Includes a complete set of surveys and plats of properties in the city of Minneapolis, compiled and drawn from official records and actual surveys by the Minnesota WPA, sponsored by the City of Minneapolis.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual report of financials and list of power plants owned by NSP. Due to the high cost of steam and gas coal, fuel charges absorbed about 21% of gross earnings. Development of a water power plant on the St. Croix River was underway. A ten year plan was announced.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Map of Henry Dean and Walter Badgers proposed addition to Minneapolis: south of Minnehaha Parkway and north of 53rd Street West between Dupont Avenue South and Lyndale Avenue South. This addition replaced Butler's Brookside Addition. Walter Badger was the trustee for the deceased Eunice L. Butler.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual report of financials and list of power plants owned by NSP. High fuel prices continued through the middle of the year and water conditions at the hydro-electric plants were below average, but expected to improve during the coming year.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog advertising farm equipment, tools, and supplies. Includes livestock stalls, windmills, pumps, tanks, pitchforks, and other tools and products.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog featuring firebox boilers. Includes models, components, and dimensions as well as price lists. Also includes illustration of the company's Nicollet Island plant and general offices and East Hennepin plant.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual report of financials and list of power plants owned by NSP. The cost of coal in 1920 absorbed 24.07% of gross earnings. To offset this postwar inflation, NSP raised gas and electric rates. Preliminary work began on an additional 25,000 kilowatt steam turbine at Riverside steam plant.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Map of Minneapolis showing manufacturers of furniture, exterior building material, interior building material, household articles, boxes and crates, radio and phonographs, poles, patterns, games, and caskets.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Map of Minneapolis showing manufacturers of prepared foods, confections, creameries, beverages, bread and baking, coffee etc, stock food, meat, ice, and milling and grain storage.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Map of Minneapolis showing manufacturers of men's clothing, women's clothing, children's clothing, knitted goods, belts and suspenders, bags and sacks, blankets and mattresses etc, and auto tops and awnings.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Map of Minneapolis showing manufactors of newspaper; books and job printing; periodicals, signs; boxes, bags, envelopes; building materials; and blue printing in the 1920s.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Report has the report of the treasurer with all of the company's financial information. Also included is power generation statistics for the various geographical divisions managed by NSP. The Minneapolis Division was supplied by 4 hydroelectric power plants at St. Croix Falls, Coon Rapids, St. Anthony Falls and Wisota. They were supplemented by the Riverside steam station.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated catalog of school supplies including posters, educational games, books, papers, blackboards, desks, maps and globes, playground apparatus, school cabs, purity waterless toilet, Waterbury heating and ventilating system,
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog for Hudson's Rightway Line featuring sprayers, pumps, garden tools, galvanized tanks, tank heaters, feed cookers, feeding troughs, dairy barn equipment, ventilators, and more.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog for boilers and furnaces manufactured by the William Brothers Boiler and Manufacturing Company. Features buildings (schools, stores, apartments, companies) throughout Minneapolis and other cities, and the furnaces with which they are equipped.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog featuring buildings and homes throughout the country that have used Paul J. Kalman Company concrete reinforcement. Minneapolis buildings include Pillsbury Flour Mills Company warehouse and rye Mills, Soo Line Terminal Elevator, Post office building, Minneapolis Art Museum, City Hospital Contagious Ward, Fairview Hospital, Great Northern Station, and the Pillsbury residence among others.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
The Board of Directors of Northern States Power Company
Date Created:
1917
Description:
The report contains a statement to the stockholders of Northern States Power Company focusing on the divisions of Sioux Falls, Grand Forks, Fargo, Minot, Galena, Stillwater, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Mankato, and Faribault serving Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas. The report includes consolidated earnings statement, balance sheets, and lists the names of the officers and directors. A summary of electrical power plant equipment with a map of the territory served by Northern States Power and narrative descriptions of the physical properties is also included.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
From the map: "The location of dominating features of the report are shown, namely, the Main Axes, the Circumferential Rings, the Civic Administrative and Transportation Centers, the River Front, and the Park System. The last named largely exists, as shown by green color; orange represents proposed parks, parkways or playgrounds. The function of the City Plan of Minneapolis is the logical completion of the existing system." This map corresponds with the published book, Plan of Minneapolis, prepared under the direction of the Civic commission, MCMXVII, by Edward H. Bennett, architect, 227 pages, 1917.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
The Board of Directors of Northern States Power Company
Date Created:
1916
Description:
The report contains a statement to the stockholders of Northern States Power Company focusing on the divisions of Sioux Falls, Grand Forks, Fargo, Minot, Galena, Stillwater, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Mankato Faribault serving Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas. The report includes consolidated earnings statement, balance sheets, and lists the names of the officers and directors. A summary of electrical power plant equipment with a map of the territory served by Northern States Power and narrative descriptions of the physical properties is also included.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated catalog featuring homes and buildings fitted with Whitney Windows, producers of casement windows that open out. Minneapolis residences include those of architect W.G. Purcell, Professor E.W. Olmsted, W.B. Chandler, Karl DeLaittre, B.M. Weisberg, and architect C.A. Boehme. Architectural window drawings included.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog featuring a variety of boilers manufactured by the William Brothers Boiler and Manufacturing Company. Includes models and dimensions as well as price lists.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog of toilets and toilet parts produced by the Crane Company, 400 3rd Avenue North, Minneapolis. Features six models: Corsyn, Saneto, Winto, Okolona, Mauretania, and Illini.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Complete set of surveys and plats of properties in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, compiled and drawn from official records and actual surveys, index to additions and sub-divisions included.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library