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: 1877-1969
Minutes (1877), membership registers (1877-1963), legal records (1911) and miscellaneous records of the Grand Lodge of this fraternal organization; minutes (1888-1889) membership records (1877-1949), financial records (1922-1969). The collection also includes miscellaneous records of the Ashlar Lodge (Rochester, Minn.); and charter (1959) of Paragon Lodge No. 216 (Detroit Lakes, Minn.).

Dates: 1969-1994
Records of a professional association for guidance counselors and others involved in college and university student personnel work and related areas.

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: 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: 1897-1959
Records of a social and commemorative organization for members of a Minnesota volunteer infantry regiment that fought in the Spanish American War.

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: 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: 1916-1971
Places: Bahrain
Biographical information, correspondence (1930-1961), publications (1930-1958), photographs, and miscellaneous materials of Davies, a geologist, mining engineer, and official of Aramco and other oil companies in the Middle East. Davies graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1916 with a degree in mining engineering. He was responsible for early explorations of the oil fields in Bahrain in the 1930s. In 1952 Davies was named CEO and Chairman of the Board for Aramco until he retired in 1959.

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: 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).

Dates: 1946-1998
Places: Lanegran, David A
Project files and administrative records of a private foundation that made grants in the fields of population control, education, the environment, and the conservation of natural resources.