What's New -- August 2026
Newly added collections include the Olmsted County: Eyota Township Records.
Collections with additions or added digital content include the Cushman K. Davis Papers; the Martin County District Court Civil Case Files; and the Vernon J. Pick 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. |
|---|---|
| Agriculture Department: An Inventory of Its Dairy Trade Hearing and Docket Files | gr03801 |
| Hearing and docket files documenting the department's role in regulating unfair trade practices in the dairy products industry, particularly the under pricing of products. | |
| Agriculture Department: An Inventory of Its Published Records and Reports | gr03802 |
| Reports, newsletters, and miscellaneous print and near-print items of or about the Agriculture Department. | |
| Attorney General: An Inventory of Its Published Records and Reports | gr03800 |
| Reports, newsletters, and miscellaneous print and near-print items of or about the Attorney General. | |
| Attorney General: An Inventory of the Warren Spannaus Files | gr03799 |
| Files of Warren Spannaus as Minnesota Attorney General, documenting the administration of and certain issues facing the office. | |
| Cushman K. Davis: An Inventory of His Papers | 00822 |
Correspondence, speeches, clippings, and
miscellaneous papers of this United States senator from Minnesota (1887-1900)
and member of the St. Paul (Minnesota) law firm of Davis, Kellogg, and
Severance.Includes digital content. |
|
| Government Innovation and Cooperation Board: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03808 |
| Records documenting the duties and activities of this facilitative board, particularly its oversight of administration waivers and exemptions, cooperative local government mergers, and a grants program. | |
| Human Services Department: Chemical Dependency Program Division: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03803 |
| Records documenting the Minnesota Department of Human Services' efforts to coordinate drug dependency programs throughout the state. | |
| Human Services Department: Mental Health Division: An Inventory of Its Welsch Consent Decree Compliance Files | gr03804 |
| Records relating to the Welsch Consent Decree, a landmark court case (1972-1989) which led to major changes in the treatment of Minnesota's institutionalized mentally retarded citizens. | |
| Martin County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Civil Case Files | gr03563 |
| Files numbered A1-A401, B1-B101, and 103-15246; 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. | |
| Natural Resources Department: Commissioner's Office: An Inventory of the Subject Files of Commissioner Rod Sando | gr03805 |
| Sando's subject files as commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources. They pertain to all aspects of departmental administration and natural resource management issues. | |
| Natural Resources Department: Lands and Forestry Division: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03806 |
| Administrative, subject, and correspondence files covering all aspects of the division's administration and activities. | |
| Natural Resources Department: Parks and Recreation Division: An Inventory of Its Itasca State Park Maps and Drawings | gr03807 |
| Maps, architectural plans, and drawings detailing the park's topography, general layout, roads and trails, bridges, tree plantings, vegetation, water and sewage systems, telephone lines, fire plans, signage and markers, parking areas, and existing and proposed buildings, including observation towers. | |
| Olmsted County: Eyota Township: An Inventory of Its Records | gr03809 |
| Election registers and related documents (1900-1982), township clerk record books (1876-1991), and treasurer's account books (1927-1986). | |
| Vernon J. Pick: An Inventory of His Papers | 01472 |
Personal papers of electrician, uranium miner, and entrepreneur Vernon James Pick. Includes correspondence, journals and sketchbooks,
book manuscripts, property records, writings, genealogical information, research files, and business records. Includes digital content. |
|
| Red Lake County: Red Lake Falls: Justice of the Peace: An Inventory of Its Civil and Criminal Dockets | gr03798 |
| Civil and criminal dockets for justices of the peace: Frederick Gesswein (1894-1895), C. L. Taylor (1895-1901), S. A. Swanson (1901-1903), A. P. Toupin (1896-1898, 1906-1907), S. L. Lewis (1904-1905), Adam Zek (1906), and Glen L. Fellman (1947-1959). | |
| St. Louis County: Ely: An Inventory of Its Birth and Death Registers | gr03795 |
| Birth and death registers for the City of Ely (1895-1907). They also include an expense account register (1905-1912) and a record of contagious diseases (1905-1911). | |
| Traverse County: Monson Township: An Inventory of Its Chattel Mortgage Records | gr03796 |
| Includes 1893-1900 (indexed) and indexes for 1900-1912, 1912-1913, and 1913. | |
| Waseca County: Waseca: An Inventory of Its City Records | gr03797 |
| Chattel mortgage record book (1881-1913), sidewalk petition (1890), receipts and disbursements registers (1922-1937), and financial statement (February 1967). | |
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