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1. Proceedings of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Board of Directors, Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1886-03-27 - 1933-09-08
Description:
The proceedings of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Proceedings

2. Close Brothers & Company Land Contract #2242, F.J. Porter, Rock County, Minnesota

Creator:
Close Brothers & Company, 84 La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois
Date Created:
1890-12-24
Description:
This contract, for a piece of land in Rock County, Minnesota, is between Samuel Haughton Graves of Close Brothers and Company, and F.J. Porter of Nobles County, Minnesota. It is for the southeast quarter of Section 3, Township 104 North, of Range 44 West of the fifth principal meridian. This is in Battle Plain Township, Rock County, Minnesota. The contract involves 160 acres for the sum of $1440 and includes a detail of payments made between December 24, 1890 and paid in full June 3, 1897. 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

3. Close Brothers & Company Land Contract #2480, Joel H. Dunton, Pipestone County, Minnesota

Creator:
Close Brothers & Company, 84 La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois
Date Created:
1891-08-28
Description:
This contract, for a piece of land in Pipestone County, Minnesota, is between S.H. Graves of Close Brothers & Company for South MInnesota Land Company, and Joel H. Dunton of Powesheik County, Iowa. It is for lots 1 & 2 of section 35 in Township 108 North, of range 47 West of the fifth principal meridian. This is in Altona Township, Pipestone County, MInnesota. The contract involves 73.20 acres for the sum of $768.60 and includes a detail of payment made between August 28, 1891 and paid in full April 3, 1899. 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

4. 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

5. "Brown's In Town" theater program, Bijou Opera House, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Bijou Opera House
Date Created:
1898-12-18
Description:
Theater program for a performance at the Bijou Opera House. Program includes advertisements for dozens of local businesses in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Programs

6. Minutes of the Board of Trustees of the Grand Marais Public Library, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Board of Trustees of the Grand Marais Public Library (Grand Marais, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1904 - 1967
Description:
This ledger contains the handwritten minutes of the meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Grand Marais Public Library, in Grand Marais, Minnesota, from the first meeting in December 1904 through September 1967. The establishment and development of the library can be traced through these notes, along with the participation of many prominent community members who considered the library an important asset to their town.
Contributing Institution:
Grand Marais Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Minutes (administrative records)

7. Minutes, State Teachers Colleges Board, January 1925 to July 1938

Creator:
Minnesota State Teachers College Board
Date Created:
1925 - 1938
Description:
Publication detailing the evolution, and expansion of the Minnesota's higher education system in the second quarter of the 1900s. The minutes detail the growth of the state teacher colleges and their campuses, the hiring and the resignations of faculty, staff, and school presidents, finances of the systems and schools, curriculum, and the purchase and expansion of physical campus, including property and buildings, of the St. Cloud State Teachers College, Mankato State Teachers College, Winona State Teachers College, and Moorhead State Teachers College (which would become state universities) and the Duluth State Teachers College (which would become the University of Minnesota-Duluth).
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

8. Northfield City Council Meeting Minutes, January 1929 - December 1940, Northfield, Minnesota

Creator:
City of Northfield, Minnesota
Date Created:
1929 - 1940
Description:
Minutes from the city council meetings in Northfield, Minnesota from January 1, 1929 to December 11, 1940.
Contributing Institution:
Northfield Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Minutes (administrative records)

9. Art Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1929-02-28
Description:
"Mrs. Margaret A. Norton, 1912 Lyndale Avenue South, is pictured coloring slides in the Minneapolis Public Library Art Department. Making and coloring of slides is now part of the library WPA project. WPA workers have made 7,500 slides in recent years. In 1938, the lilbrary circulated 106,729 slides free."
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

10. Park scene on Lake Minnetonka, Mound, Minnesota

Date Created:
1930 - 1940
Description:
In the center of this lakeside picnic area is a barbecue in the shape of a miniature lighthouse in brick, built by WPA in the mid1930s. It is surrounded by cement picnic tables and benches. Mound Pavilion offers coffee, ice cream and candy.
Contributing Institution:
Lake Minnetonka Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

11. Interview with Hugh Cline, Ironton, Minnesota

Creator:
Hugh Cline
Date Created:
1930-05
Description:
Interview with Hugh Cline. He gives a brief personal history, including his work as a barber, and that he was a World War I veteran. 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

12. Interview about Albert Angel, Brainerd, Minnesota

Creator:
Angel, Mrs. Albert
Date Created:
1932-02
Description:
Interview with the wife of Albert Angel. She tells of him immigrating from Wales to Brainerd where he worked in the Northern pacific shops and then started his own business. 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

13. Interview about C. N. Parker, Brainerd, Minnesota

Creator:
Campbell, Ethel
Date Created:
1932-02
Description:
Interview with Ethel Campbell, granddaughter of C. N. Parker. She briefly relates some of her grandfather's personal history, including that he was a very prominent businessman in the early years of Brainerd's existence. 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

14. Interview about Ottmar Cloeter, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Creator:
Cloeter, O.
Date Created:
1933
Description:
Interview with O. Cloeter, son of Ottmar Cloeter. He tells of his father's work as a missionary among the Indians. 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

15. Interview about Sarah Chapman, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Creator:
Spaulding, Belle
Date Created:
1933
Description:
Interview with Belle Spaulding. She gives a very brief history of Sarah Chapman, including how her husband had the first saw mill at old Crow Wing village. 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

16. Interview with John Shull, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Creator:
Shull, John
Date Created:
1933
Description:
Interview with John Shull. He very briefly relates some of his personal history. 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

17. 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)

18. 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)

19. 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)

20. Water tower and rock piles during the construction of Memorial Park, Chisholm, Minnesota

Date Created:
1934
Description:
The ground was cleared of glacial rock deposits near the water tower and two blocks further west. The area was tightly packed with glacial deposits of huge granite boulders. Horse-drawn sleds, or ôstone boatsö were used to haul away the boulders, later used to construct the wall, the amphitheater, the field house, and the castle. The houses in the photo were moved into town.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Museum of Mining
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

21. Civilian Conservation Corps, Scenic Park, Minnesota, Company 1722, Itasca County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1934-02-01
Description:
Young men of Company 1722 of the Civilian Conservation Corps are gathered outside a building built with vertical logs. The men wear coats and boots. Four men in the center are dressed in white and are possibly the camp cooks.
Contributing Institution:
Grant County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Panoramas

22. WPA workers constructing steps, Lanesboro, Minnesota

Creator:
Bue, Mathias O., 1889-1969
Date Created:
1934-02-03
Description:
Crew of Works Progress Administration workers constructing steps to the Lanesboro school from downtown.
Contributing Institution:
Fillmore County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

23. 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

24. Construction of Memorial Park wall, Chisholm, Minnesota

Date Created:
1935
Description:
Men return home after a day building the football field and stands in Memorial Park. About $2.5 million in federal funds employed miners through the WPA (Works Progress Administration), CWA (Civil Works Admin.) and NYA (National Youth Admin.) The baseball diamond and stands in the upper right are complete. Some original houses remain inside the sports complex along the road.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Museum of Mining
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

25. Interview about Levi H. Low, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Creator:
Low, Mrs. Frank; Chadbourne, Marie
Date Created:
1935
Description:
Interview with Mrs. Fred Low and Marie Chadbourne, daughter-in-law and granddaughter, respectfully of Levi H. Low. They briefly relate some of his personal history, including that he was one of the first engineers for the Northern Pacific railroad. 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
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