Members of the Adath Jeshurun Young People's League posing for a cast photo of their production, "Headin' South." Youth organizations in synagogues offered opportunities for socializing and other types of group activities. Adath Jeshurun's youth group organized theatricals and model Seders.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
The Aftenro Society was organized in 1908 by a group of Norwegian women to raise money for the construction of a good Christian old people's home. Their first building was opened in 1921 with 30 residents and was named for the Norwegian word meaning �Evening�s Rest� (Aftenro). The Aftenro home presently continues its function as a home for the aged, in its location at 1423 North Nineteenth Avenue East. In this view of the new building, the entire front grounds area is a vegetable garden.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Former Minnesota Vikings player Karl Kassulke, resident manager Brian Johnsen, and others celebrate following the ribbon cutting ceremony at the Meridian Apartments. The 39-unit Meridian Apartments, developed by United Cerebral Palsy, opened in Duluth in 1978 and offered barrier-free living for people with disabilities.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Broadside claiming"Alcohol blots! 3.2 beer contains alcohol enough to be dangerous! Alcohol dims the vision, alcohol dulls the hearing, alcohol slows the muscle action, alcohol muddles the brain. Be wise...abstain! Beverage alochol is a blot of society!"
Panoramic view of the American Legion Band, from the Press Lloyd Post Number 247 of Chisholm, Minnesota. Members are in band uniforms and are posed for a group photograph with their instruments at the front entrance of the Chisholm City Hall building in Chisholm, MN. On the right portion of the photograph is a sign on the City Hall building that reads: "Entrance to Skating Rink". Also at the right portion of the photograph are three women with a car.
Panoramic view of the American Legion Post Number 54 from Red Wing, Minnesota Band and the American Legion Post Band from Minneapolis, Minnesota and non band members posed on and around the front steps of the Hibbing High School, Hibbing, Minnesota.
An annual report documenting the main activities of the charity for the years 1917-1918. Departmental reports include: the relief department, visiting nurses, Wilder public baths, day nursery, health center, central registration bureau, food conservation, survey work and research.
A brief report on the activities of the Amherst H. Wilder Charity for the previous two years. The report includes information on the public baths, the Child Guidance Clinic, the Day Care Centers, the dispensary, social research, the Children's Center Building and the Wilder Administration Building.
A report published "on the occasion of the opening of the Amherst H. Wilder Health Center" to document the activities of the Wilder Charity from its beginning in 1906 to 1952. The report contains summaries of the organization's contributions to St. Paul health services, St. Paul community leisure time services, St. Paul's community organization services, and brief information on the Minnesota Foundation.
Photograph of the nursery building (later the Children's Center) located at the corner of Marshall Avenue and St. Albans Street, St. Paul, Minnesota. The building once housed the Protestant Orphan Asylum and was for a time home to the Wilder Child Guidance Clinic.
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1959
Description:
A report on the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation and its associate organizations, the Minnesota Foundation and the Victor M. Watkins Convalescent Home. The report includes background on the Foundation and the Wilder family, information on its operating policy and current services, background on the convalescent home (named after the first director of the charity), and details about the incorporation and activities of the Minnesota Foundation. It also contains details of new Wilder programs established in the 1950s, including Bremer House, Camp Wilder and a community transportation system.
Paper presented by Monsignor James M. Reardon at the 1909 annual conventions of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of St. Paul, Minnesota, and of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America. University of St. Thomas, Archibishop Ireland Memorial Library call number: HV5072 .R4 1909
Contributing Institution:
University of St. Thomas - Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
Glen Lake Farm School for Boys; Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Home
Date Created:
1912
Description:
In 1907 the legislature of Minnesota made provision for a Detention Home in Hennepin county, under the joint direction of the Judge of the District Court and the Board of County Commissioners. Judge John Day Smith, who first stirred public sentiment to the necessity of a home for boys, was assigned to the Juvenile Court work, which also included the location and equipment of the home. Ninety-two acres of land were bought, and a ten-room farm house, barns and outbuildings were soon remodeled, made modern and ready for occupancy in February, 1909, when the first boys arrived. Contents of this year include: board of managers (including photos); maintenance; expenditures; roll of admission/release; justification and organizational structure; equipment, crops, and stock; daily schedule; map; backgrounds, offenses and/or dependency, nativity, and ages of boys; dining room; government; education, discipline, and religious instruction; library; letters; parental demographics; amusements; Boys' Friends (male and female volunteers/benefactors); photos of grounds and of boys at work/play.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Glen Lake Farm School for Boys; Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Home
Date Created:
1911-12-31
Description:
In 1907 the legislature of Minnesota made provision for a Detention Home in Hennepin county, under the joint direction of the Judge of the District Court and the Board of County Commissioners. Judge John Day Smith, who first stirred public sentiment to the necessity of a home for boys, was assigned to the Juvenile Court work, which also included the location and equipment of the home. Ninety-two acres of land were bought, and a ten-room farm house, barns and outbuildings were soon remodeled, made modern and ready for occupancy in February, 1909, when the first boys arrived. Contents of this year include: board of managers; inception; financial support; officers and employees; justification and organizational structure; equipment, crops, and stock; work descriptions; daily schedule; map; backgrounds, offenses and/or dependency, nativity, and ages of boys; education, discipline, and religious instruction; library; parental demographics; amusements; Boys' Friends (male and female volunteers/benefactors); photos of grounds.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Minneapolis Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Animals
Date Created:
1894
Description:
Annual Report including: bequest language; directors and committee members; president's report; secretary's report; treasurer's and assistant treasurer's report; report of totals of complaints investigated, substantiated, and adjudicated, including arrests, convictions, "instruments of torture taken," and referrals, placement of children into temporary homes, public, religious, or reform schools; animals euthanized or treated, with breakdown by type of animal and condition found/environment, and "reproved" animal owners; honorary members roster; contributing members roster; statement of "how to proceed" (how to notify office of cruelty), objectives of the society, promise of confidentiality, humane euthanizing arrangements; laws of Minnesota now in force: Cruelty to Children (Penal Code, Title 10, Chapter 3), laws of 1893; Cruelty to Animals (Penal Code, Title 16); obituary record; resolutions adopted 1894; advertisements.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Hanford, Bertha, State and County Agent for the Blind
Date Created:
1930
Description:
The district's size was reduced in 1929, dropping Koochiching county. Vocational training and employment for adults included: shoe shining, shoe repairing, general farming, rabbit raising, poultry raising, elevator operating, salesmanship, peddling, domestic service, and piano repair and tuning. This agency operated under the State Department for the Blind, Children's Bureau, Board of Control and the St. Louis County Board of Commissioners. Its work was for the prevention and treatment of people with blindness. The reports give objectives, staff, and statistics. Its district included St. Louis, Carlton, Itasca, Cook, and Lake Counties.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Hanford, Bertha, State and County Agent for the Blind
Date Created:
1931
Description:
St. Louis County is the only Minnesota county that funds work for the blind, and Duluth is the only city with a local State office. This report chronicles the work done by the agency in 1930. That year, towel hemming was added as a new project for clients within the Home Department. Yards of toweling was cut by volunteers and hemmed by blind women in their homes. This agency operated under the State Department for the Blind, Children's Bureau, Board of Control and the St. Louis County Board of Commissioners. Its work was for the prevention of blindness and treatment of people with blindness. The reports give objectives, staff, and statistics. Its district included St. Louis, Carlton, Itasca, Cook, and Lake counties, and the Cass Lake Indian Agency District.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Hanford, Bertha, State and County Agent for the Blind
Date Created:
1929
Description:
In 1928, the St. Louis County Child Welfare Board was requested by the State Board of Control to sponsor the work for the Blind in this county. This the first use of local management of such a pgoram and was successful. The report describes the Range Broom Factory at Chisholm, Minnesota, that employs several agency clients under the management of R. H. Alcox. This agency operated under the State Department for the Blind, Children's Bureau, Board of Control and the St. Louis County Board of Commissioners. Its work was for the prevention of blindness and the treatment of people with blindness. The reports give objectives, staff, and statistics. Its district included St. Louis, Carlton, Itasca, Cook, Lake, and Koochiching counties.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Annual report of the Unity Settlement Association for 1920 including: officers, directors, committees, resident staff, note about Representing Unity Settlement, reports of Unity Settlement, Employment Bureau and Friendly Visiting, Day Nursery, Infant Welfare Clinic, Girls' Department, Boys Department, Game Room, music lessons, summer playground, library station, probation report, miscellaneous groups, special occasions, volunteer workers, resident director's work, as well as a word of appreciation, a note on "our needs," a numerical listing of attendance at various programs, treasurer's report, and photographs of Unity house and two children.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
The report lists the names of Unity Settlement Association officers, residents, and volunteers; activities offered by the settlement association including clubs and sports for boys, girls, and adults; the treasurer's itemized annual report.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
The report lists the names of Unity Settlement Association officers, board of directors, and committee chairs. Account of settlement club activities including a training class for drafted men, a Mothers' Club "made up largely of women of foreign birth," and the Girls' Liberty League. The treasurer's report lists annual income and expenditures.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Rabbi Herman Cohen's response to Mrs. P. Braufman's request to read her letter and advise as to its tone and content. (See local identifiers MHS-D-593 and MHS-D-594)
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
The first of a series of three letters concerning the denial of an insurance policy to a Jewish family in Perham, Minnesota. The letter was mailed to the insurance agent, who then submitted it to the Braufman family. (See local identifiers MHS-D-594 and MHS-D-595.)
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Letter written to Harry Goldie, principle developer of the Calhoun Beach Club building. Goldie was a Minnesota native and U of MN graduate. At the time this letter was written, Minneapolis was being referred to in the national press as the "Capitol of American Anti-Semitism." Jews in Minneapolis were denied membership in various associations, hospital admissions and were legally prohibited from purchasing homes in "covenanted" areas. Goldie's complex was eventually built, and Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale were among the guests at the club's opening.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Posing in front of the Arthur Simpson home in Slayton are Clarence Dinehart, Christopher and Flora Dinehart and Florence, Frank Weck and Dr. and Mrs. Dennison.
The St. Paul Free Medical Dispensary was incorporated in 1897. Cornelia Day Wilder (1868-1903) was an early supporter, and James J. Hill was Board President. In 1923, Amherst H. Wilder Charities assumed complete financial and management responsibility for the organization. Physicians and residents at the dispensary worked free of charge to provide free medical and dental care to individuals in need.
Triennial report containing a brief history of the Washburn Memorial Orphan Asylum and a financial report for 1916 to 1919. Superintendent's report includes information on the educational practices and health of the children.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
A woman and two men posing for a photo in the doorway of a barn. Images in this collection were found in the attic of an old farm house in Kandiyohi County formerly owned by George Kallevig. Whether these negatives are from the Kallevig family or not is unknown.
The Golden Age Club meet at the Emanuel Cohen Center. The judges here included, left to right, Rabbi Schulman, William Liebo, Sam Finkelestein, Lena Berdman. The baby beauty is Roberta Wilensky, aged 2.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Built in 1919 as a home for pregnant young girls to live, attend school, and train for parenting at 1230 East Ninth Street until the child was born. The Bethel Home ceased these services in the early 1970s.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Bill of Sale for a slave named London, sold by Tabatha Wheeten to Nathaniel Willmarth in 1722 in the County of Bristol, Massachusetts bay, New England. Willmarth was the great grandfather of an uncle by marriage to Elisha Slye, only survivor of a family which came to Minneapolis in 1856.
A Boy Scout, in uniform, stands next to a simply designed and built Ark for the Torah at Boy Scout Camp. The scout in the picture is likely a member of the Beth El troop. The Ark contains the Torah, the scrolls used in worship services. The Torah is always elevated off the ground. This particular Ark has a poignant simplicity and directness.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Blair Johnsen, resident manager at the Meridian Apartments, raises his arms as he rolls through a paper banner at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Meridian Apartments. The 39-unit Meridian Apartments, developed by United Cerebral Palsy, opened in Duluth in 1978 and offered barrier-free living for people with disabilities.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The original minutes book including by-laws and attendance records for the volunteer fire department in Blue Earth. Dec. 12, 1890 through Dec. 4, 1906.
Portrait photograph of the Board of Directors for the Workman's Circle Loan Association, posed at a table. Workman's Circle groups loaned money to members cost free. A person paid a small fee to be a member and could then apply for a loan. He or she would then pay the loan back at a scheduled rate.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
The Board of Directors of the Workman's Circle Loan Association sitting at a table, working and chatting. Both St. Paul and Minneapolis had Workmen's Circle chapters.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
The Mt. Sinai Auxiliary raised significant funds that were used towards patient care. Events included book sales, cookbook publishing and other social events, including the famous annual ball. Shown purchasing the cookbook is Luella Maslon, the book's author.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives