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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
Collection on Grace Hodsdon Boutelle
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0008
Description of Contents
One box. Biography file includes three newspaper clippings including "From English 'Gaol' to Lowry Hill Tea", regarding a presentation done by Boutelle on her suffragette experience, "Makers of Folk Songs Recreated Work Activities into Play Motion, Says Student," an article written by Boutelle, and an article on a Christmas Carol practice conducted by Boutelle. Text of a eulogy given by Boutelle for Mrs. Charles S. Hardy in December 1945. Excerpt from Robert Browning's "By The Fireside"...
Dates:
1897 - 1945
Collection on Herbert Putnam
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0305
Description of Contents
Consists of a bound volume containing publications, individual tributes, and correspondence celebrating Putnam and his career as Librarian of Congress.
Dates:
1939
Collection on Hubert H. and Muriel Humphrey
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0018
Description of Contents
The Hubert H. and Muriel Humphrey Collection consists of three boxes containing a number of materials including: speeches, campaign paraphenalia, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1943 - 2002
Collection on Jacob D. and Eugenie Holtzermann
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0017
Description of Contents
The collection consists of two boxes. The first box contains correspondence, personal papers, clippings and various biographical items on Holtzermann, his wife Eugenie (Jenny) and daughter Charlotte. The second box contains a variety of different papers, studies and correspondence related to Holtzermann's time on the Minneapolis Planning Commission in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Dates:
1931 - 1969
Collection on James Austin Williams
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0067
Description of Contents
One box. Two folders containing clippings and programs and a scrapbook of clippings.
Dates:
1906 - 1934
Collection on James K. Hosmer
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0301
Description of Contents
The James K. Hosmer Collection consists primarily of biographical information and correspondence.
Dates:
1891 - 1929
Collection on John H. Stevens
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0295
Description of Contents
The John H. Stevens collection consists of one box of handwritten letters written by Stevens to members of his family, transcriptions of those letters, a transcribed speech delivered by Stevens to the Minneapolis Lyceum about the early history of Hennepin County, clippings containing biographical information, and correspondence between the collection's donor and Minneapolis Public Library Staff.
Dates:
1844 - 1858
Collection on John Orth Family
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0259
Description of Contents
One box of a biography of John Orth, photographs of his family and family tree information. Materials are from 1857-2004.The biography of John Orth was originally written in 1992 by St. Cloud State University graduate student Mike Worcester. It covers Orth's founding of his brewery, his nationality (he first claimed he was French and later German after the Prussians took Alsace after 1870), his politics and his family.The photos in folder 2 are from the scrapbook of...
Dates:
1857 - 2004
Collection on Leonard and Elizabeth Wells
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0283
Description of Contents
One box. Collection includes photographs and correspondence of Leonard Wells and correspondence of his wife Elizabeth Wells.
Dates:
1922 - 1936
Collection on Lucille Barrett
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0005
Description of Contents
One box. It contains 2 issues of Harper's Monthly Magazine. Issue number 857 (October 1921) contains Barrett's poem “Autumn Trail,” and issue 859 (December 1921) contains an excerpt from correspondence between the magazine and the Lucille Barrett's parents, noting the author's early death. The April and December 1915 editions of Douglas School-Life Magazine, published by the seventh and eighth grade students of Minneapolis’ Douglas School, both contain poems by Lucille Barrett as an eighth...
Dates:
1915 - 1921
Collection on Luther Youngdahl
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0069
Description of Contents
One box, mainly newspaper clippings (1924 through 1992) as well as miscellaneous items such as 1951 inaugural address, 1949 budget message and a sketch of Mr. Youngdahl by Brenda Ueland. Biographical clippings on family members are also included.
Dates:
1924 - 1992
Collection on Margaret Mull
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0073
Description of Contents
This collection includes materials related to the library career of Margaret Mull. These items include: 2 scrapbooks, photographs, letters of appreciation, and funeral announcements. Although Mull had a long library career most of the materials in this collection appear to have been compiled in 1973, and those that are dated are from the mid 1960's and early 1970's. This is why the date expression is given as 1973-1990 as this is when the materials were compiled or published.
Dates:
1973 - 1990
Collection on Minneapolis Moline Power Implement Company
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0208
Description of Contents
The collection consists of five boxes and four scrapbooks. The first box contains various clippings, advertisements, photographs, reports, and correspondence. A number of papers and correspondence detail the 1929 merger of the company. Boxes two through five contain farm machinery price listsand catalogs, arranged by machine type. The scrapbooks consist of newspaper clippings from newspapers such as the Minneapolis Tribune, Minneapolis Journal, Wall Street Journal, and others. The four...
Dates:
1915 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1979
Collection on Plymouth Congregational Church
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0252
Description of Contents
Boxes 1 and 1b include newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, and other general material about Plymouth Church and its history. Boxes 2 through 5 consist of funeral records, which document the life and death of parishioners of Plymouth Congregational Church. In it are service records, notes from funeral eulogies, and funeral service programs. Prominent citizens in the collection include radio commentator Cedric Adams and Carleton College President Donald J. Cowling, as well as the...
Dates:
1944 - 1987
Collection on Schilling Tours
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0203
Description of Contents
One box. Collection consists of travel itineraries(1925-1935), miscellaneous travel schedules and a 1925 detailed diagram of the SS France, a French ocean liner which sailed for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (French Line).
Dates:
1925 - 1936
Collection on Stanley Hall Academy for Young Women
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0041
Description of Contents
The collection includes two boxes. One a scrapbook compiled by Ruth Ritteman. Box two includes a brief history of Stanley Hall, programs, annual class booklets, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous ephemera.Ruth's scrapbook includes a roll call of students, programs, mementos, newspaper clippings from theater, lectures, musical events, dances. Also included in the scrapbook are professional photographs of the interior and exterior of Stanley Hall, snapshots of classmates and...
Dates:
1920 - 1921
Collection on Stanley R. Avery
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0002
Description of Contents
Six boxes. Biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, obituary, scrapbooks. Box 1 includes two folders. Folder 1, labeled “Biographical and Clippings” contains encyclopedia and newspaper clippings, photographs, and Avery’s obituary. It also includes reviews of compositions and performances both about Stanley Avery and written by him. Folder 2, Labeled “Programs, Brochures, and Writings” contains programs from concerts, recitals, and other performances of Avery’s...
Dates:
1892 - 1935
Collection on the All American Study Club
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0155
Description of Contents
One box of materials from 1928 to 1964. The programs list; officers, order of business, standing committees, member names and addresses, past presidents, honorary members, and programs for each year.
Dates:
1928 - 1964
Collection on the Altrusa Club of Minneapolis
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0201
Description of Contents
One box of materials from 1960s to 1980s. Collection includes clippings (1980s), three booklets on member's manual, bylaws and classification guide, yearbook (1968-1969), miscellaneous pamphlets and in the SCMC periodicals, several issues of their newsletter Altrusan (1970-1972).
Dates:
1961 - 1982
Collection on the American Committee of Minneapolis
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0157
Description of Contents
One box of material from primarily 1919. Collection consists of several articles, various pamphlets, a description of the organization, and a sample membership application. Some authors of the papers and pamphlets are F. G. R. Gordon, Peter W. Collins, Rev. Marion D. Shutter, Josiah Fenton, and Ernest Brier.
Dates:
1919
Collection on the Apollo Club
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0209
Description of Contents
Four boxes of materials including newspaper clippings (1900-1984), rosters and directories, a history written in the 1920s, 26 folders of typed reviews from the Minneapolis Tribune and the Minneapolis Journal from 1920 to 1943, programs from performances covering nearly a century (1896-1985), vinyl records and a group photo from 1949.
Dates:
1900 - 1985
Collection on the Argosy Club
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0159
Description of Contents
One box including club programs from 1902-1949. Programs include officers, programs for the year, members and their addresses, and reading list. It also includes a brief history of the club and newspaper clippings from 1920 to 1948.
Dates:
1902 - 1949
Collection on the Art History Club
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0160
Description of Contents
One box of programs from 1898-1938 as well as papers presented by Mrs. George Grimes and Mrs. S.S. Sutherland on Spanish Art in 1934. Information in programs includes topics for the year and presenters. Some programs list officers and members names and addresses.
Dates:
1898 - 1938
Collection on the Athenaeum Club
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0162
Description of Contents
One box of programs from 1924 to 1940 and a brief history of the group. Programs include the club's creed, officers, programs and presenters for the year, and club directory.
Dates:
1924 - 1940
Collection on the Attic Club
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0163
Description of Contents
Collection includes exhibition announcements and programs, correspondence (1917-1933), constitution and amendments, history of the organization, programs of annual costume balls, secretary's reports (1913-1923), yearbooks (1912, 1924-1925), scrapbook covering 1911-1928, a pennant, fedora and a painting smock. Also included are photographs in the SCMC photo collection, scattered issues of Atticker (shelved with the SCMC periodicals,) and a metal sign with the...
Dates:
1909 - 1944; Majority of material found within 1913 - 1923
Collection on the Authors Study Club
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0164
Description of Contents
Three boxes of materials from 1896-1959. The collection consists of newspaper clippings from the 1920‘s and 1930’s, club histories from 1896-1946 and an almost complete collections of programs from 1907-1959.
Dates:
1896 - 1959
Collection on the Brown Study Club
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0166
Description of Contents
One box containing newspaper clippings, history, programs 1911-1955, incomplete.
Dates:
1911 - 1955
Collection on the Cassiopeia Club
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0168
Description of Contents
The collection consists of programs from 1897 to 1959 (with some missing years) and a history of the club. The programs include officers, committees, agenda, meetings for the year, member’s names and addresses.
Dates:
1897 - 1959
Collection on the Children's Theatre Company
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0277
Description of Contents
The Children's Theater Company Collection consists of one box. Included in the collection are newspaper clippings, advertisements, season brochures, programs, annual reports, and miscellaneous materials consisting of pamphlets, press packets, stage layouts, fliers, and more.
Dates:
1952 - 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.
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