This photograph shows a social worker giving clothing to a woman and man as a form of "unemployment relief." Faced with a flood of unemployed and impoverished clients, local welfare agencies often resorted to food and clothing assistance or exchanging work for food. This was particularly evident in the early years of the Great Depression, before...
Created:
1930 - 1935
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Why Does the Past Matter? Towards a Social Science of the Past. The study of the past has long been relegated to the historiographical disciplines, e.g., archaeology and history. These fields will always be at the core of a contemporary study of the past. However, in this increasingly globalized contemporary world there is a growing need for the...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chilton, Elizabeth
Created:
2012-02-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A small frog captivates the attention of three preteens during the Tweens on Wheels program in Bald Eagle Lake, Minnesota. Those pictured include: Patty Spicer, Robert Gillman, Robert Schumeister.
Created:
1965
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Head of the god Asklepios made of marble on exhibit at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. The sculpture was discovered in Thessaloniki at the Sanctuary of Serapis.
Cream text on chocolate background with brown and cream border, abstract rectilinear ornament and bull-and-star trademark for Charlotte Leather Belting Company centered at top
Creator:
Purcell, William Gray, 1880-1965
Contributor:
Alexander Brothers Leather and Belting Company
Created:
1919
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives.
Cartographic Details: Scale not given; (E 25°01'00"--E 146°19'00"/N 77°03'00"--S 9°48'00"). Map of Asia from Saudi Arabia, Russia, India, China, Japan to Southeast Asia with relief shown pictorially. Title from decorative cartouche surrounded by figure with camel. No scale given. Engraved. Colours. Stereographic projection. Broad decorative bord...
Creator:
de Wit, Frederik
Created:
1660
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Approximate random k-colouring of a graph G=(V,E) is a very well studied problem in computer science, discrete mathematics and statistical physics. It amounts to constructing a k-colouring of G which is distributed close to Gibbs distribution in polynomial time. In this talk, we deal with the problem when the underlying graph is an instance of E...
Creator:
Efthymiou, Charilaos (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Created:
2015-05-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Photograph from University of Minnesota Duluth Theatre’s 2001 production of As I Lay Dying. Run dates: April 12-21, 2001. Venue: Marshall Performing Arts Center. Director: Tom Isbell. Cast list--Addie Bundren: Aimee Trumbore; Anse Bundren: Andrew Bennett; Cash Bundren: Charles GorriIla; Dari Bundren: Andy Nelson; Jewel Bundren: Brandon Breault; ...
Created:
2001-04
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
A sign at Talmud Torah reading, "Welcome to Sha'arim Gateways to Educating All Children", Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sha'arim is a program that teaches special needs students. This was likely the last few days of classes at the Menachem Heilicher Building, 8200 W. 33rd, as in 2003 the Minneapolis Talmud Torah moved into a new addition of the Sabes ...
Created:
2002
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Terraforming Asia: The Politics, History and Travels of Celebrity Plants and Plant Celebrities. David A. Biggs is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. Part of Critical Conversation Symposium: Asia and Bios, a symposium to envision and implement a new kind of Asian studies that can more productively and criti...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Biggs, David; Mizuno, Hiromi
Created:
2013-09-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 3 cm. = 125 Miliaria Germanica communia quorum 15 gradum unum latitudinus constituant." Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Originally published in Mercator's Atlas sive Cosmographicae ..., 1595. Includes part of Northern Australia and North-West America and Japan on a kit-shaped outline taken from M...
Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard , 1512-1594
Created:
1628?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale not given; (E 25°01'00"--E 146°19'00"/N 77°03'00"--S 9°48'00"). Relief shown pictorially. Map of Asia from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Persia, India, China, Japan to Southeast Asia with the north coast of Australia."Spectatmo. consultmoq. viro, D. Henrico Spiegel vrbis Amstelaedamenin consuli et senatori, nec non in consess...
Creator:
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702
Created:
1670?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Amsterdam, ca. 1697. Ptolemaic map of Central Asia, centered on the Indus River. The map extends from the Gujarat region in the east to west of Karchi, the north to the mountains. Mercator originally published this map in his 1578 edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. -- From dealer description.; Relief shown pictorially.; Prime meridian: [Fortunate ...
Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Contributor:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Created:
1704?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:32,500,00 (E 25°01'00"--E 146°19'00"/N 77°03'00"--S 9°48'00"). Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Philadelphia. At upper right: 51.
Creator:
Carey, Matthew, 1760-1839
Created:
1814
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Oil on masonite depicting animals from Asia. Belongs to a series of murals of animals and people of the world that Francis Lee Jaques painted for the White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church (Mahtomedi, MN) in 1964. When it was first painted, the panel was sponsored by Mr. Jerry A. and Mrs. Sonja H. Wenger in honor of Wendy Wenger.
Cartographic Details: Scale [1:4,660,000]. Dedicated to Major James Rennell, by A. Arrowsmith, January 1st 1801."Engraved by George Allen." Ornate title cartouche, with military regalia. Greenwich meridian. Relief shown pictorially with shading.
Creator:
Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823.; Allen, George
Created:
1801-01-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
"Base source: Compiled in 1978 from USGS 1:24,000-scale topographic maps dated 1959-1961." "Planimetry revised from aerial photographs taken 1977." "Projection and 10,000-meter grid ticks, zone 17: Universal Transverse Mercator. 1927 North American datum 25,000-foot grid ticks based on Ohio coordinate system." Includes location map.
Contributor:
United States. Soil Conservation Service; Ohio. Division of Lands and Soil
Created:
1980?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
