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364 Results for
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Carleton College
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,999
Dakota
Goodhue
Rice
Recipient
La Crescent Area Historical Society
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,826

To design and install interpretive signage about the first land survey in Houston County in 1832.

Houston
Recipient
Minnesota Discovery Center
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
City of Otsego
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$575
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Wright
Recipient
Todd County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,045
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Statewide
Todd
Recipient
Blue Earth County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$865
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Statewide
Blue Earth
Recipient
Rice County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$602
To provide professional development for one staff member at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Rice
Recipient
Nicollet County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,357
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Nicollet
Blue Earth
Brown
Le Sueur
Sibley
Recipient
Northfield Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$700
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Rice
Recipient
City of Rockford
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$930
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Hennepin
Wright
Recipient
Minnesota Discovery Center
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Heritage Group North, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,750
Cass
Recipient
Project Get Outdoors, Inc.
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Aitkin County Historical Society
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,940
Aitkin
Recipient
Wright County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,014

To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.

Wright
Recipient
Todd County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,188

To add 76 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to make primary records more accessible to the public.

Statewide
Todd
Recipient
Minnesota State University, Mankato (Library Services)
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,893
Blue Earth
Recipient
Blue Earth County (Library System)
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,995
Statewide
Blue Earth
Recipient
Mahnomen County Historical Society
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,879
Mahnomen
Recipient
Blue Earth County Historical Society
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,990
Blue Earth
Recipient
Rice County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To make accessible primary records through a new microfilm reader/printer
Rice
Recipient
Douglas County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To make accessible primary records through a new microfilm reader/printer
Douglas
Recipient
Wright County Historical Society
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,985

To add 33 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to make primary records more accessible to the public.

Wright
Recipient
Cass County Historical Society
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,982

To purchase a microfilm reader/printer/scanner to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.

Cass
Recipient
Carlton County Historical Society
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To purchase a microfilm reader/printer/scanner to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.

Carlton
Recipient
City of Grand Rapids (Grand Rapids Area Library)
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,398
Aitkin
Cass
Itasca
St. Louis
Recipient
East Central Regional Library
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,840
Aitkin
Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
East Central Regional Library
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,500

To purchase a microfilm reader/printer/scanner to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.

Aitkin
Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
Aitkin County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,065

The final thirtyeight (38) rolls of microfilm of Aitkin county newspapers were purchased to complete the collection. The acquisition was noted on the Aitkin Independent Age and on the Aitkin County Historical Society web site.

Aitkin
Recipient
Minnesota State University, Mankato - Library Services
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,691

The Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grant allowed the Library at Minnesota State University, Mankato to acquire 17 new manuscript collections and fill in gaps for 3 additional collections.

The primary mission of the Library at Minnesota State University, Mankato is to support the curriculum of the University, with the secondary mission being to serve as a regional information center for the residents of southern Minnesota.  The Legacy grant made possible the acquisition of Minnesota focused microfilm that will have an enduring value to both the campus and the region.

Blue Earth
Recipient
Blue Earth County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,837

Blue Earth County Historical Society added of 126 microfilm reels of the local newspapers: The Free Press, Lake Crystal Tribune, Lake Region Times, Maple River Messenger and The Land magazine.  These additions complete the collection with what is currently available through the Minnesota Historical Society's microfilm lab.

Blue Earth
Recipient
Todd County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,954
To add 83 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to broaden public accessibility to primary records.
Todd
Recipient
Todd County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,385
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.
Todd
Douglas
Morrison
Stearns
Recipient
Blue Earth County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To purchase two microfilm reader/printers to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.
Statewide
Blue Earth
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,988
To evaluate three shipwrecks for potential inclusion as a district on the National Register of Historic Places.
Aitkin
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,857
To conduct a marine archaeology survey of shipwrecks in the Headwaters Mississippi River, Aitkin, MN.
Aitkin
Recipient
Aitkin County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To take research materials and develop into a manuscript on the history of Aitkin County schools.
Aitkin
Recipient
Aitkin County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,325
To hire qualified consultants to evaluate the eligibility of archaeological ruins for possible inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.
Aitkin
Recipient
Cokato Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To create digital user copies of approximately 1,400 5x7 glassplate negatives from the Gust Akerlund Photography Studio Collection
Wright
Recipient
Cokato Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,494

The grant allowed the Cokato Historical Society to hire a vendor to scan 817 8x10 glass plate negatives from the Gust Akerlund Photographic Studio's negative collection, housed at the Cokato Museum. The total size of the Akerlund Negative Collection is 14,017 images. Of that amount, 11,552 are of the rare and fragile glass plate negative variety.

Wright