Public health

Abstract The records reflect organized labor's efforts to increase membership involvement in such community health, welfare, and recreation programs as blood banks, counselling and referral services, or strike assistance. The collection includes incomplete material from predecessor agencies: the AFL's Labor League for Human Rights and the CIO War Relief Committee, later renamed the National CIO Community Services Committee. Also included are correspondence, a reference manual, director's reports,...

Abstract The records chronicle the American Social Health (originally "Hygiene") Association's efforts to control and prevent venereal disease, prostitution, and drug addiction through educational, legal, and medical measures. The records reflect considerable interaction with the armed forces, particularly during periods of war or full mobilization. Field reports document conditions in individual cities and the influence of housing, recreation, sanitation, and other factors on vice and public health....

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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).

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

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The collection consists of one former board member’s files.

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The collection consists of the files kept by the Chair of the Community Services Survey Committee beginning with the organizational meeting, May 28, 1969, of the Human Resources Planning Coalition.

Abstract The Minnesota Pandemic Oral History Project was conducted in 2021 to document information about the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Minnesota. The project was funded by a grant from the Minnesota Historical Society and its Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund (Legacy fund) to Portal Research of Minneapolis. Those involved were Emil Angelica (Project Director,) Barbara W. Sommer (Project Coordinator and Lead Interviewer,) Adam Negri (Interviewer,) and Lois Glewwe (Transcriber.)...

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The collection consists of seventeen 11"x14" posters in a portfolio. The artwork was designed and executed by the Minnesota WPA Art Project. No artists' names are included.

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The collection contains miscellaneous certificates, diplomas, correspondence, two photos and an account book of patients for the years 1891-1902.

Abstract The development of public health awareness in Duluth during the 1920s through the 1940s is reflected in this small collection. The collection also covers the Civilian Defense Health aspect of World War II. The collection contains news clippings concerning water tests, rubbish, city isolation hospital, vaccinations, care in handling milk, nursing council, sewage, nutrition, fire hazards, cancer control, food handling, etc. Volume 1 includes a small number of photographs of disease or injury...