Places: Twin Cities Metropolitan Area
Records of an African American women's literary and social club, along with an oral history interview of Barbara Cyrus, a long-time member of the group.

Dates: 1958-1998 (bulk 1977-1994)
Places: Minnesota
Personal papers from the judicial chambers of Rosalie Wahl, first woman appointed (1977) and successively elected (1978, 1984, 1990) to the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Dates: 1912-1986
Places: United States
Correspondence, reports, photographs, diaries, and professional papers of a Republican Minnesota Congressman, long time Marine Corps Reserve Officer, and Chairman of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped.

Dates: 1978-1992
Places: Brown County (Minn.)
Legislative papers of a Minnesota state representative (Independent-Republican, District 23A) who was elected in 1978 and resigned in 1992 to accept a judicial appointment.

Dates: 1961-1998
Records of an organization founded to promote public interest in opera.

Dates: 1967-1984
Historical information, bylaws and other legal documents (1967-1977), minutes (1970-1979), reports and related files (1973-1981), financial records (1970-1981), membership information (1970-1977), correspondence (1969-1981), news releases and newspaper clippings (1972-1981), and printed materials documenting the activities of an activist organization embodying all aspects of the feminist agenda through education, publicity, and legislation programs. The chapter is a local affiliate of Minnesota NOW and the National Organization for Women.

Dates: 1947-1969
Records documenting the scientific and technical aspects of stratospheric balloon research, as conducted by General Mills, Inc., and Winzen Research Inc., a Minneapolis-based balloon manufacturer led by Otto Winzen, whom also developed the aeronautical laboratories and proposed upper atmospheric research at General Mills. The collection contains flight plans, reports, proposals, data sheets, and photographs (undated and 1947-1965). The project was begun by General Mills in 1940 to research the use of balloons for military systems, fire control, and industrial precision instruments and equipment. Research was conducted by the Mechanical Division and Electronics Group of General Mills. The collection also includes: unidentified photographic albums and folders of balloon research; papers of Otto Winzen; and bylaws for the Aerostat Society of America, Minnesota Balloon Division (June 10, 1969).