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Click to enlarge Collection: George W. Gauthier: An Inventory Of His PapersCollection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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). -

Click to enlarge Collection: Arnold E. Kahnert: An Inventory Of His PapersCollection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -
Collection: Hill Family: An Inventory Of The Hill Family Collection
Collection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -
Collection: C. Elmer Anderson: An Inventory Of His Papers
Collection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -
Collection: Minnesota 2000 Documentary Photography Project: An Inventory Of The Collection
Collection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -
Collection: Independent-republicans Of Minnesota. State Central Committee: An Inventory Of Its Records
Collection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -
Collection: Janney, Semple, Hill & Co.: An Inventory Of Its Corporate Records
Collection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -

Click to enlarge Collection: Lowertown Redevelopment Corporation: An Inventory Of Its RecordsCollection Finding Aids | TextDates: 1961-2007 (bulk 1978-2006)
Places: Central Business District (Saint Paul, Minn.)
Records of a Saint Paul-based non-profit corporation that, working in partnership with the City and the private sector, developed and worked to bring to fruition a development strategy for Lowertown, a run-down 18-block historic warehouse district located at the eastern end of downtown Saint Paul, with the goal of preserving and renovating historic structures, ensuring that new construction was compatible with existing historic buildings, attracting new business ventures and investment, and creating housing and entertainment venues in the area. -
Collection: Marjorie Draper Caldwell Schoen: An Inventory Of Her Papers
Collection Finding Aids | TextDates: approximately 1900-1991
Places: Park Rapids (Minn.)
Biographical and genealogical materials, photographs, college and graduate school records, speeches, casework summaries, sermons, lecture and other notes, essays, book reviews, correspondence, clippings, certificates, and other papers of a woman who was at various times during her long life a high school English teacher, farm wife and mother, professional social worker, minister's assistant, church work and social service volunteer, and published author in Minnesota, Wyoming, and Indiana. -
Collection: Minnesota Audubon Council: An Inventory Of Its Council Records
Collection Finding Aids | TextDates: 1969-1991
Places: Apostle Islands (Wis.)
Organizational records and records of constituent chapters from one of the five "national" state offices of the National Audubon Society. -

Click to enlarge Collection: Rosalie Wahl: An Inventory Of Her PapersCollection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -
Collection: Melvin Joseph Maas An Inventory Of His Papers
Collection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -

Click to enlarge Collection: Hubert H. Humphrey An Inventory Of His PapersCollection Finding Aids | TextDates: [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. -

Click to enlarge Collection: Gratia A. Countryman: An Inventory Of The Gratia A. Countryman And Family PapersCollection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -

Click to enlarge Collection: Hudson's Bay Company: An Inventory Of Selected RecordsCollection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -

Click to enlarge Collection: Stephen R. Riggs And Family: An Inventory Of Their PapersCollection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -

Click to enlarge Collection: Louis W. (louis Warren) Hill, Jr. And Family: An Inventory Of Their PapersCollection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -

Click to enlarge Collection: Andrew Peterson: An Inventory Of His Family PapersCollection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -
Collection: Terry Dempsey: An Inventory Of His Papers
Collection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -
Collection: Mildred M. Sebo: An Inventory Of Her Papers
Collection Finding Aids | TextDates: undated, 1920-2002 (bulk 1929-1937)
Places: American Girl Camp (Itasca County, Minn.)
Personal papers of a Winona County (Minn.) woman relating primarily to a private summer camp for "junior" adolescent girls aged 10-16 years that she operated on Balgillow Island in Lake Wabana, Itasca County (Minn.) from 1929 to 1936 or 1937. -

Click to enlarge Collection: Solon J. Buck: An Inventory Of His PapersCollection Finding Aids | TextDates: 1902-1935, 1960
Places: Camp Cody (Deming, N.M.)
Professional correspondence of Buck as superintendent of the Minnesota Historical Society (1914-1931); as a history department faculty member at the universities of Indiana (1908-1909), Illinois (1910-1914), Minnesota (1914-1931), and Pittsburgh (1931-1935); and as director of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Survey (1931-1935). Correspondents include other historians, archivists, and historical agency administrators. -

Click to enlarge Collection: James Ford Bell And Family: An Inventory Of Their PapersCollection Finding Aids | TextDates: 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. -
Collection: International Multifoods Corporation: An Inventory Of Its Corporate Records
Collection Finding Aids | TextDates: 1861-2000
Places: Minnesota
Materials within the collection provide historical, biographical, administative, aural, and pictorial information about the company's growth from the small New Prague Flouring Mill, founded in 1892, into a public conglomerate with international offices, operations, and markets. Information covers the corporation's executive officers; its manufacturing, warehouse, and distribution facilities; its subsidiaries and product lines; promotional programs; and advertising campaigns. -

Click to enlarge Collection: Guild Of Catholic Women (saint Paul, Minn.): An Inventory Of Its RecordsCollection Finding Aids | TextDates: 1909-2009
Places: Saint Paul (Minn.)
Records of a Saint Paul-based philanthropic and social association of lay Roman Catholic women, its Catholic Guild Hall, the Mission of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Antone Hospital Guild, and Our lady of Good Counsel Home. -
Collection: Polish White Eagle Association: An Inventory Of Its Records
Collection Finding Aids | TextDates: 1926-2002
Places: Northeast community (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Records of a fraternial organization of Polish Americans located in Minneapolis. Included are articles of organization, constitutions and bylaws, convention minutes and programs, board of directors minutes, subject files, photographs, and financial records. Besides promoting unity and fraternity among the Polish-American community in Minnesota through social events, the organization sold life insurance, provided home mortgage loans, and offered college scholarships.


