What's New -- March 2026
Newly added accessions this month include the Beltrami County: Liberty Township Records and Birth and Death Records; Isanti County various school records; the Hmong Oral Histories Project: Oral History Interviews; and the United States District Court: Transcript, Trial of Evelyn Frechette.
Collections with additions or added digital content this month include Isanti County various school records; the Redwood County Auditor Tax Lists and Records; and the Lawrence Taliaferro Papers.
In addition there are many newly encoded finding aids that are now available online for the first time.
The A-Z index lists all of our current digital finding aids and included digital content.
New and Updated Finding Aids
| Name/Abstract | File No. |
|---|---|
| Aitkin County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Judgment Records | gr03577 |
| Judgment record books (1885-1981) and judgment docket (1887-1956). Each judgment book includes an index. | |
| Aitkin County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Indictment and Information Records | gr03576 |
| Criminal information records (1923-1977) and an indictment record (1886-1933). | |
| Beltrami County: Liberty Township: An Inventory of Its Birth and Death Records | gr03578 |
| Birth (1911-1953) and death (1898-1953) registers and permits for burial or removal (1908-1927). | |
| Beltrami County: Liberty Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03579 |
| Includes annual statements of the treasurer and various other clerk/treasurer records, election records, reports of the board of audit, town meeting materials, minutes, poll lists, and road records. | |
| Clearwater County: Bagley: Justice of the Peace: An Inventory of Its Civil and Criminal Dockets | gr03580 |
| Civil (1899-1958, incomplete) and criminal (1899-1969, incomplete) dockets. Justices include A. B. Stauning, Orlando Nelson, John H. Ouissea, John H. Sommervald, N. A. Larson, C. J. Turner, and Karl G. Baum. | |
| Dodge County: Concord Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03581 |
| Clerk's (1933-1974) and treasurer's (1939-1983) books, annual meeting minutes (1972-1975, 1983), and poll lists (1971-1973). | |
| Economic Development Department: Bureau of Capital Investment Programs: Development Grants and Loans Division: An Inventory of Its Subject Files | gr03583 |
| Correspondence, applications for government loans and grants, minutes, reports, and similar material, relating to government programs that provide economic assistance to communities and businesses. The Department of Economic Development assists communities and businesses applying for funds, screens applications, and in some cases disburses money. | |
| Fillmore County: Auditor: An Inventory of Its Election Records | gr03584 |
| Election registers (1938-1970), arranged by election and thereunder by township/village/city; petitions for elections to decide on the establishment of a municipal liquor store (1948, 1952); and a summary statement of votes for Arendahl township (1958). | |
| Grant County: Lawrence Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03585 |
| Clerk's books (1880-1961), treasurer's records (1937, 1941-1969), road records (1892-1919), a justice of the peace docket (1883-1909), poll lists (undated, 1918, 1946), and farm contracts (farm lease or share-cropping agreements, 1914-1921). | |
| 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. |
|
| Hennepin County: Crystal: An Inventory of Its Election Records | gr03586 |
| Poll lists (Nov. 15, 1951), and abstracts of votes for city (1951-1969, 1971-1986) and national/state (1976-1980, 1982, 1984, 1986) elections. | |
| Hmong Oral Histories Project: An Inventory of Its Oral history interviews of the Hmong Oral Histories Project | oh16 |
| Nine interviews with Hmong men and women from the Twin Cities metropolitan area, who have immigrated to Minnesota from Laos or Thailand. The interviews consist of personal stories that describe their experiences both before and after their immigration. Nearly each interview concludes with a statement made by the narrator, a statement of hope or a piece of advice for future generations of Hmong people. | |
| Isanti County: Independent School District No. 911, Cambridge: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03590 |
| Includes clerk's books (1869-1903), treasurer's books (1876-1900), school census (1925-1963), attendance registers (1876-1896), annual reports (1929-1932), applications for high school tuition from state funds (1928-1930), auxiliary funds ledgers (1927-1941), school board minutes (1903-1947), teachers professional record cards (1916-1935), teachers qualification record cards (1924-1945), high school student record cards (1915-1935), pupil record cards (1915-1934), clerk's record of receipts and disbursements (1915-1933), consolidation plats (1958-1960), a registration manual (undated), information on a proposed addition (1956), and "The Cambridge Schools: Past, Present, and Future" (1933?). | |
| Isanti County: School District No. 3/660, Isanti Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03589 |
| Includes clerk's books (1870-1939), treasurer's books (1870-1895, 1948-1958); classification and term registers (1895-1958); attendance registers (1870-1932); school census (1920, 1921, 1931, 1935, 1955, 1957); textbook records (1925-1935); library accession records (1910-1957); pupil record sheets (approximately 1930-1956); and a map of the school district, school house sketches, and other miscellaneous papers (1953). | |
| Isanti County: School District No. 5, North Branch Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03591 |
| Includes district treasurer's book (1873-1900), treasurer's book of records (1901-1952), and pupil record cards (1932-1937). | |
| Isanti County: School District No. 24/668, Isanti Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03592 |
| Includes classification and term registers (1926-1943), attendance register (1929-1936), school census (1930-1935), textbook or equipment record (1931), and library accession record (1933). | |
| Isanti County: School District No. 30/674, Isanti Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03593 |
| Includes clerk's books (1891-1959); treasurer's books (1875-1959); classification records (1895-1956); attendance registers (1889-1890, 1918-1930); school census (1921-1958); library accession record (1930s-1956); and treasurer's reports, deeds, map, and minutes (various dates, 1883-1941). | |
| Isanti County: School District No. 38/678, Cambridge Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03594 |
| Includes clerk's book (1968-1971), treasurer's book (1968-1971), classification and term registers (1919-1971), attendance registers (1882-1969), school census (1938-1969), pupil records (1932-1956), and library accession record (1942-1961). | |
| Isanti County: School District No. 40/679, Dalbo Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03595 |
| Attendance registers (1960-1965), class records (1928-1934), clerk's books (1910-1915, 1924, 1970-1971), ideal class register (1909), teachers reports (1962-1965), texbook records (1904-1922), and treasurer's books (1907-1915, 1970-1971). | |
| Isanti County: School District No. 42, Wyanett Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03596 |
| Includes attendance registers (undated, 1929-1935), clerk's books (1903-1952), treasurer's books (1921-1952), classification and term registers (1918-1942), textbook inventories (1922-1935), library records (1922-1935), and school census (1942-1953). | |
| Isanti County: School District No. 53/683, Isanti Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03597 |
| Includes attendance registers (1918-1946), class record (1914-1947), clerk's books (1906-1959), treasurer's book (1958-1959), classification and term registers (1933-1959), pupil record sheets (approximately 1930-1956), school census (1930-1959), library accession record (1907-1952), schoolhouse plans (undated), school texbook record (1901-1935), and transportation list of students (1954-1957). | |
| Isanti County: School District No. 69, Dalbo Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03598 |
| Clerk's books (1923-1932, 1942-1952), treasurer's books (1924-1927, 1942-1954), school census (1924-1953), and attendance registers (1936-1937, 1952-1953). | |
| Martin County: Elm Creek Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03587 |
| Clerk's books (1891, 1900-1976); treasurer's books (1902-1955) and annual reports (1925, 1967, 1971-1972, 1976); poll lists (1943, 1964-1978; incomplete); and miscellaneous documents, including financial reports to the state (1942-1943), township map showing landowners (1968), and Elm Creek United Fund reports (1970, 1975). | |
| Norman County: Waukon Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03582 |
| Town record and clerk's books (1880-1977), treasurer's records, election records (1970, 1982-1984), road records (1880-1913), and a township history (1980). | |
| Polk County: Crookston Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03588 |
| Clerk's books (1877-1939), treasurer's books (1890-1941) and annual statements (1937-1989), town board minutes (1938-1984), clerk's/treasurer's disbursements register (1938-1987), audit board annual reports (1936-1991), audit reports (1941, 1943), annual town meeting minutes (1937-1988) and poll lists (1937-1977), wolf bounties (1913-1921, 1932, 1937), road record books (1878-1932, 1965) and petitions (1881-1938, 1965), and township development code and administrative handbook (1978). | |
| Ramsey County: St. Paul: School Records: Desnoyer Park School: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03573 |
| Miscellaneous records (1925-1974), including an undated Christmas play script, 1974 farewell open house materials, a school history covering 1924 through 1974, a 1974 site description, and 1925 through 1960 staff lists; school newsletter (1968-1969, 1971); exterior and interior building photographs (1955-1967); and PTA records (1926-1974). The latter include the organization's bylaws and constitution (1929, 1942), minute books (1926-1974), a 1926 planning book, correspondence (1928-1931, 1949, 1971-1974), financial ledgers (1926-1962), and scrapbooks (1951-1963), which contain a history of the PTA, officer lists, committee reports, programs and flyers, and photographs of the school, officers, and student and PTA activities. | |
| Ramsey County: St. Paul: School Records: Mechanic Arts High School: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03571 |
| Programs, invitations, handbooks, subject files, scrapbooks, and photographs documenting a wide variety of school activities and events. | |
| Ramsey County: St. Paul: School Records: Richards Gordon School: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03572 |
| School history (approximately 1974), newspapers (1922-1974), Principal Grace Waufle's notebook with examination samples (1902-1912, 1917, 1935), news clippings (1936-1954), payroll savings bonds (1940s) and Red Cross War Fund (1943-1945) certificates, school patrol book (1948-1950), directories (1956-1959, 1970-1974), staff Sunshine Club ledger (1959-1980), operating policies and procedures (1965-1966, 1973-1974), science fair papers (1973-1974), Founders' Day Open House materials (1974), photographs and slides (1904-1967), and PTA records (1921-1974). | |
| Redwood County: Auditor: An Inventory of Its Annual Financial Statements | gr03600 |
| Incomplete. Missing 1895, 1899, 1902, 1904, 1908, 1919, 1982-2019. | |
| Redwood County: Auditor: An Inventory of Its Records | gr02266 |
| Annexations (1934-1977), audits (1994-2003), professional goals (2011), special meeting file (2010), Power and Light Company tax lists (1945-1996), University of Minnesota Redwood Extension Committee files (1961-2015), road papers (1866-1970), including petitions, orders, notices, plats, reports, correspondence and related papers, and road calendar A (1866-1906), containing for each new road, a record of the petition to establish and of the road commissioner's decision, a surveyor's report or other narrative description of the route, and a township map showing its location; fox and wolf bounty papers (1950-1965); school district organization papers (1896-1957) and school consolidation and organization files (1952-1971), and a boundary record (1870, 1880-1892) providing for each school district, a township plat showing boundaries, a legal description of the boundaries, and a list of boundary changes beginning in 1880. | |
| Redwood County: Auditor: An Inventory of Its Tax Lists | gr03599 |
| Tax lists for the civil subdivisions of Redwood County, including (1868-approximately 1873) parcels that later became part of Lac Qui Parle and Yellow Medicine counties. They record the taxes assessed and paid on real and personal property owned by the residents for the years 1868-1900 and sample years 1910-1911, 1920-1921, 1930-1931, 1940-1941, 1950-1951, 1960-1961, 1970-1971, and 2000-2001. | |
| Scott County: Spring Lake Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03574 |
| Clerk's books (1860-1965), treasurer's books (1883-1969), road records (1884-1950), audit board minutes (1951-1974), poll lists and election records (1962-1978), chattel mortgage record book (1876-1896, 1925), and assessor's return of taxable real property (1872). | |
| Stearns County: St. Cloud: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03575 |
| Includes a journal (1887-1911); ledgers (1869-1916); water department ledger (1911-1930); payroll registers (1893-1894); arrest record and statistics (1919-1923); lockup register (1947-1955); correspondence of the city treasurer and auditor (1925-1935); city attorney's opinions (1862-1915); reports of the auditor (1910-1914), city librarian (1894-1914), city health board (1891-1920), city physician (1892-1893, 1913), town marshal and police chief (1863-1887, 1913), treasurer (1906-1909), and water works committee (1883-1908); reports to the State Board of Control concerning poor relief and health inspections of the city lockup (1897-1914); petitions to the city council (1861-1901); Public Works Board minutes (1889-1908); register of licenses and permits (1866-1879); clerk's reports, financial records, and correspondence; correspondence of the city mayor (1868-1933); election records (1910-1932); and a variety of miscellany from the city of St. Cloud in Stearn County. | |
| Lawrence Taliaferro: An Inventory of His Papers | 01236 |
 Correspondence,
journals and typed transcripts of the journals, order books, financial records,
an autobiography, data sheets, and research note cards, the bulk of which
document Taliaferro's career as U.S. Indian agent to the Ojibwe and Dakota at
the St. Peters Agency near Fort Snelling in present-day Minnesota (1820-1839).
Includes digital content. |
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| Wabasha County: Greenfield Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03602 |
| Clerk's books (1880-1978), treasurer's books (1948-1978), road record books (1859-1953), a miscellaneous town record book (1861-1872), a chattel mortgage book (1872-1913), election registers (bulk 1940-1962), and miscellaneous financial and elections records. | |
| Wabasha County: Plainview Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03601 |
| Clerk's books (1858-1983), road record book (1874-1984), poll lists (1942-1943, 1952), treasurer's annual statements (1941, 1952), and miscellaneous papers (1863-1900), including the deed to the Plainview Cemetery (1863), the petition for the separation of the village of Plainview from the township (1900), and a chattel mortgage register (1872-1913). | |
New and Updated Catalog Records
| United States. District Court (Minnesota : 3rd Division). Transcript, trial of Evelyn Frechette, et al., 1934 May 15-22. |
| Typed transcript of the trial of Frechette, companion of bank robber John Dillinger, in March-April, 1934, and of Minneapolis physician Clayton E. May and Mrs. Augusta Salt, who treated Dillinger for injuries, for conspiracy in abetting his escape from law enforcement officials. There is considerable detail on Dillinger's activities during this time. Frechette was found guilty. |
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