What's New -- February 2026

Newly added accessions this month include the Carlton County Public Health Nursing Service Records; the Joe Morse Papers; and the Oxford Community Center Oral History Project Oral History Interviews.

Collections with additions or added digital content this month include the Great Northern Railway Company Engineering Department and Mechanical Department Records; the Legislative Auditor: Various Records; the Martin County District Court Civil Case Files; the Secretary of State Land Survey Miscellaneous Records; and the Phyllis Wiener Papers.

Name/Abstract	File No.
Carlton County: Public Health Nursing Service: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03562
Includes nursing service history, year in reviews, public health advisory committee records, and anti-smoking promotions.
Cottonwood County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Real Estate Tax Judgment Books	gr03564
Includes Volume A-G.
Great Northern Railway Company: Engineering Department: An Inventory of Its Record	00648
Correspondence and subject files, maps, architectural drawings, and construction project registers and indexes documenting the activities of the Great Northern administrative department responsible for locating, surveying, constructing, and maintaining roadways and structures.
Great Northern Railway Company: Mechanical Department: An Inventory of Its Record	00649
Mechanical drawings and other records relating to the Great Northern fleet of cars and locomotives. Includes digital content.
Legislative Auditor: Financial Audits Division: An Inventory of Its Audit Reports	gr00705
Audit reports conducted annually by the Financial Audit Division to assess the state's major financial operations and determine whether the state's financial statements comply with generally accepted accounting principles.
Legislative Auditor: Program Evaluation Division: An Inventory of Its Program Evaluation Reports	gr00239
Published reports that describe state programs or the operations of state agencies, analyze management problems, evaluate outcomes, and recommend alternative means of reaching program goals.
Martin County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Civil Case Files	gr03563
Files numbered A1-A401, B1-B101, and 103-13490; with transcripts from several trials. The first numbered set correlates with Register of Actions A; the second set begins with Register of Actions B. Includes criminal cases through 1902.
Martin County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Criminal Case Files	gr03565
Files numbered 1-1334; a transcript from an unnumbered case (1910); and a speech by A. C. Townley (1918) introduced as a case exhibit. Files prior to 1902 are included with the civil case files.
Joe Morse: An Inventory of His Papers	01591
Personal papers of social activist and community organizer Joe Morse. The papers include: materials related to Morse's experience in Meridian, Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964; files related to his efforts to reduce violence against women; and files related to his organizer work in his hometown of Winona, Minnesota, including documentation of efforts to ban sand fracking, stop tire burning, and other environmental issues. Includes digital content.
Natural Resources Department: An Inventory of Its Tribal Relations Files	gr03550
Documents gathered from several Natural Resources Department offices concerning a wide variety of interactions between the Department and Minnesota's tribal bands (primarily Ojibwe and Dakota). The documents include legal documents, memos, correspondence, news releases, meeting minutes, reports; and copies of news clippings, case law, treaties, and U.S. House and Senate proceedings. The copies of case law, treaties, and U.S. House and Senate proceedings may be dated earlier than 1978, with some documents dating from 1842.
Oxford Community Center Oral History Project: An Inventory of Its Oral History Interviews	oh186
The Oxford Community Center Oral History Project contains interviews with people who played, coached, officiated, socialized, and worked at Oxford from the late 1950s to the 1970s. The goal of the Oxford Community Center Oral History Project is to collect, preserve, and share the stories of individuals who have shaped, and been shaped by, this important community organization. Includes digital content.
Secretary of State: An Inventory of Its Land Survey Miscellaneous Records	gr00505
Assorted records documenting activities involving various aspects of the land survey. Includes digital content.
6W Department of Community Corrections: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03566
Annual comprehensive plans; subject files relating to various administrative and program matters of the department; and meeting files and audit reports of the board of directors of the Six West Boys Ranch, a group home/school for delinquent teenage boys.
Social Security Department: An Inventory of Its Published Records and Reports	gr03570
Reports, newsletters, and miscellaneous print and near-print items of or about the Social Security Department.
Social Security Department: Public Institutions Division: An Inventory of Its Personnel Service Records	gr03569
Records documenting various state personnel, particularly those at the state's public institutions. The majority are personnel service record cards (1925-1939) for the state's institutions, listing employee name, address, position, salary, brief statement of duties, data on previous state service, education, training, and personal and family information. Also State Employees Retirement Association deduction cards (1929-1939) and payroll deduction records on State Relief Agency and State Emergency Relief Administration paid employees (1939-1940).
Social Security Department: Public Institutions Division: Supervisor of Institution Libraries: An Inventory of Its Institution Library Information	gr03568
For each institution, includes a list of officers, library schedule, notes made during visits by the supervisor, and often a map of the grounds. Also includes material relating to the division's supervision and to the management of institution libraries in general.
Social Security Department: Social Welfare Division: An Inventory of Its Child Welfare Records	gr03567
Correspondence, memos, reports, and other records apparently generated or received by the Services to Private Agencies Section, primarily its directors: Mary Connery (prior to 1944), Morris Hursh (1944-1945), and L. Merritt Brown (1945-1946).
Phyllis Wiener: An Inventory of Her Papers	01579
Papers of Iowa-born abstract expressionist artist and educator Phyllis Wiener. The papers include sketchbooks (1987-2012), exhibition materials (approximately 1951-2013), biographical information (1952-2012), photographs (approximately 1956-2006), and photograph albums (1960-2005). Includes digital content.

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