Announcement of American Library Association Regional Conference for Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska, scheduled October 12-15, 1932 in Des Moines, Iowa. Includes information on meetings, activities, honored guests, and speakers including Gratia Countryman of the Minneapolis Public Library and Frank K. Walter of the University of Minnesota.
Detailed program of the 1932 Five State Conference of the American Library Association (Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri and Nebraska) held in Des Moines, Iowa, October 12-15, 1932. Includes daily meeting programs and activities, lists names of Conference Committee members, Round Table and Selection Chairmen, Local Committee members, and exhibitors. Copy held by Clara F. Baldwin, including several pages of handwritten notes taken at the conference.
Program for the Official Regional Meeting of the American Library Association held in Sioux City, Iowa, October 13-16, 1925, conducted by the State Library Associations of Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Topics include adult education, county libraries, small libraries, and lending department problems. Speakers included Frank Walters, University of Minnesota Librarian and Executive Board Member of the American Library Association.
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.
The Articles of Incorporation for the Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota. The document is stamped as registered with Winona County and the Minnesota Secretary of State.
Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1863-06-13
Description:
The Articles of Incorporation for the Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota. The document is noted as registered with Winona County and the State of Minnesota.
Associated Western Literary Societies, Chicago, Illinois
Date Created:
1867-02-15
Description:
The Associated Western Literary Societies circular noting Wendell Phillips' lecture schedule. Phillips was scheduled to speak in Winona, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Faribault in April of 1867.
Correspondence from R.D. Church, architect of Minneapolis, to Julius A. Schmahl, library board president, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, about replacing wood and fireproofing the stack room in the new library building for $433.00.
Correspondence from Gust Lindquist, contractor of Minneapolis, to R.D. Church, architect of Minneapolis, with a bid to build the new library in Redwood Falls, Minnesota for $9307.00, add $55.00 for red oak flooring on the first floor, add $45.00 for storm sashes for windows, add $18.00 for crosses for doors and windows.
Correspondence from Frank ? of the Hayes-Lucas Lumber Company, to the board of the Carnegie Library in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, with a bid to build the library for $8825.00.
Correspondence from J. Lyman Rood, builder, to Fred L. Warner, Chairman of the library board, with bid to build a new Carnegie Library building in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, to specifications for $9650.00.
Correspondence from John Lohse, contractor, to Fred L. Warner, Chairman of the Redwood Falls Library Board, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, with a bid to build the library according to specifications for $9707.00, plus $222.00 for hot water.
Correspondence from N.P. Fransen and Company, contractors, to the Redwood Falls Library Board, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, with a bid for new library building for $8747.00, with adding hot water $153.00, to fireproof the total would be $9627.00.
Statement from R.D. Church, Architect, to the Redwood Falls Public Library Board for final visit of inspection to accept labor and material in new library building, Redwood Falls Public Library, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, $25.00.
Invoice from Barnes Brothers, Redwood Falls, Minnesota to the Board Of Directors Of The Redwood Falls Public Library, for use of a team, $2.00, Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
Statement from Bingham Brothers, Grain and Coal Merchants in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, to the Redwood Falls Public Library for hard coal and drayage, $2.40.
Invoice from H.N. Bell to the Redwood Falls Public Library board, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, for items purchased on account, curtains ($17.50) and Directors table ($19.00).
Statement from Minneapolis Gas Fixture Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to S.J. Race for standards and balls, $30.00, as ordered by R.D. Church, architect of the new library in Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
Statement from Nellie Stevens to the Redwood Falls Public Library board, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, detailing her labor on cleaning the new library, $12.00 due at a rate of $2.00 a day.
Statement from Nelson Brothers Paving and Construction Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to the Library Board of the Redwood Falls Public Library, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, for work done on sidewalk, steps and border, $81.46.
Statement from R.D. Church, architect, asking for payment from the Redwood Falls Public Library Board, for inspection trip to check the building progress on the library site, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, $20.00.
Invoice from the Redwood Roller Mills to the Redwood Falls Public Library Board for lights, shades and globes, $69.97, used in building the new library, Redwood Falls Public Library, Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
Executive Committee, Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota; Bell, Frederick Somers, 1859-1938; Lees, Edward
Date Created:
1899 - 1905
Description:
The fourth bulletin from the Winona Free Public Library's by-laws, chapter 2, article 3, and chapter 1, article 3. The bulletin details the librarian's duties, as well as the assistant librarian, Miss Black, and the first attendant, Miss Von Rohr. It is signed by the library's Executive Committee, Fred S. Bell, Edward Lees, and Mrs. S. W. Morgan.