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Ruth Thompson Minnesota Memories Newspaper Columns

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0044

Description of Contents

Collection consists of two boxes of Ms. Thompson's column, "Minnesota Memories," that was published in the Minneapolis Tribune from 1945-1950. The columns are organized in chronological order in one box and partially indexed. The second box contains a scrapbook of the column.

Dates

  • 1945 - 1950

Creator

Access Restrictions

The collection is available for use in Special Collections during the department's open hours.

Biography

Local historian and librarian Ruth Thompson spent her life uncovering and preserving the local history of Minneapolis. She was the first student at the University of Minnesota to receive a master's degree for a thesis on Minnesota history. She graduated in 1912. In 1919, Thompson joined the art department staff at Minneapolis Public Library. In 1938, she was named the first secretary of the Hennepin County Historical Society.

In 1940, Thompson was put in charge of the newly formed Minneapolis Historical Collection at the Minneapolis library. After her retirement from the library in 1946, she started to write a weekly column for the Minneapolis Tribune called "Minnesota Memories". The column ran from January 1, 1945 to October 9, 1950. Ruth Thompson died on October 20, 1950.

Extent

0.67 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials in Hennepin County Library Special Collections

In the Minneapolis Collection, Special Collections: Thompson, Ruth. Twin towns at the falls of St. Anthony. [Minneapolis?] : Colwell Press, 1926. 977.65 T47

There are also biography files for Ruth Thompson in the Minneapolis Collection.

In the Minneapolis Athenaeum, North American Indians Collection: Thompson, Ruth. Sioux treaties at Traverse des Sioux and Mendota in 1851 and their outcome. Published 1912. [158] leaves ; 29 cm. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Minnesota, 1912. 970.4 T47

Index to Minnesota Memories Column

Abbott, Emma
February 4, 1946
Academy of Music
June 3, 1946
Agricultural Societies
April 23, 1945
Ames, A. E.
January 29, 1945
Anderson, Joseph and Mary Jane
October 15, 1945, October 22, 1945
Apostle Islands
August 11, 1947
Arctander, Hon. John W.
May 13, 1946
Old Kenwood Armory
January 20, 1947, January 27, 1947
Art and Artists
June 2, 1947, April 29, 1946, June 24, 1946, June17, 1947
Artists Course
January 27, 1947
Automobile Tour
June 18, 1945
Balloon Ascents
April 16, 1945
Bayfield, Wisconson
July 21, 1947
Bicycling
April 21, 1947
Birch Bluff, Minnetonka
November 11, 1946
Bishop, Harriet E.
March 24, 1947
Bohemian Flats
July 22, 1946
Bottineau, Pierre
April 7, 1947
Bradstreet, John S.
June 10, 1946
Brake, Hezekiah
October 1, 1945
Branham, J. V.
August 12, 1946
Bremer, Frederika
August 20, 1945
Brooklyn Center
January 6, 1947
Brown, Earle
January 6, 1947
Brown, Joseph R.
May 28, 1945
Bull, Ole
May 13, 1946, March 4, 1946
Bushnell, Dr. John E.
August 18, 1947
Butler, Eloise
May 6, 1946
Cadotte, Michael
August 11, 1947
Cataract House
September 23, 1946, December 23, 1946
Catlin, George
June 2, 1947
Chequamegon Bay
August 11, 1947
Christmas, Charles W.
September 16, 1946
Christmas
December 23, 1946, December 24, 1945, December 22, 1947
Christmas Lake
September 16, 1946
Christmas Tree
December 24, 1945
Church - St. Anthony of Padua
April 7, 1947
Church Convention
December 17, 1945
Church of the Redeemer
July 14, 1947
Clark, Edwin
December 23, 1946
Cleveland, H. W. S.
April 29, 1946
Conwell, Russell H.
November 10, 1947
Courts
December 15, 1947
Crippled Children
May 12, 1947
Dan Patch
August 19, 1946
Dan Patch Line
August 19, 1946
Daniels, Dr. Asa
September 2, 1946
Directory, 1859-1860
January 15, 1945
Early Doctors
May 14, 1945, August 4, 1947, September 2, 1946, January 29, 1945, Febuary 17, 1947, April 15, 1946, September 15, 1947
Donnelly, Ignatius
October 29, 1945
Dorr, Caleb D.
April 28, 1947
Dowling, Michael
May 12, 1947
Dowling
May 5, 1947, May 12, 1947
Duluth
April 9, 1945
Easter Observances
March 26, 1945
Eden Prairie
November 24, 1947
Eggleston, Edward
December 3, 1945
Elk River
September 22, 1947
Elks Club
July 1, 1946
Eloise Butler
May 6, 1946
Emma Abbott English Opera Company
Febuary 4, 1946
Emma Abbott Park
Febuary 4, 1946
Equity Co-operative Exchange
September 1, 1947
Eustis, William
May 5, 1947, June 9, 1947
Excelsior
October 1, 1945, October 20, 1947
Exposition Building
October 8, 1945, October 20, 1947
Fairs, Festivals, etc.
April 23, 1945, October 20, 1946, August 13, 1945
Falk, Major Edward G.
April 21, 1947
Father of Waters
September 8, 1947
Ferry, first over Mississippi
April 14, 1947
Fish
April 28,1947
Fjelde, Jakob and Pauline, Artists
June 24, 1946
Flag - First U.S. Flag in Minneapolis
July 8, 1946
Flandrau, Charles E.
December 31, 1945
Folwell, William Watts
June 23, 1947
Food of the 1850s
October 28, 1946
Football - in early days at University
October 28, 1946
Fort St. Charles
April 1, 1946
Fort Snelling
September 9, 1946
Fourth of July
July 8, 1946, July 2, 1945, July 1, 1946
GAR of Minnesota
June 23, 1947
GOP National Convention, 1892
December 9, 1946
Galpin, Charles and Galpin, George
October 1, 1945
Gardens in the 1850s
April 23, 1945
Garfield, James A.
April 30, 1945
Gethsemane Church
December 17, 1945
Gideon, Peter, and Family
November 11, 1946, July 30th 1945
Glencoe
October 21, 1946
Gobelin Tapestry
June 24, 1946
Godfrey, Harriet and Godfrey family
August 4, 1947, December 8, 1947, July 8, 1946
Grand Opera House
June 10, 1946
range oranizations
September 30, 1946
Grimes Family
November 3, 1947
Guaranty Loan Building
September 30th 1946
Halloween
November 5, 1945
Hall, Dr. P. M.
Febuary 17, 1947
Hamilton, Gail
May 20, 1946
Hankinson, Richard H.
March 25, 1946
Hennepin, Louis
July 9, 1945
Hennepin Avenue
July 16, 1945
Hiawatha, Statue
June 24, 1946
Hill, James J.
March 17, 1947
Hinckley Family
December 30, 1946, January 13, 1947
Homer, Louise
May 26, 1947
Horses: Horse Driven Vehicles
Feburary 24, 1947
Hospitals
Feburary 24, 1947
Hughes, Thomas A.
June 30, 1947
Humphrey, John A.
September 2, 1946
Hunting
September 24, 1945
Hutchinson
October 21, 1946
Hutchinson Family
October 21, 1946
Hutchinson Massacre
August 12, 1946
Ice Palace - 1886
Febuary 18, 1946
Indian Legends
June 2, 1947, July 7, 1947
Indians
January 14, 1946, July 23, 1945
International Falls
December 30, 1946
Izaak Walton League of America
April 28, 1947
Jones, Robert
March 18, 1946
Juell, Dr. Nils
May 12, 1947
Jury Trial, First in Henn. county
December 15, 1947
Kelley, Oliver Hudson
September 22, 1947
Kindergarten School
June 16, 1947
King, Col. William S.
November 18, 1946, December 2, 1946
King's Highway
November 18, 1946
Kingsley, Dr. Ira
August 4, 1947
Koehler, Robert
June 17, 1946
Koochiching
December 30, 1946, January 13, 1947
Lake Harriet and Pavilions
November 18, 1946, November 25, 1946
Lake Minnetonka
April 2, 1945, November 11, 1946, October 1, 1945, October 20, 1947, July 28, 1947
Lake Street
April 21, 1947
Lawyers
December 15, 1947, September 1, 1947, November 12, 1945
Levenworth, Lt. Col. Henry
September 9, 1946
Lectures
Febuary 5, 1945
Lincoln, Abraham
Febuary 12, 1945, April 30, 1945, Febuary 11, 1946, Febuary 10, 1947
Lindsay, Mrs. Effie Grout
December 22, 1947
Little Crow, Chief
August 12, 1946, September 2, 1946
Littlefork
January 13, 1947
Loftus, George
September 1, 1947
Longfellow Branch Library
March 18, 1946
Longfellow Gardens
March 18, 1946
Lowry, Tom and Lowry Memorial
March 19, 1945
Lyceum
Febuary 5, 1945
Lyndale Farmstead
December 2, 1946
McKinley, Wm
April 30, 1945
Madeline Island
August 11, 1947
Manahan, James
September 1, 1947
Mann, John W.
November 11, 1946
Martin, Capt. John
January 6, 1947
Massacre Island
April 1, 1946
Mattson, Hans
September 17, 1945
Maxwell, Mrs. Delilah
July 28, 1947
Maxwell's Bay
July 28, 1947
Meeker, Judge Bradley B.
December 15, 1947
Mendelssohn Additon
Febuary 4, 1946
Merger of Minneapolis and St. Anthony
Febuary 26, 1945
Metropolitan Life Building
September 30, 1946
Mill Explosion - 1878
May 27, 1946
Minneapolis, choosing of name
Febuary 26, 1945
Minneapolis, incorporation of
Febuary 26, 1945
Minneapolis Athenaeum
April 15, 1946, September 15, 1947, October 6, 1947
Minneapolis Public Library
May 7, 1945, September 15, 1947, October 6, 1947
Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, and Dubuque Electric Company
August 19, 1946
Minneapolis School of Art
June 17, 1947
Minnesota
August 27, 1951
Minnesota College Hospital
Febuary 24, 1947
Minnesota Territory
March 3, 1947
Missionaries
August 11, 1947, June 4, 1945, March 11, 1946, July 9, 1945
Morrill, Rev. Gulian Lansing
April 8, 1946
Morris, Frank
December 10, 1945
Murphy, Dr. John H.
August 4, 1947
Murphy Square
March 10, 1947
Music and Musicians
January 27, 1946, March 4, 1946, May 26, 1947, March 5, 1945, Febuary 4, 1946, December 10, 1945, June 3, 1946
Neill, Dr. Edward Duffield
Febuary 5, 1945
New Year's Eve and New Years Day
December 31, 1945, January 1, 1945
New Year's Greetings
December 29, 1947
Newspapers
May 21, 1945, Feburary 19, 1945, November 10, 1947
Nicollet House
September 23, 1946
Nininger
October 29, 1945
North American Telegraph Co.
June 9, 1947
Northwest Angle
April 1, 1947
Nursery
November 3, 1947
Old Mission Inn
August 11, 1947
Osseo
April 7, 1947
Parker, Guy C.
January 13, 1947
Parks and Parkways
April 29, 1946, March 10, 1947, December 1, 1947
Pence Opera House
March 4, 1946
People's Church
April 8, 1946
Percival, Frank G.
September 30, 1946
Pettijohn, Eli
October 14, 1946
Pipestone Quarry
June 2, 1947
Plymouth Congregational Church
October 13, 1947
Pond Family
June 4, 1945
Preachers, early
October 1, 1945, April 8, 1946, July 14, 1947, August 18, 1947, October 13, 1947, October 20, 1947
Prescott, Philander
August 5, 1946
Pullman Company
September 1, 1947
Radisson and Groseilliers
August 11, 1947
Railroads
August 19, 1946, March 17, 1947, September 15, 1947, March 31, 1947
Railroads - excursion of 1854
March 31, 1947
Rainy Lake City
December 30, 1946
Ramsey, Alexander
March 3, 1947
Red River Carts
May 19, 1947
Reeve, Gen. Charles
September 29, 1947
Renville, Joseph
November 4, 1946
Rice, Henry Mower, "founder of St. Paul"
July 21, 1947
Rollins, Capt. John
November 4, 1946
St. Albans Bay
October 20, 1947
St. Anthony, incorporation of
Febuary 26, 1945
St. Anthony Express
Febuary 19, 1945
St. Anthony Falls
July 29, 1946
St. Paul
April 9, 1945
St. Peter
December 3, 1945
Sample, Rev. Robert F.
August 18, 1947
Savage, M. W.
August 19, 1946
Schools - beginning of public schools system
January 28, 1946
Schools - early
January 21, 1946, December 10, 1945, June 16, 1947
Shakopee, Chief
June 30, 1947
Sheltering Arms
May 5, 1947
Shields, Gen. James
Febuary 10, 1947
Shutter, Dr. Marion
July 14, 1947
Sioux Outbreak
Febuary 12, 1945, Febuary 11, 1946
Skating
January 8, 1945
Skating rink - first
January 8, 1945
Skyscraper - first in Minneapolis
September 30, 1946
Snelling, Col. Josiah
September 9, 1946
Social Life of the Early 60's
March 12, 1945
Spanish-American War (13th Minnesota Regiment)
September 29, 1947
Spencer, Dr. Kirby
April 1, 1946, September 15, 1947
Stagecoaches
Febuary 3, 1947
Stanton, Dr. Gertrude
May 14, 1945
State Fairs, earliest
September 3, 1945, September 10, 1945
Lowry, Tom (Statue)
March 19, 1945
Bull, Ole (statue)
May 13, 1946
Hiawatha (Statue)
June 24, 1946
Tapper, Capt. (Statue)
June 25, 1945
Gabriel, Archangel (statue)
August 25, 1947
Father of Waters (statue)
September 8, 1947
Victory Memorial Drive
October 27, 1947
Mill Explosion (statue)
May 27, 1946
Gideon, Peter (statue)
July 30, 1945
Butler, Eloise (statue)
May 6, 1946
Goddess of Wisdom (statue)
June 24, 1946
Pond Brothers (statue)
June 4, 1946
Steam Wagon
May 28, 1945
Steamboats
November 4, 1946, December 16, 1946
Steele, Franklin
April 7, 1947
Stevens, Col. John H.
April 14, 1947, October 21, 1946, August 4, 1947
Stewart, Elder
November 12, 1945
Streetcars
March 19, 1945
Street - laying out
September 16, 1946
Strout, Capt. Richard
August 12, 1946
Sunday School, first in Minnesota
June 11, 1945, March 24, 1946
Syttende Mai
May 13, 1946
Tapper, Capt. John and Statue
June 25, 1945
Teachers, early
January 28, 1946, January 13, 1947, March 24, 1947, June 16, 1947
Teachers' College, Winona
July 7, 1947
Telegraph companies
June 9, 1947
Telephone, first
March 25, 1946
Thanksgiving Day - 1850's
November 19, 1945
Theatres - early
June 3, 1946, Febuary 25, 1946, March 4, 1946
Theodore Wirth Park
December 1, 1947
13th Minnesota Regiment
September 29, 1947
Tours, trips, excursions, etc.
October, 14, 1946, March 31, 1947, June 18, 1945, Febuary 3, 1947, November 4, 1946, December 16, 1946
Transportation - early ways
December 16, 1946, November 4, 1946, May 28, 1945, June 25, 1945, May 19, 1947, Febuary 3, 1947, March 19, 1945
Traverse des Sioux - village nd treaty
December 3, 1945
Trinity Episcopal Church - Excelsior
October 20, 1947
Trip to Washington - 1851
August 6, 1945
Tuttle, Rev. James H.
July 14, 1947
Twichell, Mrs. Agnes Anderson
October 22, 1945, November 24, 1947
Tyler, Elmer
Febuary 19, 1945
Union City Misssion
March 4, 1946
Van Cleve, Mrs. Charlotte
September 9, 1946
Vasa
September 17, 1945
Verendrye, Sieur de la
April 1, 1946
Victory Memorial Drive
October 27, 1947
Wabasha, Chief
July 7, 1947
Walker Art Gallery, founding of
January 22, 1945
Warren, Lyman
August 11, 1947
Washburn, Mills
May 27, 1946
Wealthy Apple
July 30, 1945
Wedding, first in Minneapolis
June 4, 1945
West Hotel Fire
July 15, 1946
Western Union Telegraph Co.
June 9, 1947
Westminster Presbyterian Church
August 18, 1947
Wipple, Bishop
March 11, 1946
Wilkinson, Francis - Englishman's impression of Minnesota
January 7, 1946
William Crooks, first railroad in Minnesota
March 17, 1947
Williams, Thomas H.
October 6, 1947
Winona
July 7, 1947
Winslow House
Febuary 24, 1947
Winston, Eliza
April 22, 1946
Wirth, Theodore
December 1, 1947
Wood, Helen Edith
April 2, 1945
Wood, Stella Louise
June 16, 1947
Worlds Fair, 1853 - Minnesota Exhibit
August 13, 1945
Y.M.C.A.
November 10, 1947
Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand von - first ballon ascent
April 16, 1945
Beltrami, Giacomo Constantino
January 12, 1948
Minnesota and Wisconsin
January 26, 1948
First Regiment Minnesota
Febuary 9, 1948
Pond, Gideon
Febuary 23, 1948
Clausen, Peter Gui
March 8, 1948
Rolette, Joseph
May 17, 1948
Northrop
May 3, 1948
New Ulm
April 19, 1948
Edmund DeWitt Brooks
April 12, 1948
Stevens House
March 22, 1948
Sanford, Maria L.
May 31, 1948
Congregational Church
June 14, 1948
First Presbyterian Church
June 28, 1948
Van Sant, Samuel
July 12, 1948
Neill, Edward Duffield
August 23, 1948
Ripley, Martha G.
January 8, 1948
Goodhue, James Madison
January 19, 1948
Tailiaferro, Lawrence
July 2, 1948
Fournier, Alexix Jean
Feburary 16, 1948
Capitol Fire of 1881
March 1, 1948
Snyder, Fred B.
March 18, 1848
Minnesota Hail to Thee
April 24, 1948
St. Peter
May 10, 1948
Lake Minnetonka
April 26, 1948
Minneapolis Mills
April 5, 1948
Grimm Alfalfa
March 29, 1948
Nelson, Knute
June 7, 1948
Cochrane, John
June 21, 1948
13th Minnesota Regiment
July 5, 1948
Mesabi Iron Range
July 19, 1948
Archbishop Ireland
August 30, 1948
Dan Patch
August 9, 1948
Locomotive No. 3
August 16, 1948
Johnson, John A.
July 26, 1948
Lake Minnetonka
August 2, 1948
Hill, James J.
September 6, 1948
Mississippi
September 13, 1948
Snelling, William Joseph
September 20, 1948
Hazelwood Republic
September 27, 1948
Lind, John
October 10, 1948
Fort Snelling
October 11, 1948
Hanks, Stephan
October 18, 1948
Minneapolis Streets
October 25, 1948
Chippewas
November 1, 1948
Miller, Mary
November 8, 1948
Nicollet Island
Novermber 15, 1948
First Thanksgiving Day
November 22, 1948
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
November 29, 1948
University of Minnesota, Football
December 6, 1948
Linden Hills
December 13, 1948
Heffelfinger, Christopher
December 27, 1948
Impressions of '49ers
January 3, 1949
Winchell, Charlotte S.
January 10, 1949
Van Cleve, Charlotte
January 17, 1949
Quinlan, Elizabeth
January 18, 1949
Chapman, Rachel
January 24, 1949
Minnesota Scenes, 1848
January 31, 1949
Lincoln, Abe
Feburary 7, 1949
Windom, William
Feburary 14, 1949
Bicycling
Feburary 21, 1949
Sibley, Henry H.
Feburary 28, 1949
Grasshopper Invasion of 1873
April 4, 1949
Dred Scott Trial
March 7, 1949
Chatfield, Andrew G.
March 14, 1949
Edina Mill
March 21, 1949
Belle Plaine
March 28, 1949
Edwards, Col. David
April 11, 1949
Northrup, Anson
April 18, 1949
Farnham, Horace
April 25, 1949
Territorial Lawmakers
May 2, 1949
Schussler, Otto F.
May 9, 1949
Ericsson, Leif
May 16, 1949
St. Anthony Express
May 23, 1949
First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis
May 30, 1949
Meeker, Bradley B.
June 6, 1949
Nicollet, Joseph Nicolas
June 13, 1949
1857 Real Estate Bubble
June 20, 1949
Early Black Minnesotans
July 4, 1949
Early Territorial Celebrations
June 27, 1949
Ladies Seminary
July 11, 1949
Legend of Sisseton Oak
July 18, 1949
Ayer, Frederick
July 25, 1949
Fort Ripley
August 1, 1949
Territory's First School
July 25, 1949
1891 Harvest Festival
August 8, 1949
Goodhue, James M.
August 15, 1949
Early Fire Fighters
August 22, 1949
Brackett, George A.
August 29, 1949
State Apple Growers
September 5, 1949
Hinckley Fire
September 12, 1949
Cheever's Tower
September 19, 1949
Pratt, Jennie A.
September 26, 1949
Sioux Treaties
October 3, 1949
Indian Medicine Men
October 10, 1949
Minnesota Historical Society
October 17, 1949
Minneapolis Gold Rush
October 24, 1949
Dillman, Willard
October 31, 1949
Treaty of Traverse des Sioux
November 9, 1949
Sioux Uprising, 1862
November 14, 1949
Bromley, Edward A.
November 21, 1949
Lake Nokomis
November 28, 1949
Early State Newspapers
December 6, 1949
Pioneer Minstrels
December 12, 1949
Blizzards of the 1870s
December 19 1949
Pioneer Christmases
December 26, 1949
Winona
January 2, 1950
Abbott, E.T.
January 9, 1950
Gateway Park
January 16, 1950
Pond, Gideon
January 23, 1950
Northern Pacific Railroad
January 30, 1950
Countryman, Gratia Alta
February 6, 1950
President Lincoln
February 13, 1950
Wellcome, Sir Henry Solomon
February 20, 1950
Reed, Roland W.
February 27, 1950
Bassett, Joel Bean
March 6, 1950
Faribault, Jean Baptiste and Alexander
March 13, 1950
Murphy, Dr. John H.
March 20, 1950
Little Crow
March 27, 1950
Rainy Lake Legends
April 3, 1950
Temple Israel
April 10, 1950
Minneapolis
April 17, 1950
The Old May Homestead
April 24, 1950
Minneapolis Public Library
May 1, 1950
American-Swedish Institute
May 8, 1950
St. Anthony, 1849
May 15, 1950
Literary Clubs
May 22, 1950
Sunday Morning Call
May 29, 1950
Early Trade Routes
June 5, 1950
Nicollet Island
June 12, 1950
Nicollet Island Suspension Bridge
June 19, 1950
Woman's Council of Minneapolis
June 26, 1950
Griswold, Franklin C.
July 3, 1950
Winchell, Newton H.
July 10, 1950
Barnum Island
July 17, 1950
Gale, Samuel C.
July 24, 1950
Mcleod, Martin
July 31, 1950
Shingle Creek Settlement
August 7, 1950
Loring Park
August 14, 1950
Loring Park
August 21, 1950
Upton, Rufus
August 28, 1950
Church, Calvin
September 4, 1950
LeSueur, Pierre Charles
September 11, 1950
Pike, Zebulon
September 18, 1950
Early Steamboats
September 25, 1950
Kimball, Dr. Hannibal Hamlin
October 2, 1950
American Swedish Institute
October 9, 1950
Title
Ruth Thompson Minnesota Memories Newspaper Columns
Status
Completed
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

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