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In honor of Women's History Month this month, and the anniversary of the U.S. entering World War I next month, we are highlighting a few collections that concern women and the war front.
The Hortense Bodelson World War I correspondence, 1917-1919 includes letters to and from a school teacher who taught at the Vasa Orphan Home in Red Wing.
The George F. Fairbanks World War I papers, 1916-1930 include a folder of Gold Star Mothers and Widows documentation collected by George's mother Susan Ella Aldrich when she traveled to France in 1930 to visit her son's gravesite.
The Letters received from World War I servicemen, 1917-1918 includes the correspondence of Elsa Horn, a University of Minnesota student who later taught elementary school in Wisconsin.
From the Susan E. Fairbanks Gold Star mothers and widows ephemaera and photographs, 1930
New and Updated Finding Aids - February 2017
| Name/Abstract | File No. |
|---|---|
| Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company: An Inventory of Its Corporate Records | 00521 |
 Minutes, annual reports, accounting records,
valuation schedules, and drawings, station plats, and
maps of a railroad company incorporated in 1864 that
operated a line in northern Illinois, and that in 1970
merged with several other railroads to form Burlington
Northern Inc. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Company (CB & Q) was jointly-owned by the
Great Northern Railway Company and the Northern Pacific
Railway Company. These records are Great Northern's set
of CB & Q records. |
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| Executive Council: An Inventory of Its Minutes and Agenda Materials | gr01288 |
| Bound volumes of official minutes (1925-1955), with a few miscellaneous agenda items; and files of official minutes and agenda materials (1959-2015). The 1999-2002 files were added from Governor Jesse Ventura's files; they are incomplete. The 2011-2015 files were added from Governor Mark Dayton's files. | |
| Governor: Dayton, Mark: An Inventory of His Administrative Rules Files | gr01289 |
| Governor's Office copy of administrative rules promulgated by state government agencies. Includes the rule, preliminary proposals, and related correspondence. | |
| Governor: Pawlenty, Tim: An Inventory of His Administrative Rules Files | gr00214 |
| Governor's Office copy of administrative rules promulgated by state government agencies. Includes the rule, preliminary proposals, and related correspondence. | |
| Health Department: An Inventory of Its Maternal and Child Health Advisory Task Force Records | gr01290 |
| Annual reports, manuals, correspondence, meeting agenda packets, photographs, files concerning the Betty Hubbard Award, and other records of the task force. | |
| Investment Board: An Inventory of Its Annual Reports | gr01287 |
| Investment Board: An Inventory of Its Minutes and Agenda Packets | gr00242 |
| The minutes record authorizations for the purchase, sale, or transfer of the state's investments in state and municipal bonds, U.S. treasury notes and bonds, and other instruments of indebtedness; itemize loans made to municipalities, school districts, and other local units of government; discuss other procedures and policies regarding these transactions; and in general document the details of the state's management of its investments and trust funds. They include agenda packets for 1957-1974, and scattered thereafter. | |
| Investment Board: An Inventory of Its Miscellaneous Files and Published Records | gr00243 |
| Assorted records documenting the duties and activities of the Investment Board, particularly in relation to certificates of indebtedness, state bond sales and transfers, state trust funds, 1918-1919 purchase of liberty bonds owned by forest fire sufferers, school fund, Department of Rural Credit bond sales, state auditor reports, investment performance, and budget. | |
| St. Cloud State Reformatory: An Inventory of Its Indexes to Inmate Records | gr01285 |
| Indexes to the reformatory's "base files" (general inmate case files) and to its Youth Conservation Commission inmate case files. Also includes partial indexes to both the Annex for Defective Delinquents inmate case files and the Willow River Camp inmate case files which were located at the reformatory. | |
| Stillwater State Prison: An Inventory of Its Indexes to Inmates | gr01286 |
| Personal name indexes, and registers that function as indexes, to inmates incarcerated at the Minnesota State Prison during the years 1862-1979. Some are for a specific set of records or volumes; others cover a group of years without regard to specific records. All entries give the inmate's surname, given name(s), and register (inmate) number. Indexes to specific records also give volume and/or page number. All entries in the registers additionally give length of sentence, county in which the inmate was tried, crime, and dates of reception at the prison, parole, and discharge; and may include additional information. | |
| Traverse County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Real Estate Tax Judgment Books | gr01266 |
| Volumes B-N. | |
| Traverse County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Registers of Actions | gr01265 |
| Nos. 289-10732. Indexed. | |
New and Updated Catalog Records
| Bodelson, Hortense, 1890-1963. Hortense Bodelson World War I correspondence, 1917-1919. |
| Correspondence, mainly letters received by Hortense Bodelson of Vasa, Minnesota from her brother Vincent R. Bodelson and future husband Dennis Magnus Lundell while both were serving in France during World War I. |
| District Court (Traverse County). Plaintiff's and defendant's indexes, 1885-1950. |
| Plaintiffs and defendants indexes; entries include case file number, parties to the case, type of action, date and amount of judgment, and citation to the register of action volume and page number indexed. |
| Fairbanks, P. E. (Paul Edgar), 1898-1984. George F. Fairbanks World War I papers, 1916-1930. |
| Correspondence, photographs, and Gold Star mother ephemera of the Fairbanks family, mainly dating from the years following the death of son and brother George Francis Fairbanks (1918) in battle France during World War I. |
| Hemenway Forum. Hemenway Forum records, 1989-2012. |
| Chronological files (1989-2012), consisting of minutes, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers; two videocassette recordings of the 50th anniversary DFL Dinner (September 23, 1994), and a videocassette recording of Eugene McCarthy’s presentation to the Forum (May 4, 1995). |
| Horn, Elsa, 1897-1966. Letters received from World War I servicemen, 1917-1918. |
| Letters received by Elsa Horn from stateside World War I servicemen while she was a student at the University of Minnesota. |
| Sam, Batiste, 1914-1998, interviewee. Oral history interview with Batiste Sam, Sept. 17, 1997. |
| Interview with Batiste Sam which includes discussion on beadwork patterns, tanning and leathers, as well as fabric samples. Video also includes shots of items and rooms at the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post. |
| Swanson, Ole A., 1890-1965. Ole A. and Ragnhild Swanson family papers, 1908-2010 (bulk 1908-1950s). |
| Correspondence and papers of an Albert Lea, Minnesota couple who later worked for many years for the Veterans' Administration at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. |
| Underthun, Lars, 1886-1966. Lars Underthun and family papers, 1870-1945. |
| Account book (1918-1932) and miscellaneous papers (1917-1945) of Lars Underthun, a water well driller and farmer of Milan, Minnesota; an autograph/reminiscence book (1870-1882) and household account book (1888) of his father, Reverend Andreas Larsen Underthun; and World War I letters (1918-1919) of Lars' brother-in-law, William Gerhard Larson, who served with the 131st Infantry of the American Expeditionary Forces in France and Luxembourg. |
