What's New -- August 2024

The newly added accession this month is the Rose Ensemble Organizational Records.

Collections with additions or added digital content include the Agricultural Society, Century and Sesquicentennial Farm Applications; the Gambling Control Board Records; the Faribault State School and Hospital, Individual School Records; the Theodore L. Hays Papers; the Minnesota Academy of Medicine Organizational Records; the Veterans Affairs Department, Hastings Veterans Home Records; the Washington County, Grey Cloud Island Township Records; the Rainbow Club Records; the Study Club Records; and the William Watts Folwell and Family Papers.

Name/Abstract	File No.
Agricultural Society: An Inventory of Its Century and Sesquicentennial Farm Applications	gr00094
Application forms for residents who wished to have their farms declared century farms, signifying that the farm had been in the same family for 100 or more years. This was begun as a joint project between the State Fair and the Farmer magazine; later the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation became the co-sponsor. Beginning in 2009, sesquicentennial (150 years) farms forms are included. Includes digital content.
Anoka County: Columbia Heights: An Inventory of Its LaBelle Park Construction Records	gr03064
Construction records for a public park financed through the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) and utilizing Minnesota Department of Natural Resources LAWCON (Land and Water Conservation) funds. Includes accounting and financial records, correspondence, grant applications, permits, resolutions, specifications and bids, status reports, and weekly progress reports. Correspondents include Brauer and Associates, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and HUD.
Carlton County: Automba Township: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03060
Township (1914-1937) and clerk's (1937-1978) record books, treasurer's record books, miscellaneous minutes and financial statements, election registers (1970, 1972) and summary statements of votes (1970-1984), burial permits (1925-1934), fox and wolf bounty records (1936-1944), and weed inspection reports (1929-1955).
Carlton County: Black Hoof Township: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03061
Clerk's books (1905-1975), treasurer's books (1906-1973), road records (1905-1969), poll lists (1951-1982), and election register (1951).
Cottonwood County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Civil and Criminal Case Files	gr03059
These files also include coroner's inquest files, numbered as civil case files.
Cottonwood County: Windom: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03071
Chattel mortgage index (1892-1913); city charters (1920, 1949); minutes of the board of equalization and board of review (1928-1942); water quality reports (1930-1933); and a file on bond issuance and property purchase for the city water works (1920,1926).
Dodge County: Kasson: Municipal and Justice Court: An Inventory of Its Dockets	gr03072
Municipal and justice court dockets of Kasson, Minnesota.
Dodge County: Mantorville: Justice of the Peace: An Inventory of Its Dockets	gr03073
Civil and criminal dockets of the Mantorville Justice of the Peace.
Economic Development Department: An Inventory of Its Annual and Biennial Reports	gr03077
Includes annual and biennial reports of the economic development department, business research and development, and other reports.
Economic Development Department: An Inventory of Its Governors' Conference Files	gr03078
Correspondence, press releases, newspaper clippings, attendance lists, and similar material relating to the planning of two governors' conferences that were held in Minneapolis, the Midwest Governors' Conference in 1964 and the National Governors' Conference in 1965. The Economic Development Department, in conjunction with the governor's office, arranged the conferences.
Faribault State School and Hospital: An Inventory of Its Individual School Records	gr00925
Teachers' records of activities in each class, including detailed progress reports on each individual pupil. Includes digital content.
Finance Department: An Inventory of Its Biennial Budgets	gr03079
Budgets and budget proposals presented by the governor to the state legislature, and related documents and instructional materials prepared by the Finance Department. This is the department's record (master) set.
William Watts Folwell and Family: An Inventory of Their Papers	00880
Folwell's papers document his career as a philologist; a lieutenant colonel in the Fiftieth New York Volunteer Engineers in the Civil War; a business man of Venice, Ohio (late 1860s); professor of mathematics and civil engineering at Kenyon College in Ohio (1868-1869); president (1869-1884), professor of political economy (1884-1907), and president emeritus (1907-1929) of the University of Minnesota; a member and president of the Minneapolis Board of Park Commissioners and the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts; a member of the State Board of Corrections and Charities; a Minnesota lawyer (1884-); the author of two histories of Minnesota; a leader in the development of Minnesota's public high school system; and president of the Minnesota Historical Society (1924-1927). Includes digital content.
Gambling Control Board: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03076
Records documenting the organization and administration of this board established to regulate lawful gambling in the state.
Goodhue County: Red Wing: Justice of the Peace: An Inventory of Its Docket Books	gr03062
There are two series of civil and criminal docket books. Red Wing apparently had two justices of the peace.
Goodhue County: Red Wing: Municipal Court: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03063
Criminal docket (1935-1943), criminal judgment records (1938-1975), civil judgment records (1935-1975), registers of criminal action (1935-1972), registers of civil action (1935-1975), and plaintiffs' and defendants' indexes (civil and criminal, 1935-1975).
Theodore L. Hays: An Inventory of His Papers	01553
Correspondence, minutes, financial records, advertisements, and publicity materials of Hays, manager of such St. Paul and Minneapolis (Minn.) theaters as the Bijou Opera House, Metropolitan Opera House, Grand Opera House, and Gayety Theatre.
Health Facility Complaints Office: An Inventory of Its Facility Complaint Files	gr03057
Investigation files (1977) from complaints by patients of maltreatment at health care facilities, including complaint forms, correspondence, and investigators' reports.
Health Facility Complaints Office: An Inventory of Its Miscellaneous Records	gr03058
Annual reports, minutes and miscellany of the office's Advisory Task Force, and reports, minutes, and miscellany of the Health Department's Health Facilities Division.
Hennepin County: Minneapolis: Municipal Court: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03080
Includes civil judgment indexes, unlawful detainer indexes, civil trial judgment books, forcible entry trial judgment books, and default judgment books.
Hennepin County: Minneapolis: Municipal Court: An Inventory of Its Miscellaneous Records	gr03081
Acts and rules of practice of the municipal and conciliation courts (1939, 1957), a history of the court (1925), a copy of the first case filed (1874), and the records of the court's probation office/department (1907-1967).
Higher Education Facilities Authority: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03056
Minutes and agenda packets of this agency created to assist the state's institutions of higher education in financing construction projects, renovating existing buildings, or purchasing capital equipment.
Minnesota Academy of Medicine: An Inventory of Its Organizational Records	01556
Records of a medical organization formed in 1887. Includes Board minutes, meeting announcements and minutes, membership lists, lists of speakers, member correspondence, reports, administrative files, and record book volumes of compiled minutes of meetings, constitution, bylaws, membership lists, and letters.
Olmsted County: An Inventory of Its Published Records	gr03066
Miscellaneous reports and issuances of the county, its corrections system, its Human Services Needs Assessment Project, and the Rochester superintendent of schools.
Olmsted County: Auditor: An Inventory of Its Abstracts of Votes	gr03067
These records document the general (1924-1932, 1936-1948) and primary (1924-1942, 1948) elections of county officials and assorted other elections, including state officers, legislative and congressional, district court judges, supreme court associate justices, and county hospital.
Olmsted County: Board of County Commissioners: An Inventory of Its Agenda Packets	gr03068
Agendas, meeting minutes, requests for board action, supporting documents, and related papers for meetings of the board of county commissioners. The board met approximately on a weekly basis.
Olmsted County: Health Department: An Inventory of Its Annual Reports	gr03069
Incomplete set. Narratives, statistics, and charts covering each year's vital statistics, disease control activities, various public health and environmental health programs, maternal and child health, health education, and departmental finances.
Olmsted County: Sheriff: An Inventory of Its Jail Registers	gr03070
Jail registers of the Olmsted County Sheriff.
Olmsted County: Superintendent of Schools: An Inventory of Its Pupil Records	gr03065
Pupil examination record (1890s?), high school examination record (1899-1932), pupil record cards (approximately 1911-1959), and county superintendent record (1865-1867). The latter, a journal of activities, contains an undated pupil examination record (1890s?).
Rainbow Club: An Inventory of Its Records	01554
Records describing the activities of a Twin Cities social club established in 1947 to foster friendship and understanding among individuals of different racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds. Includes digital content.
Redwood County: Juvenile Court: An Inventory of Its Record Books	gr03051
Record of court actions taken on each case.
Redwood County: Probate Court: An Inventory of Its Final Decrees of Distribution	gr03052
Final decrees of distribution for the Redwood County Probate Court.
Redwood County: Probate Court: An Inventory of Its Miscellaneous Order Books	gr03053
Include final decrees of distribution.
Redwood County: Probate Court: An Inventory of Its Will Books	gr03054
Copies or transcriptions of the complete texts of wills probated by the courts, accompanied by certifications of authenticity and of filing signed by witnesses and clerks of court. Original wills are found in the probate case files.
Redwood County: Redwood Falls: An Inventory of Its Municipal and Justice Court Dockets	gr03055
Municipal and justice court dockets for the city of Redwood Falls.
Rose Ensemble: An Inventory of Its Organizational Records	01545
Organizational records of The Rose Ensemble, an early-music ensemble based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Includes administrative records, performances records, audio and video recordings, research and reference materials, and related materials in physical and digital formats. Includes digital content.
Study Club: An Inventory of Its Records	01548
Minutes, programs/membership directories, and historical material of a Minneapolis women's study and social club established in 1913. Includes digital content.
Traverse County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Judgment Books	gr03074
Volumes A-N.
Traverse County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Judgment Dockets	gr03075
Volumes A (2) and B.
Veterans Affairs Department: Hastings Veterans Home: An Inventory of Its Records	gr01322
Admission and discharge register (1978-2013) and minutes (2002-2019) of various committees and councils of the Hastings Veterans Home.
Washington County: Grey Cloud Island Township: An Inventory of Its Records	gr01170
Minutes, financial records, birth and death records, marriage records, justice of the peace records, planning and rezoning records, petitions, newsletters, and related records. Includes records of Newport Township and St. Paul Park.

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