Streetcar interior advertisement for the LakeSuperior Limited. "Speeding daily betwen the Twin Ports [Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin] and St. Paul - Minneapolis. Northern Pacific."
Variant titles: Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibition of watercolors by Charles John Collins; Exhibition of water colors by Charles John Collins. Title from caption. Includes artist biographical information. Foreword signed C.J.C. Items lent by James McDiarmid, Fletcher Andrews, and C.H. Enderton, all of Winnipeg. 1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages).
Variant title: Work of local artists, October 1922. Title from cover. Prices included with some items. The eighth annual exhibition of the work of Minneapolis and St. Paul Artists will be held at the Minneapolis Institute of Art from September 30 to October 30, 1922"--The eighth annual exhibition of the work of local artists: October 1922 [rules], 1922, page 2. Includes a list of the jury for awards. 16 unnumbered pages; 16 cm.
Variant title: Work of Minneapolis artists, November 3-30, 1917 [catalog]. Title from cover. "The exhibition is under the auspices of the Artists' League of Minneapolis, the Alumni Association of the Minneapolis School of Art, the Attic Club of Minneapolis, the Twin City Keramic Club, and the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts."--Page 2. Prices included with some items. Includes a list of the jury on admission which also served as a Committee on Arrangements. 8 unnumbered pages.
Industrial Exposition Association (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1893
Description:
Catalog from the eighth exhibition organized by the Industrial Exposition Association, Minneapolis. Title from cover. "Other local artists were included among the exhibitors at the Industrial Expositions, and in 1900 the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts began holding its own annual exhibitions of American artists works."--Conforti, Michael, editor. Minnesota 1900: art and life on the Upper Mississippi 1890-1915, 1994, page 98. Advertisements at back (pages 54-55, p. 4 of cover). Prices included with some items; some prices have penciled annotations. Includes names of organizations and individuals that lent items to the exhibition. MIA Library Archives copy missing front and back covers. 52 pages, 3 unnumbered pages: illustrations.
Variant titles: Second International Watercolor Exhibition, April 15-May 21, 1922; Martin A. Ryerson Collection; Desmond FitzGerald Collection. Includes names of organizations and individuals that lent items to the exhibition. "Eighty-five water colors have been selected from the Second International Water Color Exhibition ... and are now on exhibition at the [Minneapolis] Institute [of Arts] ... shown in Gallery C10 on the second floor where they will remain until July 5."--Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Volume XI, number 6 (June 1922), page 47. "It is the purpose of the Art Institute of Chicago to do honor each year to one or two of the great masters of water color painting by a comprehensive showing of their works. In the present exhibition individual rooms have been given to the Martin A. Ryerson Collection of water colors by Winslow Homer, and to the Desmond FitzGerald Collection of water colors by Dodge Macknight."--Page 5. 32 unnumbered pages: illustrations.
Title from cover. "October-November". Includes artist biographical information. Catalog includes entries 22-88. Contents: Minneapolis series; American series; Chicago series; New York series; Pittsburgh series; Panama series; English series; Belgian series; Dutch series; German series; Italian series. 16 pages: illustrations.
Catalog from the fourth exhibition organized by the Industrial Exposition Association, Minneapolis. Catalogue of paintings and casts from the antique, etc., 1889 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition. "Designed & engraved by the Ramsdell Eng. Co., Ches. F. Brisky"--Page 1 and 4 of cover. "Exhibits of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts" (pages 23-30). Prices included with some items. Includes names of organizations and individuals that lent items to the exhibition. "Other local artists were included among the exhibitors at the Industrial Expositions, and in 1900 the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts began holding its own annual exhibitions of American artists' works."--Conforti, Michael, editor. Minnesota 1900: art and life on the Upper Mississippi 1890-1915, 1994, page 98. 30, xxxii pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates: illustrations.
This issue covers the creation of the position of Community Planner, the Research Unit's service to county and municipal highway departments, and uniform highway markings. Minnesota Highways was the official employee newsletter of the Minnesota Department of Highways (1951-1976).
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT Library
1941 Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Conference Proceedings held October 2-4, 1941 at the St. Cloud Institute in St. Cloud, Minnesota with President Florence D. Love presiding. The proceedings include full general session minutes, minutes of section meetings, officer reports and committee reports. Full text of the following addresses are included: "Juvenile Delinquency and the Library" by Ralph H. Rosenberger, Director of Schools of the St. Cloud Reformatory; "The Problem as the Public Librarian Sees It" by Perrie Jones of the St. Paul Public Library; "Reflections of a Farmer--An Ex-Librarian" by Dr. Geza Schutz; "Recent Developments of the W.P.A. Project in the Field of Library Extension" by Lucille Gottry; Dr. Louis Powell of the St. Paul Science Museum speaking on Library-Museum Relations; "Adult Education Through the Small LIbrary" by Katherine Yerza of the Minneapolis Public Library; "Problems We Face in Extending Rural Libraries" by Mrs. Raymond Sayre of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation; "The Status of College Librarians" by Robert W. McEwan; and "Leisure Time Reading for Children" by Inger Boye.
This issue covers the establishment of a mining museum and updates from the districts. Minnesota Highways was the official employee newsletter of the Minnesota Department of Highways (1951-1976).
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT Library
United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce, 42nd Congress, 2nd session
Date Created:
1872
Description:
This 62-page document, from the 42nd Congress, 2nd Session, reproduces letters regarding the digging of the canal that connected the Duluth harbor with LakeSuperior in 1871. The first letter, from William W. Belknap, Secretary of War, describes the process that was followed to dig the canal. Following letters, often exchanged between engineers or politicians and J.J. Egan, city attorney for Duluth, contain a discussion of the legality of the canal being dug as well as a discussion of the building of a dike to keep the waters of the St. Louis River from flowing through the canal and filling the Superior, Wisconsin, entry with silt. (United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce, 42nd Congress, 2nd session, no. 60 Senate Executive Document.)
This book contains information on hunting, fishing, and other recreational activities in northern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. It also includes railway and steamship timetables, a brief directory of local businesses and public buildings in Duluth and Superior, resorts and picnic grounds in Duluth and Superior, social clubs, points of interest to visit, and many interesting advertisements.
Macalester College Contributions: Department of History, Literature and Political Science are a series of articles on varying American and European historical topics written by Edward Duffield Neill between the years 1889 and 1892. Number six of the first series consists of the article, "The Notice of a Rare Washington Portrait; also, Description of Some Copper Relics, of the T.H. Louis Collection, in Macalester Museum of History and Archaeology."
Large fold-out brochure promoting tours of Lake Minnetonka and Big Island Park via the streetcar company's streetcars and boats, with photos, drawings, maps and text.
Booklet shows the Superior National Forest and includes a map of Superior National Forest with locations of boundaries, roads, canoe routes, ranger stations, lookout towers, campgrounds, fish hatcheries, points of historic and scenic interest.
Large fold-out brochure promoting tours of Lake Minnetonka and Big Island Park via the streetcar company's streetcars and boats, with photos, drawings, maps and text.
This book of one folded sheet with ten plates that provide small drawings of Duluth buildings, including offices, factories, schools, churches, and residences. Images include the Masonic Temple Opera House, the Woodbridge Building, the Incline Railway, the Lyceum Theater, the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, and homes of G.C. Hartley, A.T. Crosley, Charles D'Autremont, and E.C. Gridley.