Interior view of the Modern Woodsmen Association Hall at Underwood, Minnesota. Note: The Modern Woodmen of America is a fraternal benefit society founded in 1883.
Pamphlet showing the benefits to the town of Willmar, Minnesota after six years of being dry. The results include decreased taxes and an increase in post office receipts, bank deposits, and population.
Catholic Central Bureau; St. Charles Mission; Society of St. Vincent De Paul.
Date Created:
1922
Description:
Annual Reports of three entities: Report 1 - Catholic Central Bureau including summaries and quantitative descriptions of involvement in Juvenile Court, Co-operation with Other Agencies, Child-Placing Department, Community Fund, the Ladies' Department, and the Young Ladies' Department. Report 2 - St. Charles Mission including: description of mission and accomplishments and number of people served by the St. Charles Social Service Club from January 1922 to January 1923, primarily through religious education Report 3- Society of St. Vincent DePaul for 1922 including: council members, bequest form, President's Letter by E.A. Prendergast, extracts from address by Mr. John J. Gillespie, president of the Superior Council of the Society, treasurer's report, and annual reports of conferences within city, including the Pro-Cathedral of St. Mary, Holy Rosary Parish, St. Bridget's Parish, St. Stephen's Parish, Notre Dame de Lourdes Parish, and St. Joseph Parish. Also includes information about the Economy Shop and a letter from Archbishop Austin Dowling
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Proceedings of the twenty-fourth general convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America held in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 1, 2, and 3, 1894. Appendix includes: Convention address of 94 by Joseph Bernard Cotter, Bishop of Winona and president of the national CTAU; The duty of Catholics in temperance work by Archbishop John Ireland; Minutes of the mass meeting, Aug. 2, 1894, including keynote address by Dr. McSweeny of New York; Educational work in the temperance movement by Alexander Patrick Doyle; and the constitution of the CTAU of America. University of St. Thomas, Archibishop Ireland Memorial Library call number: HV5287.C3 A3 1894
Contributing Institution:
University of St. Thomas - Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
Panoramic photograph of Minnesota Odd Fellows Home at Northfield, Minnesota. Three-story brick building at left is labeled Old Folks Home and multi-story brick building at right in a Dutch style is labeled Children's Home. Both were built about 1900.
Yearbook of the Church of the Redeemer First Universalist for 1921 including: lists of Pastor, Choir, Officers and Trustees, General Church Committee and reports. These reports include the pastor's annual report - statistics, the year in general, outstanding events, in memoriam, suggestions, outside addresses, committee meetings, evening services, christenings, new members received, obituaries, dismissals, publications; the assistant pastor's report including Statistics, Unity House, YMCA, YPCU, Church School, motion pictures); the church school report; the Young People's Christian Union report; Roosevelt Troop 2 Boy Scouts of America report; Printing Club Press Report; Ladies' Social Circle Report; Women's Association Report; Clara Barton Guild; Men's Club; Treasurer's Report. Extensive Unity Settlement Association report: including officers, Board of Directors, committees, staff, volunteers, annual report for 1921 by Miss Imogene Poole resident director with information on health activities, employment bureau, personal service, day nursery, girls' department, boys' department, music lessons, entertainments, summer camp, summer playground, special gifts to the house, attendance at various programs, treasurer's report. Also includes information on Dedication of Service Tablet in church for veterans.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
The book Saint Paul Housing Project: A Plan for Slum Clearance and Low Cost Housing, details a proposal for slum clearance and the creation of low cost rental housing at the future site of the Mount Airy Homes development, an area now bordered by University Avenue to the South, Highway 35-E to the East, Pennsylvania Avenue to the North, and Jackson Street to the West. The Mount Airy Housing Project was spearheaded by the St. Paul City Planning Board, Mr. George Herrold, the City's Engineer and coordinator of the information presented in the book, and the individual members of the Citizens Housing Committee, the group that sponsored and approved the project. The Citizens Housing Committee, which included many of the community's leading citizens of the day, was charged with the goal of developing a space that would specifically address the affordable housing needs of future low-income populations, as well as the City's changing landscape. Two pages of introductory text describe the nature of the project, site selection and district selection, current real estate balance at the time, the development itself, outside housing influences, costs, and personnel. Twenty-one pages of printed maps of the City of St. Paul provide detail on census enumeration districts, relief cases, tuberculosis cases, delinquency rates, land values, comparative incomes, and comparative rent. The maps were all created in March 1934, however the information they depict ranges from 1928 to 1935. Four of the maps focus solely on the future Mount Airy development and feature plans for street layout and housing. The book also includes three pages of charts highlighting comparative conditions of blight, building permit and vacancy statistics, and land values for the past fifty years. A five-page section entitled Mount Airy Housing Project Property Listing, dated April 1934, provides detailed information on the ownership, value, and tax history of the properties located on the site before development.
West Duluth; Bethany Home Thirty-ninth Avenue west; children's home; Christmas star decoration; articles of Incorporation filed March 18, 1915; doors opened May 1, 1916, with three children; 1928 there were 72 children; supported by the Community Fund; fire October 10, 1920; brick building; reopened 1922 at same address Thirty-ninth Avenue west and Ninth street; razed 1974
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Glen Lake Farm School for Boys; Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Home
Date Created:
1912
Description:
In 1907 the legislature of Minnesota made provision for a Detention Home in Hennepin county, under the joint direction of the Judge of the District Court and the Board of County Commissioners. Judge John Day Smith, who first stirred public sentiment to the necessity of a home for boys, was assigned to the Juvenile Court work, which also included the location and equipment of the home. Ninety-two acres of land were bought, and a ten-room farm house, barns and outbuildings were soon remodeled, made modern and ready for occupancy in February, 1909, when the first boys arrived. Contents of this year include: board of managers (including photos); maintenance; expenditures; roll of admission/release; justification and organizational structure; equipment, crops, and stock; daily schedule; map; backgrounds, offenses and/or dependency, nativity, and ages of boys; dining room; government; education, discipline, and religious instruction; library; letters; parental demographics; amusements; Boys' Friends (male and female volunteers/benefactors); photos of grounds and of boys at work/play.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Glen Lake Farm School for Boys; Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Home
Date Created:
1911-12-31
Description:
In 1907 the legislature of Minnesota made provision for a Detention Home in Hennepin county, under the joint direction of the Judge of the District Court and the Board of County Commissioners. Judge John Day Smith, who first stirred public sentiment to the necessity of a home for boys, was assigned to the Juvenile Court work, which also included the location and equipment of the home. Ninety-two acres of land were bought, and a ten-room farm house, barns and outbuildings were soon remodeled, made modern and ready for occupancy in February, 1909, when the first boys arrived. Contents of this year include: board of managers; inception; financial support; officers and employees; justification and organizational structure; equipment, crops, and stock; work descriptions; daily schedule; map; backgrounds, offenses and/or dependency, nativity, and ages of boys; education, discipline, and religious instruction; library; parental demographics; amusements; Boys' Friends (male and female volunteers/benefactors); photos of grounds.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Hanford, Bertha, State and County Agent for the Blind
Date Created:
1930
Description:
The district's size was reduced in 1929, dropping Koochiching county. Vocational training and employment for adults included: shoe shining, shoe repairing, general farming, rabbit raising, poultry raising, elevator operating, salesmanship, peddling, domestic service, and piano repair and tuning. This agency operated under the State Department for the Blind, Children's Bureau, Board of Control and the St. Louis County Board of Commissioners. Its work was for the prevention and treatment of people with blindness. The reports give objectives, staff, and statistics. Its district included St. Louis, Carlton, Itasca, Cook, and Lake Counties.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Hennepin County Probation Office; Glen Lake Farm School for Boys; Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Home; Court Physician and Surgeon
Date Created:
1914
Description:
Annual Reports of three entities: Report 1 Probation Office of Hennepin County, including: roster of probation officers; photos of boys at work/play; tables of delinquent cases during the year, recapitulation since 1905, new cases and complaints, county aid recipients, repeat offenders, schools attended (and names of those unschooled), grades, delinquency status of family members, street occupations, nativity, home environment, probation, and sentences; appendix: tables (eight unpublished tables from the 1914 report) of delinquent cases, new cases, offenses of those in detention, dependents, parental delinquency/marital status/involvement and home environment; adult probation; sentences. Report 2 Glen Lake Farm School for Boys, including: taxes and expenditures; farm environment, crops, and stock; ages and status (delinquent/dependent) of boys; education; improved medical treatment; government; causes of delinquency; country home placement; "Play Night"; holidays; hospital services; Minneapolis Needlework Guild. Report 3 Remedial Work Done in Juvenile Court by the Protective League, including: organizational structure; medical staff; remedial work summary; background and attitude of children and parents; medical concerns and a table detailing treatments. Also, general information: reports description and justification; cost; decline in juvenile delinquency; Glen Lake improvements; authorization of girls' detention home; mental and physical remediation; county Aid to Mothers of Dependant Children advisory committee; delinquent parents; neglected children.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Hennepin County Probation Office; Glen Lake Farm School for Boys; Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Home; Research Department, Juvenile Court
Date Created:
1914
Description:
Annual Reports of three entities: Report 1 Glen Lake Farm School for Boys, including: duties of probation officers; medical inspection staff; tables of delinquent cases during the year, recapitulation, and new cases; map; board of managers; staff. Report 2 Hennepin County Probation Office, including financial appropriation, disbursements, farm structure, crops, and stock; improvements made; photos of grounds and of boys at work/play; roster of admissions with costs; ages and mental classification of boys; demographics of parents; school and work assignments; employees' pay; government (Boys' Council); effects of medical treatment and partnership with St. Barnabas Hospital; farm placements for boys with anecdotes; Rev. James Parsons (Society for the Friendless); Christmas (via the Elks Lodge); Minneapolis Needlework Guild provisions. Report 3 Director of Research Department, including data gathered: description of medical exams, home environment, pedagogical, moral, and psychological factors; descriptions of staff; results of efforts; table of remedial work done in previous two years. Appendix: memo with suggestions of application of Aid to Mothers with Dependent Children to exceptional cases. Also, general information: organization of the court; cost of juvenile court work; statistics detailing apparent decrease in delinquency; summary of Glen Lake Farm School performance; need for a detention home for girls; summary of Research Department; mentally "defective" delinquents; language of county aid to Mothers of Dependent Children (Chapter 130, Laws 1913);
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual Report including: officers, board of directors, staff, and committees; photographs of mothers and infants; purpose and scope; president's report; medical director's report, including tables of mothers' attendance at consultations, ages and nativity of children, feeding, nurses' visits, and referrals; nurses' report; receipts and disbursements; auditor's certificate; contributors; children's auxiliary; plan of organization and by-laws; infant welfare station locations.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Bishop John Ireland's lecture on intemperance and law, presented March 10, 1884, in the Music Hall in Buffalo, New York, at the invitation of the Citizens' Reform Association. Attendees included Bishop Patrick John Ryan and representatives from other religious denominations. Includes brief article entitled How women can oppose intemperance, taken from an address by Cardinal Manning. Library call no.: HV5072 .I72 1884
Contributing Institution:
University of St. Thomas - Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
Issue 43 (August, 1899) of Temperance Truth, a pamphlet series published between 1892 and 1903 for the Catholic Total Abstinence Union, edited by Rev. Alexander P. Doyle. This issue contains the text of an address on temperance given on July 20, 1899, at the Cork Opera House in Ireland by Catholic temperance crusader Archbishop John Ireland of St. Paul, Minnesota. University of St. Thomas, Archibishop Ireland Memorial Library call number: HV5072 .I74 1899
Contributing Institution:
University of St. Thomas - Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
The title of this little card is Grangers versus Grasshoppers. Its parody illustrates the invasion of Minnesota by the locusts in the nineteenth century, especially during the 1870s.
Image identified as Lakewood Cemetery but bridge and water site unknown, two men are standing facing a small body of water and in background a very well constructed stone arched bridge with people and horse and carriage crossing over it, summer photo plants are in foliage.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
View of parade, on right background is the first Minneapolis Armory located at 8th Street between 1st Avenue South (Marquette) and 2nd Avenue South. See also MS0210-MS0213, MS0215-MS0220; MS0219 similar to MS0210; according to the Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1877-1939, page 95, this parade was held on May 14, 1910, """"all temperance and may other organizations, churches and Sunday Schools took part in the great parade, made colorful with many banners and floats, bands of music leading many sections and singing """"Minnesota Is Going Dry"""" with original temperance songs sung as thousands watched the long parade on Hennepin and Nicollet Avenues;""""
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library