New archivist at Iron Range Research Center

According to the Duluth News Tribune, the Minnesota Discover Center’s Iron Range Research Center has a new archivist. Christopher Welter formerly worked “in the archives at the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul, where he described personal papers and business records, and assisted in making historically significant and rare collections available on the Web.” To […]

Minnesota Normal Schools publications

That’s Normal School as in teacher’s colleges. Many such schools across the country had newsletters and that includes those in Minnesota. These provide great insight into the school, curriculum, faculty, students, alumni, and education in general. In Minnesota most of these became state universities. Some of these school publications had literary offerings, ads from local […]

And another research closure: Iron Range Research Center

Well, it has actually had a name change from that before today. But that doesn’t matter when the place will now be closed to the public as of Friday, 20 November 2009 at 5:00 p.m. The name change to Minnesota Discovery Center didn’t help the complex which is located in Chisholm, Minnesota. The announcement says […]