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Minnesota. Dept. of Conservation. Photographs of state parks, monuments, and recreational areas, 1926-1953 (bulk 1930-1939).

Title: Photographs of state parks, monuments, and recreational areas, 1926-1953 (bulk 1930-1939).

Assorted sized black and white photographs mainly documenting buildings, scenery, personnel, special events and developments, particularly pool and road construction, in the state parks and related recreational and historical areas. Sizable groups of photographs are present for Alexander Ramsey, Baptism River, Camden, Charles A. Lindbergh, Father Hennepin, Fort Ridgely, Gooseberry Falls, Interstate, Itasca, Jay Cooke, Lake Shetek, Minneopa, Old Mill, Scenic, Sibley, St. Croix, and Whitewater state parks. Of special interest are photographs of Dakota Conflict monuments at Birch Coulee, Camp Release, Fort Ridgely, Lake Shetek, Milford, and Wood Lake; markers commemorating the 1894 Hinckley forest fire victims, Senator Magnus Johnson, and the sites of Fort St. Charles, the town of Buchanan, Samuel Pond's 1834 mill, and the Wasioja Seminary; the Charles A. Lindbergh and Ignatius Donnelly houses; restoration of historic Fort Ridgely; several Civilian Conservation Corps' camps; the 1937 historical pageant at Camden State Park; Washkish Township; and Basswood Lake. There are also photographs of Minneapolis Park System superintendent Theodore Wirth, Parks and Recreation Division director H. W. Lathrop, National Park Service assistant director Connie Wirth, Josephine Brower, and Theodore Wegmann.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 cu. ft. (3 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313860439 View

Minnesota. Division of Parks and Recreation. Photographs, undated, 1930-1936.

Title: Photographs, undated, 1930-1936.

Assorted sized black and white photographs, mainly documenting buildings, scenery, personnel, special events, and development, particularly road, dam, and trail construction in the state parks and related recreational and scenic areas. Many of the development projects probably also involved the federal Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps programs. There are sizeable groups of photographs for Camden, Cascade, Cottonwood, Ft. Ridgely, Gooseberry Falls, Itasca, Jay Cooke, Mille Lacs Kathio, Scenic, Sibley, and Whitewater state parks, and Leech Lake Scenic Wayside. There are also assorted small groups and single photographs from other parks and areas, from numbered, but unlocated, work projects, and of divisional personnel.

ArchivalResource: 1112 photographs in 1 card file box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313856136 View

Dahlberg, Walter B. Materials relating to Minneapolis Parks, 1935-1961.

Title: Materials relating to Minneapolis Parks, 1935-1961.

Testimonials, speeches, and drafts of articles relating to the Minneapolis park system. Included are testimonials and biographical information for Theodore Wirth and Charles E. Doell upon their retirements as Superintendent of Parks in Minneapolis; and histories of the Minneapolis parks and the Minneapolis Park Board.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (incl. 10 items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122509141 View

Audio-visual materials., 1915-1990s.

Title: Audio-visual materials. 1915-1990s.

Mainly copies of photographs collected by the Metropolitan Airports Commission [MAC] from the private collections of Vince Doyle, Bill Ellis, and Noel Allard, and from the Minnesota Historical Society. Some but not all are identified with their original ownership. They are divided into four series: individuals, which are mainly MAC, Wold-Chamberlain Field, or Northwest Airlines employees and directors, including Charles Holman, or well-known visitors, including Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Bob Hope, Will Rogers, and Dean Martin; events and airport scenes; aircraft; and aerial views. The latter three are all arranged chronologically and are largely centered around Wold-Chamberlain Field. Included are views of the 1923 Wold-Chamberlain Field dedication; Howard Hughes' round the world flight refueling (1938); World War II military troops and aircraft; building construction, particularly the West Side and Lindbergh terminals; various airlines' terminal counters, hangars, and aircraft, particularly Northwest; airmail service; air crashes; DePonti Aviation Company, inc.; expansion, especially additional runways; the Navy Base; the 1930 visit of the Question Mark, the first plane flown non-stop from France to America; and refitting of Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's B-25s prior to the raid on Tokyo (1942). Other sites documented include Holman Field, the city of Minneapolis, Mississippi River flooding in St. Paul, and Lake Elmo, Duluth, Flying Cloud, and Crystal airports.

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Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary (Minneapolis, Minn.). Organizational records, 1878-2009.

Title: Organizational records, 1878-2009.

Genealogical and biographical information (including interview tapes and transcripts), garden logs, orders, reports, diaries, notebooks, minutes, correspondence, architectural plans, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photographs, slides, and printed materials documenting the history of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary, located in Theodore Wirth Park (formerly known as Glenwood Park), Minneapolis, Minnesota. The garden began as the project of a group of botany teachers led by Eloise Butler in 1907. Under Butler's leadership (1911-1933) the garden became an extensive sanctuary for native flora and birds.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 cu. ft. (4 boxes and 1 oversize folder).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313845525 View

Merkert, Emily A., 1889-1974. Emily A. Merkert and family papers, 1901-1962.

Title: Emily A. Merkert and family papers, 1901-1962.

Largely minutes and memorabilia of the Northern Lights Study Club, a Minneapolis women's social and literary organization (1923-1937), and of its two predecessors, the Aurora Borealis Club (1901-1906) and the Northern Lights Literary Club (1919-1923). There are also some Merkert family genealogical materials and memorabilia (1903-1940); and letters to Merkert (1943-1948) from Theodore Wirth, for whom she had worked in the 1920s and 1930s as an employee of the Minneapolis Park Board.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cu. ft. (1 box, incl. 2 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122613951 View

Parker, George Amos, 1853-1926. Correspondence, 1903-1906.

Title: Correspondence, 1903-1906.

Letter dated October 30, 1903 to Joseph Bernard states that Mr. Wirth will send photographs and specifications for building merry-go-rounds. Letter dated October 5, 1906 to Messrs. Kelsey & Guild indicates that no child has been hurt on them because centrifugal force throws them clear of the merry-go-round rather than under them.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (2 items) ; 24 x 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46439259 View

Wirth, Theodore, 1863-1949. Letter, 1904 January 5, Hartford, Conn., to George Parker.

Title: Letter, 1904 January 5, Hartford, Conn., to George Parker.

Requests information on effect of protection of birds in public parks on their increase in number and variety.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 27 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44633773 View

Folwell, William Watts, 1833-1929. William Watts Folwell papers, ca. 1856-1929.

Title: William Watts Folwell papers, ca. 1856-1929.

Collection contains biographical material regarding William Watts Folwell, first President of the University of Minnesota. Historical references to early Minnesota and University of Minnesota history are referred to in correspondence and notes compiled by Fowell for his many speeches and addresses.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62698957 View

Minneapolis (Minn.). Board of Park Commissioners. Published records, 1911-1945.

Title: Published records, 1911-1945.

Mimeographed office manual (1925) and brief outline (1928), describing the board's operations and the organization and duties of its several staff positions; histories of the Minneapolis park system and park board, two written by parks superintendent Theodore Wirth; summer pageant programs (1937-1941); and boating and bicycling ordinances (undated).

ArchivalResource: 0.2 cu. ft. (1 partial half-height oversize box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313825533 View

William Watts Folwell Papers, 1856-1929

Title: William Watts Folwell Papers 1856-1929

The collection contains the papers of William Watts Folwell, first president of the University of Minnesota.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (4.3 cubic feet)

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/uarc00965.xml View

Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission. Audio-visual materials, 1915-1990s.

Title: Audio-visual materials, 1915-1990s.

Mainly copies of photographs collected by the Metropolitan Airports Commission [MAC] from the private collections of Vince Doyle, Bill Ellis, and Noel Allard, and from the Minnesota Historical Society. Some but not all are identified with their original ownership. They are divided into four series: individuals, which are mainly MAC, Wold-Chamberlain Field, or Northwest Airlines employees and directors, including Charles Holman, or well-known visitors, including Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, and Dean Martin; events and airport scenes; aircraft; and aerial views. The latter three are all arranged chronologically and are largely centered around Wold-Chamberlain Field. Included are views of the 1923 Wold-Chamberlain Field dedication; Howard Hughes' round the world flight refueling (1938); World War II military troops and aircraft; building construction, particularly the West Side and Lindbergh terminals; various airlines' terminal counters, hangars, and aircraft, particularly Northwest; airmail service; air crashes; DePonti Aviation Company, inc.; expansion, especially additional runways; the Navy Base; the 1930 visit of the Question Mark, the first plane flown non-stop from France to America; and refitting of Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's B-25s prior to the raid on Tokyo (1942). Other sites documented include Holman Field, the city of Minneapolis, Mississippi River flooding in St. Paul, and Lake Elmo, Duluth, Flying Cloud, and Crystal airports. The videocassettes, collected or developed by MAC, document local television coverage of emergency preparedness at Wold-Chamberlain Field (1987), the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport's sixtieth anniversary (ca. 1990), Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame induction ceremonies (1992, 1997), and MAC's noise monitoring and sound proofing programs and dual track planning process (1994-1995) and snowplowing procedures (1997). The sound cassette contains MAC's fiftieth anniversary presentation, narrated by Dave Moore and containing Governor Harold Stassen's comments establishing the Commission in 1943 (1993). The related visual materials include postal first day covers, with cachets, that document the first general airmail (1930), international airmail (1931), and airmail to North Dakota (1931) flights from Wold-Chamberlain Field and the first DC-10 flight (1970); blueprints of Civil Aeronautics Administration and General Mills hangars (1939, 1951); a Minneapolis Park Board sign concerning airplane noise over the Veteran's Hospital (ca. 1940s); Minneapolis Park Board chair Theodore Wirth's preliminary surveys and plans to acquire and improve Wold-Chamberlain Field (1927); and maps of Wold-Chamberlain Field (1945-1970).

ArchivalResource: 2.0 cu. ft. (2 boxes, 1 partial half-height oversize box, and 5 oversize folders).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317122746 View

Minneapolis (Minn.). Board of Park Commissioners. Annual reports, 1910-1965.

Title: Annual reports, 1910-1965.

Annual reports of the Board of Park Commissioners (1910-1965, incomplete), of parks superintendent Theodore Wirth (1922-1926), and of the board secretary and other officers (1923-1929).

ArchivalResource: 1.25 cu. ft. (1 half-height oversize box and 1 partial half-height oversize box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313825531 View