Date Created: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1870">1870</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1879">1879</span> / Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society

Date Created:: 1879
Description:: 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.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Advertisements

Creator:: Andreas, Alfred Theodore, 1839-1900
Date Created:: 1874
Description:: 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.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Historical Society
Type:: Cartographic
Format:: Maps

Creator:: Christopherson, George
Date Created:: 1873-03-10
Description:: Dr. Christopherson applies for reimbursement out of state relief funds for medical services to a child who suffered frozen feet in the 1873 blizzard.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Historical Society
Type:: Text
Format:: Accounts

Creator:: Portz, Jermina (witness)
Date Created:: 1873-03-01
Description:: Portz's wife attests to the loss of his team and both hands in the 1873 blizzard, and the family's destitute circumstances.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Historical Society
Type:: Text
Format:: Affidavits

Creator:: Reynolds, R. M.
Date Created:: 1873-02-26
Description:: Reports on the circumstances of individuals killed, crippled, or who lost livestock in the January 1873 blizzard.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Historical Society
Type:: Text
Format:: Letters (correspondence)

Creator:: Mowrin, Jacob
Date Created:: 1873-02-25
Description:: Mowrin attests to Portz's loss of his team and both of his arms in the 1873 blizzard, and his current destitution.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Historical Society
Type:: Text
Format:: Letters (correspondence)

Creator:: Austin, Jacob (witness)
Date Created:: 1873-02-24
Description:: Austin attests to Tims' death in the 1873 blizzard, his wife's frozen limbs and amputation, and loss of livestock.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Historical Society
Type:: Text
Format:: Affidavits

Date Created:: 1873-02-20
Description:: Report of deaths, amputations, loss of livestock, and other losses by individuals and families in the 1873 blizzard; expense account.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Historical Society
Type:: Text
Format:: Reports

Creator:: Fougner, Ole P. (signer); Cowing, W. H. (signer); Larsen, Thosten (signer); Halvorsen, Knudt (signer); Penne, Peder S. (signer)
Date Created:: 1873-02-05
Description:: Attesting to Fougner's destitution as the result of his son's death in the 1873 blizzard, and appealing for state aid.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Historical Society
Type:: Text
Format:: Letters (correspondence)

Creator:: Zimmerman, Charles Alfred, 1844-1909
Date Created:: 1873
Description:: Portrait of Mary Frances Hill, daughter of James J. and Mary T. Hill
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Cabinet photographs

Creator:: Wright, George Burdick, 1835-1882
Date Created:: 1873
Description:: Hennepin County Atlas, 41 pages of hand colored maps. Included George B. Wright's map of Minneapolis, 1873, at back.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Historical Society
Type:: Cartographic
Format:: Plats (maps)

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