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1918 Fire, Remembered by Dagmar Westin Michler

 Collection — Item: tapes
Identifier: S6030
Abstract

One brief tape, recorded when Dagmar Westin Michler was 78 years old.

Dates: 1918

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

Aurora Northland Lesbian Center records

 Collection
Identifier: S6167
Abstract

The collection contains articles of incorporation; by-laws; updated mission statements; organizational policies and procedures; board minutes and accompanying materials including some financial statements, 1990-2009; newsletters, 1989-1994; letters; news clippings; and phone/drop-in logs.

Dates: 1988-2012

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

Building for Women records

 Collection
Identifier: U6219
Abstract

Ephemera, correspondence, planning documents, and other materials related to the Building for Women in downtown Duluth.

Dates: 1993 - 2007

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

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

Matthew Carroll letter to Agnes Kinnisch

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S6138
Abstract

The collection consists of a single letter, dated May 2nd, 1883, to Agnes Kinnisch from Matthew Carroll or Mrs. Carroll. The letter concerns allegations made against Miss Kinnisch's character and confirms the Carrolls' positive experiences with Miss Kinnisch while she was employed as their domestic servant.

Dates: May 2, 1883

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

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

Daughters of Norway Nora Lodge No. 4 records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: S2368
Abstract

The collection includes the 1903 charter; correspondence; constitution for the Sons of Norway; 1950 merger papers; records of payments to about 30 sick members; minutes from meetings, 1903-1955; ledgers, 1903-1963; supplemental ledgers, 1903-1959; and the membership roster for 1949.

Dates: 1903-1959

Daughters of Norway Stadheim Lodge Number 48 records

 Collection
Identifier: U6223
Abstract

Contains materials related to Daughters of Norway Standheim Lodge No. 48 and its members. Some materials are from other Lodges.

Dates: 1908-2010

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

Duluth Birth History Project records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S6144
Abstract

The collection consists of oral history interviews and research materials on the history of giving birth in Duluth, Minnesota.

Dates: 2010-2013

Duluth Children's Museum records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S6170
Abstract

The collection contains articles of incorporation, by-laws, minutes, annual reports, budgets, policies, newsletters, newspaper clippings scrapbooks, photographs, Chisholm family genealogy and photographs, museum programming materials and photographs, American Alliance of Museums museum assessment, strategic plan.

Dates: 1901-2007; Majority of material found in 1930-2007

Duluth Photographers' Studios photograph collection

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S4409
Abstract

The collection consists of 21 photographs from Duluth photographers' studios.

Dates: 1895-1910

Duluth Public Schools records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3688
Abstract

The collection contains 27 volumes of board minutes, 1870-1971; a small number of attendance and enrollment records; rules and regulations; clerk’s annual reports, 1923-1925, 1929-1936, 1939-1947; publications, 1 scrapbook, and photographs.

Dates: 1870-2010

Duluth Surgical Society records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S4511
Abstract

The collection consists of yearbooks for the years 1935-1944 in nine bound volumes, lantern slides, and minutes.

Dates: 1935-1959

Duluth Woman's Club records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: S2373
Abstract

The bulk of this collection consists of programs. The collection also includes by-laws, invitations, and an essay on the history of the club.

Dates: 1936-1976

Walter and Goldie Eldot papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: S4527
Abstract

The collection consists of 1956 articles of incorporation for Duluth Community Chest; a 90 minute interview on cassette tape with 89-year old Glen Merritt on October 26, 1983, about Merritt’s recollections of YMCA’s Camp Miller; and black and white photographs collected by Eldot that may have illustrated his articles in Outlook and Cosmopolitan sections of the newspaper when he was editor.

Dates: 1956-1984; Majority of material found in 1967-1983

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

Elizabeth J. Goodsell slides

 Collection
Identifier: S4532
Abstract

The collection consists of approximately 1,240 black and white and color slides of Duluth sites, views, events, and activities from 1955-1973.

Dates: 1955-1973

Great Lakes Naval Training photographs

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S4520
Abstract

The collection consists of three 8x10 (broken at the folds), black and white photographs of Duluth men who served in the Great Lakes Naval Training program in WWI.

Dates: 1918, 1940s

Clara A. Helwig papers

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S4406
Abstract

The collection includes ten personal letters, seven letters of recommendation, and one letter from the Duluth Humane Society concerning Helwig's handling of truant and delinquent children. Document types include originals, photocopies, and typed transcriptions.

Dates: 1889-1903

Hepzibeth Woman of Iron play

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: S4515
Abstract

The collection consists of a Master's thesis rewritten as a play about the life of Hephzibeth Merritt.

Dates: 1991

History of Duluth’s Women’s Organizations videorecordings

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1363
Abstract

Contains materials from a Spring 2012 University for Seniors study group course, History of Duluth Women’s Organizations, led by Tina Welsh.The collection includes 11 video recordings of presentations by volunteers and professionals from women’s organizations in Duluth, Minnesota and a printed syllabus for the course.

Dates: 2012

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

Ingrid Wells papers

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S2246
Abstract The collection contains circulars, filing statement and maps of legislative district from Wells’ 1956 campaign for 57th Congressional District; text of a speech she gave as Vice President of Voyaguer’s National Park Association, 1968 and a statement of recognition of her work for this association; the statement of appointment to the governor’s commission on the Status of Women, 1965; conference program for and newspaper clippings announcing the Duluth Bi-Annual Conference on the Status of...
Dates: 1954-1965

Albertine Johnson oral history interview

 Collection — Item: tapes
Identifier: S2319
Abstract

The collection consists of three audio recordings of interviews with Albertine Johnson. The interviewer was her son, Rudy Johnson. Interviews took place on September 7, 1977 and May 7, 1978.

Dates: 1977-1978