From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Mass Media, Crisis and American Teen Girls in Public Recreational Space, 1905-2010. Shayla Thiel-Stern discusses how the American media historically has used news gathering and reporting techniques that foster moral panic about one historically marginalized and trivialized group--teenage girls--contributing to a ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thiel-Stern, Shayla
Created:
2013-02-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Mass Media, Crisis and American Teen Girls in Public Recreational Space, 1905-2010. Shayla Thiel-Stern discusses how the American media historically has used news gathering and reporting techniques that foster moral panic about one historically marginalized and trivialized group--teenage girls--contributing to a ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thiel-Stern, Shayla
Created:
2013-02-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Czech female Sokol member on telephone with Zeus thanking him for nice weather during the 4th Sokol Slet in Prague in 1912. Czech immigrant of18 months in America looking for fellow townpeople and pen pals. Through American Sokol journal. Card sent by Vojtech Pospisil from Iowa City, Iowa, to L.E. Rypka in Owatonna, Minnesota. L.E. Rypka came fr...
Created:
1912-12-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Commemorative postcard issued on the occasion of the Midwest Sokol Convention featuring Sokols' contest and festival in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, held on July 4-6, 1911. Card sent by Franta Filip from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to L.E. Rypka in Owatonna, Minnesota.
Created:
1911-06-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Pencil studies of a male American scoter (now called a black scoter.) Four separate drawings; from top to bottom: outline of bird with one extended, shaded wing, single extended shaded wing, contour drawing of head viewed from the side, contour drawing of bill viewed from above. Left third of paper delimited with a vertical line, with notes on s...
Allegorical female figure of America, standing in front of American flag, holding wreath over "Honor roll" consisting of last names from different ethnic groups.
Creator:
Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952
Created:
1919
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Upper Midwest Literary Archives.
Illustrated map for AMERICANS ALL IMMIGRANTS ALL, a companion guide to a series of radio broadcasts spotlighting the contributions of various cultural groups, produced by the Department of the Interior Office of Education and the Works Progress Administration.
Creator:
Thompson, William Norman
Contributor:
United States. Department of the Interior Office of Education
Created:
1939
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Cover illustration for AMERICANS ALL IMMIGRANTS ALL, a companion guide to a series of radio broadcasts spotlighting the contributions of various cultural groups, produced by the Department of the Interior Office of Education and the Works Progress Administration.
Creator:
Thompson, William Norman
Contributor:
United States. Department of the Interior Office of Education
Created:
1939
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
"The Birds of Minnesota,Ó by Thomas Sadler Roberts, was published in 1932 by the University of Minnesota Press. Allan Cyril Brooks (1869-1946) was an ornithologist and artist who in addition to painting the plates for "The Birds of Minnesota,Ó contributed illustrations to ornithological publications and the "Birds of Western Canada,Ó "Birds o...
Creator:
Bell Museum of Natural History
Created:
1932?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Leslie O. Dart was a medical colleague of Thomas Sadler Roberts who shared an interest in birds and often accompanied Roberts on collection trips in the field in the late 1890s and early 1900s.
Creator:
Bell Museum of Natural History
Contributor:
Roberts, Thomas Sadler, 1858-1946 (Photographer)
Created:
1898-06-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
"The Birds of Minnesota,Ó by Thomas Sadler Roberts, was published in 1932 by the University of Minnesota Press. Allan Cyril Brooks (1869-1946) was an ornithologist and artist who in addition to painting the plates for "The Birds of Minnesota,Ó contributed illustrations to ornithological publications and the "Birds of Western Canada,Ó "Birds o...
Creator:
Bell Museum of Natural History
Created:
1932?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by Alice Taylor Davis, who was known for her contributions to social work education and commitment improving social service. The materials reflect her career in social work education, consultation, and on the staff of the U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare, Technical Training Division...
Creator:
Davis, Alice Taylor, 1903-
Created:
1932
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
We first give a brief overview of American option pricing models and numerical methods. We treat American option models as a special class of obstacle problems. Finite element formulation is introduced together with error analysis of numerical solutions. Some interesting properties about sensitivity of the option price to the payoff function are...
Creator:
Zhang, Yongmin (NONE)
Created:
2009-02-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This folder contains pamphlets and booklets published or collected by the YMCA of the USA reflecting the broad and evolving nature of YMCA programs and activities over the years. This folder specifically contains the pamphlet "The Demand and Supply of increased Efficiency in the Negro Ministry," by Jesse E. Moorland.
Contributor:
Kautz Family YMCA Archives, compiler.
Created:
1909
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Mohamed Bin Hamed and Nadine Matkovsky meet San Francisco's Mayor Robinson, June 1951. Note on back of photograph: "Mohamed Bin Hamed and Nadine Matkovsky bring an invitation to Mayor Robinson to attend the "American Merry-Go Round" next Sunday, June 10 at the International Institute. The Institute, a Community Chest agency, is presenting the pa...
Creator:
Lackenbach, Bob
Created:
1951
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Performers dance at the "American Merry-Go Round" festival on Sunday, June 10, 1951, at the IISF. The performers dance in two circles with hands interlocked. They wear traditional European folk costumes.
Contributor:
International Institute of San Francisco
Created:
1951
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Watercolor painting of four American Merganser (also known as common mergansers), two male and two female, at the edge of a stylized pool of water. One male and female pair floats in the water, the second male is at the water's edge, and the second female is crouched in the foreground, in profile, facing right. Image is enclosed in a rectangular...
Medical recipe manuscript collection of 72 remedies, nearly all dated and signed by Robert T. Van Deusen. Remedies for the dropsy, 'female obstructions', ulcers, and cancers are included as are recipes for laxative pills, restorative cordials, and sassaparilla syrup.
Creator:
Van Deusen, Robert T
Created:
1844 - 1857
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Monsignor Francis M. Juras, an early founder of the Lithuanian American Council and the United Lithuanian Relief Fund of America, holds a dedication plaque for the American Lithuanian Cultural Archive (ALKA) Museum, Putnam, Connecticut.
Created:
1979?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Members of the International Institute of Toledo's "American Italian Girls Club" pose for a photo, along with Mrs. Forte, Mr. Miller, Mr. Billstein, and Mr. Racine.
Created:
1943
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
