Papers of Jackson County Farmer. The collection includes black and white photos, slides, and negatives, papers, correspondences, newspaper clippings, and records relating to Hunter Township in Jackson County, being a Farm Holiday Association officer, the Hunter Township board, and the State Liquor Control Board. Also numerous personal and family papers and correspondences. Includes information on the township, the family, the county, and politics.

Oral history interview of Arnold Brecht, a Worthington lawyer, discussing prohibition, the Great Depression, World War II (and a reaction to these events in Worthington, Nobles County). 19 slides, 1 photo print, 1 contact sheet, and negatives.

Clint Haroldson was a Farm Holiday Association organizer in central and northern Minnesota, and a driver for John Bosch, Minnesota Farm Holiday president from 1932 to his marriage in 1933. Major Subjects Discussed: Farm Holiday Association; Farmers Union; Foreclosure sales; Confrontation at Willmar courthouse; Farm Holiday roadblocks; Life during the Depression

Miscellaneous office copies of correspondence, orders, receipts, and promotions lists dealing with troops of the Confederate States of America. Includes an original letter from Confederate secretary of the Treasury Christopher G. Memminger to Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens, October 10, 1862.

1 Danebod Magazine (in Danish) December 15, 1972; 13 mineographed DANEBOD MEMORIES from "Lutheran Tidings", magazine (Feb. 1942-April, 1943) Pioneer Days in Tyler, MN. (ALF has original); Danebod is name of Danish Lutheran Church and Danish settlement in Tyler, MN.

Oral history recorded on one 7-inch audio reel. Donald E. Pederson, a Legislator in the Minnesota House (1962-64) talks about his career and about his business as a dealer for International Harvester in Dawson, MN. Origiinal reel was copied onto two audiocassettes.

Pfingston, a former National Vice President and Iowa state officer of NFO, was responsible for organizing northwest Iowa and southern Minnesota. Held the first NFO meeting in Minnesota on April 12, 1960, at Iona, MN. Discussion on role of NFO in rural America, its early organization in Iowa and Minnesota, problems in early years, and growth of the NFO. Some reflections on the Farm Holiday Association movement as a protest group in Iowa and Minnesota.

Two 7-inch reels and 2 printed transcripts of interview. One folder of copies of articles about Guy Lund. Interview with Guy H. Lund about the Farm Holiday Association activities in Lincoln County, his early years as a seed corn salesman for the Farmers Union in southwest Minnesota, and the activities of the Farmers Union in Minnesota.

The index to the 1860 Minnesota Mortality Schedule, compiled by Arthur Louis Finnell, showing those who died the year preceeding the 1860 federal census. The index was done from the microfilm edition of the manuscript schedule, held by the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.