Announcements for the Duluth State Normal School for the 1902-1903 school year. Includes calendar, courses of study, requirements for admission, tuition, general information. The State Normal School, founded in 1895, and registered its first students in September, 1902, changed names several times: State Normal School at Duluth (1895), Duluth State Normal School (1905), Duluth State Teachers College (1921), University of Minnesota, Duluth Branch (1947), University of Minnesota Duluth (1959).
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth Kathryn A. Martin Library, University Archives
This is the annual report for the Duluth Public Schools for the 1884-1885 school year. In addition to the Treasurer, Clerk and Superintendent's reports, this volume also includes a report from the Drawing Master, Adolph Rudolph.
This is the annual report for the Duluth Public Schools, for the 1886-1887 school year. This volume includes a catalog of all the books held in the high school library.
This is the annual report for the Duluth Public Schools for the 1883-1884 school year. This volume includes "Rules for the Government of Schools," a syllabi of subjects covered in each of the grades, and a list of the ten individuals who had graduated from high school from 1879 to 1883.
This is the annual report for the Duluth Public Schools, for the 1887-1888 school year. The report contains detailed descriptions of the curriculum for each subject from first grade through high school.
This is the annual report for the Duluth Public Schools, for the 1889-1890 school year. It includes the text of a legislative act fixing the boundaries of the Independent School District of the City of Duluth.
This is the annual report for the Duluth Public Schools, for the 1888-1889 school year. At this point in time Duluth owned eleven schools and was making plans for Endion School, east of Chester Creek and enrollment was double what it had been in 1885.
Hanford, Bertha, State and County Agent for the Blind
Date Created:
1930
Description:
The district's size was reduced in 1929, dropping Koochiching county. Vocational training and employment for adults included: shoe shining, shoe repairing, general farming, rabbit raising, poultry raising, elevator operating, salesmanship, peddling, domestic service, and piano repair and tuning. This agency operated under the State Department for the Blind, Children's Bureau, Board of Control and the St. Louis County Board of Commissioners. Its work was for the prevention and treatment of people with blindness. The reports give objectives, staff, and statistics. Its district included St. Louis, Carlton, Itasca, Cook, and Lake Counties.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Hanford, Bertha, State and County Agent for the Blind
Date Created:
1931
Description:
St. Louis County is the only Minnesota county that funds work for the blind, and Duluth is the only city with a local State office. This report chronicles the work done by the agency in 1930. That year, towel hemming was added as a new project for clients within the Home Department. Yards of toweling was cut by volunteers and hemmed by blind women in their homes. This agency operated under the State Department for the Blind, Children's Bureau, Board of Control and the St. Louis County Board of Commissioners. Its work was for the prevention of blindness and treatment of people with blindness. The reports give objectives, staff, and statistics. Its district included St. Louis, Carlton, Itasca, Cook, and Lake counties, and the Cass Lake Indian Agency District.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Hanford, Bertha, State and County Agent for the Blind
Date Created:
1929
Description:
In 1928, the St. Louis County Child Welfare Board was requested by the State Board of Control to sponsor the work for the Blind in this county. This the first use of local management of such a pgoram and was successful. The report describes the Range Broom Factory at Chisholm, Minnesota, that employs several agency clients under the management of R. H. Alcox. This agency operated under the State Department for the Blind, Children's Bureau, Board of Control and the St. Louis County Board of Commissioners. Its work was for the prevention of blindness and the treatment of people with blindness. The reports give objectives, staff, and statistics. Its district included St. Louis, Carlton, Itasca, Cook, Lake, and Koochiching counties.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
A blank form used by applicants for jobs at the summer youth camp - Co-op-a-gan on Perch Lake in northern Minnesota, managed by the Range Educational Society in Virginia, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives
Notarized document filed with St. Louis County officially changing the name of the Swedish Christian Mission Church to Salem Mission Church of West Duluth. This is a negative copy of the original document which was lost in the 1932 church fire
St. Louis County record of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Articles of the Articles of Incorporation of the Swedish Christian Mission Church, Duluth, Minnesota. This is a negative copy of the original document which was lost in the 1932 church fire
St. Louis County record of the Preamble and 1st article of the Articles of Incorporation of the Swedish Christian Mission Church, Duluth, Minnesota. This is a negative copy of the original document which was lost in the 1932 church fire
This typescript was copied in November 1926 from Alfred Merritt's original 1915 manuscript. The author described his family's experience on the north shore of Lake Superior from the time of their arrival via steamboat in 1856 until the year 1894, including accounts of pioneers, settlers and land claims, and the discovery of iron ore on the Mesaba Range. Merritt also addressed the creation and demise of the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railroad.
This booklet describes the steel and wire-making process at the Minnesota Steel Plant in Morgan Park in the 1920s. Topics include raw material for wire making, the galvanizing department, the barb wire and woven fence department, the wire nail department, and the steel plant. The booklet includes photographs of Morgan Park homes, the Lake View Store in Morgan Park, and one of the community's infant playgrounds. A small map of Morgan Park shows locations of steel plant offices, the school, churches, the hospital, and community garages.
Boys' pre-camp medical examination form (Camp Co-op-a-gan, Perch Lake, northern Minnesota) to be filled out by parents or guardians and physicians conducting medical examinations three days prior to camp.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives
The College of St. Scholastica Bulletin is a catalog 84 pages in length published by the College, which is conducted by the Sisters of Saint Benedict of Duluth, Minnesota, for young women and girls. The bulletin includes two photographs of the College and explains the College's communication; membership and standardization; calendar; officers of administration; the faculty; and general information including a history of the college, ideal, campus, buildings and equipment, religious organizations, clubs, cultural entertainment, dress, facilities for self-education, credit fund, college publications, honor society, academic regulations, and requirements for graduation. Courses listed include biology; English language and literature, journalism and speech; foreign languages; history, economics, sociology, and secretarial science; home economics; philosophy and religion; physical science; psychology and education; physical education; music and art; and nursing.
The College of St. Scholastica Bulletin is a catalog 84 pages in length published by the College, which is conducted by the Sisters of Saint Benedict of Duluth, Minnesota, for young women and girls. The bulletin includes two photographs of the College and explains the College's communication; membership and standardization; calendar; administration; the faculty; and general information including a history of the college, ideal, campus, buildings and equipment, religious organizations, clubs, cultural entertainment, dress, facilities for self-education, credit fund, college publications, honor society, academic regulations, and requirements for graduation. Courses listed include biology, English language and literature, journalism and speech, foreign languages, history, economics, sociology, secretarial science, medical records library science, home economics, philosophy and religion, physical science, psychology and education, physical education, music and art, and nursing.
The College of St. Scholastica Bulletin is a catalog 86 pages in length with a 12 page insert for medical technology published by the College, which is conducted by the Sisters of Saint Benedict of Duluth, Minnesota, for young women and girls. The bulletin includes two photographs of the College and explains the College's communication; membership and standardization; calendar; officers of administration; the faculty; and general information including a history of the college, ideal, campus, buildings and equipment, religious organizations, clubs, cultural entertainment, dress, facilities for self-education, credit fund, college publications, honor society, academic regulations, and requirements for graduation. Courses listed include biological sciences, English language and literature, journalism and speech, foreign languages, history, economics, sociology, secretarial science, medical records library science, home economics, philosophy and religion, physical science, psychology and education, physical education, music and art, and nursing.
The College of St. Scholastica Bulletin is a catalog 94 pages in length published by the College which is conducted by the Sisters of Saint Benedict of Duluth, Minnesota for young women and girls. The bulleting includes one photograph of the College and explains the College's communication; accreditment and recognition; calendar; officers of administration; the faculty; and general information including tuition, the location, historical sketch, purpose of the college, the Scholastican ideal, campus, buildings, student life, and administration. Courses of instruction included art, music, biology, medical technology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, astronomy, home economics, English, journalism, speech, Latin, French, German, Spanish, history, sociology and preprofessional social service, economics, commercial education and secretarial training, medical record library science, nursing education, philosophy and religion, psychology, education, and physical education.