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Minneapolis (Minn.). Board of Park Commissioners. Materials relating to the Minneapolis Municipal Airport (Wold- Chamberlain Field), 1927-1937.

Title: Materials relating to the Minneapolis Municipal Airport (Wold- Chamberlain Field), 1927-1937.

A mimeographed report, "Short History of the Minneapolis Municipal Airport (Wold-Chamberlain Field), and Memorandum of the Principal Official Transactions from its Inception up to the Present Time" (January 25, 1930; 7 leaves), accompanied by 5 photostats of plans and a blueline plan (1927-1929; 6 leaves); a typed carbon copy of a supplement to the report (September 23, 1937; 13 leaves); a printed plan showing improvements (1929); an operations report with statistics for 1929-1930; an operations report with statistics for 1936; and a photostat of a plan showing topography and equipment (1932).

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313861390 View

Stolte, Sidney L., 1905- ,. Minnesota Work Projects Administration materials, 1935-1943.

Title: Minnesota Work Projects Administration materials, 1935-1943.

Typed reports and a scrapbook documenting the work of the Minnesota Work Projects Administration. Sidney L. Stolte held various positions in the Minnesota W.P.A. and was the State Administrator from 1939 to 1943. The reports include the Minneapolis Board of Park Commissioners': The Story of W.P.A. and Other Federal Aid Projects in the Minneapolis Parks, Parkways, and Playgrounds (1937) and The Story of W.P.A. in the Minneapolis Parks, Parkways and Playgrounds (1938, 1941, 1942); Stolte's: Final Report of the Minnesota Work Projects Administration (1943); and Stolte's scrapbook: "Persons and Events Affecting the Minnesota Work Projects Administration, 1935-1943" (1943).

ArchivalResource: 0.80 cu. ft. (2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313866656 View

Organizational records., 1878-2012.

Title: Organizational records. 1878-2012.

Records documenting the history of the garden; its volunteersupport organization, Friends of the Wild Flower Garden; its founder, Eloise Butler;and her successor, Martha Crone.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00384.xml View

Carlson, Maxine, 1919-. Interview with Maxine Carlson, 1999 Apr. 24 / interviewed by Greg LaLonde and Joan Berthiaume.

Title: Interview with Maxine Carlson, 1999 Apr. 24 / interviewed by Greg LaLonde and Joan Berthiaume.

Discusses her family and childhood in the Linden Hills Neighborhood, her children including Larry who has Down Syndrome, and her work as a Park Board employee.

ArchivalResource: 1 transcript (29 leaves ; 28 cm.), 1 videocassette (VHS) (120 min. : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.), 2 sound cassettes (120 min. : analog), 2 videodiscs (DVD) (120 min. : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62457875 View

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

Minneapolis (Minn.). Board of Park Commissioners. Superintendent Charles E. Doell files, 1948-1980.

Title: Superintendent Charles E. Doell files, 1948-1980.

Files of Charles E. Doell, who served as Secretary of the Board of Minneapolis Park Commissioners for thirty years and as Superintendent of Parks from 1945 through his 1959 retirement. At that time, he completed 48 years of continuous service with the Minneapolis Park Commission starting in 1916 as a draftsman and moving through assistant engineer, assistant to the secretary, secretary and assistant superintendent, and superintendent. He also served as President of the American Institute of Park Executives [AIPE] in 1947.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 cu. ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313868984 View

Loring, Charles M. (Charles Morgridge), 1832-1922. Charles M. Loring scrapbooks, 1875-1922.

Title: Charles M. Loring scrapbooks, 1875-1922.

Contents of five dismantled scrapbooks kept by this Minneapolis businessman known for his many years of service to the city's park system. They include newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, correspondence, postcards, and booklets documenting, in particular, his work on the Minneapolis Board of Park Commissioners, Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, and American Park and Out-Door Art Association.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 cu. ft. (2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568813 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

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

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

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.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/gr00259.xml View