What's New -- April 2025

New this Month! Walker Art Center Internet Cat Festival Pictures!

Also check out the newly added COVID Coping Cookbook and the recently digitized photographs of MNHS staff, buildings, past exhibits, spaces, history center construction, staff picnics, and many other memorable parts of the history of our institution in the Minnesota Historical Society Institutional Records. Thanks to Charlie Rodgers and the archival digitization team for organizing and making these photographs more widely available.

Newly added accessions this month include the Carole Fisher Papers; the Hennepin County: SAGE Academy Charter School Administrative Files; and the Walker Art Center Internet Cat Festival Records.

Collections with additions or added digital content include the Agricultural Society Century Farm Applications; the American Association of University Women: Minnesota State Division Records; the Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience, and Interior Design Board Records; Cameo Social Club Records; the Episcopal Church: Diocese of Minnesota: Various Records; the Geographic Board Records; the Humanities Commission Audiotapes; the Alexander MacDonald Keith Papers; the Mike Lynch Papers; the Minnesota Historical Society Institutional Archives; the Minnesota Works Progress Administration Records; the Ramsey County District Court Coroner's Certificates; and the Rochester State Hospital Patient Case Books.

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.
American Association of University Women: Minnesota State Division: An Inventory of Its Records	00503
Correspondence, minutes, financial data, scrapbooks of clippings and ephemera, reports, notes, and membership records of the Minnesota State Division and local branches of a national organization for college-educated women founded in 1881 to promote equity for all women and girls, lifelong education, and positive societal change.
Anoka County: An Inventory of Its Marriage Records	gr03358
Microfilmed copies of marriage record books (1858-1971) kept by the Anoka County district court, and of the original marriage returns filed with the court by the marriage officiant (circa 1859-1950). They cover the entire county.
Anoka County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Indexes to Case Files	gr03359
Indexes to civil and criminal case files.
Anoka County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Torrens Records	gr03360
Torrens dockets and decree records.
Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, and Landscape Architecture Board: An Inventory of Its Complaint Files	gr03380
Materials documenting complaints submitted to the board, including lists of complaints (1925-1933), Complaint Committee minutes (1977-1983), correspondence with Lewis L. Anderson, Special Assistant Attorney General assigned to the board for legal assistance (1940-1955), and files covering five cases officially investigated and ruled on by the board (1954-1971).
Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience and Interior Design Board: An Inventory of Its Published Records and Reports	gr03379
Annual reports (1921-1931), rosters (1932-1991), and year books (1940-1957), all of which contain the same types of information; brief narratives describing the work of the board; rules and regulations; copies of forms used by the board; and rosters of registered architects, engineers, and land surveyors. Also rules and regulations (1921-1982, scattered), statutes (1945, 1967, 1986-2015), and a newsletter (1975).
Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience and Interior Design Board: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03378
Includes registers of certified professionals, lists of registrants, and subject files.
Blue Earth County: Auditor: An Inventory of Its Financial Records	gr03416
Order registers (1875-1896); voucher and warrant registers (1900-1967, incomplete) and monthly trial balances (1956-1974). The registers give order or warrant number, payee, when issued, nature of claim, and amount classified by fund category.
Cameo Social Club: An Inventory of Its Records	01143
Minutes, scrapbooks, photographs, and other memorabilia of an African American social club formed in 1925. Much of the material documents parties and other special events held by the club, especially the Cotillion Ball, where the Club presented debutantes during the 1950s and 1960s. Includes digital content.
Chisago County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Registers of Actions	gr03361
The entry for each case gives the parties' names and a chronological list of documents filed, orders issued, costs or penalties adjudged, and other actions by the court of the disputing parties. The criminal register for October 1900-November 1933 is missing, although the registers of civil actions for those years contain some criminal entries.
Chisago County: Probate Court: An Inventory of Its Registers of Probate Actions	gr03362
Registers of documents filed and actions taken in individual probate, guardianship, and insanity cases.
Economic Development Department: An Inventory of Its Subject Files	gr03386
Correspondence, memos, newsletters, newspaper clippings, reports, and similar material regarding conferences sponsored by the department, directories and other department publications, tourism, state and federal agencies, trade associations, and other topics relating to Minnesota's economy.
Education Department: An Inventory of Its Voucher Registers	gr03407
For the years 1905-1917, the registers are divided by month and include the date (month and day), name and reason (salary, tables, telegrams, etc.), total, and account paid from ("continuing, clerks, high school, graded school, semi-graded, rural, training, institute and exam., high school normal, teachers ex. continuing"). Those for 1918-1926 are divided by account. They contain the same type of information, plus vendor numbers.
Episcopal Church: Diocese of Minnesota: An Inventory of Bishop Coadjutor Mahlon N. Gilbert Records	P1035d
Diaries, visitation book, and autograph book of the bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota from 1886 to 1900.
Episcopal Church: Diocese of Minnesota: An Inventory of the Bishop Hamilton Hyde Kellogg Files	P1035m
Files documenting Kellogg's service as bishop coadjutor and bishop of the Diocese of Minnesota.
Episcopal Church: Diocese of Minnesota: An Inventory of Its Parish Record Books	P1035f
Parish registers, minutes, account books and other financial records, photographs, some architectural drawings, microfilm, and other records, primarily of closed parishes but also of some active parishes in the Diocese of Minnesota. Some of the material is in Swedish.
Episcopal Church: Diocese of Minnesota: An Inventory of Its Records	P1035
The records of the Episcopal Church, Diocese of Minnesota, cover the period from the arrival of the first Episcopal missionaries into the area in the 1820s through the bishopric of Robert M. Anderson, which ended in 1993.
Carole Fisher: An Inventory of Her Papers	01580
Personal papers of multimedia artist, educator, and environmentalist Carole Fisher. The papers include: extensive materials related to Fisher's interest in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and her Alaska Oil Spill Project (AOSP); files regrading Fisher's Clinton School Project (CSP); her career exhibition and project files; and files related to fellow artist and collaborator Miriam Schapiro.
Forestry Board: An Inventory of Its Fire Wardens’ Reports and Maps	gr03387
Township fire wardens' annual reports and reports of fires submitted under the 1895 Forest Preservation Act.

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