00967.xml Minnesota Historical Society. Mexican American History Project: An Inventory of St. Paul Mexican American Community Collections at the Minnesota Historical Society National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul, MN.
 Finding aid encoded by Meagan Kellom, August 2011. Finding aid written in English OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota Historical Society. Mexican American History Project. Mexican American Community in St. Paul Collections. 1918-1977. Materials in English and Spanish. Church records, invitations, news clippings, printed materials and related papers compiled by a number of Mexican-American religious, educational, and community organizations in St. Paul. 1.5 cubic feet (2 boxes). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

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Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 11,845; 11,855; 11,856; 11,857; 11,858; 11,859; 11,874; 11,875; 11,876; 11,877; 11,878; 11,879; 11,880; 11,881; 11,882; 11,896; 12,769

 Processing Information:

Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Catalog ID number: 1735093

 CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Migrant labor -- Minnesota. Mexican Americans -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. Mexican American Catholics -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. Mexican Americans -- Minnesota -- Societies, etc. Hispanic Americans -- Minnesota. Public housing -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. Organizations: National Brown Beret Organization. Minnesota Chapter. Guadalupe Area Project (Saint Paul, Minn.). Industrialized Innovators, Inc. Minnesota Migrant Council. Comite de Reconstruccion (Minn.). Sociedad Mutua Beneficia Recreativa Anahuac (Saint Paul, Minn.). Torre de San Miguel Homes, Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.). Saint Paul Public Schools. Bilingual-Bicultural Education Program. Minnesota Chicano Federation. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church (Saint Paul, Minn.) Migrants in Action (Organization : Saint Paul, Minn.) Mexican American Cultural Resource Center (Saint Paul, Minn.) Mexican Independence Celebration Committee (Saint Paul, Minn.) Mi Cultura Day Care Center (Saint Paul, Minn.) Minnesota Brown Berets. DETAILED DESCRIPTION 149.H.10.4F Brown Berets, Minnesota Chapter, St. Paul, 1969-1974.

Accession number: 11,882.

 Guadalupe Area Project, 1965-1977. 2 folders.

Accession numbers: 11,878 and 12,769.

 Industrialized Innovators, Inc., 1973-1974.

Accession number: 11,859.

 Invitations: Weddings, baptisms and other ceremonies, 1934-1959.

Accession number: 11,875.

 Mexican-American Cultural and Educational Center, 1971-1974.

Accession number: 11,877.

 Mexican-American Cultural Resource Center, 1974-1975.

Accession number: 11,881.

 Mexican Independence Celebration Committee, 1941-1975. 4 folders.

Accession number: 11,896.

 Mi Cultura Day Care Center, 1972-1975.

Accession number: 11,880.

 Migrants in Action, 1973-1977. 2 folders.

Accession numbers: 11,857 and 12,769.

 Minnesota Chicano Federation, 1975.

Accession number: 11,856.

 Minnesota Migrant Council, 1974-1976.

Includes news clippings, letter, report and manual.

 Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, 1927-1968. 4 folders.

Related Material: Additional parish registers from Our Lady of Guadalupe are available on microfilm, cataloged as M622. Parish Credit Union records are also cataloged separately in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscripts collection.

 Public School System, Bilingual-Bicultural Education Program, 1974-1975. 2 folders.

Accession number: 11,876.

 Torre de San Miguel Homes, Inc., 1969-1975. 2 folders.

Accession number: 11,855.

 Miscellaneous news clippings, 1977-1980.

Accession number: 12,769.

 149.H.10.5B Associations and institutions, 1935-1975. 1 folder:

Includes accession numbers: 11,845; 11,880; 11,857; 11,856; 11,858; 11,874.

American GI Forum, 1950, 1959-1960.

Includes constitution and bylaws, letters and pamphlets.

 Anahuac Society, 1935, 1937, 1958.

Accession number: 11,845.

Includes booklets, roster and letters.

Related Material: Additional papers pertaining to the Sociedad Mutua Beneficia Recreativa Anahuac in St. Paul are available in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscripts collection.

 Comite de Reconstruccion, 1939-1948.

Includes notebook, minutes, financial reports and post card.

 Mi Cultura news clippings, 1975.

Accession number: 11,880.

 Migrants in Action news clippings, 1976.

Accession number: 11,857.

 Minnesota Chicano Federation news clippings and bylaws, 1975.

Accession number: 11,856.

 Neighborhood House Association news clippings, 1967.

Accession numbers: 11,858 and 11,874.

 Spanish Speaking Cultural Club, Inc. constitution and news clippings, 1971. Biographical information, 1918-1975. 1 folder: Delgado, Ralph, farm equipment manager, Hollandale, Minnesota, news clipping, undated. Elizondo, Rosendo, Sr., news clippings, 1973. Galvin, George, news clippings, 1959. Huerta, Concepción, letters, 1918, 1923, 1942, 1944.

Includes honorable discharge certificate of Private Mathias Hernandez, one of the first Mexican Americans to have served in the United States Army during World War I.

 Martinez, Angelita Reyes, death certificate, 1931. Zaragoza, Frank, Business Agent for Operating Engineers Local 34, news clippings, 1971. Dancing, 1972-1975.

Includes Ballet Folklorico Guadalupano, news clippings and programs.

 Education, 1970-1976.

Includes University of Minnesota Chicano Studies Department booklets, curriculum and proposed curriculum, news clippings and correspondence.

 Health and housing, 1970-1976.

Includes St. Paul-Ramsey County Mental Health Center memoranda, migrant housing news clippings, Torre de San Miguel Housing Project news clippings.

Migrants, 1945-1976. 3 folders.

Includes Accession number: 11,857.

Includes news clippings, research papers, project proposals, surveys and questionnaires, Migrant Health Service, Inc. materials, Minnesota Citizens for Migrant Affairs, Inc. articles of incorporation and bylaws, and notes regarding summer migrant employees of the Minnesota Canning Company.

 Religion and rural community, undated and 1946-1976.

Includes Accession number: 11,879.

Contains Guadalupe Feast Day news clippings, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church news clippings and history, and Primera Iglesia Bautista, Minneapolis, Evangelist Among Latins flyer, newsletter and news clippings.

 Social life and sports, undated and 1942-1977.

Includes Accession number: 11,896.

Contains piñata news clippings, Posadas (Processions) news clippings, Mexican Independence Celebration materials, news clippings, Chicano image and stereotype news clippings, Our Lady of Guadalupe basketball team news clippings, boxing news clippings and Aztecas soccer club photographs and news clippings.

 Urban community and the West Side, undated and 1945-1976.

Contains news clippings and papers of Francisco Rangel including his application for border crossing, some letters, and photographs.

Related Material: Additional correspondence of Rangel as secretary of the Sociedad Mutua Beneficia Recreativa Anahuac in St. Paul are available in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscripts collection.

 RELATED MATERIALS

Oral history interviews and transcripts of the Mexican-American Oral History Project including some of the individuals represented in this collection are cataloged seperately as OH 49.