Letter from F.J. Bauer, of Fred'k J. Bauer Photographic Studios, to Fred S. Bell, president of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, regarding the donation of a 28 x 34 inch photograph of Sugar Loaf to the library. Bauer requests the photograph be placed in the library's Art Room.
A letter from Lydia M. Poirier, Librarian at Duluth Public Library, Minnesota, to E. E. Stugard, Board of Directors of the Winona Public Library, regarding library salaries.
Finance Committee, Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota; Whipple, William J.
Date Created:
1910-01-08
Description:
A letter issued by the Finance Committee of the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota, to the Board of Directors of the library regarding receipts and disbursements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1909.
Finance Committee, Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota; Whipple, William J.; Blair, Burr. D.
Date Created:
1908-01-04
Description:
A letter issued by the Finance Committee of the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota, to the Board of Directors of the library regarding receipts and disbursements for the fiscal year from January 1, 1907 to January 1, 1908.
A letter from Fred S. Bell to the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library. Bell tenders his resignation as President of the Board of Directors after 20 years of service.
Handwritten 3 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Stillwater, Minnesota. She writes of her concern for Maud, and her family.
Handwritten 5 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Stillwater, Minnesota. She writes of loneliness, the difficulties of being a woman, her reading, her concern about Europe during the war and her concern for Maud's boys.
Handwritten 8 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer to Mrs. Osborne, mother of her friend Maud Conrad. She writes of Easter, church, the reverend, Maud's grandchild, the news, health and travels of mutual friends, missing Maud, her latest reading and her concerns about the United States.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota. to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She writes of missing Maud, Easter, the health and news of mutual friends, the church and lent.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She writes of missing Maud, the coal strike, Congress, the Republican party, and the news and health of mutual friends.
Handwritten 8 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Buffalo, New York. She writes of missing Maud, the weather, mutual friends, confirmation, a wife's financial situation after her husband's suicide, her friends' health and travels, local weddings and other news and the club.
Handwritten 4 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer to Mrs. Osborne Conrad congratulating her on the birth of her baby. Faith is the daughter-in-law of Nellie's friend Maud Conrad. A lengthy newspaper clipping about Nellie McCluer titled ""Stillwater's Grand Old Lady 91, Head of Club 42 Years"" is enclosed with the letter.
Handwritten 12 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She writes of missing Maud, her disgust with the politicians in Washington.
Handwritten 10 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Orange City, Florida. Nellie writes of how happy she will be when Maud comes to visit, the weather, her club, flowers, French Orphans, church, lent, the health of mutual friends and their travels and a murder and suicide.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Buffalo, New York. She writes of her concern for Maud's sister, how much she misses Maud herself, the weather, mutual friends who are ill, her dread of the war, her reading club, the book she is currently reading and her concern that her personal physician is out of town.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Helen "Nellie" McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She writes of missing Maud, a relative's accident, news and health of mutual friends, a lawsuit, the weather and the club.
Handwritten 7 page personal letter from Helen "Nellie" McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She writes of missing Maud, the news and health of friends, the country's spending, church, the president of the United States.
Handwritten 10 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Buffalo, New York. Nellie writes of her concern for Maud and all of her personal problems, the weather, her worries about the war, national news, her church, mutual friends and their health problems, the book she is reading and prices of local commodities.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Helen "Nellie" McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She writes of missing Maud, news of mutual friends, New England and the South, church and the health and travels of mutual friends.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Helen "Nellie" McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Waukesha, Wisconsin. She writes of the weather, church, the doctor's car accident, the club, returning soldiers, and the health of mutual friends.
Handwritten 4 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living Orange City, Florida. She writes of the cold weather, her friends' health and travels, Easter and church.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Helen "Nellie" McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad of Wayne, Tennessee. Nellie writes of how she misses Maud, the news and health problems of mutual friends, her church and club, those going to war and local news.
Handwritten 4 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She writes of missing Maud, the health of mutual friends, the reverend's wife, her reading, and local news.
Handwritten 8 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Evanston Illinois. Nellie writes of her interest in Maud's sons, a tragic death in Stillwater, local news and the health conditions of mutual friends.
Handwritten 8 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She writes of missing Maud, her views on widows and widowers remarrying, local deaths, the health of friends and local news.
Handwritten 8 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Marine Mills, Minnesota. She writes about the weather, mutual friends, books she is reading, local happenings in Stillwater and how much she misses Maud.
Handwritten 3 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She congratulates Maud on Billie's engagement.
Handwritten 3 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Stillwater, Minnesota. She congratulates Maud on her son's engagement.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Waukesha, Wisconsin. She writes of her own serious tooth infection, church, news and health of friends, and missing Maud.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Waukeshau, Wisconsin. She thanks Maud for the Buffalo papers, reminisces about deaths in her family, writes of the condition of Stillwater lakes, local business news and news, travels and health of mutual friends.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Bayfield, Wisconsin. She writes of missing Maud, church, Stillwater history, Native Americans, the weather, friends' health and travels, and local news and marriages.
Handwritten 8 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Buffalo, New York. She writes of her happiness for Maud, her memories of Buffalo, the health and news of friends, the weather, local business news and the church.
Barth, P. J.; Knights of Columbus, Winona Council 639, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1909-09-10
Description:
A letter to Edward Lees, president of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, from P. J. Barth, Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus, Winona Council 639, Winona, Minnesota. The letter notes a donation of a five volume set of the Catholic Encyclopedia to the Winona Free Public Library.
Letter from Fred S. Bell to Burr D. Blair, president of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, approving stack addition plans drafted by Edgar V. Seeler. The cost of the project, totaling $5445, was covered by the family of William Harris Laird.
Letter from Fred L. Warner, Chairman of the Building Committee, to Library Secretary, Isaac N. Tompkins, authorizing payment to contractors of $1,000.00 for work and materials in building the Redwood Falls Public Library, in Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
Letter from Fred L. Warner, Chairman of the Building Committee, to Library Secretary, Isaac N. Tompkins, authorizing payment to contractors of $1,000.00 for work and materials in building the Redwood Falls Public Library, in Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
Letter from Fred L. Warner, Chairman of the Building Committee, to Library Secretary, Isaac N. Tompkins, authorizing payment to contractors of $500.00 for work and materials in building the Redwood Falls Public Library, in Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
Letter from Fred L. Warner, Chairman of the Building Committee for the Redwood Falls Public Library, to Isaac N. Tompkins, Secretary of the Library board, authorizing payment to contractor, W.B. Rutan, for work done on the Redwood Falls Public Library, for $11.60.
Letter from Fred L. Warner, Chairman of the Building Committee, to Library Secretary, Isaac N. Tompkins, authorizing payment to contractors of $1,000.00 for work and materials in building the Redwood Falls Public Library, in Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
Letter from Andrew Carnegie, written by his personal secretary James Bartram, to Julius A. Schmahl, Esquire, about arranging payments with Mr. Carnegie's cashier, Mr. R.A. Franks of the Home Trust Company, Hoboken, New Jersey, and instructing Schmahl to find an architect to draw plans for the new library in Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
This letter, dated August 26, 1862, describes the fighting between settlers and Dakota men who participated in a conflict in a southern Minnesota community, most likely in New Ulm. Wheelock also describes his experiences as a member of a burial party that ventured out into the surrounding countryside. Many dead settlers were found, as well as a group of thirteen settlers who had been hiding for three days. Wheelock states his intention to leave Minnesota if the fighting does not stop soon and if he is not able to feel that he is safe in his home.
Letter from Fred L. Warner, chairman on the grounds, to Isaac N. Tompkins, secretary of the library board, authorizing payment to Franz Seifert for labor cutting trees on new library grounds, $5.40, Redwood Falls Public Library, Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
Letter from Fred L. Warner, chairman of the building committee, to Isaac N. Tompkins, secretary of the library board, Redwood Falls Public Library, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, authorizing payment to Levi Owen for labor cutting trees on new library grounds, $4.60.
A letter from Winona, Minnesota city treasurer, A. W. Laird, to Edward Lees, secretary of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free public Library, noting the interest received on the library fund during the past fiscal year.
A letter discussing the plans for a custom-built cabinet or showcase for the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota. Warren P. Laird previously forwarded a letter and sketch to Edgar V. Seeler regarding the project. In this letter, Seeler is responding back to E. E. Shepard of the Winona Free Public Library inquiring about additional details for the case.
A letter to Jeannette A. Clark, librarian, from Fred S. Bell, Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, regarding Winona Library Association funds usage toward library book purchases.
Kramm, Johanna (H. W. Wilson Company, New York, New York)
Date Created:
1935-08-13
Description:
Request is written on letter head stationery of the H.W. Wilson Company. The company published an index titled "Library Literature" which included "The Library Beacon."
Correspondence from Andrew Carnegie, written by his personal secretary James Bartram, to Julius A. Schmahl, Esquire, about conditions the city must meet before he donates money to build a library in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, including a commitment to maintain the library and providing a site.
Correspondence from Andrew Carnegie, written by his personal secretary James Bartram, to Julius A. Schmahl, Esquire, about payments pending selection of a site for a new library in Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
Correspondence from I.N. Tompkins, secretary of the library board, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, to R.A. Franks, cashier to Andrew Carnegie, Home Trust Company, Hoboken, New Jersey, about architects estimates.
Letter from Kreitinger and Isackson, contractors building the new library in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, to Fred Warner, chairman of the buiding committee, requesing balance due be paid. Mentions what remains to be paid, including steel stacks, wiring, storm sash and a bill to T. Hosken.
Lydenbert, H. M. (New York Public Library, New York, New York)
Date Created:
1935-04-01
Description:
Request is written on letter head stationery of the New York Public Library. It describes a request for copies of the "The Library Beacon." The text of a reply from the Saint Paul Public Library is noted on letter.
Putnam, Herbert; Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts
Date Created:
1898-04-02
Description:
A letter from Herbert Putnam, librarian, Boston Public Library, to Fred S. Bell, president of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota. The letter acknowledges Boston Public Library's receipt of a blue print of the Winona Free Public Library's floor plan and two photographs of the building's exterior as a gift to the library.
Letter from Fred L. Warner, chairman of the building committee, to Isaac N. Tompkins, secretary of the library board, authorizing payment to W.T. Wilcox, $6.00, for use of a team grading the grounds for the new library in Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
Letter from Fred L. Warner, Chairman of the Library Building Committee, to Isaac N. Tompkins, Library Board Secretary, Redwood Falls Public Library, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, authorizing payment to contractor W.B. Rutan for six days labor on library grounds, $2.00.
Letter from Fred L. Warner, Chairman of the Redwood Falls Public Library building committee, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, to Isaac N. Tompkins, Secretary of the Library Board, authorizing payment to contractor, G.H. Lindsay, for work done with team, $17.70.
Letter from Fred L. Warner, chairman of the building committee, to Isaac N. Tompkins, secretary of the library board, authorizing payment to Nellie Stevens for scrubbing and cleaning windows on the new library building, Redwood Falls Public Library, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, in the amount of $7.40.
Letter from the Redwood Falls Public Library board, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, to Fred L. Warner, chairman of the library building committee, regarding payments made for express (.40), to Seifert for trimming trees (1.00), for postage and telephone (2.15).
Morrison, Mrs. D. B.; Wenonah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1912-04-13
Description:
A letter from Mrs. D. B. Morrison, secretary of the Wenonah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, to Burr D. Blair, President of the Laird Library Board, Winona, Minnesota. The letter notes the gift of a flag to the Winona Free Public Library.
A hand written letter from Wendell Phillips to the Young Men's Library Association, dated March 22, stating he will not be able to fulfill his speaking engagement in Winona, Minnesota scheduled for April 19, 1867. Phillips was supposed to appear as a part of the Young Men's Library Association Course of Lectures for 1867.
A letter from William Hayes to Edward Lees, President of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, regarding the donation of a Kenyon Cox "Light of Learning" mural painting to the library in memory of his wife, Charlotte Prentiss Hayes. Cox's copyright statement regarding his work is included.
Shepard, E. E.; Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1908-01-14
Description:
A letter sent to the library in Wausau, Wisconsin, requesting information on the salaries of their librarians and assistant librarians. The letter, sent by E. E. Shepard, secretary of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, includes the response that was sent in return.
Special Committee, Board of Directors, Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1899-08-03
Description:
A letter to Elizabeth Jackson outlining the art exhibition policy for the Laird Library Building's Art Room, Winona Free Public Library, Winona Minnesota.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her mother, Emily Taylor Snyder Loag, in which she writes about: her health; happenings and staff/faculty at Purdue University; the train trip she and her husband made from there to Saint Paul, Minnesota; and their first impressions of Saint Paul. The final pages of the letter are missing.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her mother, Emily Taylor Snyder Loag, in which she writes about: her mother's work situation; the work load of her husband; and their accommodations at Hamline University.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her mother, Emily Taylor Snyder Loag, in which she writes about: Thanksgiving; her first piano lesson in Minnesota and her teacher's assessment of music in Minneapolis; her mother's situation; and playing cards on campus.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her mother, Emily Snyder Loag, in which she writes about: her mother's work; her husband's prospects; Minnesota's climate; her husband's and her own health; a friend's love affair; and her piano lessons.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her mother, Emily Taylor Snyder Loag, in which she writes about: a friend from Lafayette, Indiana, who had visited her; Minnesota's climate, including sun dogs, static electricity, and a blizzard; her husband's health; her piano lessons; and an upcoming concert at the Opera House.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her mother, Emily Taylor Snyder Loag, in which she writes about: Minnesota's climate; her mother's health and her own, including a severe cold and a case of frost bite; her piano lessons; a friend's engagement and the effect on his family; and the Saint Paul Winter Carnival.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her mother, Emily Taylor Snyder Loag, in which she writes about: her mother's health and her own; her assessment of life at Hamline and of the characters of two of the staff members; and, her piano lessons, dread of playing at the Opera House, and her teacher's success in Chicago.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her mother, Emily Taylor Snyder Loag, in which she writes about: her mother's health and her own; her piano lessons and playing at a recital; the Saint Paul Winter Carnival, including descriptions of the ice palace, parades, costumes, and the Mardi Gras; other social activities; the weather; and the need to share her letters with her adopted sister.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her mother, Emily Taylor Snyder Loag, in which she writes about: her mother's health and that of the wife of Hamline University's president; and a visit by a friend of her husband.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her mother, Emily Taylor Snyder Loag, in which she writes about: preparing for and playing at a benefit concert and her piano lesson; her health and her sister's; the hiring of a dressmaker in New York and the timing of her departure from Hamline; and the work situations of her mother and a friend.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her mother, Emily Taylor Snyder Loag, in which she writes about: the health of her mother and adopted sister and the need for her sister Julia to finish school in order to improve their living conditions; a particularly difficult piano lesson and being praised by the director of the music conservatory; her condition after falling on ice; and a visit by friends.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her mother, Emily Taylor Snyder Loag, in which she writes about: a blizzard in the East and accounts of it in local newspapers; her detestation of the West and disdain for Hamline University; a student's serious injury after falling on ice; inviting students to concerts; and comparisons of Hamline's piano teacher and her teacher at the conservatory.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her sister, Julia Loag, in which she writes about: a friend who has married a man setting up as a doctor in New York City; their mother's work situation; her husband's health; a trip they made to Minneapolis; a bequest made to Hamline University; their dissatisfaction with the university; and the death of a distant relative.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her sister, Julia Loag, in which she writes about: deciding upon a place to live and purchasing furnishings; some of the Hamline staff; visiting Minneapolis and attending a dog show in Saint Paul; social visits; and her health.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her sister, Julia Loag, in which she writes about: problems with mail and other deliveries; decorating the rooms at Hamline University; her husband's work and health; their homesickness; people at Hamline and the bad board there; and their mother's health. The last pages are missing.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her sister, Julia Loag, in which she writes about: her health; their mother's work situation; a dress made for Julia; her delight in Tannhuser; her lack of dancing skill; how she and her husband spend their evenings; the death of a distant relative; and the weather.
Letter from Euphemia (Effie) Miller Loag Osborn to her sister, Julia Loag, in which she writes about: a blizzard, a trip to and from Minneapolis during it, and her winter clothing; a music class and praise of her recent performance; the situation at her mother's boarding house; hoped for visits by friends; and her mother's Christmas present.
Letter from Euphemia Miller (Effie) Loag Osborn to her sister, Julia Loag, in which she writes about: the winter weather, including temperatures for the previous year; the impending visit of a friend; her health; food and prices; making a comforter; and problems with static electricity.