What's New -- January 2026

Newly added accessions this month include the Chisago County Minutes and Meeting Files; the Health Department Commissioner's Office Records; and the Minnesota Historical Society: Library and Archives: Vertical Reference Files.

Collections with additions or added digital content this month include the Arc Greater Twin Cities Records; the Chisago County Highway Department Records; the Council on Latino Affairs Records; the Governor Rudy Perpich Subject Files; the Great Northern Railroad Company: Mechanical Department Records; the Wing Young Huie Photograph Collection and Archive; the Legislature: Video and Audio Recordings Compiled for Tribune of the People; the Northern Pacific Railroad Company: Mechanical Department Records; the Soo Line Railroad Company Records; and the Lawrence Taliaferro Papers.

Name/Abstract	File No.
Arc Greater Twin Cities: An Inventory of Its Records	00597
Records documenting the first sixty years of one of the nation's first advocacy groups for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled. The collection includes board of directors' documents, financial records, biographical files, publications, subject files, speeches, news clippings, motion pictures and videorecordings, and scrapbooks and photograph albums. Includes digital content.
Chisago County: An Inventory of Its Minutes and Meeting Files	gr03560
Minutes and meeting files of various committees and task forces. Include meeting minutes, reports, correspondence and related records. Arranged in alphabetical order by name.
Chisago County: Highway Department: An Inventory of Its Records	gr01911
Annual reports (1953-2008), semi-annual and annual reports (1937-1967), and a typescript report on road work done and funds expended for the six months ending July 1, 1925.
Council on Latino Affairs: An Inventory of Its Records	gr02075
Subject files; files relating to community forums; publications; board minutes, meeting files, and subject files; and audio recordings of the Notas Latinas audio program created by the Council. Includes digital content.
Governor: Perpich, Rudy: An Inventory of His Subject Files	gr03559
Correspondence, memoranda, printed and near-print materials, reports, clippings, and other materials on a wide variety of topics relating to public policy issues, governor's office administration, state agencies, legislation, the governor's activities, local issues, Minnesota businesses, economic development, and similar matters.
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.
Health Department: Commissioner's Office: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03561
Includes commissioner's files (2003-2016) and council, committees, task forces, and advisory council meeting files (2001-2019).
Wing Young Huie: An Inventory of His Photograph Collection and Archive	sv000594
Photograph collection and archive from acclaimed photographer Wing Young Huie, who is known for his community-based documentary photography projects of diverse communities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, and of Asian communities within the United States and abroad. The collection and archive spans Wing Young Huie's career, including his early career work as a freelance photographer (1975-1990) and his numerous documentary photography projects (1990s-2018). The collection and archive includes photoprints, project documentation, and related materials. Includes digital content.
Legislature: An Inventory of the Video and Audio Recordings Compiled for Tribune of the People	gr02655
Materials collected during the research for Royce Hanson's book, Tribune of the People: The Minnesota Legislature and Its Leaders. Includes digital content.
Minnesota Historical Society: Library and Archives: An Inventory of Its Vertical Reference Files	01592
Files created by the Minnesota Historical Society Library and Archives Department staff over many years. Included are subject files, biographical files, family folders, and governor's wife files. Indexes pertaining to certain series are also included. A card catalog subject index for these files is also available in the Gale Family Library Weyerhaeuser Reading Room.
Northern Pacific Railway Company: Mechanical Department: An Inventory of Its Records	01023
Mechanical drawings, subject files, and miscellaneous records relating to the Northern Pacific fleet of cars, locomotives, and work equipment. Includes digital content.
Soo Line Railroad Company: An Inventory of Its Company Records	00343
Records of Minneapolis-based Soo Line Railroad Company, a grain and timber products carrier serving the upper Midwest and providing U.S. connections for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Included are records of predecessor companies Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, Wisconsin Central Railroad, and Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railroad, as well as more than 80 other branch lines, predecessors, subsidiaries, and related companies. Includes digital content.
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.

What's New -- January 2026

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