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26. Westport Public school, Westport Township, Minnesota

Date Created:
1941
Description:
Exterior view of the Westport Public school in winter.
Contributing Institution:
Pope County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

27. Works Progress Administration employees building sidewalks, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1938
Description:
WPA building sidewalks; photo taken at the corner of present day Wisconsin St. and First Ave. West in Grand Marais, MN. Men are leveling cement. Notice the posters on pole are for Elmer Benson, would-be 24th Minnesota state governor, and a dance at the Edgewater Inn in Tofte, MN.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

28. Works Progress Administration workers building sidewalks, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1933 - 1942
Description:
WPA workers building sidewalks in front of the Grand Marais Ice Cream Store with the Grand Marais State Bank shown in the background. Highway 61 is visible coming into Grand Marais, MN. Workers are pushing wheelbarrows and line today's Wisconsin Street.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

29. Works Progress Administration workers building the break wall at the harbor, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1937
Description:
WPA workers building the break wall at Grand Marais harbor. Men shown filling structure with rocks. Notice fish houses lining the Grand Marais harbor.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

30. Works Progress Administration workers, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1933 - 1942
Description:
WPA workers in Grand Marais, MN, working on a playground at the school. Image shows five men with wheelbarrows and shovels.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

31. Works Progress Administration workers, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1933 - 1942
Description:
WPA workers in Grand Marais working on a street light. The WPA worked on important infastructure projects in Grand Marais including the public sewage plant.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

32. Civil Works Administration project, building an airport, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Date Created:
1934-03-03
Description:
Image of automobiles in a cleared area that was to become original airport in Grand Marais on the location of the present day high school.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

33. Story written by Rudy Billberg about the Works Progress Administration read on "A Look Back in Time" radio program, Roseau, Minnesota

Creator:
Olson, Irene
Date Created:
2002-02-03
Description:
This Sound Clip highlights the WPA and all the good that came out of this program. The Roseau County Historical Society prepared this radio script to share county history through broadcasts on KJ102 FM in Roseau. The topics highlight the history of Roseau County and the people that lived there.
Contributing Institution:
Roseau County Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Radio programs

34. Works Progress Administration working on sidewalks, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1936
Description:
WPA working on sidewalks in Grand Marais, MN, on North Broadway Street. Men shown from left to right are Lyle Roberts, John Lief, Ole Kreutzer, Jens Erickson, Henry Lindskog, Clarence Thompson.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

35. Story of John and Clara Morehouse written by Ray Geroy in the Sandridge Settlers on "A Look Back in Time" radio program, Roseau, Minnesota

Creator:
Olson, Irene
Date Created:
2002-12
Description:
This sound clip highlights the lives of John and Clara Morehouse who were one of the Sandridge Settler families. The Roseau County Historical Society prepared this radio script to share county history through broadcasts on KJ102 FM in Roseau. The topics highlight the history of Roseau County and the people that lived there.
Contributing Institution:
Roseau County Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Radio programs

36. Harold Lian Family history read from the book 'Defining Events - Twenty-Three Years That Shaped My Life' by Harold Lian on "A Look Back in Time" radio program, Roseau, Minnesota in 6 parts.

Creator:
Olson, Irene
Date Created:
1999-07 - 1999-08
Description:
This sound clip highlights the history of the Harold Lian family immigrating from Norway and life in America the first 23 years. The Roseau County Historical Society prepared this radio script to share county history through broadcasts on KJ102 FM in Roseau. The topics highlight the history of Roseau County and the people that lived there.
Contributing Institution:
Roseau County Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Radio programs

37. Story of Gust Nyquist, an amazing entrepreneur with only 3 years of formal education read on "A Look Back in Time" radio program, Roseau, Minnesota

Creator:
Olson, Irene
Date Created:
2005-06
Description:
This sound clip highlights Gust Nyquist, an amazing entrepreneur with only 3 years of formal education. The Roseau County Historical Society prepared this radio script to share county history through broadcasts on KJ102 FM in Roseau. The topics highlight the history of Roseau County and the people that lived there.
Contributing Institution:
Roseau County Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Radio programs

38. Interview with Harold Nelson, Ely, Minnesota

Creator:
Nelson, Harold
Date Created:
1982 - 1983
Description:
Interview with Harold Nelson. Harold volunteered for the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) during the Great Depression. He was stationed in Isabella and decided to stay there after his tour was done. The CCC men were paid $30 a month but $25 was sent to their families. When the CCC camps shut down he was left with out work but managed to get some work with the AAWPS and then worked for the Evergreen Mine for three years. When it closed he worked for the Zenith Mine and then the Sibley Mine where he stayed until World War II ended. Eventually he was hired at the Pioneer Mine where he worked for 20 years until he retired.
Contributing Institution:
Ely-Winton Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

39. Pee Wee Press, March 7, 1939

Creator:
Civilian Conservation Corps, U.S., Company 707, Deer River, Minnesota
Date Created:
1939-03-07
Description:
Newsletter of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Deer River, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

40. Interview with Mr. Covel, Douglas County, Minnesota

Creator:
Covel, Mr.
Date Created:
1982
Description:
Interview with Mr. Covel. His parents were Sydney and Florence Steele Covel. His father worked in the Hudson Cheese Factory and his mother worked as a housekeeper for the owners of the Cheese Factory. His paternal grandparents homesteaded on Union Lake.
Contributing Institution:
Douglas County Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

41. Interivew with Marie Ehrenberg, Whitewater State Park Oral History Project, St. Charles, Minnesota

Creator:
Ehrenberg, Marie
Date Created:
2019-10-03
Description:
Marie Ehrenberg was living in hospice care in St. Charles and her last wish was to visit Whitewater State Park. She shares about growing up on a farm in the area and her memories of spending time at the park with her father. The Whitewater State Park Oral History project began in 2017 to commemorate the Centennial Anniversary of the State Park.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

42. 1941 Minnesota Library Association annual conference program, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association
Date Created:
1941
Description:
Program for the 49th Annual Conference of the Minnesota Library Association held in St. Cloud, Minnesota on October 2-4, 1941. The program includes a list of the Minnesota Library Association officers, a conference schedule of events and a list of exhibitors.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Programs

43. 1940 Minnesota Library Association annual conference secretary's report, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Havens, Rella E.
Date Created:
1940
Description:
Report of the 48th Annual Conference of the Minnesota Library Association written by Secretary Rella E. Havens. The conference took place at the Hotel St. Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota on October 20-23, 1940.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Minutes (administrative records)

44. Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look In All Directions, Interview with Jim Clark, Hinckley, Minnesota

Creator:
Clark, Jim, 1918-2008
Date Created:
1999-03
Description:
Mille Lacs Ojibwe elder Naawigiizis (Jim Clark) is speaking Ojibwe, his first language, in an interview for a television documentary on the history and culture of Lake Superior Anishinaabe. He worked for Fairview Hospital in Minneapolis from 1953, in purchasing and into a warehouse firm distributing to hospitals. Mr. Clark states about the Spirit: I wonder if he will listen to us when we are speaking a different language, when we use the white man's language.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth Kathryn A. Martin Library, University Archives
Type:
Moving Image
Format:
Oral histories

45. Interview with Art Johnson, Douglas County, Minnesota

Creator:
Johnson, Art
Date Created:
1978-02-18
Description:
Interview with Art Johnson. Art was a banker in Almora at the Miltona State Bank during the Great Depression in 1932. He recalls his memories of bank activities, including a discussion of Rural Credit and 'barnyard' loans. Art bought a farm with milk cows and delivered dairy product to Tip Top Cove, Evergreen, Whitmore's along Lake Miltona. Art discusses the New Deal and the WPA. He was a member of the American Lutheran Church, which was organized in 1921. The church was built in 1923. Art's father immigrated from Sturup, Sweden in 1890. He mentions Knute Nelson of Garfield, Minnesota who made the first potato chips in his kitchen, which he then sold and delivered.
Contributing Institution:
Douglas County Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

46. Oral history with Louis Kunkel and Simon Hellermann, Melrose, Minnesota

Creator:
Paschke, Jean; Melrose Area Historical Society
Date Created:
1989-01-17 - 1989-02-13
Description:
Louis Kunkel and Simon Hellermann relate the history of the Credit Union in Melrose.
Contributing Institution:
Melrose Area Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

47. Interview with Mary E. Allen, Crosslake, Minnesota

Creator:
Allen, Mary E.
Date Created:
1936-04
Description:
Interview with Mary E. Allen. She tells of coming to Minnesota with oxen and covered wagons and her husband's involvement with the logging industry. This interview is part of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Crow Wing County during the years 1936-1939. This outreach effort sought to record personal accounts of the lives of early Crow Wing County pioneers and settlers.
Contributing Institution:
Crow Wing County Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Oral histories

48. Close Brothers & Company Land Contract #2686, L.W. Hatter, Pipestone County, Minnesota

Creator:
Close Brothers & Company, 84 La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois
Date Created:
1892-08-30
Description:
This contract, for a piece of land in Pipestone County, Minnesota, is between Samuel Haughton Graves of Close Brothers & Company, and L.W. Hatter of Iowa County, Iowa. It is for the southeast quarter of Section 31, Township 108 North, of Range 46 West of the fifth principal meridian. This is in Altona Township, Pipestone County, Minnesota. The contract involves 160 acres for the sum of $1760 and includes a detail of payment made between August 30, 1892 and cancellation in March 1895. The Close Brothers & Company, composed of William Close, James Close, John Close, Frederick Close and S.H. Graves, organized in 1876 and located in Pipestone in 1883. They also operated under business names Western Land Company and the South Minnesota Land Company.
Contributing Institution:
Pipestone County Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Contracts

49. Interview with Frank Gutz, Crow Wing County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Pequot Lakes, Minnesota

Creator:
Gutz, Frank
Date Created:
1975-04-27
Description:
In an oral history, Frank Gutz talks about moving to Pequot Lakes after his wife died during the flu epidemic of 1918 to keep his children from going into an orphanage. He also discusses what Peqout lakes was like during the 1920s and the Depression, his work as a painter, rationing during World War II, and various other things.
Contributing Institution:
Crow Wing County Historical Society
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

50. Letter from Sinclair Lewis to Marcella Powers, June 24, 1944, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951
Date Created:
1944-06-24
Description:
Letter written from Duluth, Minnesota, regarding a boat trip taken by Lewis on Lake Superior.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University Archives
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)
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