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1. Laying the cornerstone for the Agate Bay Hotel, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
03-24-1924
Description:
Crowd of people are gathered around the Agate Bay Hotel (1924-1974) construction site for the laying of the cornerstone. American Legion Post 109 placed the cornerstone.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

2. Interview with Heladio "Lalo" Zavala

Creator:
Zavala, Heladio; United States
Date Created:
10/18/2010
Description:
Heladio "Lalo" Zavala was born in Asherton, Texas. Zavala decided to move to Minnesota to attend Moorhead State College and studied social work and Spanish. He became involved with the Latino community by becoming the chairman of Migrant Health Services, executive director of the Minnesota Migrant Council, and CEO of Midwest Association of Farmworker Organizations. Zavala is married with three children. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family background - Latino culture in Texas - agriculture in
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

3. Interview with Randolph Peterson, Minnesota Court of Appeals Oral History Project, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Peterson, Randolph William, 1953-
Date Created:
11/1/2017
Description:
Interview with former Minnesota Court of Appeals Judge Randolph Peterson on his life and his legal and judicial career. He was appointed to the Minnesota Court of Appeals in 1990 and retired in 2018. The interview covers his family background and education, law school, being in the state Senate, the creation of the Court of Appeals, and his experiences being on the Court of Appeals.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Law Library
Type:
Moving Image
Format:
Oral histories

4. Genealogy seminar invitation, November 18, 1997, Icelandic Hekla Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Icelandic Hekla Club; Hennepin
Date Created:
11/18/1997
Description:
Icelandic Hekla Club genealogy seminar invitation, November 18, 1997.
Contributing Institution:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Type:
Text
Format:
Invitations

5. Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Ruth Lima McMahon, November 28, 1925, Chicago, Illinois

Date Created:
11/28/1925
Description:
Letter from Ruth Lima McMahon to Ole Rølvaag discussing her experience as a Norwegian-American.
Contributing Institution:
Norwegian-American Historical Association
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

6. Letter from Lincoln Colcord to Nora Solum, November 3, 1937, Searsport, Maine

Date Created:
11/3/1937
Description:
Letter from Lincoln Colcord to Nora Solum discussing writing to Professor Theodore Jorgenson and the potential biography about Ole Rølvaag.
Contributing Institution:
Norwegian-American Historical Association
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

7. Letter from Nora Solum to Lincoln Colcord, November 8, 1937, Northfield, Minnesota

Date Created:
11/8/1937
Description:
Letter from Nora Solum to Lincoln Colcord expressing gratitude in him sending his correspondence with Ole Rølvaag.
Contributing Institution:
Norwegian-American Historical Association
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

8. Member Meeting Minutes for 1989, Icelandic Hekla Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Date Created:
12/2/1989
Description:
Icelandic Hekla Club member meeting minutes for December, 1989.
Contributing Institution:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Type:
Text
Format:
Minutes (administrative records)

9. John Bardwell property sale to Charles Bardwell, England

Date Created:
1656-06
Description:
A contract for the sale of land from John Bardwell of London, to Charles Bardwell of Birmingham, England, in June of 1656. The document is hand-scribed on parchment.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Contracts

10. Bill of sale for Slye family slave, Rehoboth, Massachusetts

Creator:
Wheeten, Tabatha
Date Created:
1722-03-21
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin History Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Receipts (financial records)

11. Dakotah Village

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1841 - 1855
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. It shows several dwellings of the Dakota people.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

12. Valley of the St. Peters, Minnesota

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1841 - 1855
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. It shows a view of the Minnesota River Valley.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

13. Vow formula written by Mother Benedicta Riepp, OSB, foundress of the Bavarian branch of American Benedictine Sisters

Creator:
Riepp, Mother Benedicta
Date Created:
1846
Description:
Orgins of St. Benedict's Monastery (convent). Mother Benedicta (Sybilla) Riepp was born in Waal, Bavaria in 1825. Having entered St. Walburg Convent in Bavaria, she made her profession of vows there at the age of 21. Six years later, she was one of the first volunteers to go to America to teach the children of the German immigrants. She was appointed the superior of that first group and is, therefore, regarded as the foundress of the Bavarian branch of Benedictine Sisters in America. Though of slight and delicate build and barely able to meet the challenges of frontier life in Pennsylvania, Mother Benedicta was strong in her determination to follow the German immigrants to the farther mid-western frontier which later became the state of Minnesota. Her legacy to the American foundations was her steadfast effort to achieve autonomy for her sisters in America. Because he took responsibility for the sisters' coming to the New World, Abbot Boniface Wimmer, OSB, felt he had jurisdiction over them and often determined internal affairs of the convents, including accepting candidates and appointing superiors. Mother Benedicta returned to Europe to have their cause for autonomy presented to Rome. Eventually her efforts succeeded, but broken in health, she returned to America--to St. Cloud, Minnesota--where she died of tuberculosis at the age of 33. She is buried in the cemetery at St. Benedict's Monastery, St. Joseph. General translation of Mother Benedicta's vow formula at St. Walburg Convent, Bavaria: I, Sister Maria Ana Benedicta, promise before God and his Saints, Stability, and Conversion of my morals, Obedience, Poverty and Chastity according to the Rule of Saint Benedict and the Statutes of this Monastery, which was constructed in honor of Saint Walburga, Virgin, in the presence of Reverend Mother (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives; McDonald, pages 8, 14-19, 49).
Contributing Institution:
Saint Benedict's Monastery
Type:
Text
Format:
Notes

14. Emigrants Attacked by the Comanches

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1847
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

15. Indian women Playing the Game of Plum Stones

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1847
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

16. Road Plat Book, Number 1, Washington County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1847 - 1857
Description:
Hand written surveys of county roads and territorial roads originating in Washington County. Includes field notes and sketch of each route.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Plats (maps)

17. St. Anthony Mini-Sotah Ter'y, St. Anthony, Minnesota

Creator:
Colby, R. A.
Date Created:
1848
Description:
Map of St. Anthony.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Maps

18. Message from the Governor of the Territory of Minnesota, to the first Legislative Assembly : September 4, 1849

Date Created:
1849
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Speeches

19. Constitution of the United States

Creator:
United States Constitutional Convention
Date Created:
1849 - 1853
Description:
United States Constitution in effect from 1849 to 1853.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Revisor of Statutes
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

20. Rules of court Filed by the clerk in in [sic] open court...

Creator:
Minnesota Territorial Court
Date Created:
1849-08-13
Description:
These are the handwritten first Rules of Court for the Minnesota Territory, as recorded by Harvey Wilson, District Court clerk in Stillwater, St. Croix County, Minnesota Territory on August 13, 1849.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Law Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Documents (other)

21. Acts, Joint Resolutions and Memorials passed by the First Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota

Creator:
Legislative Assembly, Territory of Minnesota
Date Created:
1850
Description:
First territorial session laws in Minnesota, from September 3, 1849 to November 1, 1849. Published in 1850.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Revisor of Statutes
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

22. Adam Jefferson Quarry, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850
Description:
View of a dirt road into the Adam Jefferson Quarry.
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

23. Agricultural machinery in a field, Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850
Description:
Agricultural machinery in a field, with two men.
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

24. Baptist Church, Mankato, Minnesota

Creator:
Keene, George Eldon
Date Created:
1850
Description:
Exterior view of Baptist Church, Mankato.
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

25. Dakota Encampment

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1850
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. It shows a Dakota campsite along a body of water.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

26. Dog Dance of the Dahcotas

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1850
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

27. Indian Sugar Camp

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1850
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. The print shows Native Americans tapping trees and making sugar.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

28. Scalp Dance of the Dakotas

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1850
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

29. Spearing Fish from a Canoe

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1850
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

30. Portrait of Anne Loomis North, Northfield, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850 - 1860
Description:
Portrait of Anne Loomis North.
Contributing Institution:
Northfield Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Tintypes

31. Rear of Pioneers Saw Mill at St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850 - 1865
Description:
exterior view of mill and falls.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

32. Reception rooms (Teacher's Parlor) at St. Mary's Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850 - 1880
Description:
The name F. S. Bean is written on back of card. Room features Victorian style decorations and furnishings.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

33. School room at St. Mary's Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850 - 1880
Description:
View of a school room at St. Mary's Hall. The students sat on benches. The name F. S. Bean is also written on back of card.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

34. Edward D. Neill, founder and first President of Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850 - 1890
Description:
Stereograph of Edward Duffield Neill, founder and first president of Macalester College, sitting in the parlor of his home on Summit Avenue.
Contributing Institution:
Macalester College
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

35. Golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bosworth, Windom, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850 - 1900
Description:
A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bosworth sitting in chairs at the altar of the Baptist Church for their Golden Wedding Anniversary.
Contributing Institution:
Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

36. Letter from M. J. Ross from Lebanon Junction, Kentucky

Creator:
Ross, M. J.
Date Created:
1850 - 1900
Description:
Mrs. Alexander Ross (M. J. Ross) wrote this undated letter from Kingston to her cousin. She mentions her family and their health. The top portion of this letter is missing.
Contributing Institution:
Olmsted County Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

37. Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. H. Z. Mitchell, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850 - 1900
Description:
Studio portraits of a Mr. and Mrs. H. Z. Mitchell.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Studio portraits

38. Scandia Baptist Church, Waconia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850-1940
Description:
View of the exterior of the Scandia Baptist Church, with a group of people standing at the front entrance.
Contributing Institution:
The History Center, Archives of Bethel University and Converge Worldwide - BGC
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

39. A. A. Zimmerman Hardware Store, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850?
Description:
Interior view of the A. A. Zimmerman Hardware Store, Sporting Goods Department.
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

40. Adam Jefferson house, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850?
Description:
Exterior view of the Adam Jefferson House.
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

41. Albert Schippel house, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850?
Description:
Albert Schippel house. Image caption reads, "Cottage for Albert Schippel Esq, corner Sixth and Vine Streets."
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

42. Alice Pierce, Frank Merritt, Frank, George and Lillian in front of a house, Good Thunder, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850?
Description:
Two women, one man, and two boys with horse and buggy in front of a house. Note on back of photo says,""Grandma Pierce Alice, Grandad Pierce Merritt, Frank, George, Lillian. This house is down by Bill Phelps, Good Thunder, Mn."
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

43. Dakota tawoonspe, wowapi II (Dakota lessons, book II)

Creator:
Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883
Date Created:
1850?
Description:
Dakota language (Santee dialect) primary reader for children, in a variety of type styles with woodcuts. University of St. Thomas, Archibishop Ireland Memorial Library call number: PM1024.R6 D6
Contributing Institution:
University of St. Thomas - Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

44. Hunting the Buffalo in Winter

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1850?
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. Two Native American men on snowshoes are shown hunting buffalo.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

45. Indian Shooting Fish

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1850?
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. A Native American is shown as he is catching fish by using a bow and arrow.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

46. Indian Woman Dressing a Buffalo Skin

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1850?
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

47. Medicine Dance of the Winnebagoes

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1850?
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. The print shows a medicine dance performed by members of the Winnebago tribe.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

48. Men baling hay, Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850?
Description:
Unidentified men baling hay, with harvesting machinery.
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

49. Minnesota Year Book for 1851

Creator:
Le Duc, W.G.
Date Created:
1851
Description:
Travel guide and miscellanea useful to recent immigrants to Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

50. Session Laws of the Territory of Minnesota passed by the Legislative Assembly at the session commencing Wednesday, January 1, 1851

Creator:
Legislative Assembly, Territory of Minnesota
Date Created:
1851
Description:
Early territorial session laws in Minnesota, from January 1, 1851 to March 31, 1851. Published in 1851.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Revisor of Statutes
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

51. View of St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Whitney, Joel Emmons
Date Created:
1851
Description:
View of the Mississippi River with an island and buildings on the riverbank. The photographic print was created from an 1851 daguerreotype by Joel Whitney.
Contributing Institution:
Macalester College
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

52. Fort Snelling, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1851 - 1870
Description:
litho print, may be hand-colored; view of Fort Snelling from the Mississippi River from opposite shore looking up towards the Round House and Barracks with ferryboat crossing the river; man standing in foreground on shore
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

53. Ingjerd Mansson, mother of Swan J. Turnblad, Sweden

Date Created:
1851?
Description:
Tintype portrait of Ingjerd Mansson. Ingjerd was Swan J. Turnblad's mother. The tintype is hand-tinted and in a paper frame.
Contributing Institution:
American Swedish Institute
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Tintypes

54. Olof Mansson, father of Swan J. Turnblad, Sweden

Date Created:
1851?
Description:
Tintype portrait of Olof Mansson. Olof was Swan J. Turnblad's father. The tintype is hand-tinted and in a paper frame.
Contributing Institution:
American Swedish Institute
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Tintypes

55. Minnesota Year Book for 1852

Creator:
Le Duc, W.G.
Date Created:
1852
Description:
Travel guide and miscellanea useful to recent immigrants to Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

56. Session Laws of the Territory of Minnesota passed by the Legislative Assembly at the session commencing Wednesday, January 7, 1852

Creator:
Legislative Assembly, Territory of Minnesota
Date Created:
1852
Description:
Early territorial session laws in Minnesota, from January 7, 1852 to March 6, 1852. Published in 1852.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Revisor of Statutes
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

57. Worship of the Sun

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1852
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. It shows a Native American ceremony.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

58. St. Walburg Convent, Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germany

Date Created:
1852 - 1864
Description:
Origins of St. Benedict's Monastery (convent), St. Joseph, Minnesota. From its beginnings in the eleventh century, St. Walburg Convent in Eichstätt, Bavaria, survived many trials of fire, war, famine, and secularization. "Fortunately for America, when the call came to plant a branch house in the new soil of the New World, the religious spirit of St. Walburg Convent was at its height." (McDonald, page 7). In 1851 St. Walburg Convent, EichstÃtt, Bavaria, was challenged by an invitation from Boniface Wimmer, OSB, (a missionary monk from Bavaria in America as early as 1846) to go to America to teach the children of the German immigrants. On June 18, 1852, Sister Benedicta Riepp with Sisters Walburga Dietrich and Maura Flieger blazed the trail for the Eichstätt sisters to the New World by way of the steamer, "Washington." They reached New York amid the confusion of fire crackers and shooting cannons for the July 4th celebrations. Undaunted, they traveled on to settle in St. Marys, PA. New members soon joined them. With the second group (3 nuns and one candidate) from Eichstätt, they were ready to establish other convents in frontier settlements, among them the Northwest Territory in the area which later became the state of Minnesota. In summary, the origin of St. Benedict's Convent, St. Joseph, MN, can be traced as follows: in 1852, the Bavarian branch of Benedictine Sisters who came to America first settled in St. Joseph's Convent, St. Marys, PA.; in 1857, a small group of sisters from St. Joseph's Convent (PA) ventured to the western frontier -- to St. Mary's Parish, St. Cloud, MN; in 1863, the St. Cloud group of sisters moved to St. Joseph, MN. In St. Joseph, they established St. Benedict's Monastery which became the largest Benedictine monastery in the world. (Early records refer to St. Benedict's Monastery as St. Benedict's Convent.) [St. Benedict's Monastery Archives (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives; Sister Grace McDonald, OSB, With Lamps Burning, pages 7-10).
Contributing Institution:
Saint Benedict's Monastery
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

59. Ashley Crowl Riggs Ledger Book, 1852-1873, Minnesota

Creator:
Riggs, Ashley Crowl, 1828-1907
Date Created:
1852 - 1873
Description:
Ashley C. Riggs kept a ledger book journal from 1852-1873. The earliest entries are from Cold Spring (Stearns County), Minnesota and Watab (Benton County), Minnesota. The ledger's earliest entries record his activiites as an Indian Agent for the Winnnebago Indians for the years 1852-1853. The second portion of the ledger is Riggs' diary which documents his activities in and around Monticello, Minnesota for the years 1864-1873. Riggs was a key figure in the development of the Minnesota Territory and early Monticello, Minnesota community when he laid claim in 1854 to a piece of land on the Mississippi River. He built othe first ferry to shuttle people across the River. In 1861 he enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Contributing Institution:
Cold Spring Area Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Ledgers (account books)

60. Collated Statutes of the Territory of Minnesota and Decisions of Supreme Court

Creator:
Legislative Assembly, Territory of Minnesota, by resolution of March 5, 1853
Date Created:
1853
Description:
First compiled territorial statutes in Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Revisor of Statutes
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

61. Minnesota Year Book for 1853

Date Created:
1853
Description:
Travel guide and miscellanea useful to recent immigrants to Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

62. Striking the Post

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1853
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. The print shows a Native American activity in which a number of men are involved.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

63. Baldwin School Requirements and Prohibitions handbill, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Neill, Edward Duffield, 1823-1893
Date Created:
1853 - 1885
Description:
Small handbill listing seven requirements and four prohibitions of the Baldwin school. There is a space for a signature, showing the student "assents to the above requirements and prohibitions."
Contributing Institution:
Macalester College
Type:
Text
Format:
Bulletins

64. Indians Travelling

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1853?
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. The print shows Native Americans moving with their belongings to a new location.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

65. Baldwin School Addresses, St. Paul, Minnesota Territory

Creator:
Baldwin School
Date Created:
1854
Description:
Addresses Delivered at the Dedication of the Edifice of the Preparatory Department, of the Baldwin School, Saint Paul, Minnesota Territory; And Catalogue for 1853. There are colored pencil notations in the booklet.
Contributing Institution:
Macalester College
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

66. Baldwin School and College of Saint Paul Catalogues, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Baldwin School
Date Created:
1854
Description:
Catalogues of the Baldwin School, and the Academic Department of the College of Saint Paul, Minnesota. MDCCCLIV. The catalogues have information on trustees, instructors, pupils, and a statement and general plan for the College of Saint Paul.
Contributing Institution:
Macalester College
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

67. Buffalo Chase

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1854
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. The print shows a mounted Native American man about to kill a buffalo with an arrow.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

68. J. B. Wakefield and Jim Ohio Dog, Blue Earth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1854
Description:
James Wakefield in hunting clothes with his dog. Wakefield was a member of the Minnesota State House of Representatives and Minnesota State Senate. He became the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota and was a U. S. Congressman.
Contributing Institution:
Faribault County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

69. Waheoka, Minnesota Territory

Date Created:
1854
Description:
A map of a proposed community named Waheoka, including streets, blocks, and lots. The Minnesota River is included. The community was apparently to be located in Nicollet County, with southern and eastern boundaries along the Minnesota River, apparently near St. Peter and Traverse des Sioux. Spring Lake, looking more like a small stream on the map, divided the community into an east section and a west section. Waheoka was surveyed by Z. Wise in 1854 for Lyman Leach and Monroe Wright.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Plats (maps)

70. Otsego cemetery plat map, Wright County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1854?
Description:
Otsego cemetery plat map is the original plan of the cemetery drawn in approximately 1854, showing plots purchased by the city's founders and pioneers. It was designed during the time of the Rural Cemetery Movement and is an example of an early community graveyard (and cemetery association), not associated with a church.
Contributing Institution:
Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Maps

71. Portrait of Jabez Brooks, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Fisher, George
Date Created:
1854?
Description:
Portrait of the Reverend Jabez Brooks, Hamline University president, 1854-1857 and 1861-1869. Prior to coming to Hamline, he was principal of a seminary in Watertown, Wisconsin, and a professor of Greek and mathematics at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. After leaving Hamline, he became a member of the faculty at the newly opened University of Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Hamline University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Cabinet photographs

72. Rare envelope containing "Rock Bend" in address; sent to Charles E. Flandrau, Rock Bend, Minnesota Territory

Date Created:
1854?
Description:
The community of St. Peter was initially, and for a very brief time, known as Rock Bend, a name taken because of the presence of a sharp bend in the course of the Minnesota River on the east side of the settlement. The name was used probably from late in 1853 until sometime in 1854. The envelope shown here, addressed to Charles E. Flandrau (1828-1903), who was living in the area at the time, is one of only a few objects that survived with the name "Rock Bend" on it. Flandrau, himself, became a very prominent resident of the State of Minnesota. Among many other duties during his lifetime, he commanded the defenders of New Ulm in August of 1862 and later served on the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

73. First public school, Red Wing, Minnesota

Date Created:
1855
Description:
Pictured left to right are Rev. J.W. Hancock, S.S. Grannis, and H.B. Baldwin. The school was built in 1854 and later torn down around 1891.
Contributing Institution:
Goodhue County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

74. Indian Doctor Concocting a Pot of Medicine

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1855
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

75. Map of Curtis Survey, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Creator:
St. Cloud State University
Date Created:
1855
Description:
Map of Curtis Survey, St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Maps

76. Portrait of John W. North, Northfield, Minnesota

Date Created:
1855
Description:
Portrait of John W. North with his child in 1855.
Contributing Institution:
Northfield Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Studio portraits

77. Rise and Progress of Minnesota Territory

Creator:
Emerson, C. L.
Date Created:
1855
Description:
Demographic, business and industrial information of the Minnesota Territory prior to Statehood
Contributing Institution:
Stillwater Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

78. Man with oxen team and hay wagon, Oronoco, Minnesota

Date Created:
1855 - 1860
Description:
William Koenig (of Oronoco Township) is holding a pitch fork and standing next to an oxen team. A wagon filled with hay is being pulled by the team.
Contributing Institution:
Olmsted County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

79. Stereoscopic views of Minnesota scenery; First Suspension Bridge view from Nicollet Island to Minneapolis

Date Created:
1855 - 1870
Description:
Landscape view, publisher from Saint Paul. Minnestereographs of Minnesota Scenery, From Taylor's Book Store, St. Paul. Toll keeper's office and bridge abutment in foreground.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

80. Mason and Boardman Hardware Store, St. Peter, Minnesota

Date Created:
1855 - 1887
Description:
Exterior view of the Mason and Boardman hardware store in St. Peter, which was located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Grace street. photograph E1393 shows the same "HARDWARE" sign.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

81. Eureka, Minnesota Territory

Date Created:
1855?
Description:
A map showing the community of Eureka, including streets, blocks, and lots. The Minnesota River is included. Eureka was located in Section 33, T109N, R28W of Nicollet County, Minnesota, and was surveyed by Daniel L. Turpin. This town did not survive the severe economic downturn that began in 1857 that affected the entire United States and the Territory of Minnesota. It can now be regarded as part of Lost Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Plats (maps)

82. Map of Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Territory

Creator:
Iddings, C. W.
Date Created:
1855?
Description:
A map of Northfield, Minnesota depicting the town sometime between 1849-1859 when Minnesota was designated as a territory.
Contributing Institution:
Northfield Public Library
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Maps

83. Map of Traverse des Sioux, Minnesota

Date Created:
1855?
Description:
This map shows the village of Traverse des Sioux along the Minnesota River. The village was named after the Traverse des Sioux, which was the French name for the crossing site of the river by the Dakota people who lived in the vicintiy.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Maps

84. "A Minnesota Ballad," by Sam Whiting

Creator:
Whiting, Sam, 1815-1882
Date Created:
1856
Description:
A poem celebrating the State of Minnesota by Boston-born sailor Captain Sam Whiting. Whiting was the editor of a Winona, Minnesota newspaper, The Winona Republican, in 1855-1856.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Poems

85. Dakota, Nicollet County, Minnesota Territory

Creator:
McSweeney, Anthony D.
Date Created:
1856
Description:
A map showing the community variously known as Dakota, Dakota City, or Dakota Mills, including streets, blocks, and lots. The Minnesota River is included, as is a building labeled as McNutt's Dakota Mills. The community was located in Section 34, T109N, R28W in Nicollet County, and was "surveyed in 1856, drawn by Anthony D. McSweeney" for William H. McNutt, who is listed as the proprietor. This town did not survive the severe economic downturn that began in 1857 that affected the entire United States and the Territory of Minnesota. It can now be regarded as part of Lost Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Plats (maps)

86. Map of the City of St. Anthony and Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1856

Creator:
Chapman & Curtis (St. Anthony Falls, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1856
Description:
Overlay map of Minneapolis and St. Anthony.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Maps

87. Portrait of John W. North, Northfield, Minnesota

Date Created:
1856
Description:
Portrait of John Wesley North.
Contributing Institution:
Northfield Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Tintypes

88. Redstone, Minnesota Territory

Date Created:
1856
Description:
A map showing the community of Redstone City, including streets, lots, and blocks. The town was located in Section 1, T109N, R30W of Nicollet County, Minnesota. Frederick Leavenworth was the surveyor for this map, which was created in 1856 for proprietor Daniel Lothrop, Jr. Like its neighboring community of Redstone, Redstone City gradually faded away as a community, and can now be regarded as a part of Lost Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Plats (maps)

89. Redstone, Minnesota Territory

Date Created:
1856
Description:
A map showing the community of Redstone, including streets, blocks, and lots. Redstone was located in Section 35, T110N, R30W of Nicollet County, Minnesota. Frederick Leavenworth was the surveyor for this map, which was created in 1856 for Marshall B. Stone and other occupants and proprietors. Redstone faded away as a community in which to live, and can now be regarded as a part of Lost Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Plats (maps)

90. Swan City, Minnesota Territory

Date Created:
1856
Description:
A map showing the community of Swan City, including streets, blocks, and lots. It was located in Sections 5 and 8, T109N, R28W of Nicollet County, Minnesota. Wm. G. Wells was the surveyor for this map, which was created in 1856 for proprietor Thomas Gunn. Swan City appears on a map of Minnesota dated 1866, but probably did not survive for very many years beyond that date. It can now be regarded as a part of Lost Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Plats (maps)

91. Union City, Minnesota Territory

Date Created:
1856
Description:
A map showing Union City, including streets, blocks, and lots. The town was located, or was to have been located, in Section 4, T109N, R28W of Nicollet County, Minnesota. Wm. G. Wells was the surveyor for this map, which was created in 1856 for Thomas Gunn, one of the proprietors. Very little is known about Union City, which has not survived. It can now be regarded as a part of Lost Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Plats (maps)

92. Map of Duluth Saint Louis Co. M.T. [Minnesota Territory]

Creator:
Relf, Richard
Date Created:
1856?
Description:
References on map read: Duluth is laid out on the head of Minnesota Point under the Town Site Law of 1844 for George E. Nettleton, F.B. Culver, O.W. Rice, William Nettleton and R.E. Jefferson owner and occupants of Town Site. Avenues and Streets are 60 ft. wide, Blocks are 400 ft. long by 200 ft. deep, Lots are 40 ft. front and 100 ft. deep. Upper Duluth to the left and Lower Duluth to the right of Pine Street. Pier at Portage St. is 25 ft. wide the "T" is 140 ft. front. The stone monuments on Pine Street govern the survey. Richard Relf, Surveyor. Horizontal Scale 500 ft. 1 inch, Perpendicular 250 ft. 1 inch.
Contributing Institution:
Duluth Public Library
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Maps

93. Portrait of Edwin Clark, St. Anthony, Minnesota

Date Created:
1856?
Description:
Portrait of Edwin Clark, "Father of Melrose," as a young man.
Contributing Institution:
Melrose Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Studio portraits

94. A Bill for the Removal of the Capitol of the Territory or Future State of Minnesota, and for other purposes

Creator:
Minnesota Territorial Legislature
Date Created:
1857
Description:
This document contains the text of a bill that was passed by the Minnesota Territorial Legislature in 1857 to transfer the capital of Minnesota from St. Paul to St. Peter. This document has been determined to have been written at that time, but it is most likely a working copy of the document that was passed by the legislature. Joseph Rolette, a member of the legislature who was opposed to the transfer of the capitol, disappeared with the original bill and failed to return it in time for it to be properly signed by Territorial Governor Willis Gorman, who had, in the meantime, signed a copy of the document that Rolette had taken. Governor Gorman's action was declared to be illegal by a Judge R. R. Nelson, thus ending the attempt to move the capitol.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Statutes

95. Map of City from original platts and surveys on record in the Recorders Office, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Bennitt, Lyman G.
Date Created:
1857
Description:
A map of the City of Winona, Minnesota, in 1857 created by Lyman G. Bennitt.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Maps

96. St. Anthony Village, Minnesota

Date Created:
1857
Description:
A bird's eye view of St. Anthony Village.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

97. The debates and proceedings of the Minnesota Constitutional convention including the organic act of the territory : with the enabling act of Congress, the act of the territorial legislature relative to the convention, and the vote of the people on the constitution

Creator:
Smith, Francis H.
Date Created:
1857
Description:
This volume contains the debates, etc., of the Democratic section of the Minnesota Constitutional convention. The Democratic and the Republican sections of the convention met separately. The constitution finally adopted was the work of a joint committee. This volume is 685 pages and was printed by E. S. Goodrich, territorial printer.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Law Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

98. Gorman Park Deed of Conveyance, St. Peter Company to The Public, St. Peter, Minnesota

Creator:
St. Peter Company
Date Created:
1857-01-06
Description:
The St. Peter Company, which helped to promote and establish the community of St. Peter, conveyed to the town's residents through this document the land for a large park. The park is known as Gorman Park, and was named after Territorial Governor Willis A. Gorman, who was a member of the St. Peter Company. The document is dated January 6th, 1857.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Broadsides (notices)

99. Records of the Count Commissioners of the County of Waseca, Minnesota

Creator:
Waseca County Board of Commissioners
Date Created:
1857-02
Description:
More than 350 pages of the first meeting minutes of the Waseca County Board of Commissioners beginning in 1857. Contains the names of officials and the minutes noting the organization of towns, townships, school districts, elections; 335 actual handwritten pages, 25 blank pages, (pp. 341 and 342 are missing); page size: 7 3/4"" x 10 1/2"" handwritten.
Contributing Institution:
Waseca County Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Minutes (administrative records)

100. Appointment of William B. Dodd as Brigadier General in the Minnesota Territorial Militia

Creator:
State of Minnesota
Date Created:
1857-02-20
Description:
Minnesota's second Territorial Governor, Willis A. Gorman, signed this document that appointed William B. Dodd, one of the founders of St. Peter, as a Brigadier General of the First Brigade of the Second Division of the Militia of Minnesota Territory on February 20th, 1857.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Certificates
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