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Torrance, Ell, 1844-1932. Ell Torrance papers, 1855-1931.

Title: Ell Torrance papers, 1855-1931.

Correspondence, legal case files, speeches, financial records, and other materials of this Minneapolis (Minn.) lawyer who was also commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic.

ArchivalResource: 45.0 cu. ft. (89 boxes, incl. 49 v.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86134026 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Commandant's miscellaneous records, 1886-1983.

Title: Commandant's miscellaneous records, 1886-1983.

Inventories of supplies, equipment, and furnishings; minutes of the home's advisory committee (1975-1980); Veterans' Affairs Department management/staff meeting files (1981-1983); an assortment of reports on the home and its management; photographs of the home and residents; an essay on the home written by General Christopher C. Andrews (1886); and assorted miscellany and memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 cu. ft. (2 partial boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523292 View

Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A. Capital City Barracks No. 438 (Saint Paul, Minn.). Ladies Auxiliary. Ladies Auxiliary records, 1956-1988.

Title: Ladies Auxiliary records, 1956-1988.

Minute books, financial materials, membership cards, scrapbooks, and other miscellaneous records of the ladies auxiliary to the St. Paul post of a world War I veterans group organized to lobby Congress for pension and hospitalization benefits. The auxiliary was formed in 1956 and disbanded in 1988. Some material relates to the Department of Minnesota Ladies Auxiliary, an umbrella organization embracing the local auxiliaries in Minnesota.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122358018 View

Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A. Capital City Barracks No. 438 (Saint Paul, Minn.). Organization records, 1955-1987.

Title: Organization records, 1955-1987.

Minutes and miscellaneous records of the St. Paul post of Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A., a veterans' organization based in Alexandria, Virginia, organized to lobby congress for pension and hospitalization benefits. Barracks No. 438 first met on December 7, 1955 and continued until the summer of 1985. A ladies' auxiliary was organized in 1956.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 cu. ft. (2 boxes and 1 oversize folder, unboxed).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122563760 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Commandant/administrator subject files, circa 1914-1985.

Title: Commandant/administrator subject files, circa 1914-1985.

The files cover the daily operation of the home and its relationship with various private organizations and government agencies, including the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the state Department of Health, Veterans Administration, Minneapolis Star/Tribune, Vietnam Veterans' Awareness Council, and Works' Progress Administration. Topics covered include other national and state soldiers homes, a pheasant day dinner, chemical dependency, engineer's reports, and legislation. Also included are 1931-1934 materials recovered from the Building 9 (hospital) cornerstone in 2009.

ArchivalResource: 5.75 cubic feet (6 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122373608 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Annual and biennial reports, 1888-1974.

Title: Annual and biennial reports, 1888-1974.

Annual reports, 1888-1924 and periodically thereafter; and biennial reports, 1925-1974 (Veterans' Home, 1966-1974).

ArchivalResource: 1.0 cu. ft. (2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122558766 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Death and burial records, 1888-1987.

Title: Death and burial records, 1888-1987.

Death registers giving name, military unit and rank, date and cause of death, physician or undertaker, and related data for both male and female residents; and a burial record book that gives name, military unit and rank, death date, and place of burial, also for both men and women.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 cu. ft. (3 v., boxed).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508435 View

Whyte, Alexander, 1864-1933. Alexander Whyte and family papers, 1887, 1898-1900, 1967-1969.

Title: Alexander Whyte and family papers, 1887, 1898-1900, 1967-1969.

Letters from this St. Paul resident to his wife Wilhelmina during his participation in the Alaska gold rush (1898-1899), describing life along the Klondike trail and in the mining settlements. Accompanied by genealogical and biographical data on the Whyte, Weinrich, and Bernhard families.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders, containing 52 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508518 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Daily census records, 1899-1988.

Title: Daily census records, 1899-1988.

Records of the movement of home residents, noting for each day the total number present and absent, and names of residents admitted, discharged, on leave or returned, or died, and related data (1932-1988). Supplemented by records of leaves and absences, which contain similar but less comprehensive information (1899-1908, 1929-1936).

ArchivalResource: 1.75 cu. ft. (2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615987 View

Commandant/administrator subject files., circa 1914-1985.

Title: Commandant/administrator subject files. circa 1914-1985.

The files cover the daily operation of the home and its relationship with various private organizations and government agencies, including the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the state Department of Health, Veterans Administration, Minneapolis Star/Tribune, Vietnam Veterans' Awareness Council, and Works' Progress Administration. Topics covered include other national and state soldiers homes, a pheasant day dinner, chemical dependency, engineer's reports, and legislation. Also included are 1931-1934 materials recovered from the Building 9 (hospital) cornerstone in 2009.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/gr00476.xml View

Grand Army of the Republic. Simon Mix Post 95 (Pipestone, Minn.). GAR/WRC records, 1884-1968.

Title: GAR/WRC records, 1884-1968.

Correspondence, constitutions, by-laws, minutes, treasurers' records, membership rosters, journals, encampment brochures, decorations, GAR and WRC pins, cancelled checks, souvenirs, order books, account books, reunion programs, ephemera, and other records, reflecting the operations of the Simon Mix Post and WRC No. 12.

ArchivalResource: ca. 4.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70948731 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Correspondence, 1893-1987.

Title: Correspondence, 1893-1987.

Correspondence of the home's quartermaster (1893-1905), commandant (1899-1970), and administrator and assistant administrator (1974-1987), pertaining to all aspects of home administration, management, staff, purchasing, admissions, and physical plant, as well as with related military organizations.

ArchivalResource: 6.6 cu. ft. (7 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86133789 View

Ell Torrance papers., 1855-1931.

Title: Ell Torrance papers. 1855-1931.

Correspondence, legal case files, speeches, financial records, and other materials of this Minneapolis (Minn.) lawyer who was also commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00731.xml View

Minnesota. State Board of Corrections and Charities. Journal and ledger, 1888-1894.

Title: Journal and ledger, 1888-1894.

Journal and corresponding ledger containing a record of the financial operations of the state's correctional and charitable institutions: St. Peter, Rochester, and Fergus Falls state hospitals, the Soldiers' Home, School for the Deaf, School for the Blind, School for the Feeble Minded, State Public School (Owatonna), Reform School, and State Prison.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 cu. ft. (2 v.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313786371 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Commandant's monthly report to the board of trustees, 1928-1968 June.

Title: Commandant's monthly report to the board of trustees, 1928-1968 June.

The reports give resident statistics, financial summaries, and recapitulations of home and hospital activities. Reports for 1965 are missing.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 cu. ft. (1 box and 1 partial box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122373191 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Financial records, 1893-1965.

Title: Financial records, 1893-1965.

Voucher registers (1893-1926), receipts and disbursements cash book (1909-1919) and ledger (1914-1936), secretary's monthly financial reports (1928-1965), and a canteen fund cashier's report (1936-1938).

ArchivalResource: 2.25 cu. ft. (1 box, 1 partial box, and 3 v. shelved loose).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86096199 View

Minnesota. Dept. of Veterans Affairs. Commissioner's Office. Subject files, 1940-1987 (bulk 1966-1986).

Title: Subject files, 1940-1987 (bulk 1966-1986).

Correspondence and subject files of the commissioner's office, regarding all facets of the department, with especially significant files on the operation of the Minnesota Veterans Home in Minneapolis, transfer of the Hastings State Hospital to the department, and proposed conversion of the Fergus Falls State Hospital into a veterans home.

ArchivalResource: 10.3 cu. ft. (11 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313830820 View

Castle, Henry A. (Henry Anson), 1841-1916. Henry A. Castle papers, 1836-1917.

Title: Henry A. Castle papers, 1836-1917.

Correspondence, speeches and articles, clippings, other printed materials, photographs, and miscellany documenting Castle's career as representative in the Minnesota legislature, 1873; Minnesota adjutant general, 1875-1876; editor of the St. Paul Dispatch, 1876-1885; state oil inspector, 1883-1886; postmaster of St. Paul, 1892-1896; an auditor of the United States post office department, 1897-1903; president of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce, 1893-1894; director of the St. Paul Commercial Club, 1895-1897; secretary and treasurer (1876-1878, 1883) and chairman (1884-1886) of the Republican State Central Committee; trustee of the Minnesota Soldiers' Home, 1887-1899; treasurer of the Citizens' Executive Committee for Relief of Unemployment, St. Paul, 1893 and for several years thereafter; special correspondent for Minnesota in the interests of immigration; in numerous minor offices; and as author of books and articles, particularly on the Post Office and on the history of Minnesota and St. Paul.

ArchivalResource: 29.0 cu. ft. (63 boxes, incl. 42 v.; 11 oversize items); 8 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508829 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Resident histories, 1892-1969.

Title: Resident histories, 1892-1969.

Information on the military, domestic, and Soldiers Home residence history of each resident. Volumes for 1930-1935 and 1940-1947 are missing.

ArchivalResource: 6.3 cu. ft. (16 v. in 9 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122580321 View

Minnesota. State Board of Visitors for Public Institutions. Inspection report on Soldiers Home, 1916.

Title: Inspection report on Soldiers Home, 1916.

Typed carbon copy three page report on the Soldiers Home. Inspection reports prepared by the Board were sent to the governor, the Board of Control, and the superintendent of the institution visited.

ArchivalResource: 1 item in folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313862996 View

Minnesota. Dept. of Veterans' Affairs. Commissioner's Office. Chronological files, 1979-1986.

Title: Chronological files, 1979-1986.

Copies of outgoing letters and memoranda of commissioners Donald M. Miller (1979-1980), Charles T. Pinkham (1981-1982), James H. Main (1982-1983), and William J. Gregg (1983-1986). They document all aspects of the daily administration of the department, including funding and budgeting, personnel issues, appointments, investigation of veteran's benefits claims and grievances, operation of the veterans homes in Minneapolis and Hastings, speaking engagements, legislation and implementation of pertinent laws, and relations with numerous veterans organizations. There are also responses drafted to correspondence originally received by the governor.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 cu. ft. (1 box and 1 partial box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474582 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Board of trustees' minutes, 1892-1969.

Title: Board of trustees' minutes, 1892-1969.

Minutes of the board of trustees and the board's executive committee. Includes scattered minutes of various other committees. Minutes for 1966 are missing.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 cu. ft. (1 box, and 1 v. in partial box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122506963 View

[Minnesota Soldiers Home near Minneapolis] [motion picture] / [production company unknown]

Title: [Minnesota Soldiers Home near Minneapolis] [motion picture] / [production company unknown] [ca. 1945]

Panoramic views of the hospital's buildings and grounds.

ArchivalResource: 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 175 ft.) : si., col. ; 16 mm. arch pos.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173698918 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Rules, regulations, and policies, 1903-1981.

Title: Rules, regulations, and policies, 1903-1981.

Printed, mimeographed, or typescript copies of state laws relating to the Soldiers Home; the home's bylaws, rules, and regulations; policy and procedures manuals (ca. 1981); and a housekeeping services manual.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 cu. ft. (14 folders in partial box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122425361 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Payrolls, 1891-1957.

Title: Payrolls, 1891-1957.

Staff payrolls (incomplete), supplemented by payrolls for the women's building staff (1916-1957) and for residents serving in the dining room (1908-1911).

ArchivalResource: 2.3 cu. ft. (3 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122409570 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Studies and plans, [undated] and [1930s]-1994.

Title: Studies and plans, [undated] and [1930s]-1994.

Management and siting studies and long range plans for the Veterans Home (1968-1994); and blueprints of grounds plans (undated and ca. 1930s).

ArchivalResource: 1.0 cu. ft. (1 box and 1 partial box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313822753 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Residents' records, 1887-1983.

Title: Residents' records, 1887-1983.

Residents' record books and indexes, containing a variety of biographical, military service, pension, and Home residence information; supplemented by miscellaneous lists and directories and admission and discharge information. There is a separate pair of record books for women residents (1907-1962), apparently wives or widows of veterans, and a docket book of sentences for infractions of Home rules.

ArchivalResource: 4.75 cu. ft. (6 boxes and 1 partial box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508432 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Relief records, 1905-1965.

Title: Relief records, 1905-1965.

Records of relief payments to veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I, or their survivors, and including biographical data (1905-1934); other scattered records on relief applications (1940s-1965); and receipt books (1929-1932) and monthly reports (1959-1961) of the Woman's Relief Corps.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 cu. ft. (2 boxes, 2 partial boxes, 6 v. shelved loose).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122584796 View

Minnesota. Dept. of Veterans' Affairs. Minnesota Veterans Home management staff meetings, 1976 Oct.-1983 Nov.

Title: Minnesota Veterans Home management staff meetings, 1976 Oct.-1983 Nov.

Minutes and agenda materials for meetings of the management staff of the Minnesota Veterans Home, Minneapolis, of which the commissioner of veterans affairs was a member.

ArchivalResource: 0.3 cu. ft. (6 folders in partial box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122564264 View

Third Infantry Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Association. Association records, 1870-1935.

Title: Association records, 1870-1935.

Rosters of members present at reunions; letters of regret from those unable to attend; a biographical sketch of Heman D. Pettibone; obituaries of other members; lists of contributors to a memorial window in the chapel of the Minnesota Soldiers Home (1926-1927); and correspondence, especially of Edgar L. Mattson, about association business.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 box, including 2 v.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508758 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Board of trustees miscellaneous records, 1919-1973.

Title: Board of trustees miscellaneous records, 1919-1973.

Records of board actions on applications for relief and for admission to the home (1931-1969); the board secretary's correspondence with board members (1930s-1959); correspondence and transcripts relating to complaints about operation of the home (1919-1940s); and miscellaneous reports.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 cu. ft. (1 box and 1 partial box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122598581 View

Minnesota Soldiers Home (Minneapolis, Minn.). Hospital/clinic records, 1898-1981.

Title: Hospital/clinic records, 1898-1981.

Records of the Soldiers Home's hospital, clinic, pharmacy, and dietician. They include patient record books (1898-1935), a record of medication prescribed (1928-1933), weekly lists of patients (1945-1958), inventories of the hospital commissary (1937-1945), minutes of the hospital's patient/resident care committee (1977-1981), daily menus for meals served at the home (1938-1955), and related miscellany.

ArchivalResource: 4.25 cu. ft. (4 boxes and 2 partial boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122566974 View

Association Records, 1870-1935 (bulk 1916-1935).

Title: Association Records, 1870-1935 (bulk1916-1935).

Annual reunion rosters (1912, 1918-1933) and printedmaterials, correspondence with members (1870-1935), and miscellaneous materialsdocumenting a Minnesota Civil War veterans association.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/P2290.xml View