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1918 Forest Fire documents

 Collection
Identifier: S6057
Abstract

This collection is intended to accommodate miscellaneous, primary documents related to the October 12, 13, 1918 Cloquet-Moose Lake forest fire and its aftermath when provenance or donor information about the material is unclear or not known.

Dates: 1918-1920s

Adolpho and Egeria Minuti papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: S6182
Abstract The collection contains Minuti’s 1882 art certificate; report cards; one folder of business records 1922-1928, undated; six photographs of the sculpture business including Adolpho Minuti at a desk, and five of the workroom or studio with unidentified workmen; a C. P. Gibson photograph of the main ceiling St. Marie’s Cathedral of Minneapolis, 1913-14; family travel receipts and telegrams, passports, Italian organization membership records, marriage, and death documents including a Builders’...
Dates: 1882; 1917-1978

Aftenro Society records

 Collection — Item: tapes
Identifier: S2254
Abstract

The collection includes minutes of the Aftenro Society, some written in Norwegian; historical logs; scrapbooks; correspondence; annual reports; and photographs.  It also includes one audiotape of Mrs. Arnold Berg, Aftenro historian, recounting the history of Aftenro Society.

Dates: 1910-1976

Alworth family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3635
Abstract

The collection consists of two series: correspondence and photographs. This collection shows only a small segment of the Alworth family business.

Dates: 1895-1967

AARP, University View 926 Chapter records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S6034
Abstract

The collection contains minutes (1971-2001), correspondence, activity information, and two photograph albums chronicling chapter activities and events.

Dates: 1971-2001

Atwood Family vacation photographs

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3738
Abstract

The collection consists of 24 black and white photographs of the Duluth Aerial Bridge, North Shore scenes, Kakabeka Falls of Ontario, Canada, Grand Marais, Temperance River, ore boats, Split Rock Lighthouse, Gun Flint Trail, and others.

Dates: 1937-1968; Majority of material found in 1937, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1968

Baldwin Flats photographs

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3756
Abstract

The Baldwin Flats are located at 711 – 715 West Second Street, Duluth, Minnesota, built in 1891 – 92. The thirteen prints comprising this collection were copied from a photograph album loaned to the St. Louis County Historical Society, the copy prints and negatives were then transferred to the NEMHC. The prints show the exterior and interior of the building.

Dates: circa 1899

Durant Barclay, Jr. industrial photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S4528
Abstract

The collection consists of industrial photographs taken by the donor during the duration of his studio's operation in Virginia, Minnesota which closed in 1956. Mr. Barclay continued shooting for industrial clients through 1963.

Dates: 1910, 1951-1963; Majority of material found in 1951-1963

George A. Beck papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: S6039
Abstract The collection contains a June 10, 1959 letter to Beck's Ohio State University professor on the occasion of the professor's retirement and a September 13, 1959 reply from Professor Dan H. Eikenberry, and 8 bound volumes: 1921-1929 course work of George Beck; July 1930 Child Labor and Compulsory Attendance Laws of West Virginia; June 1931 Syllabus for Ohio State University course 817, Seminary in Secondary School...
Dates: 1921-1964

Charles and Anna Sandberg Benson family papers

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S4533
Abstract

The collection consists of family photographs and two items related to the 1933-1934 city of Chicago 100 anniversary event called A Century of Progress.

Dates: 1909-1940

Albert and Alfreda Berg family papers

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S6087
Abstract

The collection consists of family photographs that document women workers in the U. S. Steel plant in Morgan Park, and one work identification badge.

Dates: 1926-1949

Manley Patrick Burns papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2421
Abstract

The collection contains photographs of Duluth, primarily West Duluth, gathered from a variety of sources.

Dates: 1880-1967

Benton B. Byers papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3113
Abstract

The collection contains a diploma, photograph and news clippings from 1904–1972, a plant sketchbook, a scrapbook, and various items of Benton Byers' father Fredrick W. Byers including journals, notes, and letters from the Civil War.

Dates: 1861-1972

Cabinet card and postcard photograph collection

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S4405
Abstract

Cabinet and photographic post cards donated because there is evidence in most of the images that they were taken or in some way connected to Duluth.

Dates: circa 1906

Cabinet Card portraits

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3728
Abstract

The collection consists of seven cabinet cards, all but one of which is albumen.

Dates: circa 1890s

Gayle Thoreson Carlson and Carl E. Carlson family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S6019
Abstract

The collection consists of family photographs, papers, and a scrapbook primarily documenting the life of Gayle Thoreson Carlson (d. 2000), and her husband Carl E. Carlson (d. 1992), as well as information on Proctor, Minnesota and the Cozy Café.

Dates: about 1900-1973

Gust and Hanna Carlson family home photographs

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S6163
Abstract

The collection contains one bound volume of 53 exterior and interior black and white silver gelatin 8x10 photographs by L. P. Gallagher from 1941 of the Carlson house and furnishings at 202 North 24th Avenue East, Duluth, Minnesota, small hand-drawn floor plans of the basement and three floors, one 5x7 photograph of the house under construction with the workmen in 1910, and a detail of an undated photograph identified as architect Robert Lobecke.

Dates: 1910-1941; Majority of material found in 1910, 1941

Caswell & Davy photographs

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S4492
Abstract

The collection consists of photographs by Caswell & Davy. The photographs are of Superior Street from 1st or 2nd Avenue West, looking east up the hill and down toward the water; also, there is a photograph of the steamer "Arizona" from 1868.

Dates: 1870-1875

Charles A. Curtis photograph collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S6076
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of black and white and color photographs by a photojournalist employed by a Duluth newspaper. The photographs are of the city of Duluth, events, people, as well as the northeast Minnesota area primarily from 1971, 1982-1990s; many are not dated and unidentified.

Dates: 1957-1999

Clyde Iron Works records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2365
Abstract

The collection contains records of Clyde Iron Company (1889), Northwestern Supply Company (1899), Northwestern Manufacturing Company (1899), Clyde Iron Works, Cleveland Duluth Company, Inc. (1920), Willamette Clyde Company (Oregon, 1923), Cleveland Duluth Holding Company of Minnesota (1926) and Clyde Iron Works Sales Company (renamed Clyde Sales Company) the sole distributor for Clyde Iron Works. There are no records of the Clyde Equipment Company.

Dates: 1889-1970

Community Health Center, Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: U6263
Abstract

The collection contains records of the Community Health Center, Inc. and its successors, First Plan of Minnesota and FirstSolutions.

Dates: 1939-2010

Congdon Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: U6192
Abstract

The collection contains materials related to the Congdon family, including personal and business papers. The papers include: photographs; materials related to the Glensheen estate house, grounds, and staff; Chester Congdon's business, financial, and political papers; materials related to Chester Congdon's 1914 trip around the Pacific; personal correspondence; diaries; and publications and ephemera.

Dates: 1843 - 1993

Calvin Coolidge Visit to Duluth papers

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3092
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence, photographs and newsclippings of President Coolidge's visit to Duluth, Minnesota in 1928.

Dates: 1928

David H. Costello papers

 Collection
Identifier: S3039
Abstract

The collection contains a typed diary, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellany.

Dates: 1892-1965

Craggencroft School records

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3639
Abstract

The collection contains two photographs of the school and one of five students; calendars with descriptions, photographs, cost, and classes offered; invitations to parents; two report cards; financing contract; and account of presentation of Julia Ward Howe.

Dates: 1891-1902

Crandall & Fletcher photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S4451
Abstract

The collection consists of 8x10 and oversized (on linen rolled) original prints of photographs by Crandall and Fletcher of Duluth, Minnesota.

Dates: 1901-1902; Majority of material found in some not dated

William E. Culkin papers

 Collection
Identifier: S3048
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence, awards and certificates, lawyers' case records, news clippings, photographs, and manuscripts on local history. The collection also includes one photograph alubm of snap shots and post card photographs.

Dates: 1908-1942

John H. Darling papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3030
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence, diaries, articles and addresses written by Darling, a subject file, personal financial materials, news clippings, photographs, and engineering plans.

Dates: 1813-1965

Eloise Marie Decker College Days album

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S6003
Abstract

Contains one photograph album titled College Days, compiled and lettered by Eloise Marie Decker during 1901-1902 while a student at Craggencroft school in Duluth, Minnesota. There are two copy negatives, one of Eloise at the time of her marriage in 1903, and one of her as a elderly woman.  There are photocopies of the two photographs which were lent by the family for copying.

Dates: 1901-1902

District Court exhibit photographs

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S4561
Abstract

Photographs taken in various Duluth locations for use as court exhibits. Some of the copies have case file numbers and most have names of Clerk of Court and photographers.

Dates: 1896-1907, 1951; Majority of material found in 1896-1907, 1951