Photographs and architectural drawings. [circa 1927]-1981.

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Photographs and architectural drawings. [circa 1927]-1981.

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Photographs and architectural drawings documenting the buildings, staff, patients, and activities of the sanatorium. The photographs detail the children's pavilion and its occupants; WPA work; patients and staff in the sanatorium library and at Christmas celebrations and program/variety shows, and chapel; views of the campus; staff; and the administration, infirmary, and recreation buildings. The architectural drawings detail telephone lines, the sanatorium forest, topography, and the engineer's and children's cottages, superintendent's and doctor's residences, infirmary, power plant, nurses' home, and administration, service, and Indian buildings. The majority of the drawings were done by C. H. Johnston, architect. Also present are drawings by Morell and Nichols, landscape architects, and Sund and Dunham, architects.

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Minnesota Work Projects Administration

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Sund and Dunham, Architects (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Minnesota State Sanatorium

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Johnston, Clarence H. (Clarence Howard), 1859-1936

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Clarence Johnston was born in Waseca County MN. After apprenticeship training in architecture in the St. Paul offices of A. Radcliffe and E.P. Bassford, Johnston studied architecture at MIT and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Johnston worked for Herter Brothers, and C.B. Atwood in New York City, where he also helped found the New York Sketch Club (later known as the Architectural League of New York). In 1883, Johnston opened an office in St. Paul, and had a partnership for a time...

Morell & Nichols (Firm : Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Minnesota Works Progress Administration

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The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in July, 1935, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal agency responsible for operating a wide variety of "socially useful" work-relief programs. The WPA was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939 and was transferred, along with several other relief agencies, to the newly created Federal Works Agency. After the United States entered World War II, the FWP was renamed the Writers' Unit of the WPA's War...

Minnesota Sanatorium for Consumptives

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The Moccasin started in March 1938 and was in continuous monthly publication through April 1948, although the first issue was actually entitled Ching Sing. From May 1948 to March 1952 publication ceased. It began again in April 1952 and ended with the June 1957 issue. From the description of The moccasin, 1938-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122506870 In 1930, an epidemiologist was added to the sanatorium staff to direct the field work in the 46 counties th...