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1. "My Arrival in the New Country" by Nick Borovac

Creator:
Borovac, Nick
Date Created:
1982?
Description:
A two-page account of the author's experience of emigrating to the United States, first to Virginia, Minnesota, and then to Duluth from Croatia in 1912.
Contributing Institution:
Duluth Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Memoirs

2. Aerial Lift Bridge: Aerial View of Canal Park and Business District, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gatlin, Wayne
Date Created:
1982?
Description:
This aerial view is one of many taken by Wayne Gatlin. Canal Park (under the jet) is in its transformative stage moving from a light industrial site to a tourist destination. Grandma's Saloon and Grill has its striped canvas tent up with the ice cream railroad car in place. The double-decker red bus is at the intersection of Morse and South First Avenue East or Canal Park Drive. The first segment of the Lakewalk will be built in 1988. Duluth-born Mr. Gatlin enlisted in the aviation cadet program in 1942. Later he flew 55 combat missions for the 360th Fighter Group in England and downed an ME-262 jet fighter. In 1948 he joined the Texas Air National Guard but eventually transferred to Duluth, where he became operations officer for the 179th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. Gatlin flew jet fighters while stationed at Duluth during the Korean War. He was the high individual scorer at the 1954, 1955 and 1956 National Air Guard gunnery meets. Gatlin served as commander of the Air Technician Detachment at Duluth, wing commander, group commander and finally chief of staff for the Minnesota Air National Guard. He logged over 6,700 military flying hours during his career. Gatlin studied photography over the years and his marvelous portraits of Guard aircraft have appeared in many publications and journals.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

3. Interview with Urho Hokkanen, Ely, Minnesota

Creator:
Hokkanen, Urho
Date Created:
1982-12-07
Description:
Interview with Urho Hokkanen. Urho was born in Finland in 1909. His family immigrated to America in 1913. His father first arrived in America in 1905, but returned to Finland in 1908, and left again in 1910 for America. They traveled from Helsinki to Copenhagen and on to Hull, England and then caught a White Star ship in Liverpool arriving in Quebec, Canada before making his way to northern Minnesota. His father worked in the lumber camps and occasionally in the Section 30 or Zenith Mine. Urho Hokkanen attended the Winton, Minnesota school through the 8th grade and then graduated high school in Ely. He traveled around a while after high school, but came back to Winton because his mother was so lonely for him. He spent one winter in a lumber camp on the North Shore of Lake Superior and then was hired at the Pioneer Mine in Ely. Urho talks about working in the underground mine, cave-ins and mud slides, the Great Depression and its affect on the area, unionization of the mines, and what he did after the Pioneer Mine closed in 1967.
Contributing Institution:
Ely-Winton Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

4. The Forum, December 6, 1982, Inver Hills Community College, Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota

Creator:
Inver Hills Community College
Date Created:
1982-12-06
Description:
This issue features profiles of faculty, staff, and students. The Forum was the student newspaper for Inver Hills State Junior College and was published from 1970 to 2005. In 1973 Inver Hills State Junior College became Inver Hills Community College.
Contributing Institution:
Inver Hills Community College
Type:
Text
Format:
Newspapers

5. The Minnesota Weaver newsletter, volume 1, number 2, Winter 1982, Weavers Guild of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Weavers Guild of Minnesota
Date Created:
1982-12
Description:
Second issue of the first volume of "The Minnesota Weaver" newsletter by the Weavers Guild of Minnesota for winter of 1982, and containing descriptions of upcoming workshops; reports on the Peter Collingwood workshop, the Minnesota Federation Annual Meeting, and the Fiber Source committee; and the articles "Introduction to Color for Weavers", "Warp and Weft Drawdowns", "The Good Old Reliable Piano Bench Theory of Color Harmony", "Color Theory Applied", "Color in Traditional Norwegian Folk Textiles", and "Color Use in Patterned Weaves".
Contributing Institution:
Weavers Guild of Minnesota
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

6. The Minnesota Horticulturist for the Northern Gardener, Volume 110, Number 9, December 1982

Date Created:
1982-12
Description:
December 1982 issue of The Minnesota Horticulturist.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Magazines (periodicals)

7. Minnesota Weavers Guild calendar, December 1982/January 1983, Weavers Guild of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Weavers Guild of Minnesota
Date Created:
1982-12
Description:
A schedule of upcoming classes, workshops, and member meetings of the Minnesota Weavers Guild for December 1982 and January 1983.
Contributing Institution:
Weavers Guild of Minnesota
Type:
Text
Format:
Calendars

8. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, December 1982

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Panzer Morris, Adele (co-editor); Wagner, Mary (co-editor)
Date Created:
1982-12
Description:
Volume 9, number 12 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Newsletter was published in December of 1982. Contents include an update on public library finance, highlights of the October MLA Board meeting, the announcement of a ten-member task force to examine the restructuring of the library and information science program at the University of Minnesota, reports from various MLA round tables and sections, a report from the Friends of the Libraries of Roseau County on community efforts to raise funds and prevent the closure of libraries in the Roseau County Library System, news briefs on individual members, a memorial announcement for Beatrice Reed Bailey, highlights of meetings outside of the MLA organization, a listing of job opportunities, a master calendar of MLA meetings and deadlines, and a Legislative Update.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

9. DOT Scene, December 1982, Minnesota Department of Transportation, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Minnesota Department of Transportation
Date Created:
1982-12
Description:
DOT Scene was a newsletter published by the Minnesota Department of Transportation as an official medium of information to correlate the work of its employees throughout the state and to stimulate dedicated and efficient public service in all transportation activities. (1976 - 1987).
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

10. Interview with Rose Godes, United Jewish Fund and Council Oral History Project, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Godes, Rose
Date Created:
1982-11-29
Description:
In this interview, Rose Godes gives her account of her involvement in the Jewish community in St. Paul and some of its history. The interview covers the early history of the Daughters of Abraham, which was closely associated with the work of the Jewish Home for the Aged, and financing various initiatives for assisting the aged. This interview was conducted by Annette Mack as a part of the United Jewish Fund and Council Oral History Project focusing on the West Side Flats/Lower West Side Jewish community in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

11. Interview with Isabel Koski, Ely, Minnesota

Creator:
Koski, Isabel
Date Created:
1982-11-22
Description:
Note: This tape does not begin at the beginning but jumps into the subject mid-sentence. Isabel speaks of being on the school board and the problems faced when the Superintendent was a Catholic and many on the board were Lutherans. She said that a man she had admired and thought most upright and decent remarked when a majority of the board were Lutherans that now they could "get" the superintendent. Women, for the most part, did not run for public office. Their husbands would not like having their wives in the public like that. In thinking it over she was proud that she had run for school board and served her term but wouldn't do it again. Talking about Ely's future (in the 1980s), she saw Ely as stuck with tourism now that the mines were closed. However more restrictions were being placed on tourism as well making it difficult to make a living as a resort-owner, too. In the mid-1950s, drilling companies were busy drilling along Highway 1 for precious metals, gold in particular. Now even those explorations were gone as the government put more restrictions on land usage. She speaks of declining populations citing how whole neighborhoods that once teemed with children now house old, single women. One thing, she said, is that as you get old you don't lie awake thinking of the things you shouldn't have done, but instead you think of the things you should have done. The children suffer, she said, when women try to have it all and their marriages pay the price as well.
Contributing Institution:
Ely-Winton Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

12. Interview with Anna Camaish, Ely, Minnesota

Creator:
Camaish, Anna
Date Created:
1982-11-17
Description:
Interview with Anna Camaish. Anna came to America with her mother in 1914. Her father had left Yugoslavia in 1906. The family came to Biwabik, Minnesota first where the father worked in the Bangor Mine. When it closed he worked in the Biwabik Mine and the Aurora Mine until they too played out. Then the family moved to Ely where he worked in the Pioneer Mine. Anna compares life in Yugoslavia with life in America and while they were poor in both countries, being poor in America was a lot better. People here helped each other. Not so in the old country. In Yugoslavia her mother would work weeding gardens for 15 cents a day and often the family went hungry. In America they had a pig, chickens, a cow, and rabbits. They sold eggs and milk, and raised vegetables. Anna remembers the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919 with all the schools closed. She compares the way women were treated in Yugoslavia to the way they were treated in America where it was the women and children first, not last. Anna met her husband Joe when working at the Chocolate Shop. She was 21 when they married. He was English and her mother felt inferior to him although he always treated her well. The Englishmen had all the top mining jobs.
Contributing Institution:
Ely-Winton Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

13. Interview with Checker Hillman, Ely, Minnesota

Creator:
Hillman, Checker
Date Created:
1982-11-12
Description:
Interview with Checker Hillman. Checker Hillman was born in Two Harbors in 1911. His maternal grandmother was Irish. His maternal grandfather, William LaBeau (LeBeau), was French and he left home in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as a young teenager. Family history claims a relative traveled the Great Lakes in "the big canoes," to Grand Portage and Fort William, possibly a voyageur. William and his wife traveled by wagon from Duluth to Tower, Minnesota where their son, William LaBeau, Jr., was born in 1883 - he was the first white child born north of Duluth. William (Sr.) worked for Bob Whiteside as a driller with a team of several men that traveled by canoe form Tower to the Ely area to explore for ore. William never worked as a miner, but he did work as a fireman, the chief of police in Ely, and a policeman for the Oliver Mine. Checker's father, who worked for the D & IRR, died of an unknown illness when Checker was very young. Checker, his two younger sisters, and his mother went to live with his maternal grandparents. Checker discusses early Ely. There was an influx of immigrants after iron ore was discovered in the Ely area, mostly Finnish and Slovenian with Cornish mine bosses. The adult immigrants segregated themselves, but their children later intermarried. Checker discusses mining. There were no unions in the early days. There were safety issues, i.e. workers wore soft hats, no hard-toed boots. The candles and later carbide lamps provided poor light. Conditions in the mines varied. For example, the Pioneer Mine had many mud slides due to the wet, soft, ground conditions. The Zenith Mine, which had harder ground, didn't have issues with mud slides. Techniques ranged from "drifing and slicing" at the Pioneer Mine to "cave" mining at the Zenith Mine. Augers could be used in softer ground (auger ground) instead of drilling with bits. Checker recounts two fatal accidents in the Zenith Mine. One man was killed when an overhead slab fell on him. Mines were like small communities with teams of men doing various jobs: drillers, tuggers, maintenance, electricians, and so on. Underground miners worked in two-man teams. Checker started working about age 15 or 16 at the Pioneer Mine stock pile for $2.50 for a 10-hour day. Older workers could make $3.50 per day. When he started working in the Xenith Mine in the late 1930s or early 1940s, there was no union. As the union began to organize he was reluctant to join because he had promised an uncle and the mine superintendent, Ben Richards, that he wouldn't. He was pressured by a union organizer, George Kochevar, to join, and did eventually - one of the last to sign up.
Contributing Institution:
Ely-Winton Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

14. Interview with Harry Rosenthal (1897 - ), United Jewish Fund and Council Oral History Project, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Rosenthal, Harry, (1897 - )
Date Created:
1982-11-09
Description:
This interview investigates the life and activity of Harry Rosenthal (1897 - ), leader in the St. Paul, Minnesota Jewish community over a period of several decades. Rosenthal discusses his immigration story from Eastern Europe to New York City and then St. Paul, military activity in World War I, marriage to Rose Calmenson, his business and interest in Zionism. The focus of the interview moves to Young Judea and then the Jewish Education movement in the 1920s and 30s. Rosenthal discusses the establishment and improvement of Jewish schools in St. Paul along with some information about the history of other Jewish community establishments. He recounts his activity with the American Jewish Conference in New York City, the establishment of the state of Israel, and its impact upon the St. Paul Jewish Zionists. The interview concludes with Rosenthal describing the formation of the St. Paul Jewish Community Center and his second marriage. This interview was conducted by Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest volunteer Morris Lapidos for the United Jewish Fund and Council Oral History Project.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

15. Minnesota Weavers Guild newsletter and calendar, November/December 1982, Weavers Guild of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Weavers Guild of Minnesota
Date Created:
1982-11
Description:
The Minnesota Weavers Guild newsletter for November and December of 1982 containing a schedule of upcoming classes and workshops, a letter from the presidents on the guild's 5-year goals, and a community bulletin board.
Contributing Institution:
Weavers Guild of Minnesota
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

16. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, November 1982

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Panzer Morris, Adele (co-editor); Wagner, Mary (co-editor)
Date Created:
1982-11
Description:
Volume 9, number 11 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Newsletter was published in November of 1982. Contents include a summary of an address by Charles R. Hildreth to the Academic and Research Libraries Division on the topic of the user interface for online public access catalogs, highlights of the September MLA Board meeting, a directory of MLA Board members, a listing of the newly elected officers of MLA committees and subunits, reports from the Minnesota Library Trustees Association and the Government Documents Round Table, a Legislative Update, a reprinted article from ALA's Washington Newsletter on the topic of increasing restrictions on access to government information, a call for volunteers to index and abstract information for the online Family Resources Database, a listing of job opportunities, a master calendar of meetings and deadlines, and a listing of calls for awards nominations and research paper proposals.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

17. DOT Scene, November 1982, Minnesota Department of Transportation, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Minnesota Department of Transportation
Date Created:
1982-11
Description:
DOT Scene was a newsletter published by the Minnesota Department of Transportation as an official medium of information to correlate the work of its employees throughout the state and to stimulate dedicated and efficient public service in all transportation activities. (1976 - 1987).
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

18. Charlie Daniels performs at Halenbeck Hall, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Creator:
St. Cloud State University
Date Created:
1982-11
Description:
Close-up of Charlie Daniels performing at Halenbeck Hall. Charlie Daniels is a country music musician who has performed many times at St. Cloud State. Halenbeck Hall was constructed in 1965.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Leo Kottke performs at the Stewart Hall auditorium, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1982-10-29
Description:
Former St. Cloud State student Leo Kottke performs at the Stewart Hall auditorium at St. Cloud State University.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

20. Leo Kottke performs at the Stewart Hall auditorium, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1982-10-29
Description:
Former St. Cloud State student Leo Kottke performs at the Stewart Hall auditorium at St. Cloud State University.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

21. Wheelock Whitney puts on a St. Cloud State jersey, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Creator:
St. Cloud State University
Date Created:
1982-10-27
Description:
Wheelock Whitney, who ran for Minnesota governor in 1982, grew up in St. Cloud. His family owned the Whitney House, which was acquired by St. Cloud State in 1955.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

22. Wrestler Bobby "The Brain" Heenan takes on Steve Olsonoski during a match at Halenbeck Hall, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Creator:
St. Cloud State University
Date Created:
1982-10-26
Description:
Wrestler Bobby "The Brain" Heenan takes on Steve Olsonoski during a match at Halenbeck Hall.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

23. Wrestler Bobby "The Brain" Heenan takes on Steve Olsonoski during a match at Halenbeck Hall, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Creator:
St. Cloud State University
Date Created:
1982-10-26
Description:
Wrestler Bobby "The Brain" Heenan takes on Steve Olsonoski during a match at Halenbeck Hall.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

24. Interview with Brendan McDonald (1930-1994) and LaVerne McDonald (1932-1998 ), St. Cloud State University Oral History Collection, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Creator:
St. Cloud State University
Date Created:
1982-10-18
Description:
In an oral history conducted by St. Cloud State University Professor of History Calvin (Cal) Gower on October 18, 1982, Brendan and LaVerne McDonald described their family history and early education. Born in 1930 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Brendan chronicled his family history, who came to Canada from Ireland shortly before he was born. He discussed reasons for wanting to attend college in America rather than Canada. After graduation from Balfour High School in Regina in 1949, Brendan arrived at St. Cloud State. His wife, LaVerne (Bangston), was born in 1932 in Willmar, Minnesota. After her 1950 high school graduation, she attended St. Cloud State. LaVerne said she wanted to teach because teachers were so in demand at the time. Brendan and LaVerne described experiences at St. Cloud State, from dorm life to the teachers that stood out to them. They claimed that President George Budd was personal with students and very involved with student life. LaVerne discussed life in Lawrence Hall and Shoemaker Hall. They described where most students came from, as well as whether or not students worked while attending school. They remembered the feeling of camaraderie among the students as well as their perceived relationship between the city of St. Cloud and the university. Brendan received his bachelor's degree in physical science and physical education in 1954, then went immediately to the University of Minnesota to get a master's degree in education. Shortly after graduation from the University of Minnesota, his student visa expired, forcing them to return to Canada for a year. The McDonalds chronicled life after graduating from St. Cloud State, including his stint in the university's registrar's office. They mentioned the international events that affected campus life when they attended St. Cloud State. They mentioned the Korean War, which they claimed worried many students, as well as Joe McCarthy's hunt for Communists as somewhat shocking, especially to Brendan, who was used to a more private Canadian government. LaVerne described the idea that the Third World was just starting to open at this time, being the beginning of international students coming to America. That, they believed, helped to change the perspective many Americans possessed for people living in Africa and other parts of the world.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

25. Interview with Irwine Gordon, United Jewish Fund and Council Oral History Project, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Gordon, Irwine
Date Created:
1982-10-10
Description:
In this interview, Irwine Gordon, president of the St. Paul Jewish Community Center in the 1940s, chair of the National Jewish Fund, and board member of the United Jewish fund, gives an account of some of the Jewish community initiatives in the Twin Cities. Additional topics covered in this interview include the Rosenthal family, funding initiatives devoted to Jewish education through a Social Planning Committee, the idea of building a Talmud Torah adjacent to the not yet built Temple of Aaron, the Kaplan Fund, and Jewish Community Cemetery administration. This interview was conducted by Phyllis Saltzman as a part of the United Jewish Fund and Council Oral History Project focusing on the West Side Flats/Lower West Side Jewish community in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories
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