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: 1897-1970 (bulk 1924-1936)
Places: Fort Snelling (Minn.)
Minutes, contracts, notifications, orders, pamphlets, programs, publications, reports, correspondence, a panoramic photograph, and other related materials compiled by Arnold E. Kahnert, Historian and Senior Vice Commander of the 3rd United States Infantry Veterans Association. Included in these records are materials related to the building of the Fort Snelling Memorial Chapel, completed in 1928.

Dates: 1881-1991 (bulk 1915-1928)
Reports to the Interstate Commerce Commission's Bureau of Valuation, ICC hearing records and related files, right-of-way and trackage maps, and track profiles produced or maintained by the Great Northern administrative unit responsible for tracking and reporting on the monetary value (cost of reproduction) of the Great Northern's physical properties and those of its subsidiaries.

Dates: 1880, 1884-1997, (bulk 1975-1994)
Places: Minnesota
Minutes, committee files, research personality files, campaign files, general correspondence and subject files, candidate biographies, chairmen's files, delegate lists, caucus results, newspaper clippings, public opinion polls, youth participation data, photographs, and audio and video tapes documenting the activities of the state organization of the Republican Party in Minnesota.

Dates: 1869-1999 (bulk 1906-1999)
Papers and a scrapbook of a woman living with her husband and children near Minnesota's Lower Sioux Agency in the 1860s, who was captured and held captive during the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Includes correspondence, genealogical materials, photographs, travel diaries, and baby books of several of her descendants, most of whom lived in California.

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: 1854-[198-]
Papers of Ernest Carl Oberholtzer, noted conservationist, explorer, and wilderness philosopher of the Rainy Lake area. He is most closely associated with the Quetico-Superior Council of which he was a founder (1928) and president; with the President's Quetico-Superior Committee, on which he served from 1934-1968; and in general with the struggle to preserve the wilderness character of the border lakes region between the United States and Canada, especially as a founder and officer (1937-1967 of the Wilderness Society.

Dates: 1861-1953
Places: Europe
Correspondence, speeches, diaries, newspaper clippings, diplomas and appointments, and other papers of Gratia Countryman, head librarian (1904-1936) of the Minneapolis Public Library. Includes some materials relating to her parents, Levi and Alta Countryman, her brother Theophilus, and other family members.

Dates: 1837-1988 (bulk 1837-1869)
Places: Beloit (Wis.)
Letters, reminiscences, genealogical data, and miscellany of this Presbyterian missionary, his wife Mary Ann Longley Riggs, and other family members, focusing on the Riggs' missionary service at Lake Harriet (now Minneapolis) and Lac Qui Parle, Minnesota (1837-1862), his work as an interpreter during the U.S.-Dakota War (1862), and his subsequent activities as an author of Dakota-language teaching materials.

Dates: 1884-2000
Places: Saint Paul (Minn.)
Political papers, correspondence, subject files, financial records, business records, memorabilia, and other materials relating primarily to Louis W. Hill, Jr., but also to his siblings and to other members of the Hill family.

Dates: 1850-2007 (bulk 1850-1898)
Places: Carver County (Minn.)
Diaries, account books, correspondence, and miscellany of a Minnesota horticulturist and farmer and his family, documenting his emigration from Sweden to Iowa in 1850, his settlement near Lake Waconia (Carver County, Minn.) in 1855, the building of his log cabin, the establishment of a school and a church, the beginnings of local government, and his experiments in fruit culture. Also mentioned are Peterson's activities in the Swedish Baptist Church and the local grange, on the town and school boards, and in third-party movements, and his exhibition of fruit at local and state fairs.

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.