CONTROL BOARD:

An Inventory of Its Published Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Government Records

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Creator: Minnesota. State Board of Control.
Title:Published Records.
Dates:1900-1955.
Language:Materials in English.
Abstract:Published laws, directories, standards, manuals, reports, and miscellany.
Quantity:2.6 cubic feet (3 boxes).
Location: See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

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Also included here are items published by the Social Welfare Division and Public Institutions Division, which formed part of a Social Security Department from 1939 to 1953.


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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. State Board of Control. Published Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession numbers: none; 980-28

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 990017090050104294


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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

LocationBox
120.A.1.2F1Laws of Minnesota Relating to the Board of Control. 7 folders:
1901.
Act incorporating: Chapter 122, Laws 1901 adopted April 2, 1901.
1908, 1909.
1913, 1915.
1917, 1919.
1921, 1923.
1923.
Chapter 442, An Act to Appropriate Money for Current Expenses, Buildings and Other Improvements at the State Institutions and for Other Purposes.
1927, 1929, 1931, 1933.
1935, 1937.
Compilation of the Laws of Minnesota Relating to Children. 4 folders:
1919, 1921.
1923.
And supplement (1925).
1927.
And supplement (1929 and 1931).
1935.
County Sanatorium Law, 1915, 1929. 1 folder.
Bylaws and Rules/Regulations Governing the Minnesota Hospitals for Insane and the Insane Asylums, 1900. 1 folder.
Old Age Assistance Act, adopted by special session of the Minnesota Legislature, 1935-1936. 1 folder.
Directory of Maternity Hospitals, Infant Homes, Agencies Receiving and Placing Children. 3 folders:
1919-1926.
1927-1934.
1935-1939.
Directory of County Welfare Board Members and Executive Secretaries. 1 folder:
August 1937.
July 1938.
January 1939.
Directory of County Child Welfare Boards, County Nurses, and Probation Officers in Minnesota. 2 folders:
1921-1928.
1929-1936.
Directory, Division of Coordinated Field Services, October 1936. 1 folder.
Minimum Standards for Boarding and Permanent Homes, 1924. 1 folder.
Standards for Maternity Hospitals in Minnesota, 1928. 1 folder.
Standards (tentative) for Child Caring Institutions, 1932. 1 folder.
Minimum Standards for Home Maternity Hospitals in Minnesota, 1934. 1 folder.
Itemized Statement of Recommendations for Appropriations for Biennial Period ending.. 3 folders:
July 1917, July 1919, July 1921, June 1923, June 1925, June 1927 (original and corrected).
June 1929, June 1931, June 1933, June 1935, June 1937.
June 1939, June 1941.
Minnesota Public Assistance/Monthly Review of Public Assistance, August 1937-May 1939. 5 folders.
Monthly, complete.
Rules Relating to Employees of All State Institutions under its Jurisdictions, revised, March 1, 1938.
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120.A.1.3B2Crippled Children's Service (Quarterly Bulletin): October 1938, January 1939. 1 folder.
Nos. 1 and 2.
Quarterly: Representing the Minnesota Educational, Philanthropic, Correctional and Penal Institutions under Board of Control (scholarly journal). 1 folder and 2 volumes:
May 1916. 1 folder.
February 10, 1925 - February 15, 1938. 2 volumes.
Chronological File of Publications:
All 1 folder unless noted.
Report to the House of Representatives re: escaped patients and August H. Bloom, February 1907.
Minnesota State Institutions: Descriptive Circular for Use of Visitors to the National Conference of Charities and Correction, June 1907.
General Rules of State Board of Control relative to officers and employees of State Institutions, 1911-approximately 1917.
Includes forms used by institutions.
Summary of Conditions in Minnesota Institutions under the Direction of Board of Control, July 1915.
Report to the Legislature on Selection of a Site for the State Reformatory for Women, February 1917.
Proceedings: First State Conference of Child Welfare Boards with the Board of Control, May 1919.
Another copy is bound with Proceedings of Quarterly Conferences of State Institutions in the MHS Library.
Meeting of State Institution Stewards and Cooks reports, 1919-1920.
Address (published by Board of Control): Waite, Edward F. (District Judge, Juvenile Court of Minneapolis). "The Origin & Development of the Minnesota Juvenile Court," before the Minnesota Association of Probate Judges, January 15, 1920.
History of the State Board of Control, 1901-1922.
Minnesota State Institutions under the Charge of State Board of Control (information pamphlets): 1921, 1922, 1924, 1928.
Fathers and Mothers of Deaf Children..Do You Know?
Pamphlet on Faribault School for Deaf, 1930.
Report of Board of Control as the State Emergency Relief Administration, September 29, 1932 to July 1, 1934.
Report to Legislature of Expenditures for Emergency Relief and Assistance by State of Minnesota to Disabled War Veterans in presenting their Claims to the Federal Government, approximately February 1935.
Character Education: A Short Reading List, October 1935.
Manuals for County Certification Officers on the Certification of Eligiblity for Works Progress Administration Employment, August 1936 and August 1938.
Foster Homes: A Selected Bibliography, 1936. 7 pages, mimeo.
Old-Age Assistance Grants, February-June and April-August, 1936. 2 items.
Manual for the Guidance of County Welfare Boards - Division of the Blind, approximately July 1937.
Preliminary Statistical Statement Covering Basic Data on Old Age Assistance for year ending June 30, 1938.
Child Welfare Manual, 1938.
Manual of Instructions for Preparing Public Assistance Social Data Cards, January 1939.
Manual on Accounting Procedure Covering Public Assistance Programs for County Welfare Boards, January 1939.
Field Supervisor's Manual - Division of Public Assistance, April 1939.
Chronological Development of State Board of Control & Division of Public Institutions, 1901-1943 (chart), with chart of Chronology of State Institutions, 1851-1943.
Programs for the Feeble Minded:
The Problem of the Feeble-Minded and the Program of the State Board of Control, 1919. 1 folder:
Determination of Feeble-Mindedness as Related to the Courts. Address of Fred Kuhlmann, Director of Research, Minnesota School for Feeble-Minded before State Association of Probate Judges, January 15, 1920.
A State Census of Mental Defectives, By Fred Kuhlmann. reprinted from Journal of Delinquency, September-November 1923.
Outline of Mental Deficiency - for Social Workers, Teachers, and Others, by Fred Kuhlmann, 1925.
What Others Think of Mental Tests, by Fred Kuhlmann. Reprinted from The Psychological Exchange, January-February 1935.
Intelligence Tests, by Fred Kuhlmann. Reprinted from State Board of Control Quarterly, September 1935.
Social Aspects of Minnesota's Program for the Feeble-Minded, by Mildred Thomson (Supervisor in Department of Feeble-Minded & Epileptic). Reprinted from Proceedings from the American Association on Mental Deficiency, 1939.
Types of Total Scores on Mental Tests with Special Reference to a Median Score on a Binet-Type Scale, by Fred Kuhlmann. Reprinted from Journal of Consulting Psychology, November-December 1941.
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120.A.1.4F3Division of Public Institutions:
Laws Relating to Division of Public Institutions, 1942. 1 folder.
Itemized Statement of Recommendations for Appropriations for the Biennium. 3 folders:
July 1941-June 1943; July 1943-June 1945; July 1945-June 1947; July 1947-June 1949.
July 1949-June 1951; July 1951-June 1953.
July 1953-June 1955.
Library Biennial Reports, 1940, 1944, 1946. 1 folder.
Manual for Welfare Boards, 1950. 1 folder.
Division of Social Welfare:
Digest of Laws, Attorney General Opinions, Supreme Court Decisions relating to Public Assistance and Relief Programs. 2 folders:
1940, 1946.
1952.
Directory of Maternity Homes & Hospitals Receiving Maternity Patients, 1940-1941. 1 folder.
Standards for Maternity Hospitals, 1941. 1 folder.
Standards for the Licensing of Foster Homes, July 1942. 1 folder.
Standards for Children's Institutions, March 1945. 1 folder.
Annual Report: Old Age Assistance, Aid for Dependent Children, Aid to Blind, June 1939. 1 folder.
Manuals:
Manual of Instructions for Uniform County Welfare Board Minutes & Accounting Reports to State Agency, September 1940. 1 folder.
Manual of Procedures in Case Recording, Dept. of Public Welfare (City of Minneapolis only?), 1941. 1 folder.
Manual for Central Index Services; Identification Key for Clearance Services, both 1940s. In one folder.
Suggested Readings for County Workers, 1940s. 1 folder.
Manual of Personnel Policies, January 1946. 1 folder.
Miscellaneous publications. 1 folder:
Information pamphlet No. 1, Aid to Dependent Children, May 1941.
County Welfare Merit System Rules, August 1941.
ADC Primer, 1942.
ADC Program in Minnesota, February 1946. 5 pages.
Old Age Assistance pamphlet, February 1946.
Summary of Public Aid & Service Available to the Blind, October 1946.
Crippled Children's Services of the Medical Unit: Orthopedic - Plastic Program, approximately 1940s.
Crippled Children's Services Plastic Program, approximately 1947.
State Conference on Social Work. Miscellaneous materials, 1941, 1945. 1 folder.
Statement regarding the proposed reorganization of the State Conference, 1941; document supporting reorganization, 1941; proposed new constitution favored by the majority, 1941; minority report on the proposed constitution, 1941; proposed new constitution favored by the minority, 1941; statement of legislative recommendations for the session of 1945. All mimeographed.
Miscellaneous others:
Report of the Minnesota Child Welfare Commission, 1917. 1 folder.
Report of the Minnesota Commission for the Blind, 1923. 1 folder.

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See also Publications of the Corrections and Charities Board and the Public Welfare Department.

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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:
Child welfare -- Minnesota.
County welfare boards -- Minnesota.
Government publications -- Minnesota.
Mental health -- Minnesota.
Public institutions -- Minnesota -- Administration.
Public welfare -- Minnesota.
Reformatories -- Minnesota -- Administration.
Sanatoriums -- Minnesota -- Administration.
State hospitals -- Minnesota -- Administration.
Women's hospitals -- Minnesota -- Administration.
Organizations:
Minnesota. Division of Public Institutions.
Minnesota. Division of Social Welfare.

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