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- Creator:
- Zimmerman, C. A.
- Date Created:
- 1897?
- Description:
- Formal portrait of Arthur Kingsbury Fillebrown, son of Walter and Harriet Fillebrown. Arthur was born July 16, 1892, and died May 4, 1978. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota in 1914 and served in the military as an ambulance driver in World War I.
- Contributing Institution:
- White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Cabinet photographs
- Creator:
- Zimmerman
- Date Created:
- 1875?
- Description:
- Steamer G R Frost and salt barrels lying at a Duluth dock
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Stereographs
- Creator:
- Zhai, Qi-hui
- Date Created:
- 1980-01-04
- Description:
- Qi-hui Zhai was born in Shanghai, China, on December 16, 1927. Her father was a biology professor at Central University in Nanjing and traveled between research institutions in Nanjing, Beijing, and Shanghai during most of her childhood. In 1945 Zhai entered Suzhou University, located temporarily in Shanghai at the end of World War II. The next year she transferred to Yanjing University in Beijing, and she graduated in June of 1949, six months after liberation. She was assigned to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and in 1959 the government of the People's Republic of China sent her to Russia for two years of study. For the first year she studied at the Institute of Zoology in Leningrad, and later at the Institute of Biochemistry in Moscow. Zhai arrived in Minnesota in June of 1979, the first of many visiting scholars from China to arrive at the University of Minnesota following normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and China on January 1, 1979. She worked with Dr. James W. Bodley in the Department of Biochemistry at the University Medical School from mid-1979 to late 1981, conducting basic research on the reproductive system of the ladybug, in an attempt to develop a means of artificial rearing of the insect, a natural enemy of aphids, for control of aphids in agriculture. Subjects discussed include: Zhai discusses her father's background as a pioneer entomologist in China, and his work in establishing biology departments in several Chinese universities after spending thirteen years in study and research at Cornell University in New York - his many publications under the name C. Ping - problems of Chinese scientists in the 1980s in conducting basic research after the interruption of the Cultural Revolution - Zhai's research at the University of Minnesota on yolk protein synthesis in the ladybug, a continuation of her research in Beijing - her impressions of Minnesota - and her family in Beijing. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: Zhai is an accomplished scientist from the People's Republic of China, and her visit to Minnesota is significant because it represents a new era of exchange between scientists in the state's research institutions and scientists in China. Her perspective is especially interesting because her father studied in the United States in the 1910s and was instrumental in advancing Western scientific knowledge in China after returning to his homeland in 1920.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
- Creator:
- Zesbaugh Brothers
- Date Created:
- 1880 - 1910
- Description:
- Business trade card for Zesbaugh Brothers, manufacturers of and dealers in picture frames, cornice, and room mouldings.
- Contributing Institution:
- Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Trade cards
- Creator:
- Zesbaugh Brothers
- Date Created:
- 1880 - 1910
- Description:
- Business trade card for Zesbaugh Brothers, manufacturers of and dealers in picture frames, cornice, and room mouldings.
- Contributing Institution:
- Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Trade cards
- Creator:
- Zerky, Paul Robert
- Date Created:
- 1939-01
- Description:
- Interview with Paul Robert Zerky. He briefly relates some of his personal history. This interview is part of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Crow Wing County during the years 1936-1939. This outreach effort sought to record personal accounts of the lives of early Crow Wing County pioneers and settlers.
- Contributing Institution:
- Crow Wing County Historical Society
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- Oral histories
- Creator:
- Zempel, Solveig
- Date Created:
- 1991-11-26
- Description:
- Solveig Zempel, professor and editor/translator of a book of letters from Norwegian immigrants to their families back home, is interviewed by Solveig Nilsen.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- Television programs
- Creator:
- Zemke, Ron
- Date Created:
- 1989-08-01
- Description:
- Ron Zemke, management consultant and co-author of "The Service Edge" and other business materials, is interviewed by Diana Seyb.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- Television programs
- Creator:
- Zavala, Heladio; United States
- Date Created:
- 10/18/2010
- Description:
- Heladio "Lalo" Zavala was born in Asherton, Texas. Zavala decided to move to Minnesota to attend Moorhead State College and studied social work and Spanish. He became involved with the Latino community by becoming the chairman of Migrant Health Services, executive director of the Minnesota Migrant Council, and CEO of Midwest Association of Farmworker Organizations. Zavala is married with three children. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family background - Latino culture in Texas - agriculture in
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
- Creator:
- Zapffe, Carl
- Date Created:
- 1936 - 1939
- Description:
- Interview with Carl Zapffe. He very briefly relates some of his personal history. This interview is part of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Crow Wing County during the years 1936-1939. This outreach effort sought to record personal accounts of the lives of early Crow Wing County pioneers and settlers.
- Contributing Institution:
- Crow Wing County Historical Society
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- Oral histories
- Creator:
- Zan, Robert
- Date Created:
- 2011-05-11
- Description:
- Robert Zan is the son of Mahn Ba Zan who was a prominent leader in the Karen struggle for independence. In turn Robert Zan was a leader in Karen struggles for independence. He is the author of a concise history "Mahn Ba Zan & The Karen Revolution", published in 1993. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early memories of Burmese atrocities against the Karen - family - his father Mahn Ba Zan founder of Karen National Defense Organization and leader of the Karen resistance - becoming a solider - fighting
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
- Creator:
- Zanke, Hazel Leona Cameron
- Date Created:
- 1937-03
- Description:
- Interview with Hazel Leona Cameron Zanke. She relates some of her personal and family history. This interview is part of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Crow Wing County during the years 1936-1939. This outreach effort sought to record personal accounts of the lives of early Crow Wing County pioneers and settlers.
- Contributing Institution:
- Crow Wing County Historical Society
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- Oral histories
- Creator:
- Zanff, Austin D.
- Date Created:
- 1920 - 1929
- Description:
- Map of Leech Lake and its surrounding area etched by Austin D. Zanff of Walker, Minnesota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
- Contributing Institution:
- Hennepin History Museum
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Lantern slides
- Creator:
- Zander, John Frederick
- Date Created:
- 1939-03
- Description:
- Interview with John Frederick Zander. He relates some of the personal and family history as well as some family genealogy of both his wife, Elizabeth, and himself. This interview is part of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Crow Wing County during the years 1936-1939. This outreach effort sought to record personal accounts of the lives of early Crow Wing County pioneers and settlers.
- Contributing Institution:
- Crow Wing County Historical Society
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- Oral histories
- Creator:
- Zamzow, C.E.; Morey, G.B.
- Date Created:
- 1991
- Description:
- Interpretations of bedrock geology (distribution of rock at the land surface and beneath surface sediments), Northwest Angle, scale 1:48,000. Electronic file available at: ftp://mgsftp2.mngs.umn.edu/map_catalog/pdf/umn22471.pdf
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Geological Survey
- Type:
- Cartographic
- Format:
- Maps
- Creator:
- Zalusky, Joseph
- Date Created:
- 1907 - 1911
- Description:
- The paddle steamboat Saint Paul approaching Big Island dock.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Streetcar Museum
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
- Creator:
- Zahn, Laura
- Date Created:
- 1989-03-02
- Description:
- Laura Zahn, author of Minnesota and Wisconsin Bed and Breakiast guides, talks with Jane Leek of Hennepin County Library.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- Television programs
- Creator:
- Zahn, Janet
- Date Created:
- 1991-12-04
- Description:
- Janet Zahn, Director of the Office of Film, Video and Recording for the City of Minneapolis, is interviewed by Diana Seyb.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- Television programs
- Creator:
- Zahn, Bertha
- Date Created:
- 1938-03
- Description:
- Interview with Bertha Zahn, wife of Albert Zahn. She relates some personal history, family history, and family genealogy for both her husband and herself. This interview is part of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Crow Wing County during the years 1936-1939. This outreach effort sought to record personal accounts of the lives of early Crow Wing County pioneers and settlers.
- Contributing Institution:
- Crow Wing County Historical Society
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- Oral histories
- Creator:
- Yu, Robert
- Date Created:
- 1979-02-01
- Description:
- Robert Yu was born in about 1915 in the city of Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China. During his childhood his father was postmaster general of China. As the eldest son, Yu enjoyed a favorable position in the family, and his father set aside a considerable sum of money to enable him to study in the United States after graduation from college. While studying at the University of Nanjing, Yu met his future wife, Victoria (Yu), and after their marriage Yu's father agreed to send them both to the United States. Robert and Victoria Yu arrived in the United States in about 1939. Although Robert Yu had intended to attend graduate school after his arrival, he had not made arrangements with any specific university. In Seattle, where they disembarked, they met a Chinese graduate of the University of Wisconsin who suggested that Yu attend the University of Minnesota and offered to accompany them to Minneapolis. After their arrival Yu applied to the University of Minnesota and was accepted as a graduate student in the College of Business Administration, and he later transferred to the College of Agriculture, where he majored in agricultural economics. While Yu was a student at the university, two sons, Robert and Victor, were born to the family. Yu completed his master of arts degree in 1941, but because of the Sino-Japanese War he could not return to China immediately. He took a job for a short time at the Pillsbury Company in Minneapolis and then took a job in Washington, D.C., where a third child, Joyce (the interviewer for this oral history interview, and who was interviewed for the project as well), was born. In Washington Yu worked as a Chinese-area specialist at the Department of Agriculture. During World War II the United States planned (but never carried out) a landing on the Chinese coast, and Yu provided information on Chinese agriculture in the proposed landing area. In 1947, with the war over, the Yu family returned to China, where Yu took a job as vice-president of the Farmers' Bank of China in Shanghai. As rampant inflation and civil conflict made living in postwar China increasingly difficult, the family returned to the United States in 1949 and settled in southeast Minneapolis, the area where they had lived during Yu's time at the university. Yu again took a job with the Pillsbury Company for a short time, but next he became a vice-president of First National Bank of Minneapolis. In 1979 Yu retired from that job and accepted a teaching position in Taiwan. While Victoria Yu also decided to live in Taiwan, where many relatives live, all three Yu children have remained in the United States. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Yu discusses his family background in China - his first trip to the United States, and his fears that he and his wife would be turned away by immigration officials - first impressions in Seattle - Chinese student life at the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses during World War II, when the students were cut off from family resources - political views in the Chinese community in Minnesota - views toward normalization of U.S.-China diplomatic relations in 1979 - discrimination toward Chinese people - and problems of child rearing in the immigrant community. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: Yu reflects the views of the intellectuals from northern China (Mandarin speakers), most of whom came either as students to the University of Minnesota or as political refugees settling in Minnesota after World War II. He is particularly perceptive about divisions within the Chinese community and about changing views of Chinese settlers over the years.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
- Creator:
- Yu, Joyce
- Date Created:
- 1979-06-04
- Description:
- Joyce Yu was born in 1946 in Washington, D.C., where her father was employed as a Chinese area specialist by the U.S. Department of Agriculture during World War II. Her parents, Robert and Victoria Yu, arrived in the United States from China in about 1939. They lived in southeast Minneapolis from the time of their arrival until 1941, while Robert Yu was a graduate student in agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota. Two sons, Robert and Victor, were born to the family during this period. The elder Yu completed his degree in 1941, but the family could not return to China because of war conditions in the Pacific, and they moved to Washington. In 1947, after Joyce's birth and the war's end, the family returned to China, where Robert Yu accepted a job as vice-president of the Farmers' Bank of China in Shanghai. Postwar conditions in China grew increasingly unstable, however, and the family returned to the United States in 1949, when Joyce was two and a half years old. The Yus settled in southeast Minneapolis again, and Joyce spent most of her childhood and youth in this neighborhood. She attended University High School and the University of Minnesota, from which she received a bachelor of arts degree in sociology in 1968. After graduation she was employed by the university's Office of Student Affairs from 1968 to 1973, and she also completed a year of graduate study in educational psychology. From 1973 to 1975 she worked for VISTA on the West Bank in Minneapolis. In the fall of 1975 she went to Taiwan for a year of study in Chinese language and tai chi (martial arts). Upon her return to the United States, Yu worked as student internship coordinator at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and in August of 1977 she took a job with the Otto Bremer Foundation in St. Paul, working as a program officer, reviewing and evaluating grant proposals. In 1979 she left the Bremer Foundation to become the director of the Women's Funding Assistance Project for the Ms. Foundation, and in 1981 she was appointed executive director of the Ms. Foundation. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family background - class and regional differences within the Chinese community in Minnesota - family structure and child rearing in the state's Chinese settlement - and the developing ethnic consciousness of young Asian Americans at the University of Minnesota during the 1960s. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: This interview provides valuable information on the northern intellectuals (Mandarin speakers) in the Chinese community in Minnesota, the subgroup in which Yu grew up. It also provides insight into the experience of Chinese families who have settled in the state since World War II, and of Asian students at the University of Minnesota in the 1960s.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
- Creator:
- Young Women's Christian Association
- Date Created:
- 1896
- Description:
- Annual Report for the YWCA for the year 1896 including: officers, board of managers, secretaries, committees, historical sketch, President's Message, Report of General Secretary, Treasurer's Report, Reports of Committees, including Membership, Rooms, Reading Room and Library, Religious, Entertainment, Educational, Physical Culture, Noon Rest, Employment, Finance, South Branch, Cedar Branch, Traveler's Aid, and Extension Committees. Also includes contact information for state, international and world's associations.
- Contributing Institution:
- Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- Reports
- Creator:
- Young, Richard H.
- Date Created:
- 1947-05-02
- Description:
- Looking south at a westbound car on Washington Avenue.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Streetcar Museum
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
- Creator:
- Youngquist, Walter
- Date Created:
- 1916
- Description:
- Ernest Levine lived on a farm west of St. Peter. His interest in farming was such that it was confidently prophesied that he would become a farmer. Here he is acting the part. He became, instead, a superintendent of schools.
- Contributing Institution:
- Gustavus Adolphus College
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
- Creator:
- Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota; Tucker, Gilbert R.; Chisholm, O. P.; Carey, Sheldon C.
- Date Created:
- 1863-04-25
- Description:
- A hand written document stating the creation of the Young Men's Library Association in Winona, Minnesota, and its Board of Directors. Officers elected included Gilbert R. Tucker, president; O. P. Chisholm, vice-president; William W. Painter, treasurer; Sheldon C. Carey, secretary. Trustees for the first year were Thomas Simpson, F. E. Shandrew, E. E. Youmans, William Sinclair and J. W. Stevens.
- Contributing Institution:
- Winona Public Library
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- Articles of incorporation