PUBLIC WELFARE DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS DIVISION:

An Inventory of Its Subject Files at the Minnesota Historical Society

Government Records

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Creator: Minnesota. Division of Public Institutions.
Title:Subject Files.
Dates:1901-1959.
Language:Materials in English.
Abstract:Subject files documenting the various activities and duties of the Public Institutions Division.
Quantity:4.4 cubic feet (4 boxes and 1 partial box).
Location: See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

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Included are attorney general opinions relating to the public institutions (1901-1948); contracts and bonds with architect Clarence H. Johnston (1905-1911) and the Charles L. Pillsbury Company (1905-1926), for the prison (1907, 1910, 1913), and for all the institution superintendents and stewards (1906); crime bureau reports for the St. Cloud Reformatory for Men (1951); proposals for a new school for the feeble-minded (1945-1947); repairs and improvements to the institutions (1900s-1940s); Rochester State Hospital's rock crushing operation (1912-1941); and records dealing with finance and budget, water and sewage systems, county welfare boards, dependent children, fire protection, Dr. Ralph Rossen, the Ernest J. Seitz estate, and the Youth Conservation Commission.


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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Division of Public Institutions. Subject Files. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: None; 977-37; 977-40; 990-69

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 008077403


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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Location
109.I.18.6FAdministration, Department of, 1950.
Appropriations, funds, balances, transfers, 1920-1940. 2 folders.
Attorney General Opinions:
Nos. 100-113, August 1901-July 1915. 7 folders.
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109.I.18.7BNos. 114-138, August 1915-July 1940. 25 folders.
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109.I.18.8FNos. 139-146, August 1940-July 1948. 8 folders.
Attorney General, 1950.
Board of Health Reports, Water Supply and Sewage System, 1935-1936. 1 folder and 4 volumes.
Civil Service, Department of, 1950.
Consultants, 1950-1951.
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109.I.18.10FContracts and bonds:
List of expiration, sample bond blanks and record oaths and bonds, 1901. 1 packet.
Bond/contract with Clarence H. Johnston, 1905-1911. 1 packet.
Consulting Engineers, Electrical, Contracts with Board and Mr. Pillsbury (Charles Pillsbury Company), 1905-1926. 1 packet.
Bonds, Superintendent and Steward, 1906. 12 packets.
Anoka, Faribault School for the Blind, Faribault School for the Deaf, Feebleminded, Hastings, Fergus Falls, Owatonna, Red Wing, Reformatory, Rochester, St. Peter, and Stillwater.
Bonds, Miscellaneous, 1906 . 3 packets.
Deporting agent, state agent, and Secretary Board of Control.
List of employees and officers bonds, 1906. 1 packet.
W. C. Fraser, Contract, New Prison, Water and Sewer Works, 1907. 1 packet.
Correspondence on railroads as to spur track new site, New Prison, 1907. 1 packet.
Surety companies licensed to do business, 1910. 1 packet.
O. H. Olsen, Contractor, State Prison, 1910. 2 packets.
Factory buildings, Prison, O. H. Olsen, Contractor, 1913. 1 packet.
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109.I.18.8FControl of tuberculosis, 1950.
Cost Accounting Manual for State Reformatory for Men, 1951. 1 volume.
Cost Accounting Manual for Moose Lake State Hospital, 1951. 1 volume.
County welfare boards, 1937-1939.
Crime Bureau reports, St. Cloud Reformatory for Men, 1951.
Dependent children, Attorney General opinions, 1937-1938.
Finance and budget, 1950.
Fire marshal orders, 1952-1959. 3 folders.
For St. Cloud State Reformatory for Men, Stillwater State Prison, and Sauk Centre Home School for Girls.
Fire protection: Institutions, 1952.
Follow-up Study of Minnesota State Reformatory Inmates, Preliminary Report, December 1951.
Keys, Dr. Ancel, Projects at Hastings, 1950.
Lorge (Willard F.) file, 1951.
Memorandum Reports on Administrative Studies for the Division of Institution, 1950. 1 volume.
Location
109.I.18.9BMichael Dowling Memorial , 1921-1927.
MSCL: Supreme Court Decisions, Attorney General opinions, 1917.
Photographs and drawings, 1938-1946.
Buildings and proposed buildings at School for Deaf, Stillwater Prison, and Moose Lake, St. Peter, and Fergus Falls state hospitals.
Preliminary Study of Sewers and Sewage Disposal [for state institutions], 1950. 1 volume.
Proposals for New School for the Feeble-Minded, 1945-1947. 28 folders.
Alphabetical by city name.
Psychiatric Training Program, 1950.
Repairs and improvements to institutions, 1900s-1940s.
Crippled Children.
Gillette. 17 folders.
Prison. 13 folders.
Red Wing. 2 folders.
Location
109.I.18.10FSauk Centre. 5 folders.
Shakopee. 7 folders.
Sanatorium.
Research Project, 1950.
Rochester State Hospital rock crushing, 1912-1941.
Rossen, Dr. Ralph, Commissioner of Mental Health, 1950. 2 folders.
St. Peter State Hospital, 1905-1907.
Sauk Centre Home School for Girls, 1915-1941.
School for the Blind and Deaf, 1905-1927.
Seitz (Ernest J.) estate, 1930-1943.
Superintendent meeting, minutes, 1940-1944.
Superintendent positions, Fergus Falls and St. Peter, 1925-1926.
Travel: Out of state, 1950.
Youth Conservation Commission, 1947-1950.

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:
Attorneys general's opinions -- Minnesota.
Children -- Institutional care -- Minnesota.
Crushed stone industry -- Minnesota.
Institutional care -- Minnesota.
Mental retardation facilities -- Minnesota.
Public institutions -- Minnesota -- Administration.
Public institutions -- Minnesota -- Water-supply.
Public institutions -- Officials and employees -- Minnesota.
Public welfare -- Minnesota.
Sewage disposal -- Minnesota.
Persons:
Johnston, Clarence H. (Clarence Howard), 1859-1936.
Rossen, Ralph, 1909-1974.
Seitz, Ernest J.
Organizations:
Charles L. Pillsbury Company.
Minnesota State Prison (Stillwater, Minn.)
Minnesota State Reformatory for Men.
Minnesota. Youth Conservation Commission.
Minnesota. Department of Public Welfare.
Minnesota. State Board of Control.
Rochester State Hospital (Minn.)
Places:
Minnesota -- Officials and employees -- Bonding.

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