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Cedar Lake Park Association Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0294
Description of Contents
The collection consists of 17 boxes (1 oversized) containing various internal documents, reports, media materials and organizational miscellany concerning the Cedar Lake Park Association (and its forerunner, Save Cedar Lake Park). Materials are largely from the 1990s and early to mid-2000s.Box 1 concerns the history of Cedar Lake itself and some of the planning documents surrounding the group's founding and its original goals and objectives. Box 2 contains financial reports from the...
Dates:
1989 - 2007
Central Neighborhood Improvement Association Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0288
Description of Contents
This collection documents the activities of the Central Neighborhood Improvement Association (CNIA) from 1979-2004. Box 1 contains general information about the neighborhood organization, meeting minutes, annual reports, committee information, and miscellaneous documents. Boxes 2 and 3 contain board meeting minutes and documents. Box 4 includes grievance letters and other correspondence as well as financial and legal records. Boxes 5 and 6 contain information on the partnership between CNIA and...
Dates:
1981 - 2004
Charlotte Griffin Weld Papers
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0082
Description of Contents
One box containing 5 folders. Folder 1 contains typewritten rosters and job descriptions for the Organization of the Women’s Division of the Hennepin County War Savings Committee; recruiting letter (1944), directory of women’s organizations, war bond promotions/pamphlets, undated. Folder 2 contains Republican work shop letter and information, Luther W. Youngdahl campaign information, O. B. Erickson and Herman J. Bolmgren Volunteer Committee voter’s guide, 1947-1948. Folder 3 contains signed...
Dates:
1940 - 1948
Collection on Concordia Society of the Swedish Hospital
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0216
Description of Contents
Collection consists of newspaper clippings and seven yearbooks spanning from 1932 to 1940 (incomplete). The yearbooks include an annual President’s Report, calendar of engagements, brief financial report, committees and members, members and addresses, and the Concordia Anniversary Song lyrics.
Dates:
1932 - 1940
Collection on the Daughters of the American Revolution
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0176
Description of Contents
The collection documents the activities of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and its local chapters in Minneapolis. Local chapters represented in the collection include the Minneapolis, Colonial, Monument, Keewaydin, Rebecca Prescott Sherman/Fort Snelling, John Holmes, General James Knapp, John Prescott, John Witherspoon, and Maria Sanford chapters. Box 1 contains newspaper clippings and a small amount of material from the Minnesota Society of the DAR and...
Dates:
1896 - 1990
Collection on the Junior League of Minneapolis
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0193
Description of Contents
This collection includes one box of newspaper clippings (1938-2001), anniversary booklets (50th, 1974 and 75th, 1999), a yearbook and directory, and miscellaneous programs, press releases, membership information, brochures, announcements, etc.
Dates:
1940 - 2004
Collection on the Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs, Fifth District
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0113
Description of Contents
The collection consists of five boxes of material related to the Fifth Distrct of the Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs. Box 1 contains newspaper clippings from 1921-1964 with the bulk of the clippings dating from the 1940s. Box 2 contains comprehensive early histories of the Fifth Distrct and a small amount of material related to various events and conventions. Boxes 2-5 contain scrapbooks from the 1920s-1940s and District directories from 1904-1967. The scrapbooks, primarily compiled by...
Dates:
1904 - 1967
Collection on the Way Center
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0225
Description of Contents
One box. Collection consists of newspaper clippings and organizational materials concerning The Way Center.
Dates:
1967 - 2016
East Calhoun Community Organization (ECCO) Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0179
Description of Contents
This collection documents the ECCO neighborhood and its residents through the activities of the ECCO Board and the East Calhoun News.
The collection has been divided into two series:
I. Photos
II. Neighborhood Papers
Dates:
1977 - 1992
Elliot Park Neighborhood, Inc. Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0265
Description of Contents
The records include board of directors material, committee memos and minutes, administrative and financial documents, event and meeting files, correspondence, promotional material, subject files, photographic prints and slides, and publications created or compiled by Elliot Park Neighborhood, Inc. from its founding in 1975 to the 2010s. The collection documents EPNI's projects and programming, with topics including housing, crime prevention, the Neighborhood Revitilization Program, and annual...
Dates:
1975 - 2019
Green Institute Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0284
Description of Contents
The Green Institute Collection consists of 8 boxes. Box 1 contains organizational documents, clippings, newsletters and promotional materials. Box 2 contains publications, research, annual reports, and documentation on the meetings of the Board of Directors and the Executive and Planning Committees. Additional documentation on the Board of Directors and Green Institute governance is in box 3. Box 4 contains financial documents, reports, and general budget information. Boxes 5 and 6 contain...
Dates:
1980 - 2012
Jeanette May Papers
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0257
Description of Contents
This collection documents Jeanette May and her community activism through meeting minutes, proposals, by-laws, correspondence, brochures, government documents, memos, etc. associated with the following organizations:St. Anthony East Neighborhood Association (SAENA)
Project NEAT
Northeast Community Organization (NECO)
Project Area Committee (PAC)
Capital Long-Range Improvements Committee (CLIC)
I-335 Concerned Citizens Committee (I-335 CCC)
Alternate to I-355 Land Use Committee...
Dates:
1965 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1985
League of Women Voters of Minneapolis Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0198
Description of Contents
The collection includes newspaper clippings (1920s to 1990s), meeting minutes from the 1920s to the 1970s, and miscellaneous pamphlets, reports, booklets, handouts, announcements, programs, etc. Also included are a bank ledger with receipts. This collection shows that the League covered a broad range of issues. Some included homelessness, immigration, election laws, and so on.
Dates:
1928 - 1999
Marcy Holmes Neighborhood Association Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0140
Description of Contents
This collection includes articles of incorporation and by-laws (1981), Historic Restoration Deferred Loan Program (ca. 1996), and board minutes and miscellaneous materials (1991-2002).
Dates:
1981 - 2002
Minneapolis City Planning Department Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0314
Description of Contents
The collection contains memos, staff notes, correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, news releases, grant and financial documents, data gathered for studies, and formal staff papers and studies from the City of Minneapolis' Planning Department from the 1920s through the early 1970s. The bulk of the records date from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s.The bulk of the collection consists of material related to studies and planning projects conducted by the Department, as well as...
Dates:
1959 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1970
Minneapolis Council of Women's Organizations Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0149
Description of Contents
Two boxes. The collection consists of seven record books (1892-1901), several clippings from the 1890's, miscellaneous publications, treasurer's reports, and correspondence from the 1890s.
Dates:
1892 - 1901
Northside Federation Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0224
Description of Contents
One box. Collection consists of Memos, Agendas, Minutes, and Bylaws relating to the Northside Federation.
Dates:
1967 - 1968
Prospect Park Association Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0311
Description of Contents
The collection consists of materials from the various iterations of the Prospect Park Association, including organizational records, subject files, financial records, and media. Due to a house fire in the 1970s, many of the early records were lost. The bulk of the material dates from the 1960s to the early 2000s. The Newsletters and Agendas, Minutes, Etc. series are good entries to the collection.
Dates:
1929 - 2012
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Hennepin County Library Special Collections
Hundreds of archival collections documenting Minneapolis, Hennepin County, and World War II history can be viewed in Special Collections at Minneapolis Central Library. Some materials are available online in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.
Minneapolis Central Library
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