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1. Wykoff pump house, Wykoff, Minnesota

Creator:
Bue, Mathias O., 1889-1969
Date Created:
1935 - 1943
Description:
Wykoff pump house constructed by the WPA, with men and wagon with horses posed alongside the building.
Contributing Institution:
Fillmore County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

2. Wykoff pump house, Wykoff, Minnesota

Creator:
Bue, Mathias O., 1889-1969
Date Created:
1935 - 1943
Description:
Wykoff pump house constructed by the WPA shown with four men and horse drawn wagon.
Contributing Institution:
Fillmore County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

3. 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)

4. W.P.A. crew removing snow, Virginia, Minnesota

Creator:
Pederson, Bert O., 1874-1959;
Date Created:
1935 - 1936
Description:
Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew conducting snow removal on Ninth Street North.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

5. W.P.A. crew removing snow, Virginia, Minnesota

Creator:
Pederson, Bert O., 1874-1959;
Date Created:
1935 - 1936
Description:
Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew conducting snow removal on Ninth Street North.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

6. W.P.A. crew removing snow, Virginia, Minnesota

Creator:
Pederson, Bert O., 1874-1959;
Date Created:
1935 - 1936
Description:
Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew conducting snow removal on Ninth Street North.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

7. Works Project Administration (WPA) workers, Lincoln County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1935 - 1940
Description:
Work Project Administration (WPA) workers on a construction project. All the work is being done by shovel.
Contributing Institution:
Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. 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)

12. 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)

13. 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)

14. Winona Public Library: Fifty Years of Service, 1899-1949, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1949
Description:
A booklet on the history of the Winona Public Library in its first 50 years of service to the community of Winona, Minnesota. Photographs of William Harris Laird, Fred S. Bell, the library and its patrons are included.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. View of the northeast corner of the Memorial Park wall, Chisholm, Minnesota

Date Created:
1935
Description:
A view of northwest Chisholm from the water tower, looking north over the corner of the wall. Fifth Avenue NW runs north from the wall. In the lower left, a man works in his home garden inside the wall, while laundry hangs out to dry.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Museum of Mining
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Vets Voice, January 25, 1940

Creator:
Civilian Conservation Corps, U.S., Company 1774-V, Bayport, Minnesota
Date Created:
1940-01-25
Description:
Newsletter of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Bayport, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

20. Vets Voice, December 20, 1940

Creator:
Civilian Conservation Corps, U.S., Company 1774-V, Bayport, Minnesota
Date Created:
1940-12-20
Description:
Newsletter of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Bayport, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

21. Vets Voice, April 25, 1941

Creator:
Civilian Conservation Corps, U.S., Company 1774-V, Bayport, Minnesota
Date Created:
1941-04-25
Description:
Newsletter of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Bayport, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

22. The Sullivanite, March 18, 1939

Creator:
Civilian Conservation Corps, U.S., Company 719, Minnesota
Date Created:
1939-03-18
Description:
Newsletter of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Brimson, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

23. The Story of W.P.A. in the Minneapolis Parks, Parkways and Playgrounds, January 1, 1941, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Minneapolis Board of Park Commissioners (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1941-01-01
Description:
This typescript, with photographs pasted in, compiles the activities undertaken in Minneapolis parks in 1940. In addition to the on-going work of grading land, and constructing walls, sidewalks, and curbs, 1940 saw projects related to the rearrangement and expansion of the Minneapolis Municipal Airport. This report includes counts of participants and spectators for athletic teams, arts and craft activities (such as wood craft), clubs (such as model airplane), tournaments (such as checkers), and special events (such as a doll tea party). In the fall of 1933, the United States government inaugurated a program of federal work relief for the unemployed. The purpose of this program was two-fold: to provide work for the unemployed, and to initiate and support useful public projects round the country. The Minneapolis Park Board was included under this program. Beginning under the Civil Works Administration and the Emergency Relief Administration, and continuing under the Works Progress Administration many rehabilitation and improvement projects were undertaken in Minneapolis parks. This report references "Lake Calhoun," a Minneapolis lake now known as Bde Maka Ska, the Dakota language for "White Earth Lake."
Contributing Institution:
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
Type:
Text
Format:
Reports

24. The Story of W.P.A. in the Minneapolis Parks, Parkways and Playgrounds, for the Year 1937, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Minneapolis Board of Park Commissioners (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1937
Description:
This typescript, with photographs pasted in, compiles the activities undertaken in Minneapolis parks in 1937. Sections address Major Improvements, Rehabilitation and Improvements, Horticulture, Recreation, Music, and the Charwoman Project. Recreation activities included general playground work (including athletics, arts and crafts, and games), puppetry, dramatics and recreation training school. In the fall of 1933, the United States government inaugurated a program of federal work relief for the unemployed. The purpose of this program was two-fold: to provide work for the unemployed, and to initiate and support useful public projects round the country. The Minneapolis Park Board was included under this program. Under the Works Progress Administration many rehabilitation and improvement projects were undertaken in Minneapolis parks. This report references "Lake Calhoun," a Minneapolis lake now known as Bde Maka Ska, the Dakota language for "White Earth Lake."
Contributing Institution:
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
Type:
Text
Format:
Reports

25. The Story of W.P.A. in the Minneapolis Parks, Parkways and Playgrounds, for 1939, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Minneapolis Board of Park Commissioners (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1939
Description:
This typescript, with photographs pasted in, compiles the activities undertaken in Minneapolis parks in 1939. Activities in this year included the rehabilitation of Lake Nokomis Park, improvement of recreational areas, and the installation of concrete picnic tables and benches. Each year lists the athletic programs by W.P.A. recreation workers. In 1939 these included hockey and speed skating, diamondball, volleyball and track for both boys and girls, and baseball, football, touch-football and basketball for boys, and horseshoe swimming, and soccer for girls. In the fall of 1933, the United States government inaugurated a program of federal work relief for the unemployed. The purpose of this program was two-fold: to provide work for the unemployed, and to initiate and support useful public projects round the country. The Minneapolis Park Board was included under this program. Beginning under the Civil Works Administration and the Emergency Relief Administration, and continuing under the Works Progress Administration many rehabilitation and improvement projects were undertaken in Minneapolis parks. This report references "Lake Calhoun," a Minneapolis lake now known as Bde Maka Ska, the Dakota language for "White Earth Lake."
Contributing Institution:
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
Type:
Text
Format:
Reports
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