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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

Alpha Delta Kappa, Fidelis Beta Chapter scrapbook

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S4599
Abstract

The collection consists of a historian’s scrapbook which includes: color photographs, achievement awards, programs, conventions, newspaper clippings, and memorials all dating from 1988-1997.

Dates: 1988-1997

American Association of University Women, Duluth Branch records

 Collection
Identifier: S3003
Abstract

The collection contains annual reports, legal records, correspondence, committee materials, financial records, publications, photographs and ten scrapbooks.

Dates: 1908-2011

American Legion Auxiliary Unit 517, 125th Field Artillery Auxiliary records

 Collection
Identifier: S2383
Abstract This  collection includes:  unit constitution, newsletters, applications for membership, Emergency Service Questionnaire, citations, Unit History, minutes, newspaper clippings, blue books, financial records, correspondence, manual of ceremonies, annual reports, poppy booklet, unit plays, historical pageant poster, two early photographs of the bugle corps, and membership records.  It also contains finance records, membership records, minutes, correspondence and newspaper clippings for MOM's...
Dates: 1920-1978

American Red Cross, Northland Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: S3006
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence, reference materials, photographs, and Red Cross publications. Most of the material originated from the chapter's World War I activities, and reflects the relief programs in effect during that war.

Dates: 1915-1963

Floyd R. Anderson photograph collection

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S4540
Abstract

The collection consists of black and white and color photographs of county commissioner groups from 1961-1976 when Floyd Anderson served on the county board.

Dates: 1961-1976

Marguerite Belanger photograph album

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3741
Abstract

The collection consists of seven photographs of Marguerite Belanger, her husband, and the all-women bands she led. A biographical sketch by her son Adrian Belanger accompanies the photographs.

Dates: 1918-1946; Majority of material found in 1918-1926

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

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

Judith Nelson Carlson Rural Vermilion Lake School photographs

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S4468
Abstract

The collection contains nine snapshots of Miss Nelson, the Vermilion Lake School, and her eight or nine pupils who are unidentified, and appear to be five to twelve years of age.

Dates: 1923-1924

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

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 Air Force Base Officers Wives Club records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S4566
Abstract

The collection consists of two scrapbooks of photos, programs & newsclippings.

Dates: 1954-1965

Duluth Business and Professional Women’s Club records

 Collection
Identifier: S3011
Abstract

The collection contains: cashbook, publications, news clippings, yearbooks, photographs, and scrapbooks. Some scrapbooks contain photographs.

Dates: 1922-1973

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

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

Dorothy Welsh Engler papers

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S6032
Abstract

The collection consists of 14 photographs, four of which appear to have been professionally shot. In two, dated 1957, she is wearing hats. A number are snapshots of Ms. Engler from the 1970s-1988. Six of the images are not dated. There are no corresponding negatives.

Dates: 1935-1988

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

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

Irving Elementary School PTA records

 Collection
Identifier: S6125
Abstract

The collection consists of 12 PTA scrapbooks, a record book with handwritten minutes from 1946-1952, a homemade book of class photos from 1950 with student names, a convention packet from the 1962 Minnesota Congress of Parents and Teachers, and a scrapbook for the Irving school Mothersingers for the years 1948-1955.

Dates: 1930-1963; Majority of material found in 1930-31, 1938-40, 1942-43, 1948-1963

Jussi K. and Olga S. Kangas papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S6064
Abstract The Kangas papers provide a look at individuals enrolled and employed at the Work People's College located in a neighborhood of Duluth called Smithville. The collection consists of photographs (1921-1942) of the Work People's College buildings, students, classrooms, dining hall, a friend of the Kangases, a picnic at Fairmount park (1926, Cliff Studios), a 1920’s photograph and a postcard (mailed March 22, 1926) of the Duluth Central high school building, and two undated photos of the...
Dates: 1921-1942

Eudora V. Marshall Commemoration Celebration collection

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S4402
Abstract

Eudora V. Marshall was born in Aitkin, Minnesota in 1906, and moved to Duluth in 1924. A poet, Marshall was published in newspapers and magazines, and was one of the few black writers in the U.S. who continued to be published during the Great Depression. The collection includes materials that were generated as a result of the decision to present locally as much of Marshall’s extant work as possible.

Dates: 1986

Mattson, Charles G. and Grace W. family papers

 Collection
Identifier: S6069
Abstract

The collection consists of photographs of a logger's homestead (1910-1911). The photographs are divided into subjects: women and children, recreation, equipment (log hauler), workers, and camp.

Dates: 1910-1911

Michael and Diane Gallagher family papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: S6148
Abstract

The collection contains a family photograph album/scrapbook, 1912-1988, 2002; a file of biographical information and 8x10 photographs about Annabelle Freeman Gallagher Thompson's career in marketing, service on the Duluth Arena-Auditorium Board, Woman of the Year award in 1969; Perry Gallagher's career until his retirement from photography in 1978.

Dates: 1911-1988; 2002-2005

National Organization for Women (Minnesota) records

 Collection — Box: Oversize
Identifier: S2326
Abstract

The collection contains minutes, annual/chapter reports, membership list, correspondence, news releases, by-laws, legislative platforms, resolutions, committee proposals and minutes, state conference information, bus trips to the capitol, photographs, information from related organizations, miscellaneous, newspaper clippings, and oversized posters. Materials from both the Duluth, Minnesota chapter and the statewide, Minnesota, organization are represented in the collection.

Dates: 1977-1984

Selma Johnson Niemi photographs

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S6062
Abstract

The collection consists of 104 primarily unidentified small photographs, glued to black photo album paper, that depict Selma Johnson as an employee at Nopeming tuberculosis sanitarium casually or on-duty with other people employees or patients residing there for care. Nopeming staff, facilities, and grounds are shown.

Dates: circa 1914