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Forest fires

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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

Forest Fire Investigations, St. Louis County, Minnesota

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S3735
Abstract

This group of documents relate to forest fire claims and were filed with St. Louis County District Court. They are incomplete groups of records and their relationship is unclear.

Dates: 1919-1923

Patricia Gregory reminiscence of 1918 Fire

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S6072
Abstract

Reminiscence related to two families victimized by the Moose Lake-Cloquet Forest Fire of 1918 when it burned Hermantown, near Duluth. The families were Oscar and Rosa Fichtner and Anton and Emilie Klosowsky.

Dates: 2003

Frank Murphy letter describing the Cloquet fire of 1918

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S2243
Abstract

The collection consists of a letter written by Frank C. Murphy on October 15, 1918 that contains his personal account of the great Moose Lake-Cloquet, Minnesota fire of 1918.

Dates: October 15, 1918

Samuel F. Snively papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S6016
Abstract The papers consist of six inches of material and four scrapbooks. Specifically, folders of photographs (1929-32, not dated) and political materials, a brief personal diary, and Duluth promotional items (1916-1937), and four scrapbooks of newspaper clippings (1924 October-1935 January) pertaining to information on Snively’s political life and public service including important initiatives for Duluth: zoo, parks, libraries, celebrity visits, structures, airport, roads, fraternal organizations,...
Dates: 1882-1958

St. Louis County District Court selected records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2253
Abstract

The collection contains marriage license applications for St. Louis, Cook and Lake Counties, Minnesota 1887-1890; marriage licenses, St. Louis County, 1888-1895 and 1888-1934. The collection also includes three volumes of judgments related to the 1918 Forest Fire, with accompanying indexes.

Dates: 1887-1934

Major Roger M. Weaver scrapbook

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S3144
Abstract

The collection consists of a scrapbook and a 1909 certificate from the Governor of Minnesota appointing Weaver to the rank of First Lieutenant in the Minnesota National Guard.

Dates: 1918 October 13-1919 May 10