April 30, 2021 Southeast Minneapolis Council on Learning had a formula for better education that looked like this: (SEMCOL)NEW+LD+SEREADS=BE or SEMCOL/NEW+LD=BE. Math was not my forte, but one of those statements must be true. The SEMCOL records are currently being processed and organized to be [...]
April 7, 2021 Minneapolis Morning Tribune, October 22, 1918 The influenza pandemic of 1918 created tense disagreements in Minneapolis and perhaps no man found himself caught in the middle more so than Dr. Harry Guilford. Serving as the city’s health commissioner, Dr. Guilford led [...]
Japanese Language School at Camp Savage and Fort Snelling shortened World War II and brought people together by Charlie Maguire This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2021, Vol. 80, No. 1 During World War II, some 5,000 to [...]
April 3, 2021 Imagine the spiders that would’ve been in here! This is the men’s restroom from Lake Harriet Park in 1998 before restoration started. The Lake Harriet Restroom Restoration Committee (LHRRC) or Spiff the Biff took on the task of [...]
Edifices for Educators: Buildings Named for University Women By Claire Strom This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, Spring 1991, Vol. 50, No 2 Organizations have always found ways to honor the achievements of their members. The Catholic [...]
March 26, 2021 Fire safety pamphlet from the Women's Civil Defense Council collection. This flyer makes me think of those safety films we had to watch in grade school. I remember a long walk through the bowels of the [...]
by Susan Marks-Kerst This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, Spring 1999, Vol. 58, No. 2 General Mills touted Betty Crocker’s homemaking expertise in this Gold Medal Flour booklet in 1925. Photo credit: General Mills, courtesy of Jeremy [...]
Sarah Harrison Knight: Broader and Grander Work by Mary Hawker Bakeman This article was originally published in Hennepin History, Fall 1993, Vol. 52, No. 4 Sarah Harrison Knight Courtesy of Methodist Hospital A century ago, the Methodists of [...]
March 3, 2021 Susan Treice Naysmith donated this wool coat to Hennepin History Museum in 1964. Naysmith wore it during her time as a military nurse in World War I and it serves as an artifact of a short period of her rather full life. Born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1876, Naysmith was both married and widowed at age 23. She never remarried and [...]
Lena Olive Smith: Civil Rights in the 1930s by Jackie Sluss This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, Winter 1995, Vol. 54, No. 1 Lena Olive Smith and client at Olive Hair Store, Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis. Courtesy [...]
