This is the page of printed instructions from the Minnesota Loom. These assembly instructions were packed with the Minnesota Loom, which was designed and distributed by Hilma Berglund.
Name-weaving instructions from the Handweaving Workbook by Heather Thorpe. The text of the card describes the process to translate the name "Hilma Berglund" into an overshot weaving draft.
Announcement for the 1950 Twin Cities Weavers Guild Institute in Weaving held at Jones Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Includes names of attendees and techniques taught.
Course summary of the first 3 Weaver's Guild Institutes held in in Minneapolis 1940-1944 at Walker Art Center and Dayton's Departments Store. Includes names of attendees, weaves offered, and fees paid.
Course summary of the first three Weaver's Guild Institutes held in Minneapolis 1940-1944 at Walker Art Center and Dayton's Departments Store. Includes names of instructors and attendees, and techniques taught.
Course summary for the 1944 Institute in Weaving held by the Twin Cities Weavers' Guild at the University of Minnesota Center for Continuation Study, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Includes names of instructors, attendees, and techniques taught.
Course summary for the 1943 Institute in Weaving held by the Twin Cities Weavers' Guild at the University of Minnesota Center for Continuation Study, Minneapolis.
This is the first workbook in a series written by Sister Gemma Gertken (1894-1990) to teach a Gregorian Chant course for summer school classes. It teaches the fundamentals of Gregorian Chant. The lessons consist of prenote reading activities that prepare the way for the actual note reading and note singing instructions. Each page in the workbook is used as an exercise in listening to instructions and following directions. A teacher's manual for the coures indicates it was a forty-five minute class period for a one-month religion vacation school. Sister Gemma Gertken, OSB, taught music and piano and wrote curriculum. She believed children cold learn to read, write, compose in and sing Gregorian chant and she wrote a instructional program to teach it to them.
The second workbook in a collection by Sister Gemma Gertken is a continuation of Work Book 1 on the Gregorian Chant course for summer school classes. Workbook 2 continues to teach the fundamentals of Gregorian Chant. A teacher's manual for the coures indicates it was a forty-five minute class period for a one-month religion vacation school. Sister Gemma Gertken, OSB, taught music and piano and wrote curriculum. She believed children cold learn to read, write, compose in and sing Gregorian chant and she wrote a instructional program to teach it to them.
Instructions for groups and individuals assisting with ground crew and balloon inflation for the Dr. Jean Piccard balloon ascension in 1937 are described I this four page document. Details of balloon construction and inflation procedures are given in addition to the order of operations and signals. Dr. Jean Piccard was a University of Minnesota physicist and aeronautical engineer who believed it was possible to ascend into the stratosphere using many small cluster balloons rather than one large balloon. The experimental flight was sponsored by the Rochester Kiwanis Club and supported by local residents and students.
This pamphlet was used to teach the written Dakota alphabet, grammar and penmanship. The Santee Normal Training School instructed Dakota children in the Dakota language. These children came from families who were removed from Minnesota to Nebraska after the U.S.-Dakota War in 1863. Reverend A.L. Riggs founded the school in 1870 as an academy to train Native teachers. The school developed a printing press in 1871 and produced many materials in the Dakota language.
Contributing Institution:
Synod of Lakes and Prairies, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Title from cover. Includes a brief history of the museum, an overview of the permanent collections, donors, recent acquisitions, general information about the museum, e.g. location, hours of opening, lunch room, membership, etc., a list of the trustees and officers of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, and a list of the staff of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. 8 unnumbered pages: illustrations, plans.
Title from cover. At head of title: "Minneapolis Association of Arts in Industry", "Minneapolis Institute of Art". In outline form for group study. Advertisement on back cover for Byron & Learned Co., Minneapolis, with their logo. Includes bibliographical references (pages 7-10). "This is the third of an excellent series of study outlines now being issued by the Association of Arts in Industry of Minneapolis. It deals with the book from the beginning of writing, as a medium of communication, an instrument of education, and a work of craftsmanship and art."--American magazine of art. Volume XII, no. 1 (January, 1921), page 361. 10 pages.
Title from cover. At head of title: "Minneapolis Association of Arts in Industry", "Minneapolis Institute of Art". In outline form for group study. Advertisement on back cover for John S. Bradstreet & Co., Minneapolis, with a circular peacock dragon logo. Part of a series of study outlines issued by the Association of Arts in Industry of Minneapolis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 5-7). "The continued demand ... has led the [Minneapolis] Institute [of Arts] to arrange for a course of twelve lecture on this subject [of home decoration] to be given ... by Miss Floy Donaldson"--Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Volume IX, number 8 (November 1920), Supplement, page 3. 7 pages.