What's New -- April 2026
Collections with additions or added digital content this month include the Great Northern Advertising and Publicity Department Records; the Jerome Hill Papers; the Isanti County: Probate Court: Registers of Probate Actions; the Andy and Hannah Johnson Papers; the Minnesota Office of Tourism Film Collection; the Ramsey County: St. Paul: Charters and Ordinances (Printed); the United States: Office of Indian Affairs: Sioux and Chippewa Annuity Rolls; and the Water and Soil Resources Board Minutes, and Soil Health Surveys.
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 Land Registration Records | gr03627 |
| Land registration docket A containing name of applicant and attorney, legal description of land to be registered, documents filed, and dates filed for case numbers 1-158. | |
| Aitkin County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Minutes | gr03628 |
| A record of documents filed, proceedings held, and actions taken at each day's session of the court. | |
| Aitkin County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Miscellaneous Records | gr03629 |
| Miscellaneous records including documents relating to military service, patents, name change, court commissioners, judgments, and various professional registrations. | |
| Aitkin County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Naturalization Records | gr03630 |
| Declarations of intention, final papers, petitions, and related records. | |
| Beltrami County: Attorney: An Inventory of Its Criminal Dockets | gr03635 |
| Criminal dockets of the Beltrami County Attorney. | |
| Beltrami County: Poor Farm: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03636 |
| Superintendent's annual (1931-1937) and monthly (1904-1908, 1931-1937) reports, financial records (1925-1931), furnishings inventory (undated, 1924-1942), list of inmates dead and discharged (1920-1929), proposed physicians fees (1920-1937) and report on medical services rendered to the county and poor farm (1930, 1936), photographs and miscellany, and poor farm record books (1901-1909, 1920-1937). The latter include inmate registers, a 1926 diagram of the poor farm, and expenditure register (1924-1935), and a register of articles sold (1903-1909). | |
| Beltrami County: Treasurer: An Inventory of Its Journals | gr03637 |
| Besides the usual financial journal transactions, these records also contain a roster of applicants for seeds (1898); a roster of individuals filing for election (1898); and lists of town, village, and school district officers (1899-1903). | |
| Beltrami County: Treasurer: An Inventory of Its Trial Balances | gr03638 |
| Trial balances of the Beltrami County Treasurer. | |
| Beltrami County: Washkish Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03639 |
| Annual meeting proceedings (1919-1933), audit board annual reports (1917-1932), poll lists (1918-1932) and summary vote statements (1926), road petitions (undated, 1922, 1926), treasurer's annual statements (1917-1931), and wolf bounty papers (1920-1928). | |
| Benton County: St. George Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03640 |
| Minutes of annual meetings (1870-1947), Audit Board (1872-1947), and Board of Supervisors (1875-1946); Audit Board annual reports (1888-1947); treasurer's annual statements (1862-1947); wolf bounty papers (1900-1929); road and land tax records (1881-1913); election records (1859-1947), including poll lists and abstracts of votes; map (1892); and an order to divide the school district into two sub-districts (1861) and a register of pupils (1862). | |
| Cass County: Pike Bay Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03641 |
| Treasurer's annual reports (1923-1969), audit board annual reports (1931-1968), annual town meeting minutes (1912-1947) with poll lists (1919-1969), election summaries and poll lists (1914-1970, incomplete), wolf (1914-1940) and gopher (1946) bounty certificates, road papers (1912-1960), burial permits (1921-1937), town hall specifications and blueprints (1939), a petition for a beer license (undated), and miscellany. | |
| Cass County: Wilson Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03642 |
| Clerk's (1917-1980) and treasurer's (1917-1928, 1941-1985) books, treasurer's annual statements (1917-1988), Audit Board reports and minutes (1919-1954, 1974-1985), annual town meeting minutes (1918-1947) and poll lists (1923-1951), road books and related petitions, orders, and notices (1917-1950), wolf bounty certificates (1921-1945), and election records (1926-1972). | |
| Douglas County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Minutes | gr03646 |
| Volumes A-I. | |
| Douglas County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Miscellaneous Records | gr03647 |
| Record of bonds (1866-1975), record of sellers and purchasers of liquor (1920-1929), delinquent motor vehicle record (1923-1931), decree record (1875-1885), and order record (1949-1957). | |
| Douglas County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Naturalization Records and Index | gr03648 |
| Personal name index, declarations of intention, final papers, petitions, and related records. | |
| Economic Development Department: Business and Community Development Bureau: Business and Community Contact Division: An Inventory of Its Governor's Industrial Development Trip Files | gr03649 |
| Correspondence, memos, itineraries, photographs, guest lists, newspaper clippings, and similar material concerning the scheduling, publicity, meetings, and other arrangements for trips made by Governor Orville L. Freeman to California, Chicago, New Orleans, St. Louis, New York, and the Orient to promote business development in Minnesota. | |
| Faribault County: Blue Earth: Justice of the Peace: An Inventory of Its Dockets | gr03652 |
| Civil and criminal dockets, docket sheets, and indexes. | |
| Goodhue County: County Court: An Inventory of Its Judgment Records | gr03662 |
| Civil and criminal divisions judgment records. | |
| Goodhue County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Business Name Records | gr03663 |
| Business name record, indexed and certificates. | |
| 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: Plymouth: An Inventory of Its Minutes and Agenda Packets | gr03655 |
| City council minutes (1956-1987); agenda packets with minutes, reports, and other documents acted on at each meeting (1980-1986); and council informational memoranda (1981). Agenda packets often include city planning commission minutes, also. | |
| Hennepin County: Plymouth: An Inventory of Its Ordinances | gr03653 |
| Ordinances for building and zoning from Plymouth in Hennepin County. | |
| Hennepin County: Plymouth: An Inventory of Its Resolutions | gr03654 |
| Resolutions for 1979-1980 and part of 1982 are missing. Copies for 1980 may be among the Minutes and Agenda Packets (separate series). | |
| Jerome Hill: An Inventory of His Papers | 00565 |
 Correspondence, personal papers, photographs, artwork, and legal files belonging to this
artist and philanthropist, a grandson of St. Paul railroad magnate James J. Hill. The collection is particularly
strong in photography, as Hill documented his life with the camera for over 50 years. Includes digital content. |
|
| Isanti County: Probate Court: An Inventory of Its Registers of Probate Actions | gr03248 |
| Registers of documents filed and actions taken in individual probate, guardianship, and insanity cases. Includes title of case, case number, list of documents filed, and citations to volume and page where selected documents are recorded (transcribed). The case number seems to be the same as the register page number; however, since some register pages are continuations (and still received new page numbers), not all page numbers may correspond to a case file. | |
| Andy and Hannah Johnson: An Inventory of Their Papers | 01550 |
| Reminiscences (undated and 1965-1967), photographs, newspaper clippings, newspaper articles and editorial letters, two scrapbooks, and some flyers created by Communist Party activist Johnson and his wife, Hannah, describing his early life in Finland and Aurora (Minn.), his employment in lumber camps and iron mines in northern Minnesota, and his subsequent removal to Babbitt, Minnesota, where he lived, working as a well digger, for most of his life. His opinions on communism, economic conditions, and political activity in northern Minnesota are well documented. | |
| Mahnomen County: Auditor: An Inventory of Its Tax Lists | gr03651 |
| Tax lists for the civil subdivisions and unorganized territory of Mahnomen County, recording the taxes assessed and paid on real and personal property for the sample years 1940-1941, 1950-1951, 1960-1961, and 1970-1971. Tax lists prior to 1940 are believed to no longer exist. Mahnomen County is located within the boundaries of the White Earth Indian Reservation. | |
| Medical Examiners Board: An Inventory of Its Annual and Biennial Reports | gr03656 |
| Carbon copies or photocopies of typescript annual reports (1942-1959); photocopies of typescript or form fill-in annual (1960-1975) and biennial (1976-1990) reports; and near-print biennial report (1992). | |
| Medical Examiners Board: An Inventory of Its Examination Questions | gr03657 |
| Printed examination questions on various medical topics, used for examination of applicants for medical licenses. | |
| Medical Examiners Board: An Inventory of Its Massage Examination and Registration Records | gr03658 |
| Minutes of the massage division of the Medical Examiners Board (1927-1956), and a register of masseurs (1927-1950, 1968-1974). | |
| Medical Examiners Board: An Inventory of Its Minutes and Agenda Packets | gr03659 |
| Minutes of board meetings, with accompanying agenda packets. The minutes include examination questions, lists of candidates who passed or failed examinations, information on candidates' education and work experience, and testimony regarding investigation of physicians' conduct and medical practice. Minutes for 1957-1971 and 1975 are missing. | |
| Medical Examiners Board: An Inventory of Its Official Register of Physicians | gr03660 |
| Published registers list name, place of residence, name of medical school attended, and date of diploma. | |
| Medical Practice Board: An Inventory of Its Stipulations and Orders | gr03661 |
| Records of restrictive and disciplinary actions taken by the board against physicians practicing medicine in Minnesota. They include stipulations and consent orders regarding future conduct, suspensions of license to practice medicine, and reinstatements of license. | |
| Minnesota Office of Tourism: An Inventory of Its Film Collection | sv000038 |
 Includes programs and segments promoting Minnesota
tourism. Various sites, seasons, and activities are showcased. Some of the ad
campaigns show all the versions of the ad.Includes digital content. |
|
| Morrison County: Bellevue Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03631 |
| Town record/clerk's books (1903-1973), treasurer's books (1940-1970), road records (1878-1956), election records (1928-1974), miscellaneous correspondence (1915-1970), and survey field notes (1906). | |
| Norman County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Civil Case Files | gr03626 |
| Files numbered 2185, 2586-5443. | |
| Ramsey County: Lauderdale: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03633 |
| Subject files (1949-1994), scrapbook (1949-1951), financial records (1949-1990), and a death certificate register (1949-1952). | |
| Ramsey County: St. Paul: An Inventory of Its Charters and Ordinances (Printed) | gr02731 |
| Published copies of the city charter, charter amendments, several reports on or proposals for charter amendments, and compilations of city ordinances or the municipal code. Incomplete. | |
| Rock County: Battle Plain Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03632 |
| Town record books, treasurer's records, chattel mortgage record (1889-1913), road record book (1878-1933), poll lists (1951-1959), and miscellaneous records. | |
| St. Louis County: Coroner: An Inventory of Its Coroner's Records | gr03625 |
| Record books, with related loose reports, kept by the coroners for the county as a whole (1880-1976), for the Range District (1920-1938), and for the Duluth District (1919-1938). The geographical boundaries of these three sets are unknown. | |
| St. Louis County: County Court: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03603 |
| General court criminal record books (1974-1983); Family Division marriage dissolution records (1974-approximately 1994) and paternity/child support books (1980-1981); Probate Division trust registers of action (1974-1990); and Southern District (Duluth) civil-criminal judgment books (1979-1982) and family court judgment books (1977-1980). The latter cover divorce, paternity, and child support cases. | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Business Name Certificates | gr03604 |
| File Nos. 1-2557. | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Charter Commission Records | gr03605 |
| Primarily materials documenting the charter commissions of the following St. Louis County cities: Virginia, Eveleth, Duluth, Tower, Chisholm, Hibbing, Fraser, Biwabik, and Gilbert. Included are letters of appointment, acceptance, and resignation; orders filling vacancies; list of Board of Freeholders members; and a request to frame a home rule charter. | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Civil and Criminal Case Files (Miscellaneous) | gr03606 |
| Unnumbered criminal case files, primarily concerning felonies (1868-1875), numbered criminal case files, Nos. 1-100 (August 1870-April 1884), and five miscellaneous civil case files (1928-1929). The latter include cases involving Independent School District No. 27, Hibbing; the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad; the estate of Tennie Cravens; and the Great Northern Spinning and Knitting Company. | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Coroner's Certificates | gr03607 |
| Certificates of examination Nos. 1-30,504, submitted to the court by the county coroner. Some are accompanied by transcripts of coroner's inquest proceedings and related papers. | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Criminal Calendars | gr03608 |
| Criminal calendars (1875-1899, 1904-1963), the latter group with indexes, containing substantial information about each case, in some instances summarizing individual actions. They contain more information, such as lawyers' names and judges' notations, than typical calendars. | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Criminal Journals | gr03609 |
| A narrative chronological record of proceedings of the district court, largely regarding documents submitted, appearances before the court, and orders and judgments issued. | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Indictment Records | gr03610 |
| Indictments (1881-1946), secret indictment record (1911-1978), and information records (1922-1945). The latter are forms used by the county attorney to inform the district court of accusations brought against individuals for violations of law or other criminal acts. | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Indexes to Civil Actions for Range Towns | gr03611 |
| Plaintiff and defendant indexes covering court cases tried in Virginia and Hibbing (1909-1939, numbers 1-9000s). An index to civil actions (approximately 1909-1930s) may also contain cases tried in Duluth. | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Judgment Records | gr03612 |
| Volumes 20-69. Volumes 20-46 are negative photostats of judgment records; volumes 47-69 are positive photostats. The volumes are not indexed. | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Miscellaneous Records | gr03613 |
| Court rules (1858-1907), grand jury report concerning the affairs of the county and the conduct of the county officers (1875), patent papers (1872, 1874), adoption index (1858-1923; RESTRICTED), and registers of certificates of conviction in justice court (June 1903-January 1974). The latter are accompanied by a supplemental index (1946-1951). | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Registers of Civil Actions | gr03614 |
| Registers of actions covering civil case files nos. 1-97249. The entry for each case gives case number, names of parties and attorneys, nature of offense or claim, and a record of actions and filings. A few of the volumes include indexes; most do not. Also two indexes to civil actions (approximately 1875-1885 and approximately 1880-1960). | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Registers of Criminal Actions | gr03615 |
| Registers of actions covering criminal case file numbers 1-9999. The entry for each case gives case number, names of parties and attorneys, nature of offense, and a record of actions and filings. The volumes either begin or end with indexes. Also an index to criminal cases (1876-1947). | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Registration and Certificate Records | gr03616 |
| Records or registers for ministers (1854, 1871-1990), physicians (1883-1981), basic sciences (1927-1976), dentists (1886-1953), osteopaths (1903-1963), podiatrists (1926-1973), veterinarians (1894-1971), elections, bonds, and oaths (1855-1912), and town and village officer bonds (1935-1983). | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Torrens, Registers of Actions | gr03617 |
| Information includes case file number; attorney name; applicants name, legal description of land to which title is being registered; dates various documents were filed with the case file; and fees assessed. | |
| St. Louis County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Trusts, Registers of Actions | gr03618 |
| Information includes case file number; name of case or trust; dates various documents were filed in the case file, in chronological order; and fees for plaintiffs and defendants. Also miscellaneous cases transferred to Duluth (1920s-1990s) and a card index (approximately 1932-1987). | |
| St. Louis County: District Court (Hibbing): An Inventory of Its Case File 376: State of Minnesota v John L. Morrison | gr03619 |
| Complaints, warrants, jury's verdict (guilty), and related case papers in the prosecution for libel of John L. Morrison, publisher of the Duluth Rip-Saw, a scandal sheet in which he attacked local politicians. This case was tried in Hibbing municipal court, and includes documents from a related case in Duluth municipal court, and from the St. Louis County district court, to which it was referred. Issues of the Rip-Saw are included as exhibits. | |
| St. Louis County: District Court (Hibbing): An Inventory of Its Records | gr03620 |
| Adoption record books (1924-1971; RESTRICTED), civil register of actions (1926-1934), criminal record books (1917-1973), grand jury indictments (1918-1924) and minutes (1917-1968), indictment (1917-1952) and information (1919-1937) record books, and civil (1911-1916), general (1917-1978), and criminal (1916-1921, 1950-1978) court journals. | |
| St. Louis County: District Court (Virginia): An Inventory of Its Journals and Judgment Books | gr03621 |
| Criminal journals (1917-1927), general court journals (1909-1917, 1943-1950), and judgment record books (1928-1947). | |
| St. Louis County: District Court (Virginia): An Inventory of Its Registers of Civil Actions | gr03622 |
| Registers of actions covering civil case files Nos. 1-9500. For each case, the register notes each action taken or document issued or filed, and the date. | |
| St. Louis County: Duluth: Municipal Court: An Inventory of Its Criminal Records | gr03623 |
| These books include a summary record, usually consisting of one page, noting the defendant, the charge, names of attorneys, sentence imposed, and sentence completed (fine paid, time served, etc.). | |
| St. Louis County: Duluth: Municipal Court: An Inventory of Its Register of Actions | gr03624 |
| Entries include case number, names of parties and attorneys, and a record of actions and filings. Also includes complaints filed (March 1962-June 1967). | |
| State University Board: An Inventory of Its Annual and Biennial Reports | gr03643 |
| Includes reports of the State Normal School Board (1868-1896) and the State College Board (1958-1975), and annual financial reports of the State College Board and State University Board revenue funds. | |
| Tax Study Commission (1983-1984): An Inventory of Its Records | gr03664 |
| Includes correspondence of the chair and the executive director, minutes and agenda packets (1983-1985), public hearing testimony, subject files largely on commission administration and activities, consultants' reports on various Minnesota tax issues, cassette tapes of meeting proceedings (believed to be the only extant versions of the proceedings), and the commission's 2-volume published final report (1986). | |
| United States: Office of Indian Affairs: An Inventory of Its Sioux and Chippewa Annuity Rolls | 01248 |
 Handwritten copies of annuity rolls for the Mdewakanton
Band of Sioux (Dakota) Indians in Iowa Territory (1838, 1839) and the Mississippi
and Lake Superior bands of Chippewa (Ojibwe) Indians within the jurisdiction of the
Office of Indian Affairs La Pointe Agency in Wisconsin Territory (1843). They
document payments made to the bands by the federal government under the terms
of treaties negotiated in 1837 and ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1838. Includes digital content. |
|
| Veterans Affairs Department: An Inventory of Its World War II Supplemental Bonus Files | gr03650 |
| Applications for military service bonus payments to Minnesota veterans of World War II that are not included in the main series of World War II bonus records (SAM 232). | |
| Waste Management Board: An Inventory of Its Chairman of the Board Files | gr03644 |
| Correspondence and subject files of board chairmen Robert Dunn (1980-August 1985), William Walker (September 1985-1986), and Joseph Pavelich (1987). | |
| Water and Soil Resources Board: An Inventory of Its Minutes | gr00038 |
 Minutes of board meetings, often accompanied by
agendas, meeting notices, correspondence, reports, annual plans, and related
materials.Includes digital content. |
|
| Water and Soil Resources Board: An Inventory of Its Soil Health Surveys | gr03645 |
| By county. Organized chronologically. | |
| Wilkin County: Auditor: An Inventory of Its Miscellaneous Records | gr03634 |
| Record of appropriations to townships and villages (1884-1927); register of seed grain applications (1893-1933); statements of amounts of grain handled by elevators (1937-1946); petitions for eradication of cattle tuberculosis (approximately 1924) and summaries of tuberculosis retests (1926-1942); wolf, fox, crow, lynx, bobcat, and bear bounties (1928-1965); a map showing road conditions (1936); miscellaneous petitions (1922-1946); sample election ballots (1922-1936); lists of city officers (1971-1975); a survey of county allowances for burial of paupers (1930); applications for county aid (1932-1936); a compilation of poor farm maintenance costs (1928); and tax delinquency statement (1934/1935). | |
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