What's New -- June 2026

Collections with additions or added digital content this month include the Ecolab Inc. Records; the Education Department Statewide Assessment Tests; and the Ramsey County Human Services Department Records.

Name/Abstract	File No.
Anoka County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Judgment Books	gr03704
Judgment books of the Anoka County District Court.
Anoka County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Judgment Dockets	gr03705
Judgment dockets of the Anoka County District Court.
Big Stone County: Ortonville: Municipal Court: An Inventory of Its Justice and Municipal Court Dockets	gr03706
Justice court dockets (1881-1911) and municipal court dockets (1919-1951).
Chippewa County: Louriston Township: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03707
Chattel mortgage record books, indexed (1874-1913) and dog license register (1882). The latter includes owner's name, issuance and expiration dates, and dog's name, age, sex, and breed.
Chippewa County: Tunsberg Township: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03708
Chattel mortgage record book (1870-1913), a petition to separate Tunsberg Township from the village of Watson (1931), and road records (1871-1934), including Board of Supervisors' meeting minutes, records of laying out town roads, survey of county roads, highway notices, statement of money and labor expended in road districts, and road petitions and orders.
Constitutional Study Commission: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03701
Includes minutes of the commission and its study committees; committee correspondence, hearing proceedings, research files, and preliminary and final reports; taped proceedings of commission meetings (missing seventh and eighth meetings) and of several study committee meetings and public hearings; newspaper clippings; news releases, newsletters and bulletins; and an interview with two commission members conducted by radio station KUOM, University of Minnesota.
Dakota County: Independent School District No. 197, West St. Paul: An Inventory of Its Parents' and Teachers' Association Scrapbooks	gr03709
Scrapbooks from PTAs at Sibley (1948-1961), Emerson (1934-1937, 1949-1960), and Pilot Knob (1949-1950).
Education Department: An Inventory of Its Statewide Assessment Tests	gr03710
Includes technical manuals, basic skills tests, reading tests, test of emerging academic english, Minnesota comprehensive assessments, Minnesota test of academic skills, limited english proficiency assessments, graduation required assessment for diploma, and oversize Minnesota comprehensive assessments.
Ecolab Inc.: An Inventory of Its Records	00309
Records of a multinational developer and manufacturer of industrial and household cleaning and sanitizing products, systems, and services. Includes unpublished annual reports, employee newsletters and magazines, brochures and company publications, photographs, product formulas, news clippings, press releases, scattered letters and memoranda, copyright patent information, audiovisual, and scrapbooks.
Forestry Board: An Inventory of Its Annual and Biennial Reports	gr03711
Reports of the State Forestry Board and of its predecessors and affiliates, the Chief Fire Warden, the Forestry Commissioner (successor to the Chief Fire Warden), the State Forester, and the Commissioner of Forestry and Fire Prevention.
Goodhue County: Poor Farm: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03712
Daily register and inmate register.
Governor: Carlson, Arne: An Inventory of His Communications Department Videotapes	gr03702
These videotapes document the policies, activities, and decisions of the Carlson admininstration.
Great Northern Railway Company: Advertising and Publicity Department: An Inventory of Its Records	00953
Records created or compiled by the Great Northern administrative unit responsible for managing corporate advertising and public relations work. Includes digital content.
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: Attorney: An Inventory of Its Sanatorium Files	gr03713
Includes correspondence and opinions relating to Glen Lake Sanatorium; and minutes and attorney's reference book for the Hennepin County Sanatorium Commission, of which the county attorney was a member.
Hennepin County: Attorney: An Inventory of Its Opinions and Correspondence	gr03714
County attorney opinions and related correspondence concerning actions and cases of the county Welfare Board (1946-1963); issued in response to requests by the board of county commissioners, county officers, municipalities, and school districts; and relating to the county Personnel Board (1962-1969). Also includes a set of opinions from the state Attorney General (1923-1958).
Isanti County: Dalbo Township: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03703
Clerk's books (1903-1973) and receipts and disbursement register (1978-1984), treasurer's books (1886-1924, 1930-1987), road record books (1905-1935) and petition (1961); poll list/election register (1956, 1973); and township organization papers (1885) and history (1986).
Kandiyohi County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Registers of Civil and Criminal Actions	gr03715
Registers of civil and criminal actions of the Kandiyohi County District Court.
Kandiyohi County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Registrations and Certificates	gr03716
Physicians', dentists', osteopaths', chiropractors', veterinarians', optometrists', and ministers' certificate records; and basic science certificate record.
Lyon County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Civil Case Files	gr03735
File nos. 1-11967. Includes criminal files prior to June 1905.
Lyon County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Coroner's Records	gr03736
Coroner's records of the Lyon County District Court.
Lyon County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Criminal Case Files	gr03737
File nos. 1-1406. Files prior to June 1905 are interfiled with the civil case files.
Lyon County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Default Judgment Record Books	gr03738
Default judgment record books of the Lyon County District Court.
Lyon County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Indictment and Information Records	gr03739
Indictment and information records of the Lyon County District Court.
Lyon County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Judgment Record Books	gr03740
Judgment record books of the Lyon County District Court.
Lyon County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Minutes	gr03717
Minutes of the Lyon County District Court. All volumes are labeled "record."
Lyon County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Naturalization Records and Index	gr03741
Personal name index, 1873-1956; declarations of intention (first papers), 1873-1956; final papers, 1876-1906; petition and record (final papers), 1906-1954; lists of citizenship petitions granted and denied, 1929-1956; and applications to take oath of allegiance (naturalization by repatriation), 1941-1946.
Lyon County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Real Estate Tax Judgment Books	gr03742
Real estate tax judgment books of the Lyon County District Court.
McLeod County: Auditor: An Inventory of Its Miscellaneous Records	gr03719
Delinquent tax record (1857-1860), seed grain record (1877-approximately 1883), tree bounty applications (1885-1910), school district officers record (1910-1941), school district plats (1916-approximately 1956) and county, city, village and township officers (1959).
Meeker County: Greenleaf Township: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03718
Annual town meeting minutes (1887-1942, incomplete), treasurer's annual statements (1887-1924, 1932-1946), audit board annual report (1887-1888, 1905-1938), board of supervisors annual accounts (1888, 1905-1914), road records (1862-1951), election records (1888-1942), tax warrants and lists (1861-1940), personal property assessment rolls (1866, 1883, 1898-1900), public relief register (1891-1900, 1913-1914), grasshopper records (1877), estray notice (1880), township map (undated), and miscellaneous records relating to the town hall building (1898) and board of health (1884).
Nicollet County: North Mankato: Municipal Court: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03720
Civil and criminal dockets, judgment books, and justice court dockets.
Otter Tail County: Battle Lake: Justice of the Peace: An Inventory of Its Dockets	gr03721
Dockets of the Battle Lake Justice of the Peace in Otter Tail County.
Ramsey County: Human Services Department: An Inventory of Its Records	gr01522
Reports, evaluations, plans, newsletters, surveys, subject files, meeting minutes, and related files documenting the administration of this agency and it's committees.
Renville County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Real Estate Tax Judgment Books	gr03722
Real estate tax judgment books of the Renville County District Court.
Stearns County: Le Sauk Township: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03723
Town record books (1888-1940, 1978-1983); township board proceedings (1940-1978), annual town meeting minutes (1940-1943, 1949-1978), township annual reports (1966-1977), treasurer's account books (1914-1947), records of receipts and disbursements (1940-1986), audit board minutes (1895-1984), road records (1889-1984), and ditch papers (1914-1920).
Traverse County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Default Judgment Record	gr03724
Default judgment records of the Traverse County District Court.
Waste Management Board: An Inventory of Its Crystalline Bedrock Disposal Project Files	gr03727
Files documenting the board's consideration of a crystalline bedrock repository for hazardous industrial wastes, as required in 1983 amendments to the Waste Management Act of 1980. The repository would consist of minelike chambers set deep in a granite or similar crystalline bedrock formation, with the potential for secure containment far from groundwater resources and "retrievability" for later processing or re-use. In February 1984, the board declared crystalline bedrock disposal unfeasible, citing its experimental nature and the great expense and time that would be needed to test it thoroughly.
Waste Management Board: An Inventory of Its Development Proposals for a Hazardous Waste Facility	gr03728
Development proposals for a hazardous waste stabilization and containment facility in Minnesota, submitted to the board by International Technology Corporation, by Minnesota Waste Research and Control, Inc., and jointly by National Electric Inc. and Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
Waste Management Board: An Inventory of Its Files of William Kirchner	gr03734
Files accumulated by William G. Kirchner as a member of the Waste Management Board. Most are photocopies or circular materials, and include minutes, correspondence, memoranda, reports, plans, laws and regulations, and related records.
Waste Management Board: An Inventory of Its Minutes, Resolutions, and Agenda Packets	gr03729
Minutes (1980-August 1989); resolutions (1980-1988), including those received from regional development commissions and local governments; and agenda packets (1980-1989). The latter include Office of Waste Management and Grants Assistance agenda items presented to the Pollution Control Agency board for the period October 1988-June 1989.
Waste Management Board: An Inventory of Its Newsletters	gr03730
Runs of four newsletters published by the board.
Waste Management Board: An Inventory of Its Newspaper Clippings	gr03731
Photocopies of clippings regarding the board's program to develop a hazardous waste processing facility in Minnesota. The facility would treat special types of hazardous industrial waste using a process called "stabilization," which neutralizes and immobilizes toxic metals in the waste. The stabilized material would then be placed in an above-grade containment structure.
Waste Management Board: An Inventory of Its Public Participation Files	gr03732
The 1980 Waste Management Act emphasized public participation in the siting of the hazardous waste facilities and the development of state hazardous waste management policies. These files document the board's efforts in that area, including community meetings in site proposal areas, public hearings on proposed hazardous waste facilities, Local Project Review Committees to review proposed hazardous waste disposal sites, and informational and citizen's meetings around the state on solid and hazardous waste problems.
Waste Management Board: An Inventory of Its Staff Correspondence and Reports	gr03733
Correspondence and reports of various staff members documenting the board's numerous duties, responsibilities, and programs, including research and planning, technical assistance, facilities development assistance, special projects, public information, and education. Specific responsibilities and projects covered include the development of a comprehensive state hazardous waste management plan; location of hazardous waste disposal facility sites; creation of an "Inventory of Preferred Areas" for hazardous waste processing facilities; solid waste management assistance; county waste management planning assistance; waste education; market development; and waste tire abatement.
Wilkin County: Rothsay: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03725
Village/city council minutes (1885-1975), ordinance ledger (1885-1975), register of receipts and disbursements (1922-1984) and financial statements (1910-1991), poll and tally lists for annual village elections (1915-1963), election registers (1948-1970), summary vote statements (1948-1958), Rothsay Planning Commission minutes (1976-1981), and Rothsay Cooperative Association records (1950-1951).
Wilkin County: Rothsay: Justice of the Peace: An Inventory of Its Dockets	gr03726
The dockets cover 1880-1933, 1953, 1960-1971.

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