RIDDER FAMILY:

The Ridder family has long been associated with the newspaper empire. In 1927, Lee Owens and Bernard, Joseph, and Victor Ridder, purchased the St. Paul Dispatch and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The Ridders were sons of Herman Ridder, a New York newspaper publisher. Generations of the Ridder family worked for the St. Paul papers and for newspapers across the country.

In 1974 Ridder Publications, Inc. merged with Knight Newspapers, Inc. to form Knight-Ridder, one of the United States' largest newspaper publishers. During the mid nineteen eighties, the two St. Paul papers combined into one. In 2006 Knight-Ridder was sold to the McClatchy Company.

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The negatives in this collection were kept on file by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The individual negatives are not numbered but are stored as groups of negatives in numbered envelopes.

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Ridder Family Negative Collection. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: AV2009.54

Processing Information:

Processed by: J. Huebscher, August 2009.

Catalog ID number: 990069417940104294

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Persons:

Ridder, Bernard H. (Bernard Herman), 1883-1975.

Ridder family -- Photographs.

Document Types:

Negatives (photographs).

Photographs.

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