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Ramsey County History – Spring 2000: Book Reviews

Thomas H. Boyd, John Lindley, Virginia Brainard Kunz

Book Reviews Douglas R. Heidenreich, With Satisfaction and Honor: William Mitchell College of Law, 1900– 2000 (St. Paul: William Mitchell College of Law, 1999). Thomas H. Boyd, “The Life and Career of the Honorable John B. Sanborn, Jr.,” 23:2 William Mitchell Law Review (1997): 203–312. Edward J. Lettermann, Farming in Early Minnesota, second edition (St.

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Ramsey County History – Spring 2000: Letters to the Editor

Ramsey County Historical Society

Letters to the Editor Letters and editorial responses about the Harriet Island Pavilion, Sioux v. Dakota word choice, immigration, the 1940 ice palace, and the Backus School for Girls. PDF of Letters to the Editor…

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Ramsey County History – Winter 2000: “Architect to the Kings of the Carnivals: ‘Cap’ Wigington and His Ice Palace ‘Babies’”

Bob Olsen

Architect to the Kings of the Carnivals: ‘Cap’ Wigington and His Ice Palace ‘Babies’ Author: Bob Olsen A chronicle of Clarence W. “Cap” Wigington’s designs for the St. Paul Ice Palaces of the 1930s and ‘40s. Financed by the US Works Progress Administration during the years of the Great…

Ramsey County History — Winter 2000: “A Water Tower, a Pavilion and Three National Historic Sites: Clarence Wigington and the Architectural Legacy He Left to the People of St. Paul”

David Vassar Taylor

A Water Tower, a Pavilion and Three National Historic Sites: Clarence Wigington and the Architectural Legacy He Left to the People of St. Paul Author: David V. Taylor Clarence Wesley “Cap” Wigington was the first licensed African-American architect in Minnesota, whose career with the City of Saint Paul extended for…

Ramsey County History – Winter 2000: “Transplants from Europe: Germans, Poles, Italians—Settlers on the Levee”

Greg Schach

Transplants from Europe: Germans, Poles, Italians—Settlers on the Levee Author: Greg Schach The Upper Levee is a small piece of land near the Mississippi River, where steamboats landed in the nineteenth century and “transplants from Europe” were the early settlers. Immigrants from Germany, Ireland, and Poland were later joined…

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Ramsey County History – Winter 2000: Book Reviews

Virginia Brainard Kunz, Patricia Sweney Hart, Jane S. Angrist

Book Reviews Gareth D. Hebert, City on Seven Hills: Columns of Oliver Towne (St. Paul: Pogo Press, 1999). Marda Liggett Woodbury, Stopping the Presses: The Murder of Walter W. Liggett (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998). Fred W. Peterson, Building Community, Keeping the Faith: German Catholic Vernacular Architecture in a Rural Minnesota Parish (St. Paul: Minnesota…

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Ramsey County History – Winter 2000: “Growing Up In St. Paul: First a Tiny Starter Home; Then a New Post-War Suburb Beckoned”

Joanne Englund

Growing Up In St. Paul: First a Tiny Starter Home; Then a New Post-War Suburb Beckoned Author: Joanne Englund A memoir of family life on St. Paul’s East Side, then Roseville in the 1950s and 1960s. PDF of Growing Up in Saint Paul, Joanne Englund…

Ramsey County History – Winter 2000: Letters to the Editor

Ramsey County Historical Society

Letters to the Editor Letters and editorial responses about Frank Kellogg, Crawford Livingston, James J. Hill, and a Black church convention. PDF of Letters to the Editor…

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Ramsey County History – Winter 2000: List of Donors

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List of Donors PDF of Donors…

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