CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT: FORESTRY DIVISION:

Items and events include farms and farming equipment; flowers and plants; animals and animal damage; archaeology; trees; birds; plant diseases; boats and related buildings and equipment; Boy Scouts; bridges and dams; cabins and summer homes; camping; Civil Works Administration and emergency conservation work; lumber camps and related buildings and equipment; construction work; dog sleds; dumps; forestry and firefighting equipment; excelsior factory; fish; forest rangers; fox farm; game; golf; guns and hunting; deforestation; Indians; insects; lightning; lookout towers and ranger stations; maps; maple syrup; monuments; pageants; peat fires and industry; picnics; tree planting; portages; railroads; roads and road building; roadside stands; signs; slash; resorts; tents; timber marking; toboggans; trapping; weather instruments; winter; forest fires, including those at Cloquet, Hinckley, and Moose Lake; and geographic features, including hills, bogs, burned land, caves, ditches, drainage, lakes, rivers, erosion, water falls, fire and wind breaks, and flowage.

There are also photographs of Grand Marais, Hibbing, Portage, the Mississippi River headwaters, and Interstate, Itasca, Jay Cooke, and Whitewater state parks.

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The photographs are arranged in a numerical order developed by the Conservation Department, each numerical section relating to a topical division. Each photo may have the following information: subject, number, photographer, place, and date. Photo negatives may be attached in the back of each paperboard sheet the photographs are attached to. Subject titles are transcribed as written on the sheets.

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An index prepared by the Conservation Department is housed in the first box of this series. Arranged alphabetically by topic, with cross reference listings to photographs that may document multiple activities of the department.

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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 Forestry. Numerical Photograph Set. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: None

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 990065442570104294

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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:

Agriculture -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Archaeology -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Birds -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Boats and boating -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Bogs -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Boy Scouts -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Bridges -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Camping -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Caves -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Dams -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Deforestation -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Ditches -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Dogsledding -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Drainage -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Erosion -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Fire extinction -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Fire lookout stations -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Fishes -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Forest districts -- Minnesota -- Buildings -- Photographs.

Forest fires -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Forest insects -- Photographs.

Forest rangers -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Foresters -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Forests and forestry -- Equipment and supplies -- Photographs.

Hunting -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Indians of North America -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Lakes -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Log cabins -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Logging -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Lumber camps -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Lumbering -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Maple sugar industry -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Maps -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Meteorology -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Monuments -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Pageants -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Parks -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Peat industry -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Picnics -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Plant diseases -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Portages -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Railroads -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Ranger stations -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Recreation areas -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Rivers -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Roads -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Roadside marketing -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Signs and signboards -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Summer resorts -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Tents -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Toboggans -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Trapping -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Trees -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Vacation homes -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Waterfalls -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Wild flowers -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Wildlife photography -- Minnesota.

Windbreaks, shelterbelts, etc. -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Winter -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Organizations:

Minnesota Emergency Relief Administration -- Photographs.

Minnesota. Department of Conservation.

United States. Federal Civil Works Administration -- Photographs.

Places:

Cloquet (Minn.) -- Fires -- Photographs.

Grand Marais (Minn.) -- Photographs.

Grand Portage (Minn.) -- Photographs.

Hibbing (Minn.) -- Photographs.

Hinckley (Minn.) -- Fires -- Photographs.

Interstate State Park (Minn.) -- Minnesota -- Photographs.

Itasca State Park (Minn.) -- Photographs.

Jay Cooke State Park (Minn.) -- Photographs.

Moose Lake (Minn.) -- Fires -- Photographs.

Whitewater State Park (Minn.) -- Photographs.

Document Types:

Photographs -- Minnesota.

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