Birth: February 10, 1895
County of Birth: Polk County, Minnesota, United States
Mother's Maiden Name: Barton

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: 1855-1945
Personal name index, 1858-1944; declarations of intention (first papers), 1858-1944; final papers (second papers), 1865-1906; petition and record (final papers), 1908-1943; lists of citizenship petitions granted and denied, 1929-1945; application to take oath of allegiance (naturalization by repatriation), 1942; loose naturalization papers, A-Z, 1855-circa 1902; and depositions, 1931-1940.

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: 1890-
Places: Ramsey County (Minn.)
A collection of telephone directories for cities in Ramsey County, Minnesota. Telephone directories are published by telephone companies and include alphabetical listings of residential and business phone numbers and street addresses in the white pages, and a listing of businesses arranged by subject in the yellow pages. Each entry on the inventory lists the city name, year of coverage, and the shelf number of the printed volume or microfiche set which includes that city.

Dates: 1887, 1907-1953
Places: Brainerd (Minn.)
Birth and death registers (1887, 1907) and certificate books (1908-1953), burial or removal permits (1907-1947), and burial transit/transportation of corpse certificates (1907-1947).

Dates: 1871-1952
Places: Olmsted County (Minn.)
Birth and death registers (1871-1913) and certificate records (1914-1952), and permits for burials in Farm Hill Cemetery.

Dates: 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.

Dates: 1871-1953
Places: Winona County (Minn.)
Birth (1872-1953) and death (1871-1953) records of Homer Township in Winona County.

Dates: 1890-1982
Biographical materials, photographs, diaries, and World War I and World War II correspondence and papers of Saint Paul native David H. Backus and his family, including some photographs and papers related to Oak Hall School and its predecessor, Baldwin Seminary. Some of the material is in the French and Arabic languages.

Dates: 1870-1931
Places: Brown County (Minn.)

Dates: 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.