Archival Collections
Peace United Church of Christ Collection
1860-2005 [2005.6]Material consists of documents and photographs relating the history and functioning of the church.
21 boxes.
Peninsula Club Collection
1889-2007 [2017.14]Materials consists of minutes, correspondence, property tax and bank statements, stock certificates, maps, and photographs of a hunting club of St. Paul residents, who owned land on the edge of Lake Johanna in Pope County, between 1912 and 2007. One of the folders contains correspondence between the club and the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Pope County officials concerning various conservation programs the club participated in between 1987 and 2007. Early records from the 19th century and early 20th century concern real estate transactions concerning the land the club owned or was interested in acquiring.
1 box.
Picha (Albert and Alice) Collection
1918-1954 [2000.7]Material consists of legal documents, business records, and medical receipts for the family.
1 box.
Railroad and Warehouse Commission Correspondence Collection
1901-1959 [2016.35.10]This collection contains thirty-four folders of various pieces of correspondence to or from The Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commission in St Paul, Minnesota. Contents include various businesses from government and political offices to banks and hotels to lumber yards and garages to insurance and coal companies corresponding with the Railroad and Warehouse Commission. Records are more robust between 1901 and 1932, and sparse between 1933 and 1959.
Ralph Richards Collection
1907-1919 [2022.48]This collection of twenty-six journals and a folder of loose type-written pages of journal entries, created by Ralph Richards (b. 26 June 1893), and written between the years 1907 and 1919, document Richards’ interests, preoccupations, and musings, as well as first-person description of daily life in Saint Paul in the early 1900s. Many entries have accompanying material such as ticket stubs, photographs, notes and letters, clippings from programs/newspapers/magazines, event flyers, etc.
Ramsey County Care Home Day Ledger Collection
1950-1952 [[2022.32]]Collections contains 2 hardcover ledger books, each with approx. 300 pages. Each book contains handwritten entries by caretakers at the Ramsey County Care Home between 1950 and 1952. Individual hands recur with regularity, showing a consistency in staffing and shifts. Reports are divided into AM/Day and PM/Night, and either marked at intervals or recorded as summary. Occasional notes taped or tucked into entries.
1 box.
Ramsey County Charter Commission Collection
1966-2009 [2002.6]Material consists of minutes, correspondence and notes, city charter for commission, newspaper clippings, budgets and financial reports, position papers, charters, and photos.
1 box.
Ramsey County District Schools Collection
1936-2007 [2011.62]Materials consist of paper documents; typewritten, printed, handwritten and drawn, and photocopies; photographs and two silk “Class of 1940” and “Ramsey County School” ribbons.
1 box.
Ramsey County Financial Ledger
1897-1900Material consists of one ledger (1897 – 1900) of general expenses related to courts, lawyers, and banking.
1 ledger.
Ramsey County School Patrol Collection
1959-2008 [2007.26]Materials mainly consist of paper documents; typewritten, handwritten, printed, and includes newspaper clippings, badges, flags (nylon, leather, plastic, aluminum, tin, brass).
2 boxes.