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.
Records of children admitted to the orphanage between May 1865 and November 1885. Entries are loosely chronological and include child's name and date of admission. Some entries include child's age and reason for admission. Separate entries give information on dismissal dates and reasons.
Société de Temperance de la Paroisse St. Louis, de St. Paul, Minnesota
Date Created:
1875
Description:
Constitution and regulations of the Temperance Society of the Parish of Saint Louis King of France in St. Paul, Minnesota, a Roman Catholic French national parish serving French Candadian immigrants. Lists the Society's dues, member expectations, violations, fines, policies, and parliamentary procedures for conducting Society business. University of St. Thomas, Archibishop Ireland Memorial Library call number: HV5298.S3 C5 1875
Contributing Institution:
University of St. Thomas - Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
A letter from a O. D. Storrs, in Winsted Lake, Minnesota, to an administrator at the Protestant Orphan Asylum. The woman has taken an orphaned boy, Charley, on a "trial" basis and explains in her letter that she has decided to adopt him permanently.
The title of this little card is Grangers versus Grasshoppers. Its parody illustrates the invasion of Minnesota by the locusts in the nineteenth century, especially during the 1870s.
Records of children admitted to the orphanage between 1879 and 1892. Most entries include child's name, age, date of admission, reason for admission. Separate entries give information on dismissal dates and reasons.
Annual report of the Woman's Christian Association for the year ending February 25 1881 including: officers, directors for 1881, Minutes of Annual Meeting, Secretary's Report, Treasurer's Report, Visitor's Report, numerical summary of visits made, reports and numerical summaries of the Industrial School and the Woman's Boarding Home, and the group's bylaws. Also included for the Women's Boarding Home are a brief history, an annual report of the Secretary of the Board of Managers, the Treasurer's Report, Names of Contributors, and by-laws.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual Report including: officers, directors, advisory board, and committees for year ending 1882 and for year ending 1883; president's address; finance report and list of contributors; expense account and treasurer's report; miscellaneous donations by month (including services); articles of incorporation (constitution); by-laws.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Woman's Christian Association; Woman's Boarding Home
Date Created:
1883
Description:
Annual report of the Woman's Christian Association for the year ending February 25 1883 including: officers, directors, notices, annual report of the Officers and Directors, Treasurer's Annual Report, Visitor's report, Acting Visitor's Report, Constitution, By-laws. Also includes Annual Report of Woman's Boarding Home, including: officers, annual report, financial statement, constitution, by-laws, regulations, and Industrial School report.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual Report including: officers, directors, and committees for year ending 1883 and for year ending 1884; church solicitors; secretary's report; finance committee report, cash donations, and treasurer's report; miscellaneous donations by month (including services); articles of incorporation (constitution); by-laws.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Bishop John Ireland's lecture on intemperance and law, presented March 10, 1884, in the Music Hall in Buffalo, New York, at the invitation of the Citizens' Reform Association. Attendees included Bishop Patrick John Ryan and representatives from other religious denominations. Includes brief article entitled How women can oppose intemperance, taken from an address by Cardinal Manning. Library call no.: HV5072 .I72 1884
Contributing Institution:
University of St. Thomas - Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
Annual Report including: officers, directors, and committees for years 1883-84 and for years 1884-85; church solicitors; secretary's report; finance committee report and treasurer's report; subscribers to building fund; miscellaneous donations by month (including services); articles of incorporation (constitution); by-laws.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
From a bi-weekly periodical titled Vatican Library (Issue 22, Mar. 15, 1884). Contents: Plea for temperance by Father Thomas Nicholas Burke; Catholic temperance cause by Rev. Henry Athanasius Brann; Wise prelate's warning by Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley; Doctrine of the Catholic Church about liquor by Bishop Bernard O'Reilly of Liverpool; Rules for home education; Liquor traffic and law by Bishop John Ireland; Peril of the age (on newspapers) by Bishop Joseph Thomas Duhamel of Ottawa; and Notes on Catholic reading. Library call no.: HV5072 .T9 1884
Contributing Institution:
University of St. Thomas - Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
Woman's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1884-02-26
Description:
Annual report containing financial reports of the Woman's Boarding Home and Industrial School. Includes the Association's constitution and by-laws, and letters detailing the need for more clothing donations, and lessons they have provided for children in the last year.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Young Men's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1884-05-28
Description:
Annual report of the 18th year's work of the Minneapolis YMCA containing financial and narrative reports by the president, other officers, and committee chairmen. Committees cover employment, education, housing, and religion, among additional administrative duties. Included in the report are the list of members, articles of incorporation, and the organization's constitution and by-laws.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Minneapolis Children's Home Society; Home for Children and Aged Women
Date Created:
1885
Description:
Annual Report including: officers, directors, and committees for years 1884-85 and for years 1885-86; church solicitors; secretary's report; finance committee report, cash donations, and treasurer's report; statement of building fund and subscribers; miscellaneous donations by month (including services); articles of incorporation (constitution); by-laws.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
This journal contains the formal proceedings for the First Convention of the Minnesota Association of the Deaf. The reunion attendees at the Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind voted to form an alumni association which became the Minnesota Association of the Deaf.
Woman's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1885-02-26
Description:
Annual report containing financial reports of the Woman's Boarding Home and Industrial School. Includes the Association's constitution and by-laws, number of visits, and letters detailing the work of the last year.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Young Men's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1885-06-08
Description:
Annual report of the 19th year's work of the Minneapolis YMCA containing financial and narrative reports by the president, other officers, and committee chairmen. Committees cover employment, education, housing, and religion, among additional administrative duties. Also features reports by the Railroad and Junior Departments. Included in the annual report are the list of members, articles of incorporation, and the organization's constitution and by-laws.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
A duplicate portrait photograph of Nellie Weiss Bondy in her wedding dress. Nellie Weiss married Louis Bondy in 1886: the event is reputed to have been the first Jewish wedding in Duluth.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Original will of Jane T. Harrison, co-founder of the Jones-Harrison Residence, which was established in 1888 by the Woman's Christian Association. The Jones-Harrison Residenced is believed to be Minnesota's longest continuously operating home to seniors.
Records of children admitted to the orphanage between 1886 and 1904. Most entries include child's name, age, nationality, date of admission, conditions of admission, and date dismissed.
Woman's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1886-02-25
Description:
Annual report containing financial reports of the Woman's Boarding Home and Industrial School. Includes the Association's constitution and by-laws, number of visits, and letters detailing financial and physical donations, and families helped that year.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Young Men's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1886-06-16
Description:
Annual report of the 20th year's work of the Minneapolis YMCA containing financial and narrative reports by the president, other officers, and committee chairmen. Committees, departments, and branches cover employment, education, housing, railroads, and religion, among additional administrative duties. Included in the report are the list of members, articles of incorporation, and the organization's constitution and by-laws.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Woman's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1887-02-25
Description:
Annual report containing financial reports of the Woman's Boarding Home and Industrial School. Includes the Association's constitution and by-laws, number of visits, and letters detailing donations, and the opening of the Branch home.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Young Men's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1887-06-13
Description:
Annual report of the 21st year's work of the Minneapolis YMCA containing financial and narrative reports by the president, other officers, and committee chairmen. Committees cover employment, education, housing, and religion, among additional administrative duties. Included in the report are the list of members, articles of incorporation, and the organization's constitution and by-laws.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Woman's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1888-02-25
Description:
Annual report containing financial reports of the Woman's Boarding Home and Industrial School. Includes the Association's constitution and by-laws, number of visits, and letters detailing stories of families they helped in the past year.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Group of people posed on the porch of the Geneva Beach Hotel. Emma C. Eddy(1), Baby Marjorie(2) and A.A. Eddy(3) (see numbers above heads on photo). A man is holding onto a penny-farthing bicycle. In 1896, J.L. Dickinson acquired the Alexandria Hotel at Geneva Beach from Mr. Letson, an early resort builder, and changed the name to the Geneva Beach Hotel. The hotel burned down on September 2, 1911.
The Woman's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1889
Description:
Annual Report, Woman's Christian Association - Reports of 1888-1889, detailing improvements to the boarding house of Jones-Harrison Residence, which was established in 1888 by the woman's Christian Association. The Jones-Harrison Residenced is believed to be Minnesota's longest continuously operating home to seniors.
Woman's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1889-02-25
Description:
Annual report containing financial reports of the Woman's Boarding Home and Branch House. Includes the Association's constitution and by-laws, number of visits, and letters detailing donations received and the opening of the Jones-Harrison Home for Aged Women.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Young Men's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1889-05-18
Description:
Annual report of the 23rd year's work of the Minneapolis YMCA containing financial and narrative reports by the president, other officers, and committee chairmen. Committees cover employment, education, housing, and religion, among additional administrative duties. Included in the report are a list of contributors, a sketch of the exterior of the Association Building, and floor plans for the basement, first and second floors of the Association Building.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
A portrait of Judge E.H. Jones, co-founder of Jones-Harrison Residence, which was established in 1888 by the Women's Christian Association. The Jones-Harrison Residence is believed to be Minnesota's longest continuously operating home to seniors.
A portrait of Mrs. William M. Harrison, co-founder of Jones-Harrison Residence, which was established in 1888 by the Women's Christian Association. The Jones-Harrison Residence is believed to be Minnesota's longest continuously operating home to seniors.
This journal contains the formal proceedings for the Second Convention of the Minnesota Association of the Deaf at the Minnesota Institute for Defectives (Deaf, Blind and Feeble-Minded). The American fingerspelled alphabet and fingerspelled numbers from 1 to 10 are printed on the back page.
The Roseau Fire burned the downtown buildings up to Mike Holm's barber shop. Holm's barber shop was saved by pouring water on blankets and wet sawdust.
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.
Four men standing. Three are next to each other and the other is on the left side smiling at them. There are two white sheets hanging in the backround. Peter Bonde was sheriff in Kandiyohi County from 1906-1927. He was known as the Prohibition Sheriff. Images in this collection were taken by Peter Bonde from 1890-1910.
Framed photo of an unidentified man. There are flowers above the picture. Possible funeral. Peter Bonde was sheriff in Kandiyohi County from 1906-1927. He was known as the Prohibition Sheriff. Images in this collection were taken by Peter Bonde from 1890-1910.
Group of unidentified people. Mostly women and children. They are all dressed in nice clothing. It looks like there is a barn in the background. Peter Bonde was sheriff in Kandiyohi County from 1906-1927. He was known as the Prohibition Sheriff. Images in this collection were taken by Peter Bonde from 1890-1910.
Four men standing. Seven women, three children and a man sitting in the grass. The four men standing have four women sitting in front of them. The man that is sitting is in front of the four women with a hat. The three other women and the children are sitting to the right. Peter Bonde was sheriff in Kandiyohi County from 1906-1927. He was known as the Prohibition Sheriff. Images in this collection were taken by Peter Bonde from 1890-1910.