What's New -- November 2023

Newly added accessions this month include the Arts Development Associates records; assessment rolls from Nicollet County; and birth, death, and school records from Kerrick Township in Pine County.

Collections with additions or added digital content include legislative mandate reports from the Public Safety Department, the Koryne Horbal papers, the Marilyn J. Barnes papers, the Minneapolis-Moline Company records, and Human Services Department bulletins.

In addition, there are many newly coded finding aids that are now available online.

New and Updated Finding Aids

Name/Abstract	File No.
Agriculture Department: State-Federal Crop and Livestock Reporting Service: An Inventory of Its Published Records and Reports	gr02679
The records include the serial publications Minnesota State Farm Census, Minnesota Annual Crop and Livestock Statistics, and Minnesota Agricultural Statistics; a variety of statistical publications on specific aspects of agricultural economy; and miscellaneous newsletters and pamphlets.
Arts Development Associates: An Inventory of Its Records	01527
Records of Arts Development Associates, a Minnesota-based arts consulting firm established in 1967. The records include hard copies of client consultant reports, administrative records, project records, promotional materials, photographs, audio recordings, historical information, client print materials, and research files. Records also include biographical information, book publication information, speeches, seminar and training materials, and writings from its founder Bradley G. Morison, as well longtime partner consultant and co-author Julie G. Dalgleish.
Buena Vista Sanatorium: An Inventory of Its Annual Reports	gr02661
Annual reports of the superintendent of the Buena Vista Sanatorium, submitted to the sanatorium commission, containing lists of staff members and members of the commission; reports regarding sanatorium conditions, policies, and needs of the institution; statistics on treatment, clinics held, and patient admissions and discharges; and summary financial statements. Most are typescript.
Buena Vista Sanatorium: An Inventory of Its Financial Records	gr02662
Monthly financial summaries (1917-1920); monthly financial statements (1921-1955) itemizing sanatorium receipts and expenditures; and a file of vouchers (1915-1921) for expenses incurred in purchasing the sanatorium site, constructing it, and putting it into operation.
Buena Vista Sanatorium: An Inventory of Its Subject Files	gr02663
Files of correspondence, statistics, and other documentation on sanatorium administrative matters and historical information.
Carver County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Registration and Certificate Records	gr02682
Includes records for basic sciences certificates, ordinations and marriages, chiropractors, dentists, masseurs, physicians, and veterinarians.
Corrections Department Select Advisory Committee: An Inventory of Its Senate Investigative Research Staff Files	gr02654
Includes committee minutes, correspondence, and background materials; subcommittee background materials; materials (including tape recordings) relating to the Minnesota Delphi Study of Correctional Institutions; and various informational reports, studies, and statistics relating to the correctional institutions studied.
Economic Development Department: An Inventory of Its Accountant's Correspondence and Subject Files	gr02664
Correspondence, budgets, reports, and other material concerning the department's advertising program, personnel, purchasing, expenses, consultants' contracts, and related matters.
Grant County: Elbow Lake: Justice of the Peace: An Inventory of Its Civil and Criminal Dockets	gr02674
Civil and criminal dockets of the Elbow Lake Justice of the Peace.
Highway Department: An Inventory of Its Newspaper Clippings	gr00910
Clippings documenting departmental activities throughout the state.
Koryne Horbal: An Inventory of Her Papers	01243
Files documenting the feminist and political activities of Koryne Horbal, one of the founding members of the DFL Feminist Caucus, United States representative on the Commission on the Status of Women of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, as well as former chairwoman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Includes digital content.
Human Services Department: An Inventory of Its Bulletins	gr00768
Circular letters and bulletins (often called Commissioner's Bulletins) issued by the Human Services Department and its predecessors. Includes digital content.
Kanabec County: Auditor: An Inventory of Its Records	gr02671
Grass seed furnished record (1895), estray register (1887-1898), wolf bounty record (1880-1898), poor record (1897-1900), and handdrawn plat book (1862-1878).
Kanabec County: Auditor: An Inventory of Its Trial Balances	gr02672
Trial balances of the Kanabec County Auditor.
Kanabec County: Register of Deeds: An Inventory of Its Land Records	gr02673
Records apparently transcribed from U. S. Land Office records located at the Cambridge and Taylors Falls land offices. Includes, from Cambridge, abstracts of lands lying in Kanabec County (1861), and, from Taylors Falls, registers of entries (1868-1876, 1879-1881) and final homestead certificates (1879-1881), an abstract of land sold (1879-1881), and a township plat book (1870s-1880s).
Legislature: An Inventory of the Videotapes and Audio Cassettes Compiled for Tribune of the People	gr02655
Materials collected during the research for Royce Hanson's book, Tribune of the People: The Minnesota Legislature and Its Leaders.
Minneapolis-Moline Company: An Inventory of Its Records	00063
Records related to a Minneapolis-based manufacturer of farm tractors and implements and to several predecessor, related, and successor companies, including the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company, the Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company, B.F. Avery & Sons Co., the Moline Plow Company, and the White Motor Corporation. Includes digital content.
Miss C.H. Lippencott seed company scrapbook: An Inventory of the Album	sv000592
1 album/scrapbook that was most likely compiled by seed company entrepreneur Carrie H. Lippencott herself and includes advertisements, business ephemera, testimonials, photographs, evidence of the geographic reach of her business, and personal remarks.
Nicollet County: Assessor: An Inventory of Its Assessment Rolls	gr02670
Assessment rolls for years 1950, 1951, 1960, 1961, and 1970 include real property and personal property. There are no assessment rolls present for 1971. Also includes assessment rolls for 1980, 1981, 1990, 1991, 2000, and 2001.
Pennington County: River Falls Township: An Inventory of Its Records	gr02660
Clerk's town record books (1897-1975) and road records (1898-1955). The latter include Board of Supervisors' road record book (1900-1927), road overseer's poll tax pass book (1898), and road petitions and orders (undated, 1939, 1955).
Pine County: Kerrick Township: An Inventory of Its Birth and Death Records	gr02669
Birth and death record (1913-1941); birth and death certificates (1941-1953); and burial/removal permits (1921-1940).
Polk County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Real Estate Tax Judgment Record	gr02681
Real estate tax judgment records of the Polk County District Court.
Public Employees Retirement Association: An Inventory of Its Annual Reports	gr02659
The annual reports consist mainly of financial statements and membership statistics; all are dated June 30 of the stated year.
Public Examiner: An Inventory of Its Audit Reports of County Agricultural Societies	gr02657
Reports on the examination of the financial affairs of county agricultural societies (which organized the county fairs), conducted annually in the autumn by the Public Examiner.
Public Examiner: An Inventory of Its Audit Reports of Sanatoriums	gr02658
Reports on the examination of the financial affairs of state and county sanatoriums, generally for the calendar or fiscal year (some reports cover more than one year).
Public Safety Department: Commissioner’s Office: An Inventory of Its Records	gr02023
Includes subject files, reports, hearing transcripts, manuals, rules and regulation, administrative rulemaking files, minutes and meeting files, and legislative mandated reports.
Ramsey County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Indictment Records	gr02680
Indictment records of the Ramsey County District Court.
Todd County: Long Prairie: An Inventory of Its City Hospital Records	gr02667
Admission record book (1947-1956) and register of maternity patients (1953-1956).
Todd County: Long Prairie: An Inventory of Its Records	gr02665
Clerk's registers of receipts and disbursements (1915-1971), village ordinances (1904-1955), poll lists/election registers and vote summaries (1949-1976), library board minutes (1914-1961) and a history of the city public library, and city health officer's record of dangerous diseases (1945-1959).
Todd County: Long Prairie: Municipal Court: An Inventory of Its Dockets	gr02666
Civil and criminal dockets of the Long Prairie justices of the peace (1918-1956), and criminal dockets of the Long Prairie municipal court (1957-1968).
Todd County: Staples: An Inventory of Its Records	gr02668
Registers of orders issued and clerk's record (1906-1949), jail register (1952-1954), register of licenses issued (1907-1931), water and light department inventories (1907-1925), water and light commission minutes (1907-1917), city charter (1908) and resolutions (1935-1958), petitions (1931-1958), election records (1956-1969), relief records (1927-1965), and other records of the municipal hospital, municipal truck scale, municipal power plant, municipal water treatment and sewage disposal plants, the Staples National Reemployment Service (1934-1936), and Todd County Emergency Relief Administration (1934).
Todd County: Staples: Municipal and Justice Courts: An Inventory of Its Docket Books	gr02678
Docket books from the Municipal and Justice Courts of the city of Staples.
Todd County: Staples Township: An Inventory of Its Birth and Death Records	gr02676
Birth and death register (1902-1907) and certificate records (1908-1963), and burial permits (1908-1943).
Todd County: Staples Township: An Inventory of Its Records	gr02677
Clerk's books (1902-1966), treasurer's books (1914-1967), road petitions and orders (1902, 1906, 1952), miscellaneous annual town meeting records, financial statements, and election registers and records (1942, 1962-1986).
Veterans Affairs Department: Commissioner's Office: An Inventory of Its Chronological Files	gr02675
Copies of outgoing letters and memoranda of commissioners Donald M. Miller (1979-1980), Charles T. Pinkham (1981-1982), James H. Main (1982-1983), and William J. Gregg (1983-1986). They document all aspects of the daily administration of the department, including funding and budgeting, personnel issues, appointments, investigation of veteran's benefits claims and grievances, operation of the veterans homes in Minneapolis and Hastings, speaking engagements, legislation and implementation of pertinent laws, and relations with numerous veterans organizations. There are also responses drafted to correspondence originally received by the governor.
Willmar State Hospital: An Inventory of Its Audiovisual Materials	gr02656
Video recordings of the hospital's 75th anniversary celebration, 1987, and orientation to the Willmar Regional Treatment Center, 1996.

New and Updated Catalog Records

Barnes, Marilyn J., 1927- Marilyn J. Barnes papers, 1940-2010, 2016-2017 (bulk 1943-1946).

Includes approximately 300 letters and postcards (1943-1946) written by Marilyn J. Barnes to her parents and family while a patient at Ah-Gwah-Ching tubercular sanatorium, as well as a few letters written to her; new clippings and publications (approximately 1940-1995) concerning her treatment and time at the facility; photographs (1944-1947, 2009); Ah-Gwah-Ching correspondence with her parents (1943-1944, 1946); materials regarding The People's Plague, a PBS documentary by Florentine Films for which she was interviewed (1993-1995); biographical data (2010); and correspondence and typed transcripts of interviews conducted by independent researcher and consultant Mary Krugerud with Marilyn Barnes (2016-2017). Her letters describe in detail the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of a teenager away from home, including the medical treatment she underwent.

What's New -- November 2023

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New and Updated Catalog Records

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