Clarence ("Cap") Wigington (1883-1967) was the first African-American registered architect to practice for any substantial length of time in Minnesota. In 1915, one year after moving to St. Paul, Wigington took a qualifying exam as a senior draftsman and became the first African American municipal architect in the United States. He had the highe...
Creator:
Wigington, Clarence Wesley, 1883-1967
Contributor:
Tewes, Frank X.
Created:
1928-09-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives.
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Program Opens: "The Minnesota School of the Air presents..." Program Closes: "... presentation of the Minnesota School of the Air." Theme Out. The stories of Mark Twain are well known to most readers, but the man less so. This book is a biography of what the author considers most interesting to young people about this great Am...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Radio Station KUOM
Created:
1972-03-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Ukrainian, Russian, and African American exhibits at the festival "America's Making," Stamford, Connecticut. The exhibit label "Negro" is a presentation of the African American community with a particular focus on the Tuskegee Institute.
Creator:
Dayton Snyder, Stamford, Conn.
Created:
1931-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
This video, produced in 2001 for broadcast by The History Channel, outlines the first 150 years of the YMCA's history in the United States.
Part 1: Introductions and Origins;
Part 2 Sports and Fitness; the invention of basketball and volleyball;
Part 3: The YMCA's war work;
Part 4: The YMCA and the Civil Rights movement;
Part 5: Village Peo...
Contributor:
Weiner, Candice (Writer, Producer); Kurtis, Bill (Narrator); Towers Productions, Inc.
Created:
2001
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Documentary celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of the first YMCA in America. It chronicles the organization's transformation from an evangelical group of young, urban, Protestant men to a broad-based secular, community organization serving men, women and children across all religious and social lines. It features interviews with f...
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Based on a map from early in the eighteenth century, the coloring added suggests political changes occurring during the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763).
Creator:
Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777
Contributor:
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726.; Lotter, Georg Friedrich.
Created:
1763
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Program Opens: "The Minnesota School of the Air presents..." Program Closes: "... presentation of the Minnesota School of the Air." Theme Out. In picture and text, Mr. Cosgrove has captured the craft and spirit of America's nautical history from the birch bark canoe to the atomic submarine. The editors say that he spent ten ye...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Radio Station KUOM
Created:
1972-01-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Part of a series of radio programs on post-war problems, sponsored by the Key Center of War Information and the Department of Speech, broadcast over radio station WLB, January 25, 1943 - July 1, 1946
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