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Buzza Company Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0206
Description of Contents
Collection includes seven gift books, booklets (Greetings--Easter 1924; February 1928; February 1931), Christmas greeting brochures to dealers (1924 and 1941), office correspondence (January 1932-September 1942), financial statements for 1925, 1932, 1935, 1939, 1941, and 1943 to October 18, seven Christmas cards (1925-1930), biographical clippings on George Buzza, clippings on the company from 1921-1942, and a history of the company circa 1927.
Dates:
1921 - 1942
Camden Area Community Concerns Council Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0220
Description of Contents
The collection includes: CACCC meeting minutes and correspondence, several versions of the neighborhood's history, the organization's by-laws and constitution, some flyers and supporting information from CACCC. Other materials include maps, photos, mailing lists, materials from Camden Social Service, 1974-1976; Camden Youth Services 1974-1976,Camden Area Planning District Citizens Advisory Committee 1973, 1976, 1979, Camden Area Block Club Program, 1977; Camden Newspaper Campaign, 1976-1977;...
Dates:
1973 - 1981
Carl Warmington Papers
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0062
Description of Contents
Two boxes. Collection consists of biographical reminiscences, letters, family photos, and photos taken in 1930’s of Anchor hotel, Men’s Bureau, Union City Mission, and Gateway District.Box 1 contains three spiral bound manuscripts. “Looking Back A Personal History by Carl Warmington Memories of Boyhood in Minneapolis, Musical Adventures, Depression Years, Fund Raising Highlights, Community Planning Years, Revival of the Player Piano, Senior Tennis Tournaments, Assessing Retirement...
Dates:
1924 - 1992
Carol Ryrie Brink Papers
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0009
Description of Contents
The collection consists of 1 box containing 8 folders.Folders 1-4 and Folder 6 consist of a typewritten manuscript of Ms. Brink's 1961 book The Twin Cities with many handwritten corrections and notes throughout. Folder 5 contains a typewritten manuscript of the book's index with handwritten corrections and notes.Folder 7 contains various clippings and correspondence related to Ms. Brink. Included are clippings from Minneapolis...
Dates:
1930 - 1981
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
Celia Olney Goodale Collection on James Carleton Young
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0090
Description of Contents
One box and one oversize item. Includes biographical materials, newspaper clippings, catalogs of book collections, and correspondence.
Dates:
1901 - 1991
Central Avenue Library Records
Collection
Identifier: HCL 048
Abstract
Fact sheets, brochures, building information, newspaper clippings, correspondence and other administrative records documenting the history and operations of Central Avenue Library in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 1907 to 1972. Central Avenue Library was part of the Minneapolis Public Library. The Minneapolis Public Library and Hennepin County Library merged in 2008. Central Avenue Library was shutdown in 1972.
Dates:
1909-1972
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
Champlin Library Records
Collection
Identifier: HCL 008
Abstract
Fact sheets, brochures, building information, newspaper clippings, correspondence and other administrative records documenting the history and operations of Champlin Library in Champlin, Minnesota, from 1932 to 2013. Champlin Library is part of the Hennepin County Library.
Dates:
1939-2013
Charles L. Bartholomew Cartoon Proofs and Biographical Material
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0006
Description of Contents
Proofs of Bart’s daily political cartoons from 1901-1915. Box 1 also includes two folders of biographical information, a booklet of Bart's published cartoons, and a published calendar illustrated by Bart. The rest of the boxes are cartoon proofs only.
Dates:
1901 - 1915
Charles O. Johnson Papers
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0021
Description of Contents
Collection consists of three Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame programs, tribue booklet for the Centennial Sports Champions Banquet, held May 5, 1958, a copy of a deposition of Johnson in a lawsuit between the American Football League and the National Football League, program for a tribute dinner in Johnson's honor, an offical program for the 1965 Baseball All Star game held at Metropolitan stadium, various newspaper clippings by and about Johnson, and a program for the 1970 U.S. Open golf...
Dates:
1956 - 1984
Charles Saint Denis Papers
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0057
Description of Contents
One box. The Charles Saint Denis collection includes a biographical article and other clippings; personal letters and notes; memos from the Alaska Project, which dealt with the transfer of 200 Minnesota farm families to Alaska during the depression; and "The Research Approach to a Program of Rural Rehabilitation in Minnesota," a report on the effectiveness of relief for Minnesota farmers during the Depression.
Dates:
1921 - 1953
Charlie's Cafe Exceptionale Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0229
Description of Contents
The collection consists of 19 boxes containing a variety of materials related to the café and its ownership. These include personal correspondence from both Charles and Louise Saunders, biographical materials, newspaper clippings, various photographs and media, audio recordings, restaurant menus, promotional materials and assorted artifacts.
Dates:
1929 - 2001
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
Charlotte Westberg Collection on the West High Class of 1935
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0334
Description of Contents
The collection consists of programs, correspondence, photographs and class lists documenting reunions of the West High School Class of 1935 accumulated by Charlotte Westberg from 1960 to 2000. A folder of newspaper clippings from 1935 is also included.A majority of materials relate to the West High School Class of 1935 25-year reunion (1960), 50-year reunion (1985), and 60-year reunion(1995). The correspondence folder relates primarily to the 1985 and 1990 gatherings. Also...
Dates:
1935 - 2000
Clara H. Harrington Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0016
Description of Contents
One box. The collection details and documents Harrington's donation of a mobile canteen for the British Military via the English-Speaking Union. Correspondence and newspaper clippings on the American Red Cross, Hennepin County Chapter.
Dates:
1940 - 1949
Clara Julia Hixson Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0317
Description of Contents
The collection consists of a single scrapbook documenting the activities of Hopkins High School graduate Clara Julia Hixson. The scrapbook primarily covers Hixson's senior year at Hopkins High in 1918, though it also contains material pertaining to her earlier years in high school. It includes event invitations and tickets, photos of Hixson and friends, Hopkins High theater and event programs, newspaper clippings, and handwritten sections of Hixson's poetry and narrative accounts of friends,...
Dates:
1909 - 1919
Clarence Miller Maps of Sumner Glenwood Community
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0251
Description of Contents
This collection consists of 9 hand-drawn maps of streets in the Sumner Glenwood neighborhood as they existed from 1924-1928. The maps identify streets, railroads, houses, businesses, churches, synagogues, warehouses, bridges, parks and schools. Clarence Miller, the creator of the maps, added notes to each map that provide information about the community, its businesses, and residents. The collection contains a key showing how the individual maps fit together to form one larger map of the...
Dates:
1970s-1980s
Cliff Nyberg World War II Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0355
Description of Contents
The collection consists of five scrapbooks detailing Cliff Nyberg's experience with the U.S. Army 11th Field Hospital during World War II. The scrapbooks include photographs, documents, ensignia, newspaper clippings, and assorted records.
Dates:
1942 - 1945
Clifford A. and Miriam McHugh Taney Papers
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0088
Description of Contents
Clifford Taney Family Collection consists of miscellaneous clippings, his law degree and other certificates, Christmas cards, Miriam Taney's wedding announcement, identifications, a travel itinerary, and a Christmas story "A Cheerful Giver" written by Miriam when she was eleven. Also included are 8 photo albums and two additional boxes of photographs. One album has been disbound and boxed. The photos are mostly from travels around the world and family photos.
Dates:
undated, circa 1915-1950
Collection on Arthur Naftalin
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0045
Description of Contents
This collection consists of three boxes of mixed materials. These include: Newspaper Clippings, Brochures, Correspondence, Official Messages and statements, and speeches related to Aurthur Naftalin and his family.
Dates:
1917 - 2005
Collection on Brenda Ueland
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0059
Description of Contents
One box of materials from 1938-1992. Collection consists of an incomplete collection of the 1943 Round the Town column and the What Goes on Here column 1943-45. There is also a large assortment of newspaper clippings announcing Ueland’s various speaking engagements and short biographical articles. The collections also contain the drafts of If You Want to Write, first published in 1938.
Dates:
1938 - 1992
Collection on Charles H. Foster
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0282
Description of Contents
The Charles H. Foster Collecton consists of a single box and contains materials such as: correspondence, manuscripts, and materials related to his donation of items to the Minneapolis Public Library. Several folders contain incoming and outgoing correspondence with author Truman Nelson.
Dates:
1940 - 1995
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 Darragh Aldrich
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0001
Description of Contents
One Box. Scrapbook composed of clippings of the “Quentin’s Corner” (or “Quentin’s Colyum”) newspaper column from the Minneapolis Morning Tribune. The 143-page scrapbook includes an index to many of the poems, commentary, and humor written between 1912 and 1915.
Dates:
1912 - 1915
Collection on Dimitri Mitropoulos
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0083
Description of Contents
The collection consists of 11 folders, most of which contain newspaper and periodical clippings regarding Mitropoulos's life and career. One folder contains a number of portraits. One folder also contains a bound collection of publicity materials from the 1940s given to the managers of locations at which Mitropoulos and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra were touring.
Dates:
1930 - 1995
Collection on Donald Fraser
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0086
Description of Contents
Seven boxes of documents, newsletters, political ephemera, campaign literature, newspaper clippings, intern manuals, photographs, slides, and audiocassettes primarily regarding the political career of Donald M. Fraser as Minneapolis Mayor. Correspondence series includes annual holiday letters written by Arvonne Fraser.
Dates:
1968 - 1994
Collection on Eiji Oue
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0085
Description of Contents
The Eiji Oue Collection consists of one box containing a folder of newspaper clippings, a file of Minnesota Orchestra press releases from his tenure, several printed programs for his tours and performances, a binder of information from his inaugural committee, a number of holiday cards sent by Oue, and a number of commemorative Wheaties boxes featuring Oue's picture.
Dates:
1995 - 2002
Collection on Emil Oberhoffer
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0084
Description of Contents
The collection consists of four boxes of various materials including newspaper clippings, correspondence, handwritten notes, inventories of musical scores, music manuscripts, and assorted other items.
Dates:
1900 - 1950
Collection on Floyd B. Olson
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0046
Description of Contents
The collection consists of 3 boxes containing information on Olson covering the period from 1921 through his death in 1936. The vast majority of the collection is newspaper clippings, however there are also a small number of pamphlets, magazine articles, and other printed materials.
Dates:
1921 - 1986
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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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