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Government records

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

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

Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency records

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S2332
Abstract

The collection consist of the application for "Project Home," and related correspondence. This was a grant submitted to the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity by the Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency, Inc. of Virginia, Minnesota. 

Dates: 1972-1974

Ida Baker school register

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S3644
Abstract

The collection consists of a school register from the 1882-1883 school year kept by teacher Ida Baker for the West Third Street school in Duluth, which lists students' names and their attendance.

Dates: 1882-1883

Julius H. Barnes papers

 Collection
Identifier: S3025
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence, financial materials, articles, pamphlets, photographs, news clippings, sketchbooks, a tape recording, and miscellaneous reference materials. Most of the records originate from the period between 1940-1958 and document Barnes' financial interests and his involvement in the St. Lawrence Seaway project. Some personal correspondence is also included.

Dates: 1877-1959; Majority of material found in 1940-1958

Bear River School, St. Louis County, School District No. 48, Morcom Township (Minn.) records

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S2237
Abstract

The collection contains a school district bond, 1905, contracts governing construction of the schoolhouse, 1906, school censuses, 1911-1915 and 1918, and a student classification register, 1916, from Bear River School in Morcom Township, Minnesota.

Dates: 1905-1918

Breitung Township records

 Collection — Box Oversize
Identifier: S2314
Abstract

The collections contains financial records, minutes, Town Clerk's records, and legal dockets with related judicial orders and papers.

Dates: 1884-1975

Circuit Court of the United States District of Minnesota records

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S3667
Abstract

The Duluth ship canal was dug through Minnesota Point in 1870 to benefit the Duluth harbor.  The City of Superior, fearing the canal would change the flow of water through their ship entry, brought suit against Duluth to halt the construction. The collection contains a Circuit Court of the United States Bill of Complaint against the City of Duluth and a letter addressed to the City.

Dates: 1871

Commissioner of Finance, City of Duluth, scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: S4416
Abstract

Scrapbooks of the commissioner of finance, E.W. Lund, during Lund’s term of office in the administration of Duluth mayor Edward H. Hatch. Newspaper clippings pertain to the office of the commissioner of finance, or finance department, which reflects the financial health of the city of Duluth.

Dates: 1941-1951

Cook County Auditor election records

 Collection
Identifier: S2252
Abstract

The collection contains election registers for the 1950 and 1952 primary elections, summary statement of votes for the 1952 primary election, tally books and summary statement of votes for the 1962 and 1976 primary and general elections. This collection also contains a soldiers, sailors, etc. Registration Record, 1962 and undated.

Dates: 1950-1976

Cook County Family Services Department records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2379
Abstract

This collection contains board minutes, budget proposals, financial records, correspondence, reports, handbooks, administrative file, and case files on participants in program.

Dates: 1966-1968

Daily and Periodic Report of School Lunch Program documents

 Collection
Identifier: S6010
Abstract

The collection consists of form 391, 2 pages, Directions for Use of Period and Daily Report for School Lunch Project which supplies directions for how to fill out the report form columns 1-11.

Dates: 1942-1943; Majority of material found in 1942 December, 1943 January

District Court exhibit photographs

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: S3729
Abstract

The collection consists of District Court exhibit photographs filed in the Clerk of Court’s office between 1911 and 1917 approximately. The photographs appear to be accident scenes or locations of accidents/incidents in Chisholm, Virginia, Biwabik, and Gilbert, MN.

Dates: 1911-1916

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

Division of Customs Duluth Office letters

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S3679
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence concerning regulations and invoices.

Dates: 1892-1954

Duluth Charter Commission records

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S3670
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence, meeting notices, judges' appointments, commission resolution and minutes for one meeting.

Dates: 1897-1904

Duluth city budget appropriations

 Collection
Identifier: S2389
Abstract

Contains printed budget appropriations for the City of Duluth, Minnesota.

Dates: 1920-1977

Duluth Common Council records

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S2432
Abstract This collection consists of the report of the committee appointed by the Duluth, Minnesota Common Council to investigate on the construction of the Lakewood pumping station, resolutions passed by the Common Council relative to such construction, and a draft of a letter addressed to the Common Council in which the Council is asked to pass a resolution authorizing the Duluth Canal Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Canal at Lake Avenue. Also included in the collection is a...
Dates: 1860-1897; Majority of material found in 1860, 1897

Duluth Comptroller's Office records

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S2431
Abstract

This collection contains two bonds,1870, paid 1890; a comparative table of assessed valuation, tax rate and tax levy from 1894-1907; analysis of receipts and disbursements for the years 1903, 1904, 1907; extract from the Comptroller's report for the years 1903 and 1904; and a report on Duluth's bonded debt, 1904-1905.

Dates: 1870-1907; Majority of material found in 1870, 1894-1907

Duluth Department of Parks and Recreation records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3689
Abstract

The collection consists of annual reports, minutes for a few board meetings, a WPA certificate marking completion of Wheeler Field and Field House in 1937, and a report done on Duluth recreation by the National Recreation Association, 1946.

Dates: 1896-1980; Majority of material found in 1896, 1928–1969, 1979-1980

Duluth Department of Public Service annual reports

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2378
Abstract

This collection contains the annual reports for the city of Duluth, Minnesota Department of Public Service and its divisions.

Dates: 1915-1970

Duluth Department of Recreation records

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S3680
Abstract

The collection contains material relating to the proposal to form a single recreation department for the city of Duluth by combining the programs of the city of Duluth and the Board of Education of Duluth.

Dates: 1951-1963

Duluth election returns and poll list

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S3675
Abstract

The collection consists of election returns for the April, 1870, election, listing candidates with the number of votes they received, and a list of people who were voting in the November 2, 1886, election and a poll list for 1886 for the village of Duluth.

Dates: 1870-1886; Majority of material found in 1870, 1886

Duluth Engineering Department annual report

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S3664
Abstract

The collection consists of an annual report listing projects and statistics for 1956.

Dates: 1956

Duluth Fire Department records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3666
Abstract

The collection contains: a report of the West Duluth Fire Department requesting establishment of a fire alarm system, 1893; general orders to all or to specific fire houses, 1905-1940; letters to the Fire Department; a list of some firemen with their pay; and annual reports 1920-1921, 1923-1927, 1932, 1938; application blanks for the Duluth Firemen’s Relief Association; one microfilm reel of records, April 12,1887-December, 1917.

Dates: 1870-1940

Duluth Health Department records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3690
Abstract

The collection contains minutes of the Duluth Board of Health (4/18/1873-1908) with no index, correspondence, a scrapbook containing sample forms used by the department, quarantine signs, an analysis of vital statistics (1900-1937), infant mortality report (1948-1957), a report on a compulsory submission tuberculosis report (1938), and distribution of death reports (1948-1953).

Dates: 1873-1957

Duluth High School records

 Collection — Box Oversize
Identifier: S3687
Abstract

The collection contains a volume listing a monthly report for students, 1881 – 1883; scores on the State High School Board Examination, 1881 – 1884; and volume two, which lists scores for the University Certificates received by pupils of the Duluth High School prior to Sept. 1889, and for 1890 – 1893.

Dates: 1881-1893

Duluth Planning Commission records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2311
Abstract

The collection consists of selected department records, records and maps from special projects, and minutes of special commissions and advisory councils.

Dates: 1956-2000; Majority of material found in 1956

Duluth Police Department records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2272
Abstract

The collection contains administrative and crime records including Duluth, West Duluth, West End, and New Duluth offices/stations.

Dates: 1889-1974

Duluth Public Library records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2392
Abstract

The collection consists of recrods related to the activities of the Duluth Public Library.

Dates: 1927-1978

Duluth Public Schools Night Schools records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3688 Night Schools
Abstract

The collection contains registration cards, attendance records, naturalization records and some grade information for students enrolled in the Duluth Public Schools Night Schools/Community Education program.

Dates: 1922-1964