Outlines Ramsey's vision of government in Minnesota, touching on virtually every conceivable phase and aspect of the state. Identifies progress already achieved, what is in progress and what is yet to come.
Legislative Reference manual for the State of Minnesota containing the Constitution, Preamble and Articles, Permanent Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives, Joint Rules and lists of members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Minnesota for the year 1860.
Legislative Reference manual for the State of Minnesota containing Permanent Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives, Joint Rules and lists of members of the Senate and House of Representatives for the year 1861.
Legislative Reference manual for the State of Minnesota containing Permanent Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives, Joint Rules and lists of members of the Senate and House of Representatives for the year 1862.
Legislative Reference manual for the State of Minnesota containing Permanent Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives, Joint Rules and lists of members of the Senate and House of Representatives for the year 1863.
Legislative Reference manual for the State of Minnesota containing Permanent Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives, Joint Rules and lists of members of the Senate and House of Representatives for the year 1864.
Legislative Reference manual for the State of Minnesota containing Permanent Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives, Joint Rules and lists of members of the Senate and House of Representatives for the year 1866.
Barto, A. (signer); Merriman, O. C. (signer); Szalbury, Channing (signer); Buckman, C. B. (signer); Cooper, John (signer)
Date Created:
1866-07
Description:
Detailed report on the organization of relief activities, fund-raising, emergency assistance, policies for distribution of relief funds and supplies, and summaries of relief work undertaken and distributions made following a cyclone that devastated the vicinity of Saint Cloud and Sauk Rapids on April 14, 1886.
View of James J. Hill's warehouse on Saint Paul's Mississippi River levee, as well as J.C. and H.C. Burbank's warehouse and other buildings in the area.
One atlas (394 pages), illustrated, maps (part colored), portraits, 46 cm. Minnesota Historical Society reserve copy originally purchased in 1874 by Christian Schrade of Lakeland, Minnesota. In 1981, it was donated to Minnesota Historical Society by Myrtle P. Schrade, a descendant of Christian Schrade.
An 1879 Northern Pacific RR broadside promoting Minnesota to potential settlers.1) Single-page 3-color-litho broadside on heavy white paper, large, bold frontier-style font, very good condition.
Men standing on pile of logs ("Eleven thousand and seventy-four feet of white oak") cut for St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway at Clough Brothers and Hartley Camp.
An undated broadside issued by the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company, which contains the same lithograph described in the item "through Golden Valleys in Minnesota" (below), but identified as being a different Farm belonging to a different couple. Single-page broadside, printed, includes text and engraving, black ink on thin pale yellow paper.
James J. and Mary T. Hill's Ninth and Canada Streets residence, which Hill demolished after moving to his new home in 1891 at 240 Summit Avenue in St. Paul.
Published law appropriating state funds for the purchase of seed grain for farmers whose crops were devastated by hailstorms, and specifying procedures for applying for seed, distributing it, and repaying the state for its cost.
Silver Spike ceremony at Benton, Montana Territory. Mary T. Hill? in carriage with group of onlookers. Celebration of construction of St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba rail line across the Northern Great Plains and in to Montana Territory.
Summary, by county, of applications for seed grain loans by farmers whose 1886 crop was devastated by hail, noting number of applicants, total acreage prepared for seeding, and total bushels of wheat, oat, and barley seed needed.
Silver Spike ceremony at Benton, Montana Territory. Celebration of construction of St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba rail line across Northern Great Plains to Montana Territory
Powell asks Gov. McGill's secretary to try to arrange for hailstorm relief supplies intended for nearby towns to be left at Warren for distribution; distribution should not be done by the county commissioners.
Recommends that most hailstorm relief supplies be in the form of feed for teams, and that it be distributed from the towns of Stephen, Argyle, and Warren, Minnesota.
Letter from chairman of Board of County Commissioners, Marshall County, asking for an apportionment of seed grain to distribute to farmers who lost crops in 1886 hailstorms.
An 1889 broadside issued by the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway (predecessor of the Great Northern Railway) containing a lithograph of a prosperous Marshall County, Minnesota farmstead. 3) Single-page broadside, printed, includes text and engraving, black ink on thin pale yellow paper, 9 x 26-in., fragile, but encapsulated in polyester.
Winona County atlas, 60 pages of maps, some on double plates, 46 cm. Patrons' Directory is located on pages 52-60. Scale of township maps [ca. 1:31,680].
Dakota County atlas, 55 pages of colored maps, 48 cm. Scale of tounship maps 1:31,680. 2 inches to the mile. Patron's Directory is located on pages 53-55. Drawn from actual survey and county records by Bertine F. Pinkney.
H.C. Coates, Harrison Lyons, W.H. Dooley, Stephen Lyons, J.G. Sanderman, R.S. Moroney, John Farguhan, and C.F. Hausdorf seated in front of war memorial.
William Nixon, C.F. Hausdorf, W.H. Dooley, Stephen Lyons, J.G. Sanderman, R.S. Moroney, E. Needham, H.C. Coates, Melvin Fuller, and D. Farguhan reclining on the spot where they fought during the Civil War.
Chaplin Miller, William Nixon, C.F. Hausdorf, W.H. Dooley, Stephen Lyons, J.G. Sanderman, R.S. Moroney, E. Needham, Melvin Fuller, and D. Farguhan standing on the spot where they fought during the Civil War.
1 atlas (102 p.), colored maps, 59 cm. Compiled and drawn from official records and actual surveys. Includes index and patrons' directory. Scale of township maps [1:31,680]. Hennepin county comprises the first 77 p., Ramsey county starts from the backside and is 25 p. in length.
Interior view of Louis W. and Maud Van Cortlandt Taylor Hill's residence at Summit and Selby Avenues while their home was under construction at 260 Summit Avenue in St. Paul.
Mary T. Hill and children Clara Hill, Mary Mendenhall Hill, James Nathan Hill, and others at the launching of "Minnesota" steamship. Launching of trans-Pacific steamship, owned by Minnesota corporation.
Portrait of Maud Van Cortlandt Taylor Hill, Louis W. Hill, Jr., Isabella Taylor, Cortlandt Mucaster Taylor, Walter Curzon Taylor, Maud Van Cortlandt Hill, and Maria Banks Taylor.
Portrait of important New York investment banker, who was one of James J. Hill and the Great Northern Railway's principal financial allies. Financial ally to Great Northern Railway, which was headquartered in Saint Paul, MN