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1. Albert Z. Norton's Civil War pension claim documents, Princeton, Minnesota

Creator:
Comstock, Solomon G., 1842-1933
Date Created:
1889-1890
Description:
A letter, claimant form, and information summary sheet related to Albert Z. Norton's Civil War pension.
Contributing Institution:
Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:
Text
Format:
Government records

2. George E. James' Civil War pension claim documents, Princeton, Minnesota

Creator:
Comstock, Solomon G., 1842-1933; James, George E.
Date Created:
1890
Description:
Letters, an information request slip and summary sheet related to George E. James' Civil War pension claim.
Contributing Institution:
Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:
Text
Format:
Government records

3. Home movie 7, Princeton Minnesota National Guard, 682 Engineers - Company D at Fort Rucker, Alabama

Creator:
Henschel, Charles Henry, (March 26, 1921 - August 10, 1992)
Date Created:
1951
Description:
Before leaving for advanced training for deployment to the Korean War, Charles Henry Henschel was given a 16mm movie camera by Everett A. "Doc" Reynolds the owner of the Princeton Minnesota Strand movie theater. Reynolds asked Henschel to take movies of the Princeton National Guard "boys" in training at Camp Rucker, Alabama. When Reynolds received film from Camp Rucker, he would show it as a "short" in the Princeton theater, before the feature film. This silent film segment depicts the Princeton soldiers at rifle and machine gun ranges, field kitchen meal, paddling boats, swimming, VIP visit, marching on parade ground, building assault training, infiltration, grenade and bazooka training, constructing pontoon to ferry tank, wedding on base and graduation.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Moving Image
Format:
Home Movies

4. Home movie 3, Princeton Minnesota National Guard, 682 Engineers - Company D at Fort Rucker, Alabama

Creator:
Henschel, Charles Henry, (March 26, 1921 - August 10, 1992)
Date Created:
1951
Description:
Before leaving for advanced training for deployment to the Korean War, Charles Henry Henschel was given a 16mm movie camera by Everett A. "Doc" Reynolds the owner of the Princeton Minnesota Strand movie theater. Reynolds asked Henschel to take movies of the Princeton National Guard "boys" in training at Camp Rucker, Alabama. When Reynolds received film from Camp Rucker, he would show it as a "short" in the Princeton theater, before the feature film. This silent film segment depicts the Princeton soldiers marching in formation from the Armory to the train depot escorted by a marching band and scores of citizens. Equipment is loaded on the train. The arrival at Camp Ruckeris followed by unpacking and cleaning of rifles.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Moving Image
Format:
Home Movies

5. Home movie 6, Princeton Minnesota National Guard, 682 Engineers - Company D at Fort Rucker, Alabama

Creator:
Henschel, Charles Henry, (March 26, 1921 - August 10, 1992)
Date Created:
1951
Description:
Before leaving for advanced training for deployment to the Korean War, Charles Henry Henschel was given a 16mm movie camera by Everett A. "Doc" Reynolds the owner of the Princeton Minnesota Strand movie theater. Reynolds asked Henschel to take movies of the Princeton National Guard "boys" in training at Camp Rucker, Alabama. When Reynolds received film from Camp Rucker, he would show it as a "short" in the Princeton theater, before the feature film. This silent film segment depicts the Princeton soldiers erecting and climbing poles, pay day, using bulldozer to build timber bridge, field kitchen meal, basketball, horseshoes, laundry, calesthenics and family visits.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Moving Image
Format:
Home Movies

6. Home movie 5, Princeton Minnesota National Guard, 682 Engineers - Company D at Fort Rucker, Alabama

Creator:
Henschel, Charles Henry, (March 26, 1921 - August 10, 1992)
Date Created:
1951
Description:
Before leaving for advanced training for deployment to the Korean War, Charles Henry Henschel was given a 16mm movie camera by Everett A. "Doc" Reynolds the owner of the Princeton Minnesota Strand movie theater. Reynolds asked Henschel to take movies of the Princeton National Guard "boys" in training at Camp Rucker, Alabama. When Reynolds received film from Camp Rucker, he would show it as a "short" in the Princeton theater, before the feature film. This silent film segment depicts the Princeton soldiers building a pontoon bridge, assemblig a structural steel bridge across a ravine, being addressed in seated formation by VIP, kitchen scenes.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Moving Image
Format:
Home Movies

7. Home movie 1, Princeton Minnesota National Guard, 682 Engineers - Company D at Fort Rucker, Alabama

Creator:
Henschel, Charles Henry, (March 26, 1921 - August 10, 1992)
Date Created:
1951-01-22
Description:
Before leaving for advanced training for deployment to the Korean War, Charles Henry Henschel was given a 16mm movie camera by Everett A. "Doc" Reynolds the owner of the Princeton Minnesota Strand movie theater. Reynolds asked Henschel to take movies of the Princeton National Guard "boys" in training at Camp Rucker, Alabama. When Reynolds received film from Camp Rucker, he would show it as a "short" in the Princeton theater, before the feature film. This silent film segment depicts the Princeton soldiers waiting at the Princeton Great Northern Railway depot prior to departing on the train to Camp Rucker, Alabama.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Moving Image
Format:
Home Movies

8. Home movie 2, Princeton Minnesota National Guard, 682 Engineers - Company D at Fort Rucker, Alabama

Creator:
Henschel, Charles Henry, (March 26, 1921 - August 10, 1992)
Date Created:
1951
Description:
Before leaving for advanced training for deployment to the Korean War, Charles Henry Henschel was given a 16mm movie camera by Everett A. "Doc" Reynolds the owner of the Princeton Minnesota Strand movie theater. Reynolds asked Henschel to take movies of the Princeton National Guard "boys" in training at Camp Rucker, Alabama. When Reynolds received film from Camp Rucker, he would show it as a "short" in the Princeton theater, before the feature film. This silent film segment depicts the Princeton soldiers waiting with their families at the Princeton depot, the arrival of the steam locomotive troop train and loading equipment on the train.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Moving Image
Format:
Home Movies

9. Home movie 4, Princeton Minnesota National Guard, 682 Engineers - Company D at Fort Rucker, Alabama

Creator:
Henschel, Charles Henry, (March 26, 1921 - August 10, 1992)
Date Created:
1951
Description:
Before leaving for advanced training for deployment to the Korean War, Charles Henry Henschel was given a 16mm movie camera by Everett A. "Doc" Reynolds the owner of the Princeton Minnesota Strand movie theater. Reynolds asked Henschel to take movies of the Princeton National Guard "boys" in training at Camp Rucker, Alabama. When Reynolds received film from Camp Rucker, he would show it as a "short" in the Princeton theater, before the feature film. This silent film segment depicts the Princeton soldiers doiong carpentry, peeling potatoes, mail call, chow line, using two man chain saw, jack hammer, digging one man fox hole.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Moving Image
Format:
Home Movies

10. Interview with Albert Wedell, World War II Veterans Collection, St. Cloud State University, Milaca, Minnesota

Creator:
Wedell, Albert, 1911-2000
Date Created:
1990-02-11
Description:
This was an interview conducted on February 11, 1990 by Richard Olson. Albert Wedell was born September 29, 1911 in Milaca, Minnesota. He enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and trained in California. He was assigned to the repair division of the U.S.S. Louisville, on which he served in the Aleutian Islands and the South Pacific. He discussed the armaments of the ship, the conditions aboard, men he met in the crew, and some of the attacks on the ship by Japanese ships and aircraft. While in the Navy, Wedell married Velma Swenson on March 14, 1945, and was honorably discharged on October 27, 1945. After the war, he ran a dairy farm near Milaca for 45 years and served on the Chase Brook School Board, the local telephone and creamery boards, and the county ASCA. Wedell passed away on March 16, 2000 and was buried in Borgholm Cemetery in Bock, Minnesota. He was survived by his wife, two sons, two grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

11. Interview with Donald E. Anderson, World War II Veterans Collection, St. Cloud State University, Milaca, Minnesota

Creator:
Anderson, Donald E., 1922-1999
Date Created:
1990-02-11
Description:
This was an interview conducted on February 11, 1990 by Richard Olsen. Donald E. Anderson was born on April 5, 1922 in Milaca, Minnesota. He joined the National Guard in 1939 at the age of 16. Anderson entered World War II assigned to the 34th Division Field Artillery and spent most of his service in North Africa and Italy. Anderson discussed his frustration with ninety-day wonders. Anderson also experienced taking German prisoners, as well as interacted with civilians in Italy. He was also present when the body of Mussolini was hanging from a building. After being discharged from service in 1945, Anderson opened a restaurant as well as worked as a postal worker. Anderson passed away on August 29, 1999 at the age of 77.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

12. Interview with Keith Trimble, World War II Veterans Collection, St. Cloud State University, Milaca, Minnesota

Creator:
Trimble, Keith, 1915?-1991?
Date Created:
1990-02-18
Description:
This interview was conducted on February 18, 1990 by Richard Olson. Keith Trimble was born in Agenda, Kansas and joined the National Guard at the age of 15 by lying on the enrollment form. He went overseas to France in 1943 and worked with Headquarters Company in France during World War II as counter intelligence. Trimble was shot during combat and was put into a Prisoner of War (POW) hospital. After American forces bombed the hospital, Trimble and other patients made an escape towards the woods nearby. Trimble was also involved in the Battle of the Bulge and earned a bronze star for running communications through combat zones.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

13. Interview with Sherby R. Woods, World War II Veterans Collection, St. Cloud State University, Milaca, Minnesota

Creator:
Woods, Sherby R., 1918-2007
Date Created:
1990-02-18
Description:
This interview was conducted on February 18, 1990 by Richard Olson. Sherby Roy Woods was born August 17, 1918 in Iowa. After moving to Minnesota, he worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps and the lumber industry as a heavy equipment operator in northern Minnesota. Woods was drafted into the Army on October 14, 1941 at the age of 23. During the war, he was attached to Company B, 6th Armored Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division. Discharged as a Technician Fifth Grade, Woods worked in heavy equipment and demolitions during campaigns in North Africa and Italy. Woods shared his opinions of Allied soldiers and Axis Power POWs and what he described as the poor training given to replacement troops. He also described how the war changed the U.S. military, including his improvised invention of a more efficient automatic transmission system for light tanks. After returning to the U.S. in 1945, Woods married Cora Lillian Moe, attended heavy equipment maintenance school on the GI Bill, and began a long series of treatments for a facial injury at the Veterans Administration hospital. He worked on heavy equipment for Milaca County until his retirement. Woods concluded the interview with a discussion of contemporary events such as apartheid in South Africa and stated that embargos are a more effective tool than war. He passed away on January 23, 2007 at the age of 88 and is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Milaca, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

14. Mille Lacs County Courthouse, Milaca, Minnesota

Date Created:
1930
Description:
Exterior view of the Mille Lacs County Courthouse located in Milaca.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Mille Lacs County Courthouse, Princeton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1911
Description:
Interior view of the Mille Lacs County Courthouse in Princeton with Walter Peltier on left and W.C. Doone on right.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. Mille Lacs County Courthouse, Princeton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1911
Description:
Exterior view of the Mille Lacs County Courthouse in Princeton with J. Borden standing and Otto Henschel seated.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. Muster Rolls of 3rd Minnesota Infantry Regiment Company G of the Minnesota National Guard stationed in Princeton, Minnesota

Creator:
Johnson, Alfred H.; Berg, A. A.; Weaver, Carl C.
Date Created:
1917-07 - 1917-08
Description:
Initial and subsequent muster rolls of the 3rd Minnesota Infantry Regiment Company G, detailing the status of each man in the company as reporting for duty, sick, or absent, as well as any transfers. The record also shows a roll of men who were stationed at Camp Cody in Deming, New Mexico.
Contributing Institution:
Military Historical Society of Minnesota
Type:
Text
Format:
Muster Rolls

18. Princeton Centennial Parade 1956, Film 2 of 4, Princeton, Minnesota

Creator:
Teigen, Ingolf Olav
Date Created:
1956-06-02
Description:
Home movie of the 1956 Princeton Centtenial Parade in downtown Princeton, Minnesota. The movie was filmed from a second floor by I.O. Teigen who was a local contractor and community activist.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Moving Image
Format:
Home Movies

19. Princeton Centennial Parade 1956, Film 1 of 4, Princeton, Minnesota

Creator:
Teigen, Ingolf Olav
Date Created:
1956-06-02
Description:
Home movie of the 1956 Princeton Centtenial Parade in downtown Princeton, Minnesota. The movie was filmed from a second floor by I.O. Teigen who was a local contractor and community activist.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Moving Image
Format:
Home Movies

20. Princeton Centennial Parade 1956, Film 4 of 4, Princeton, Minnesota

Creator:
Teigen, Ingolf Olav
Date Created:
1956-06-02
Description:
Home movie of the 1956 Princeton Centtenial Parade in downtown Princeton, Minnesota. The movie was filmed from a second floor by I.O. Teigen who was a local contractor and community activist.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Moving Image
Format:
Home Movies

21. Princeton Centennial Parade 1956, Film 3 of 4, Princeton, Minnesota

Creator:
Teigen, Ingolf Olav
Date Created:
1956-06-02
Description:
Home movie of the 1956 Princeton Centtenial Parade in downtown Princeton, Minnesota. The movie was filmed from a second floor by I.O. Teigen who was a local contractor and community activist.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Moving Image
Format:
Home Movies

22. Representative Axel A. Anderson, 1943-1944 Legislative Session, Minnesota Legislature

Date Created:
1943
Description:
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1943-1948 (District 55); House 1953-1954 (District 55). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=10959
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Studio portraits

23. Representative Axel A. Anderson, 1945-1946 Legislative Session, Minnesota Legislature

Date Created:
1945
Description:
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1943-1948 (District 55); House 1953-1954 (District 55). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=10959
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Studio portraits

24. Representative George Alderink, 1957-1958 Legislative Session, Minnesota Legislature

Date Created:
1957
Description:
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1955-1958 (District 55). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=10872
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Studio portraits

25. Representative George E. Anderson, 1941-1942 Legislative Session, Minnesota Legislature

Date Created:
1941
Description:
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1939-1942 (District 55). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=10967
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Studio portraits
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