Dates: 1940-1987 (bulk 1951-1986)
Places: Minnesota
The collection contains the personal papers of C. Elmer Anderson, governor of Minnesota (1951-1955), mayor of Nisswa, Minnesota (1960-1962), and mayor of Brainerd, Minnesota (1976-1986). It includes speech transcriptions, personal and official correspondence, photographs, campaign materials, certifications of his elections to office, and citations and awards during his service in public office.

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: 1934-1946
Places: Kabetogama State Forest (Minn.)
Correspondence (1934, 1941, 1943-1946), photographs (ca. 1934-1939, 1945-1946), and miscellaneous papers documenting the career and experiences of a Crosby, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, man who served in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the U.S. Army.

Dates: 1884-1962 (bulk 1890-1937)
Places: Europe
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, background materials, news clippings, memorabilia, awards, honorary degrees, maps, memorials and other papers of a Republican Senator from Minnesota, ambassador to Great Britain, secretary of state, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court) who, with French foreign minister Aristide Briand, authored the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), which renounced war as an instrument of national policy.

Dates: 1943-2006 (bulk 1943-1979)
Places: Minnesota
Correspondence, speeches, congressional committee minutes, photographs, clippings, recorded reminiscences, and other material largely documenting Baird's tenure as U.S. treasury undersecretary, 1957-1961. Also included are the papers of Julian's sons, Duncan H. Baird and John B. Baird.

Dates: 1901-1978
Places: Hallock (Minn.)
Articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes, correspondence, subject files, financial and other business records of Kiene Farms and several related companies, including Kennedy Trading Company, Prairie Farms, Inc., Fairway Foods Inc., Kittson County Implement Co. Sterling Store, and Home Furnishing Company, owned by Frank Kiene, his son Ell, and the Kiene family. The records include accounts, land and mortgage documents, crop data, tax returns, inventories, stock certificates, contracts, financial statements, ledgers, journals, and estate papers.

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).

Dates: 1842-1937
Places: Hutchinson (Minn.)
Diaries, letters, financial records, scrapbooks, and memorabilia kept by the family of Asa B. and Abby Hutchinson in Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Colorado.

Dates: 1926-1939
Places: Goodhue County (Minn.)
Essays, addresses, and articles prepared by Densmore, a Red Wing (Minn.) native and authority on American Indian music, accompanied by photographs (some taken by Densmore) used in publications of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology.

Dates: 1876-1974
Places: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Letters, literary manuscripts, diary entries, clippings, photographs, and printed materials concerning Scott's family life and her successive careers as executive secretary of the women's division of the St. Paul Association of Public and Business Affairs (1919-1926), editor of (1926-1928), undercover investigator of employee working conditions in New York City (1928), secretary of the business division of the Trenton (N.J.) YWCA (1929-1930), a secretary of the United Parents' Association of Greater New York (1930-1931), a New Ulm (Minn.) librarian (1936-1947), University of Minnesota librarian (1947-1960), and author.

Dates: 1883, 1899-1982
Places: Saint Paul (Minn.)
Papers of Macfarlane, Northern Pacific Railway Company president (1951-1966) and chairman (1966-1969), who began service with the company as its western counsel in 1934.

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.

Dates: 1905-1990
Places: Minnesota
Records of a machine shop in St. Paul's Midway District that manufactured marine engines, transmissions, gears, and related products. They include minute and stock certificate books, financial statements, photographs, and advertising samples.