Association records. 1930-1960.

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Association records. 1930-1960.

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Correspondence, memoranda, reports, brochures, articles, clippings, and financial records of this company formed in 1932 to promote and develop water transportation routes in the Mississippi Valley. The records give information on development and use of the nine-foot Mississippi River channel, federal regulations, competition with railroads, Minneapolis harbor facilities, relations with other interested groups and individuals, promotional activities, water supply and usage problems, industrial development in river communities, attitudes of various U.S. congressmen, and distribution of barges and war production plants during World War II.

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Cram, Ralph Warren, 1869-1952.

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Mississippi Valley Association

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Hill, Horace Mann, 1861-1948.

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Wiprud, Arne C. (Arne Clarence), 1893-

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Seaman, Halleck W.

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Shipstead, Henrik, 1881-1960

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U. S. Senator from Minnesota. From the description of Speech and article of Henrik Shipstead [manuscript], 1932. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647959046 ...

Inland Waterways Corporation

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Newton, Cleveland Alexander, 1873-1945

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Youngdahl, Oscar Ferdinand, 1893-1946.

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Ball, Joseph H. (Joseph Hurst), 1905-1993

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Ball, Joseph Hurst; Republican; Senator from Minnesota, 1905-1993 From the guide to the Joseph H. Ball letter, 1943, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Joseph Hurst Ball was born in Crookston, Polk County, Minnesota, on November 3, 1905. He attended Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio (1922-1924); Eau Claire (Wis.) Normal School (1925); and the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis (1926-1927). He then worked as a fiction writer...

Mueller, Herman, 1877-1958.

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Strong, Arthur D., 1891-

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Judd, Walter H., 1898-1994

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Physician, congressman, missionary. From the description of Reminiscences of Walter H. Judd : oral history, 1970. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376703 United States representative from Minnesota, 1943-1963; founder, Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals; co-founder, Committee of One Million. From the description of Walter Henry Judd papers, 1922-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872154 ...

Feltus, Harry A.

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Lundeen, Ernest, 1878-1940

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American lawyer and politician; United States representative from Minnesota, 1917-1919 and 1933-1937; United States senator from Minnesota, 1937-1940. From the description of Ernest Lundeen papers, 1860-1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868861 Biographical Note 1878 August 4 Born near Beresford, South Dakota 1898 ...

Webber, C. C. (Charles C.), 1859-1944

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Upper Mississippi Barge Line Company (Wilmington, Del.).

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Fugina, Frank J., 1868-1953.

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Macleay, Lachlan.

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Upper Mississippi Waterway Association.

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The association was formed in 1932 by the men who had in 1925 organized the Upper Mississippi Barge Line Company. The company built a fleet of towboats and barges for operation between the Twin Cities and St. Louis, leased the equipment to the Inland Waterways Corporation, and later sold it to the same group. The purposes of the association were closely related to those of the company: to promote the broad economic interests of the Mississippi Valley through the development of an all-water trans...

Baskerville, Henry M., ca. 1893-1971.

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Upper Mississippi and St. Croix River Improvement Commission of Minnesota.

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