Minnesota territorial centennial files, 1945-1950.

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Minnesota territorial centennial files, 1945-1950.

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Correspondence and related papers documenting the preparations for and the events comprising the centennial celebration of Minnesota's admission to the Union as a territory (1849). There are files on each county's centennial committee, on events, on publicity, and on miscellaneous historical data. They are supplemented by sketches for commemorative stamps and coins, and by microfilmed scrapbooks of newspaper clippings.

7.0 cu. ft. (16 boxes and 1 oversize folder); 3 microfilm reels.

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Minnesota Historical Society

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Nolte, Julius M. (Julius Mosher), 1894-1964

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Julius Mosher Nolte, A.B. Yale University (1917), LL.B. University of Minnesota (1937). Director of the Center for Continuing Education (1937-1943) and Director and Dean of the General Extension Division (1943-1963) at the University of Minnesota. Expert in the field of adult continuing education. Julius M. Nolte was born in Duluth, Minnesota on August 21, 1894. He earned his A.B. in 1917 from Yale University and his LL.B. in 1937 from the University of Minnesota. Nolte ...

Minnesota Territorial Centennial Committee.

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In 1947 the Minnesota Legislature passed an act designating 1949 as a year commemorating the centennial of Minnesota's establishment as a territory on March 3, 1849. The legislature appropriated $150,000 to fund the endeavor, to be expended in 1948 and 1949. Administrative responsibility for planning and executing the events, radio broadcasts, and publications that would comprise the year-long celebration was delegated to the Minnesota Historical Society. The Society, in turn, estab...