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1. Interview with Debra Stone (1952 - ), Urban Exodus: St. Louis Park Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Stone, Debra, (1952 - )
Date Created:
2012-06-22
Description:
In this interview, Debra Stone (1952 - ) begins by giving some family background as it relates to St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota. In doing so, she tells briefly the story of her Communist father in Minnesota and the interesting circumstances which lead to both sides of her family settling in the Twin Cities area. As an African American, she talks of racial integration as it occurred on the North Side of Minneapolis where she grew up, Jewish life, school on the North Side, reasons for moving from the North Side to Saint Louis Park, school experience in Saint Louis Park, and class issues within Jewish society. This interview was conducted by Jeff Norman, oral historian from California. "Urban Exodus: The Saint Louis Park Oral History Project" explores the post-World War II migration of Minneapolis's Jewish community from the city's North Side to the western suburb of Saint Louis Park. The 35 oral history interviews, representing diverse perspectives from within and beyond the Jewish community, tell the complex story of how, from 1945 to 1970, Saint Louis Park became a major center of Jewish life in Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

2. Interview with Father Thomas Borgerding, Part 1, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota

Creator:
Borgerding, Father Thomas
Date Created:
1956-07-10
Description:
Father Thomas Borgerding discusses where he was born; where his parents came from; his family; when and why they came to Minnesota; his first school in Minnesota; the national secularization of public schools; what languages they spoke at school; his years at St. John's University; training for the priesthood; about his order; going to his first parish at Millerville; his abbott appointing him to mission work; first arrival at Red Lake; and their first church building, the nuns who first came to Red Lake; the nuns' first attempt at a day school in 1888; where the Ojibwe families had sugar camps; financial assistance from the Drexel sisters; whether the church owned its land; how they got lumber to build church buildings; the other government school; the role of missionaries in ""civilizing"" Native Americans; changes in school funding over time; the school's dairy farm; and his role at the school.
Contributing Institution:
Beltrami County Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

3. Interview with Euclid "Ernie" Bourgeois, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota

Creator:
Bourgeois, Euclid (Ernie)
Date Created:
1952-06
Description:
Four part interview with surveyor Euclid "Ernie" Bourgeois discusses the logging industry, S.C. Bagley, spur 75, Red Lake steamers, platting and civil engineering, recollections of Farley and Turtle River, histories of local railroads, Markham Hotel, and early Bemidji saloons' involvement with railroads. In part 2, Bourgeois discusses his early memories of Bemidji and Buena Vista, early Bemidji infrastructure, platting and civil engineering, Marcus D. Stoner, the town site of Turtle, and his work on spur 75. In later portions, Bourgeois discusses the evaluation of local land for dairy production and/or clover or seed; logging on Clearwater River; his experience with the Brainerd Lumber Company near LaSalle Lake and log unloading during winter; whether logs were driven on the Mississippi; spreading clover seed on drive to Baudette; name of cruisers for whom creeks might be named; knowledge of surveyor Thomas H. Croswell, plats of small settlements in the area; naming of Buena Vista and plats of Tenstrike, Hidewood, Kelliher, Funkley, and Dexter; the Red Lake Transportation Company; how Bemidji business owners chipped in to induce a railroad to come to town; surveying for a railroad near the Blakeslee farm; breaking out to survey on his own; recollection of the Delphine post office; the Red Lake-Leech Lake trail; early history of Lavinia; platted communities of Jens Opsahl; early history of Grand Forks Bay; and comparing old Nebish to modern Nebish.
Contributing Institution:
Beltrami County Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

4. Interview with John G. Morrison, Jr., Part 6, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota

Creator:
Morrison, Jr., John G.
Date Created:
1950 - 1959
Description:
John G. Morrison, Jr., discusses a canoe trail to Winnipeg; part of a voyageur's travel account, explaining why General Pike mislabeled the source of the Mississippi; his ancestors' voyageur activity; some of his siblings' birthplaces; what Red Lake was like in 1893; a "beau gang" or hobos; how Ponemah got its name; stopping place owner Truman Warren and his wife; the distances between cities and stopping places; the area known as Fowlds; steamboats on Red Lake; the Nelson Act; and the origins of the Red Lake Game Preserve. Morrison then discusses the origins of the Red Lake Game Preserve; A. E. Andrews' model farm north of Waskish and boat service for settlers; ditch liens; how Native American land was settled after the Nelson Act; how timber companies worked together to buy cheaper timber land; Page Morris's effort to move from estimators to bank scales; how lumber companies took advantage of settlers selling timber; Native Americans who had lived around Lake of the Woods; whether the people at Pembina were Ojibwe; the Ojibwe reservations; trust patents; whether Allan Jourdain loaned an old Hudson Bay building to the Catholic school; how they kept a fire burning overnight while hauling freight; logging on the Mud River; the Meehans' logging activities; and Episcopal missionaries. This record contains parts of multiple interviews. Please refer to the transcripts for help understanding these.
Contributing Institution:
Beltrami County Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

5. Collections Tour 2 with John G. Morrison, Jr., Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota

Creator:
Morrison, Jr., John G.
Date Created:
1963
Description:
The recording is John G. Morrison, Jr., providing a tour of a museum in Bemidji, featuring artifacts he donated, probably to members of the Beltrami County Historical Society. On the tour, he describes a violin that belonged to his father; his collection of pipes; Navajo rugs; his grandfather's snuffbox and wallet; an assortment of drums and their purposes; bowls; a shopping bag; a battle flag; baby boards; snowshoes; a model tipi; a gambling game; tools and utensils; buckskin bags to carry food; a flint-lock musket; lacrosse sticks; war clubs; powder horns; a quiver; the knuckle game; sashes; headdresses; a stick detailing the training of a warrior; necklaces; and tobacco pouches. The tour continues as he describes necklaces; ladies' gowns; a beaded sack; a skirt; a doll; a necklace made of human bones; ladies' shopping bags; more beaded sacks; leggings; gloves; a dancing costume; a display of sugar-making equipment; baskets; birchbark floral designs; moccasins; belts; moose hides; sweet grass blankets; grand medicine bags and paraphernalia; and drums of medicine men. This record contains parts of multiple interviews. Please refer to the transcripts for help understanding these.
Contributing Institution:
Beltrami County Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

6. Morrison Collections Tour 1 with John G. Morrison, Jr., Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota

Creator:
Morrison Jr., John G.
Date Created:
1950 - 1957
Description:
The multi-part recording is John G. Morrison, Jr., showing a small group his collections, which were the basis for the original BCHS collections. On the tour, he describes a violin that belonged to his father; his collection of pipes; Navajo rugs; his grandfather's snuffbox and wallet; an assortment of drums and their purposes; bowls; a shopping bag; a battle flag; baby boards; snowshoes; a model tipi; a gambling game; tools and utensils; buckskin bags to carry food; a flint-lock musket; lacrosse sticks; war clubs; powder horns; a quiver; the knuckle game; sashes; headdresses; a stick detailing the training of a warrior; necklaces; and tobacco pouches.He discusses headdresses; water drums; grand medicine; beading; what the Ojibwe used before beads; a doll; dancing regalia; a bead sack; the differences between Sioux and Ojibwe beading designs; how different tribes recognized one another; a battle between the Sioux and Ojibwe; how Red Lake got its name; how the Ojibwe tanned leather; a tobacco sack; a shopping bag; a medicine rattle; a deer tail headdress; and the knuckle game. This record contains parts of multiple interviews. Please refer to the transcripts for help understanding these.
Contributing Institution:
Beltrami County Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

7. Annual Catalogue of the State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota, for the School year ending May 25, 1898, with Annual Announcement for the Year 1898-99

Date Created:
1898
Description:
Publication detailing the purpose of the school, academic calendar, expenses associated with the school, admission requirements, classes offered, graduation requirements, and the model school. In addition, the catalog lists the faculty and students by class for the year. Other information includes campus buildings, equipment, library, student groups, and the alumni association, The State Normal School, founded in 1869, changed names several times: St. Cloud State Teachers College (1921), St. Cloud State College (1957), and St. Cloud State University (1975).
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Catalogs

8. Annual Catalogue of the State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota, for the School year ending June 1, 1888, with Annual Circular for the Year 1888-1889

Creator:
State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota
Date Created:
1888
Description:
Publication detailing the purpose of the school, academic calendar, expenses associated with the school, admission requirements, classes offered, graduation requirements, and the model school. In addition, the catalog lists the faculty and students by class for the year. Other informaion includes campus buildings, equipment, library, student groups, and the alumni association, The State Normal School, founded in 1869, changed names several times: St. Cloud State Teachers College (1921), St. Cloud State College (1957), and St. Cloud State University (1975).
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Catalogs

9. Annual Catalogue of the State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota, for the School year ending June 1, 1892, with Annual Circular for the Year 1892-1893

Creator:
State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota
Date Created:
1892
Description:
Publication detailing the purpose of the school, academic calendar, expenses associated with the school, admission requirements, classes offered, graduation requirements, and the model school. In addition, the catalog lists the faculty and students by class for the year. Other information includes campus buildings, equipment, library, student groups, and the alumni association, The State Normal School, founded in 1869, changed names several times: St. Cloud State Teachers College (1921), St. Cloud State College (1957), and St. Cloud State University (1975).
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Catalogs

10. Annual Catalogue of the State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota, for the School year ending June 1, 1887, with Annual Circular for the Year 1887-1888

Creator:
State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota
Date Created:
1887
Description:
Publication detailing the purpose of the school, academic calendar, expenses associated with the school, admission requirements, classes offered, graduation requirements, and the model school. In addition, the catalog lists the faculty and students by class for the year. Other informaion includes campus buildings, equipment, library, student groups, and the alumni association, The State Normal School, founded in 1869, changed names several times: St. Cloud State Teachers College (1921), St. Cloud State College (1957), and St. Cloud State University (1975).
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Catalogs

11. Annual Catalogue of the State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota, for the School year ending June 1, 1891, with Annual Circular for the Year 1891-1892

Creator:
State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota
Date Created:
1891
Description:
Publication detailing the purpose of the school, academic calendar, expenses associated with the school, admission requirements, classes offered, graduation requirements, and the model school. In addition, the catalog lists the faculty and students by class for the year. Other information includes campus buildings, equipment, library, student groups, and the alumni association, The State Normal School, founded in 1869, changed names several times: St. Cloud State Teachers College (1921), St. Cloud State College (1957), and St. Cloud State University (1975).
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Catalogs

12. Annual Catalogue of the State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota, for the School year ending June 2d, 1886, with Annual Circular for the Year 1886-87

Creator:
State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota
Date Created:
1886
Description:
Publication detailing the purpose of the school, academic calendar, expenses associated with the school, admission requirements, classes offered, graduation requirements, and the model school. In addition, the catalog lists the faculty and students by class for the year. Other informaion includes campus buildings, equipment, library, student groups, and the alumni association, The State Normal School, founded in 1869, changed names several times: St. Cloud State Teachers College (1921), St. Cloud State College (1957), and St. Cloud State University (1975).
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Catalogs

13. Catalogue and Circular of the State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota, 1884-1885

Creator:
State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota
Date Created:
1884
Description:
Publication detailing the purpose of the school, academic calendar, expenses associated with the school, admission requirements, classes offered, graduation requirements, and the model school. In addition, the catalog lists the faculty and students by class for the year, as well as graduates from 1871 and on. Other informaion includes campus buildings, equipment, library, student groups, and the alumni association, The State Normal School, founded in 1869, changed names several times: St. Cloud State Teachers College (1921), St. Cloud State College (1957), and St. Cloud State University (1975).
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Catalogs

14. Annual Catalogue of the State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota, for the School year ending May 22, 1895, with Annual Circular for the Year 1895-96

Creator:
State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota
Date Created:
1895
Description:
Publication detailing the purpose of the school, academic calendar, expenses associated with the school, admission requirements, classes offered, graduation requirements, and the model school. In addition, the catalog lists the faculty and students by class for the year. Other information includes campus buildings, equipment, library, student groups, and the alumni association, The State Normal School, founded in 1869, changed names several times: St. Cloud State Teachers College (1921), St. Cloud State College (1957), and St. Cloud State University (1975).
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Catalogs

15. The Normalia, 1899-05

Creator:
Normal School at St. Cloud
Date Created:
1899-05
Description:
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "Fatigue Test in the Model School, Conducted by the Child-Study class," "Autobiography of Goethe," "Madame Dudevant" and other biographies, "Universal Traits of Childhood Shown in Pierre Loti’s ‘Romance of a Child’," and "A Reminiscence"; "The Great Debate: St. Cloud-Duluth."
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

16. The Normalia, 1899-12

Creator:
Normal School at St. Cloud
Date Created:
1899-12
Description:
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "North-Aryan and South-Aryan," "The Bamboo Christmas Tree," and "The Town that was Sold."
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

17. The Normalia, 1901-03

Creator:
Normal School at St. Cloud
Date Created:
1901-03
Description:
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles in the issue "were selected from papers handed in as regular work of the classes" such as "The Moulton Lecture," "Fruit-Jar Aquariums," as we;; as several papers from training school pupils like "School Hygiene" Also included is a report of the visit of the finance and normal school committees from the state of Minnesota legislature, a report from a visit to campus by the state normal school board, as well as updates from the 1900/01 hockey and basketball teams, including a ‘ladies’ team.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

18. The Normalia, 1901-05

Creator:
Normal School at St. Cloud
Date Created:
1901-05
Description:
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Contents include: "Plan of the New Building" [Old Model School], "The Kindergarten Department," "Additions to the Library," notes from the department of biology and physical laboratory, a description of the schools Pan-American exhibit, as well as a description of images recently acquired by the school – all of art from other areas on earth. Images include of St. Cloud State president George Kleeberger, Senator R.B. Brower, Mississippi River from near Old Main, St. Cloud quarry, and women outside of Lawrence Hall (1885) "taking out-door physical culture."
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

19. The Normalia, 1902-05

Creator:
Normal School at St. Cloud
Date Created:
1902-05
Description:
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "The Cost of Manual Training," "The Purpose of Teaching Geography and Nature Study," "Books for Seventh and Eighth Grades in Geography and Nature Study," "Outline of Mathematics for Seventh and Eighth Grades," "The Recitation," and "Book Lists for Geography."
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

20. The Normalia, 1903-11

Creator:
Normal School at St. Cloud
Date Created:
1903-11
Description:
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "The Story of Lochinvar," "The Mille Lacs Indians," "Why I liked the Book I Read Recently," and "Crossing the Bridge," as well as news from the past football season.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

21. Interview with Don Jurgs, World War II Veteran Collection, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Creator:
Jurgs, Don
Date Created:
1991-04-18
Description:
Donald Jurgs was born on September 16, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. Jurgs was drafted into the Army on March 1, 1942 and served with the 3rd Infantry Division. He was captured by the Germans in 1944 at the Battle of Cisterna in Italy. He was held as a prisoner of war in a various camps throughout Italy and Germany for fifteen months until being liberated. He spent time in large scale prisoner camps as well as working for almost a year in a 50 man work crew in a lumbering camp. Jurgs described aspects of camp life including food, clothing, and survival skills. He also describes the many acts of resistance the prisoners engaged in, the spirit and code among the POWs, interactions with guards and civilians, and the treatment prisoners of different nationalities received. After the war, Jurgs married, attended college to become a teacher, and was a father of three. Jurgs was active in the organization American Ex-Prisoners of War (AXPOW) and worked with the National Prisoner of War museum in Andersonville, Georgia. He died on March 11, 2001, and is buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

22. Interview with E.V. Gene Sundberg, World War II Veteran Collection, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Creator:
Gene, E.V.
Date Created:
1992-10-15
Description:
E.V. "Gene" Sundberg was born on February 2, 1925. A native of Brainerd, he enlisted immediately after high school in the Army Air Corps and trained to become a gunner but eventually became a B-17 pilot stationed in England. Despite flying 23 missions mostly over northern Germany, his crew suffered no wounds and his plane was never severely damaged. However, Sundberg told many stories of planes that were lost, comrades who did not return from missions, and of several near-misses for his crew. Sundberg described the many difficulties involved with a successful mission including flak fire, fighter escorts, the ever changing weather, the dangers involved in flying in tight formation, and flying with dangerous cargo. Sundberg also described base life, including food, dress, discipline, comradery, and specifically how quickly crews from other planes not returning from missions. After the German surrender in May 1945, he flew for the Army Airways Communication System where he was able to celebrate the Japanese surrender in London. He died on July 19, 2001, in Brainerd, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

23. The Normalia, 1893-11

Creator:
Normal School at St. Cloud
Date Created:
1893-11
Description:
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "Bearing of the Special Senses Up on the Work of the Teacher" and "Growth of Freedom in History."
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

24. The Normalia, 1894-05

Creator:
Normal School at St. Cloud
Date Created:
1894-05
Description:
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "The City Superintendent," a synopsis of speech given to the school by Superintendent of Schools in Little Falls, Minnesota, J.L. Thatcher.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

25. Annual Catalogue of the State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota, for the School year ending June 1, 1900, with Annual Announcement for the Year 1900-1901

Date Created:
1900
Description:
Publication detailing the purpose of the school, academic calendar, expenses associated with the school, admission requirements, classes offered, graduation requirements, and the model school. In addition, the catalog lists the faculty and students by class for the year. Other information includes campus buildings, equipment, library, student groups, and the alumni association, The State Normal School, founded in 1869, changed names several times: St. Cloud State Teachers College (1921), St. Cloud State College (1957), and St. Cloud State University (1975).
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Catalogs
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