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.
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.
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.
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].
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.
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.
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.
Silver Spike ceremony at Benton, Montana Territory. Celebration of construction of St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba rail line across Northern Great Plains 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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.