Calhoun, Lake (Minn.)

Description of Contents This collection contains Calhoun Yacht Club meeting minutes, annual yearbooks, membership applications, photographs and slides, newspaper clippings, financial statements, race results, and promotional material for regattas and club social events. The collection is divided into 5 series with the bulk of the material from 1960-1994. The general series is organized alphabetically, while the chronological series, annual yearbooks, and media series are all organized by year. Early...

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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

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Newspaper clipping copies, correspondence, a few photographs, and press releases documenting the efforts of Emergency Lakes Environmental Coalition Task Force (ELECT) to prevent hi-rise development on Lake Calhoun (now Bde Maka Ska) from 1987 to 1990. Records are arranged by date. Materials from later dates relate to other planned hi-rises near the lakes.

These records were originally compiled by Arlene Fried.

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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.