Printed pass for entrance to a Huntley's Famous Pictures. "This credential has been extended as a personal courtesy and will be turned down if presented by any other party than the individual named above. This may be reserved at the seat sale before 6 pm. Will not be reserved at the door. Ben Huntley Sole owner Huntley's Famous Pictures."
Ticket number 1008 admitted one person to Soldiers Field in Rochester, Minnesota to view the preparations and balloon flight of Dr. Jean Piccard. Originally scheduled for sometime in June, the flight was delayed until July 17 - 18, 1937 when optimum weather conditions permitted a safe flight. Dr. Jean Piccard was a University of Minnesota physicist and aeronautical engineer who believed it was possible to ascend into the stratosphere using many small cluster balloons rather than one large balloon. The experimental flight was sponsored by the Rochester Kiwanis Club and supported by local residents and students.
Ticket for the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, starting June 7, 1892. This specific ticket is for entry on Day 5 of the convention, Session 2, and for Balcony Section A, Seat No. 93. It features images of an eagle and Minnehaha Falls, and includes the detached stub.
A hospital insurance ticket from 1895 for St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth. These tickets were sold to lumbermen in northern Minnesota by sisters such as Sister Amata Mackett, who travelled to their camps and performed other home-y duties for the lumberjacks as well as selling tickets.
St. Mary's Hospital early insurance ticket. From 1892 until 1913, the Duluth Benedictine sisters sold an early form of hospital insurance in the form of "lumberjack tickets" which for a fee of from $1 to $5 (and later more), entitled the holder to admission to any of the Benedictine hospitals in Minnesota. This side of the ticket describes conditions under which the ticket cannot be used.
ICOR (the acronym of the Yiddish translation of Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union) was an American-based organization advocating and financially supporting Jewish colonization in Eastern Russia. The area known as Biro-Bidjan was to be a haven for eastern European Jews fleeing persecution, and an alternative to a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Stalin declared that Biro-Bidjan, a cold and thoroughly inhospitable territory far from roads and other infrastructure, was the solution to Russia's "Jewish Problem." Approximately a decade and a half after the initial colonizing push in the mid-1920s, Biro-Bidjan ceased to exist as a functioning political entity. Many of the original settlers left or died; of those that remained, most disappeared into Stalin's gulags. Minnesota support for the colonies was intermittent, and came primarily from leftist working class Jews.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
The Pioneer Women's Organization raised funds for Palestinian settlement. The organization was affiliated with the international Labor-Zionist Movement, which took a "grass-roots" approach to creating a Jewish homeland by encouraging working class Jews to immigrate to Palestine.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Keyes, D. W.; Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1867-01 - 1867-05
Description:
A season ticket to the Young Men's Library Association Course of Lectures, from January 1 to May 1, 1867, in Winona, Minnesota. The ticket admits one lady and gentleman. Featured speakers include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Professor Edward Youmans, Theodore Tilton, General Henry H. Sibley, Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, and Petroleum V. Nasby.
Ten Cent ticket for a performance of the Huntley Pictorial Monarchs One Big 2 hour Performance Anybody any seat. One Elaborate Picture Show. Six nights Monday June 6th. (Note: The original is not available to the public.)
Ten cent ticket for a performance of the Huntley Pictorial Monarchs One Big 2 hour Performance Anybody any seat. One Elaborate Picture Show. Six nights Monday June 6th. (Note: The original is not available to the public.)