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Duluth Tent & Awning Company records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2405
Abstract

The collection consists of financial ledgers.

Dates: 1915-1949; Majority of material found in 1911-1912, 1915-1949

Duluth Water and Light Board records

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S2408
Abstract

The collection contains minutes, regulations and by-laws, Manager Reports, correspondence, contracts and proposed contracts, reports to the Duluth City Council, news clippings, circulars, and a history of the Duluth, Minnesota Gas and Water Plants, 1892-1904.

Dates: 1898-1904

Duluth Winter Frolic

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: S3157
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence, press releases, newspaper clippings, programs, ephemera, and photographs from the annual Winter Frolic event. Some of the photographs were taken by photographer Hugh McKenzie.

Dates: 1926-1928

Ino Dunphy letter

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3684
Abstract

This letter from Dunphy of Duluth is to Mrs. E. Chambers of Fond du Lac, and praises Fond du Lac in song and verse.

Dates: 1890

James Jay Egan letter

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3625
Abstract

The collection consists of one letter written in Washington, D. C. from Egan to Clinton Markell of the Duluth City Council.

Dates: 1871 December 12

Endion on the Move videotape

 Collection
Identifier: S3789
Abstract

The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway depot, the Endion Station, located at 1504 South Street, Duluth, was relocated in the summer of 1986 to the area of waterfront development called the Corner of the Lake. This video is the raw footage of the relocation of the building from its original site to the Corner of the Lake area near Canal Park.

Dates: 1986 June

James A. Ferguson family papers

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S4427
Abstract

The collection consists of the papers of the James A. Ferguson family.

Dates: circa 1900-1925

Thomas Foster family papers

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S2343
Abstract

The collection contains family correspondence and photographs of the family.

Dates: 1852-1874

The Four Seasons film

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3022
Abstract

The collection consists of one reel of color, standard 8mm film, 30 minutes in length. The film shows various scenes around Duluth, Minnesota during different seasons.

Dates: 1939

Friday Club records

 Collection
Identifier: S6168
Abstract

The collection contains annual programs (1916-2010, missing 1922-1924, 1997, 2001, 2005-2008) that include list of officers; program committee; meeting dates for the year, the book for that meeting, the hostess’s name; a suggested reading list; a directory of members (local, associate, out of town); a photocopy of the 1916-1917 Program; a 1994 Constitution and By-laws; a Friday Book Club List (of books) 1994-1999

Dates: 1916-2010

John Fritzen papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: S3002
Abstract

The collection contains handwritten notes on logging and the lumber business, a small amount of correspondence, manuscripts and biographical materials.

Dates: 1932-1977

Paul B. Gaylord photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2395
Abstract

The collection contains photographs and glass plate negatives of Duluth, Minnesota taken by photographer Paul Gaylord.

Dates: 1869-1875

General Historical Photograph Album collection

 Collection — Volume: 42
Identifier: S2396
Abstract

The collection consists of photograph albums from various photographers and collectors.

Dates: 1867-1972

General Postcard collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2282
Abstract

All postcards donated to the archives are added to this collection. The cards are arranged by the subjects used in the general historical photograph collection; the subjects are filed alphabetically.

Dates: circa 1900-

George A. Newton photographs

 Collection
Identifier: S2381
Abstract

The collection consists of cabinet cards and unmounted, primarily, albumen prints stamped with Newton's name or his advertisement.  It is assumed he made the photographs.

Dates: circa 1880-1900

George Thrana, Master Stone Sculptor transcript

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S2339
Abstract

The collection consists of a transcript of a lecture presented at a meeting of the St. Louis County Historical Society, March 18, 1980. The lecture dealt with George Thrana and his work as a stone carver in the city of Duluth, Minnesota.

Dates: 1980

Malcolm Gillespie photograph collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: S2419
Abstract

This collection contains glass plate negatives and photographic prints collected by Dr. Gillespie. Images include doctors, clinics, hospitals, nurses, the St. Louis County Medical Society, and early scenes of Duluth, Minnesota.

Dates: 1880-1935; Majority of material found in 1880-1935, not dated

John Gilomen papers

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3171
Abstract

This collection contains a certificate of citizenship (passport) from Scheunenberg, Switzerland, a typed translation of that document, and a homestead certificate from Duluth, Minnesota, dated 1874.

Dates: 1851-1874

Harvey L. Bohannon photograph collection

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S2234
Abstract

The collection includes photographs of views from the Duluth, Minnesota area.

Dates: circa 1902-circa 1914

History of Business Development in Duluth oral history interviews

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2376
Abstract

The interviews in this project document the history of Duluth area businesses and labor unions. Narrators comment, where appropriate, on the founding and growth of carious businesses or labor organizations, the formation of corporate policies, labor – management relations, urban renewal, union philosophy and strategy, government regulation, binding arbitrations, and the relationship of business and labor political and civic affairs.

Dates: 1980-1981

History of Western Lake Superior Sanitary District oral history project

 Collection
Identifier: S6146
Abstract

This project recorded the memories and experiences of early employees, board members, and community leaders involved in the establishment and start-up of the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD) in Duluth, Minnesota. Fifteen narrators participated.

Dates: 2010

Homecroft Community residents scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S4556
Abstract

The scrapbooks are comprised of newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1912-1947; Majority of material found in 1912-1940s, 1947

Emery A. Houghton photographs

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3796
Abstract

The collection consists of 36 photographs, 28 of them in an album. Subjects of the photographs include: views of Duluth, Central High School, view of West End, Duluth Imperial Mill Co., snow scenes, logging camp and lumbering scenes, buildings, Whaleback ships, Incline Railroad at 6th Avenue West, grain elevators, Park Point bathers chute, train wreck and lake vessels.

Dates: circa 1895-1906

Richard H. Hudelson labor history research collection

 Collection
Identifier: S6143
Abstract

The collections contains research materials compiled to write Dr. Hudelson's book published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2006 titled By the Ore Docks: A Working People’s History of Duluth.

Dates: 1880-2006; Majority of material found in 1883-1978

Mary Hugo reminiscence 75 Years Later

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S2285
Abstract

The collection consists of a manuscript titled "75 Years Later." It describes Ms. Hugo's final months in the Hugo family home in 1957 and her attempt to clear the house of 75 years of family possessions. The essay uses these possessions to recount a family history.

Dates: 1957-1970

Trevanion W. Hugo papers

 Collection
Identifier: S3166
Abstract

The collection contains election materials, mayoral, personal and business correspondence, speeches, articles and letters by Hugo, material on social activities, descriptions of Hugo, and his personal diary from 1902–1913.

Dates: 1899-1923

Hunter and MacFarlane Family scrapbooks

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: S4501
Abstract

The collection consists of two scrapbooks compiled by Mary Gouveia. The first volume chronicles the Hunter family. The second volume covers the MacFarlane family.

Dates: compiled 1989-1991

Virginia Hyvarinen papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S4441
Abstract

The collection contains topic and research files compiled by Ms. Hyvarinen on a wide range of subjects.

Dates: 1880-1988

Interstate 35 oral history interviews

 Collection
Identifier: S6172
Abstract

The collection consists of audio and/or video recordings of individuals who were involved with planning, opposition, or design and construction of Interstate 35 (I-35) through Duluth in the 1960s through the 1990s. The collection also includes brief biographical information and photographs of the narrators and transcripts of the interviews.

Dates: 2014

James Harvey Whitely correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: S2293
Abstract

The collection consists of two letterpress books containing the business correspondence of attorney James Harvey Whitely.

Dates: 1893-1902

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