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Agriculture

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

A. William Hoglund papers

 Collection
Identifier: IHRC3325
Abstract

This collection consists of both published and unpublished materials pertaining predominantly to the history of Finnish American communities, but also includes the history of various ethnic groups, immigration history, and agricultural history; materials are all related to A.W. Hoglund's teaching career and personal life and include personal and work related correspondence, family records, papers and research.

Dates: 1882-2007; Majority of material found in 1940s-1990s

Committees, 1960 - 2000

 Series
Identifier: A3-B
Description Materials from this record series involve committees, organizations, and task forces from a variety of different levels. Some files are for all-university committees, and some are for national organizations. However, the majority have to do with campus governance and serve to document the campus response to significant issues during its formative years. The majority of the records are from Bettina (Elizabeth) Blake’s tenure as Academic Dean. Materials include agendas, brochures,...
Dates: 1960 - 2000

Duluth Farmers' Market oral history interviews

 Collection
Identifier: S6160
Abstract

The collections consists of audio and/or video recordings of interviews with narrators who had been involved in selling and buying produce at the Duluth Farmers’ Market during its first 100 years. The collection also includes brief biographical information and photographs of the narrators, interview abstracts, and transcripts of the interviews.

Dates: 2012

Fanny Jarvi Hammarlund papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IHRC3876
Abstract

Collection consists of a 7-page family history of the Jarvi family, settled on a farm near Lawler, Aitkin County, Minnesota. Includes information on the 1918 fire in the surrounding areas (the Cloquet - Moose Lake Fire). The autobiographical account was written by Fanny Jarvi Hammarlund, with Edith Jeanette (Jackman) Futcher, in the late 1980s. The memoir details the lives of Matt and Mariana Jarvi, both born in Finland and immigrating to the U.S. in the early 1900s.

Dates: 1900-1980

Farmers' Club of Munger records

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S4590
Abstract

The collections consists of one minutes book (April 2, 1917-July 19, 1924) and one treasurer's book (1923-1924.) Both volumes include membership lists.

Dates: 1917-1924

Finnish Farmers Fire Insurance Company, Carbon County, Montana records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: IHRC684
Abstract

Papers of the Finnish Farmers Fire Insurance Company consist of constitutions and by-laws, correspondence, and receipts of deposits.

Dates: 1960-1984

Floodwood Cooperative Creamery Association records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: S3716
Abstract

The collection contains Report of Examination and Statement of Operations for the period 1932-1935; Report of Audit, 1936 – 1945; Board of Director Reports of Stockholders, 1938; Annual Reports, 1931, 1932; Ballot upon Amendments of Articles of Incorporation, n.d.; Merger Facts, ca 1954; and miscellaneous financial papers.

Dates: 1932-1954

Kalju Eik papers

 Collection
Identifier: IHRC3093
Abstract

correspondence, newspaper clippings, personal documents

Dates: 1940-1999

Mari Trine papers

 Collection
Identifier: U6255
Abstract

The collection contains an oral history project conducted by Mari Trine in 2003 and 2006, in which she interviewed sixteen women living and working in rural Minnesota. Also included is correspondence related to Trine's grievance process after being denied tenure at the College of St. Scholastica, presentations by Trine, and Duluth ephemera.

Dates: 1999-2019

Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station records

 Collection
Identifier: ua-00932
Abstract The Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station records contain materials concerning research, instruction, operations and events at the St Paul station occurring between 1882 and 2010. Most of the collection consists of correspondence, much of which is interfiled with minutes, reports, project proposals and agreements, planning documents, conference programs and proceedings, data on crops, land use and station expenditures, varietal certification, and documentation about departments involved...
Dates: 1882-2010

Minnesota Arrowhead Association records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3158
Abstract

The collection contains annual reports, correspondence, programs, publications, and photographs.

Dates: 1926-1983

Planning and Progress Reports, 1960 - 2000

 Series
Identifier: A3-I
Description The materials in this record sub-series include records from both the University and from various local and regional organizations dedicated to local development. Much of the material involving regional planning is from the administration of Gordon Bopp, who was actively involved in local and agricultural issues. Of special interest in regards to University and campus planning are the various annual and biennial reports, the building plans and legislative request files, and various folders...
Dates: 1960 - 2000

Speeches and Addresses, 1960 - 2000

 Series
Identifier: A3-J
Description Materials in this small record sub-series consist of a few speeches, mostly those delivered by Rodney Briggs in the 1960s, and a handful of other folders involving conferences, guest speakers, policy statements, and reports. However, the various Briggs speeches are most worthy of note. He addressed the topic of the future of American agriculture, for instance, in 1966 and spoke to the "Problems of the Small College" in that same year. Two years later he recapped the then brief history of the...
Dates: 1960 - 2000

St. Louis County Auditor records

 Collection
Identifier: S2400
Abstract

This collection consists of reports made by various county officials; applications for liquor licenses; claims against St. Louis County which have been ordered paid by the County Board; tax records; Auditor's correspondence; public examiner's report on school districts, boards of education, cities, towns, townships, and on St. Louis County; elelction tally sheets; proceedings of the St. Louis County Board of Auditors; and other papers filed with the St. Louis County Auditor.

Dates: circa 1863-1947

St. Louis County Certified Potato Growers Association records

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S6050
Abstract The records consist of one folder of meeting minutes (May 10, 1935-June 29, 1940), treasurer's reports, a copy of a September 21, 1935 Marketing Agreement, membership list (July 26, 1936), roll call list (members, 1937), audit report (October 27, 1936), Second Annual St. Louis County Certified Potato Growers Recognition Banquet program (May 4, 1938), Agreement cooperative rutabaga and certified seed potato marketing (November 1, 1938), Report of Range Co-operative Federation on Potato Work...
Dates: 1934-1941

St. Louis County Extension Service reports

 Collection
Identifier: S6065
Abstract The collection consists primarily of annual reports by the county extension agents for agriculture (1915-1982), home economics (1918-1982), 4-H (1920 and 1925-1982), St. Louis County Club and Farm Bureau Association (1922-1956), forestry, and horticulture. The reports may include photographs, correspondence, financial materials, lists of area farmers and their crops, programs and activities, and maps. Also included are cattle testing reports for Bangs (brucellosis) disease and tuberculosis...
Dates: 1915-1975

St. Louis County Work Farm records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2313
Abstract

The collection contains administrative, financial, and agricultural production records.

Dates: 1913-1970

Mark J. Thompson scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3107
Abstract

The collection contains 2 folders of news clippings regarding his work and personal life, 1918-1962; a booklet on the forest fires of 1918; correspondence, 1923–1962; one report entitled “A Grazing Adventure in Northern Minnesota”;  one photograph of Thompson; and 8 scrapbooks.

Dates: 1918-1962