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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
A man's reach
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Identifier: 6262-RefShelf-General
Abstract
"Elmer L. Andersen has been described as Minnesota's leading citizen. As a Minnesota state senator, he pioneered progressive legislation in the areas of civil rights, special education and welfare, mental health care, and metropolitan governance. His term as Minnesota's governor in the early 1960s was marked by the founding of Southwest State University and the establishment of several state parks, which, along with his role in the creation of Voyageurs National Park, gained him a reputation...
Dates:
Copyright: 2000
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Letters from the promised land : Swedes in America, 1840-1914
Item
Identifier: 7002-RefShelf-General
Dates:
Copyright: 1980
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Minnesota's changing geography.
Item
Identifier: 99924-RefShelf -Minnesota & Regional
Dates:
Copyright: 1959
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
The face of Minnesota.
Item
Identifier: 6318-RefShelf-Minnesota & Regional
Abstract
Centennial commemorative volume of pictures of people, places and events in the Paul Bunyan State.
Dates:
Copyright: 1958
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
The political career of Floyd B. Olson
Item
Identifier: 6261-RefShelf-General
Table of Contents
More rebel than radical -- The Farm Labor Movement -- Victory in 1930 -- Olson's first legislature -- Slump and rally -- Capitalism on trial -- The emergence of a radical -- Toward national leadership -- A troublesome platform -- The truck strike -- The 1934 election -- Deadlock -- The spoilsmen turn king-makers -- The last fight.
Dates:
Copyright: 1951
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Town ball : the glory days of Minnesota amateur baseball
Item
Identifier: 6520-RefShelf-General
Abstract
"Featuring individual stories of success and defeat, hundreds of photographs and scores and statistics, Armand Peterson and Tom Tomashek chronicle the unfolding of a period of Minnesota baseball history - a span of sixteen years beginning in 1945 and the euphoric postwar days to 1960, the year before the Washington Senators became the Minnesota Twins. During this time Minnesota experienced a magical era of amateur ball, setting records in town participation and attendance that have not been...
Dates:
Copyright: 2006
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
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- Baseball -- Minnesota -- History. 1
- Businessmen -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Biography. 1
- Governors -- Minnesota -- Biography. 1
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- Minnesota -- Civilization. 1
- Minnesota -- Description and travel. 1
- Minnesota -- Pictorial works. 1
- Minnesota -- Politics and government -- 1858-1950. 1
- Minnesota -- Politics and government -- 1951- 1
- Muskegon (Mich.) -- Biography. 1
- Olson, Floyd Björnstjerne, 1891-1936. 1
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