gov033 GOVERNOR Burquist, J. A. A.: An Inventory of His Gubernatorial Records at the Minnesota Historical Society Finding aid prepared by state archives staff. Minnesota Historical Society

St. Paul MN.

Government Records

Finding aid encoded by Lyda Morehouse, December 18, 2001.Finding aid written inEnglish August 2008Converted from EAD Version 1.0 to Version 2002 by Monica Manny Ralston, Daniel Sher, and Joyce Chapman. OVERVIEW OF THE RECORDS Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota. Governor (1915-1921 : Burnquist). Records of Governor J. A. A. Burnquist, 1915-1927 (bulk 1915-1921). General correspondence, telegrams, subject files on public policy matters, files on state departments and agencies, organizations files, and materials relating to pardons and tax-forfeited property. 13.7 cu. ft. (13 boxes and 1 partial box). See Detailed Description section for shelf locations. 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: Administrative agencies--Minnesota. Associations, institutions, etc.--Minnesota. Escheat--Minnesota. Pardon--Minnesota. Real property tax--Minnesota. Tax forfeiture--Minnesota. Places: Minnesota--Executive departments. Minnesota--Politics and government--1898-1918. Minnesota--Politics and government--1918-1945. Persons: Burnquist, J. A. A. (Joseph Alfred Arner), 1879-1961. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

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Catalog ID No.: 09-00000448 RLIN ID No.: MNHV90-A867

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS General Correspondence (File 648a) 111.F.11.5B 74 General Correspondence, 1916-1917, A-D. 14 folders. 111.F.11.6F 75 General Correspondence, 1916-1917, E-Mc. 24 folders. 111.F.11.7B 76 General Correspondence, 1916-1917, M-S. 24 folders. 111.F.11.8F 77 General Correspondence, 1916-1917, T-Z. 10 folders. General Correspondence, 1918, A-I. 18 folders. 111.F.11.9B 78 General Correspondence, 1918, J-Z. 28 folders. 111.F.11.10F 79 General Correspondence, 1919-1920, A-K. 25 folders. 111.F.12.1B 80 General Correspondence, 1919-1920, L-Z. 26 folders. File 648b 111.F.12.2F 81 Telegrams, 1916-1918. Correspondence Originating in Executive Department: A-Z, 1915-1916. 6 folders. A-Z, 1917. 7 folders. A-Z, 1918. 10 folders. 111.F.12.3B 82 A-Z, 1919. 8 folders. A-Z, 1920. 5 folders. Subject Files (File 648c) 111.F.12.3B 82 Pardon Matters, 1916-1917. 3 folders. Certificates of Back Taxes Due, 1916-1920. 6 folders. Certificates of Back Taxes Due, 1918-1927, A-Z. 3 folders. 111.F.13.7B 96 Coal Situation, 1920-1923. Extradition Hearings Requested, 1920-1938. 111.F.12.4F 83 Actors Fund, 1919 Agricultural Affairs, 1916-1917 All-Minnesota Development Association, 1916 American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1916-1920 American Mining Congress, 1916-1920 Americanization, 1918-1920 America's Gift to France, 1920 Armenian Independence, 1919 Armistice Day, 1920 Austro-Hungarian Citizenship Rights in Minnesota, 1916 Boiler Inspection, 1916-1918 State Bonus Correspondence, 1919-1920 Budgets, 1918 Minnesota Budget, 1919-1920 Camp Cody Central Legal Draft Committee Coal Shortage, 1919-1920 Conservation, Drainage and Reclamation, 1916-1917 Constitution Day, 1919 Crosby, Minnesota Armory, 1916-1917 Major Curtis, 1918 Dairy and Food, 1916-1918 Defense, 1916-1918 111.F.12.4F 83 Ditch Bonds - Koochiching County, 1918-1920 Ditch Matters - Koochiching County, 1916, 1917 Drainage, 1919-1920 Duluth Lynching, 1920

Photocopies. The originals are in Reserve (Res.68).

Education, 1916-1917 Education, 1919-1920 Education - Barnum School, 1919 John Ericsson Memorial Commission and League of Patriotic Service, 1917-1918 John Ericsson Memorial, 1919-1920 Farm Training, 1920 Farm Women's National Congress, 1920 Fergus Falls Relief Committee, 1919 Fergus Falls Relief Committee, 1920 Fire Affairs - Prevention and Relief, 1916-1918 Fire Affairs - Prevention and Relief, 1919-1920 Flag Day, 1916-1917 Flag Day, 1919 111.F.12.4F 83 Flood Control, 1917-1918 Flood Relief, 1919-1920 Henry Ford Tractor Plan, 1918 Foreign Relief, 1918-1920 111.F.12.5B 84 Forest Fire, Oct. 3 - Oct. 31, 1918. 3 folders. Forest Fire, November - December, 1918. 2 folders. Forest Fire, 1919 Forest Fire, 1920 Forestry, 1916-1917 Game and Fish, 1916-1918 Good Roads Association, 1917-1920 Governor's Conference, 1916-1918 Governor's Conference, 1919-1920 Health, 1916-1918 Home Building Trust, 1918 Home Guard, 1917-1918 Humane Societies, 1916 Humane Societies, 1919-1920 Immigration, 1917-1918 Inaugural Address of the Governor, 1917 Italy - America Day, 1920 Korea, 1918 Labor and Labor Affairs, 1916-1919 Land Appraisal and Appraisers, 1917-1918 Land Appraisers, 1919 League of Nations, 1919-1920 Legislature, 1917-1918 Legislature - Extra-Session, 1919 Liberty Loan Organizations, 1918-1919 Jenny Lind Centennial Celebration, 1920 Lindquist, Secretary to the Governor Appointment, 1917 Memorial, Minnesota Soldiers and Sailors, World War I, 1918-1919 Military Affairs, 1916-1918 Military Justice, 1919 Minneapolis School Budget, 1917 Minnesota National Guard Officers - Roster, 1918 Minnesota State Fair, 1916-1917 Minnesota State Fair, 1919-1920 Mississippi Valley Development Association, 1919-1920 National Conference of Charities and Correction, 1916-1917 National Conference on Rural Education, 1917 Near East Relief, 1919-1920 Offers of Military Service, 1917 111.F.12.6F 85 Peace, 1916-1919 Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund, 1920 Playground and Recreation Association of America, 1916-1917 Polish Day, 1920 President's Visit to St. Paul, 1919 Prisons and Prison Affairs, 1916-1920 Prize Fight Opposition, 1918 Prohibition, 1916 Prohibition, 1920 Public - Negro Migration, 1920. 1 item. Race Prejudice [flyer], 1920. 1 item. Race Relations (Lynchings, etc.), 1919-1920

Mainly re H.R. 15338 (U.S. Congress) to prohibit racial discrimination in interstate transportation; and re proposed national anti-lynching conference and Congressional investigation of lynchings in U.S.

Red Lake County Liquor Violations, 1916 Rice, Henry M.: Statue, 1916

S.Con.Res. accepting the statue from the State of Minnesota for placement in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol.

River and Waterway Affairs, 1916-1920 Rocky Mountain Club, 1919 Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association, 1919-1920 Salvation Army, 1919 Social Work Conference, 1919-1920 Soldier's Home, 1916-1919 Taxes and Taxation, 1916-1918 Tenth International Purity Congress, 1917 Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1916-1917 Timber and Timber Board, 1917 Tonnage Tax on Iron Ore, 1917 Treasury Affairs, 1916-1917 Trinity Lutheran Church 64th Anniversary Souvenir, 1920 Tuberculosis, 1916-1918 Tyler Disaster, 1918 Venereal Disease War Records Commission, 1918 War Relief, 1916-1918 "Welcome Home" Returning Soldiers, 1918 Wheat, 1919 White Pine Blister Rust, 1917 Woman's Suffrage, 1917 State Department Files (File 648d) 111.F.12.6F 85 Adjutant General, 1916 Attorney General, 1916 State Auditor, 1916 Board of Control, 1916 Minnesota Schools for the Deaf and Blind, 1916 Entomologists Office, 1916 Game and Fish Department, 1916 Board of Grain Appeals, 1916 Board of Health, 1916 State Highway Commission, 1916 Department of Insurance, 1916 State Board of Parole, 1916 Public Examiner, 1916 University of Minnesota, 1916 Veterinary Examining Board, 1916 111.F.12.7B 86 Adjutant General, 1917 Attorney General, 1917 State Auditor, 1917 Board of Control, 1917 Capitol Custodian, 1917 Minnesota Schools for Deaf and Blind, 1917 Entomologist's Office, 1917 Game and Fish Department Board of Grain Appeals, 1917 State Board of Health, 1917 State Highway Commission, 1917 State Board of Parole, 1917 Minnesota State Police Department, 1917 Public Examiner Railroad and Warehouse Commission, 1917 University of Minnesota, 1917 Veterinary Examining Board, 1917 111.F.12.7B 86 Adjutant General's Office, 1918 Attorney General, 1918 State Auditor, 1918 State Board of Control, 1918 Fuel Administrator, 1918 Game and Fish Department, 1918 Grain Appeals, 1918 State Board of Health, 1918 State Highway Department, 1918 University of Minnesota, 1918 111.F.12.7B 86 Adjutant General's Office, 1919 Advisory Commission of the State Sanatorium for Consumptives, 1919 Department of Agriculture, 1919 State Board of Arbitration 1919 Auditor, 1919 Examining Board of Barbers, 1919 Boiler Inspectors, 1919 State Board of Chiropractic, 1919 State Board of Control, 1919 Dairy and Food Commissioner, 1919 Drainage Engineer's Office, 1919 Entomologist's Office, 1919 Food Administration, 1919 Forestry, 1919 Game and Fish Department, 1919 Grain Appeals, 1919 Board of Health, 1919 Highway Department, 1919 Insurance, 1919 Commissioner of Labor, 1919 Mines and Mineral Lands, 1919 Public Examiner, 1919 Department of Public Property, 1919 Commission of Public Safety, 1919 Railroad and Warehouse Commission, 1919 State Securities Commission, 1919 University of Minnesota, 1919 111.F.12.7B 86 Adjutant General's Office, 1920

2 misc. items re the National Guard.

Commission on the Aged, 1920 Department of Agriculture, 1920 Apiaries Department, 1920 State Auditor, 1920 Boiler Inspector, 1920 Chiropractic Examiners, 1920 State Board of Control, 1920 Dairy and Food Commission, 1920 School for the Deaf, 1920 State Board of Dental Examiners, 1920 Drainage and Waters, 1920 Entomologist's Office, 1920 Forestry, 1920 Game and Fish, 1920 State Board of Health, 1920 Highway Department, 1920 State Immigration Board Department of Labor and Industries Public Examiner, 1920 Department of Public Property, 1920 Commission of Public Safety, 1920 1 item. State Securities Commission, 1920 Railroad and Warehouse Commission, 1920 Tax Commission, 1920 University of Minnesota, 1920 Federal Department Files (File 648d) 111.F.12.7B 86 Department of Agriculture, 1916-1917 Department of the Interior, 1916-1918 General Land Office, 1917 Department of State, 1916-1918 U.S. Army, 1917 War Department, 1918 Department of Agriculture, 1919-1920 Department of Commerce, 1919-1920 National Defense Council, 1919-1920 Secretary of the Interior, 1919-1920 Interstate Commerce Commission, 1919-1920 Post Office Department, 1919 Secretary of State, 1919-1920 Treasury Department, 1919-1920 U.S. Department of Labor, 1919-1920 War Department, 1919-1920 Organizations Files (File 648e) 111.F.12.8F 87 Aero Club of America, 1920 Allied America Association, 1919-1920 American Agricultural Association, 1917 American Army Association, 1919 American Bible Society, 1920 American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers, Inc., 1916-1918 American Association for Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1917 American Civic Association, 1916-1917 American Defense Society, Inc., 1919-1920 American Forum Association, 1919 American Hospital Association, 1919-1920 American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminality, 1919 Americanization Exposition, 1920 American League for National Unity, 1917 American Legion, 1919-1920 American Mining Congress, 1919 American Patriotic Society, 1919 American Red Cross, 1916-1920 American Road Builders' Association, 1916-1920 The American Social Hygiene 111.F.12.8F 87 American Society of Sanitary Engineering, 1920 Army and Navy Club, 1919-1920 Boy Scouts of America, 1916-1918 Boy Scouts of America, 1919-1920 Chinese National Welfare Society in America, 1920 Constitutional League of America, 1920 Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, 1916 General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1919-1920 Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Tidewater Association, 1919 Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Tidewater Association, 1920 National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, 1917 Interchurch World Movement of North America, 1920 International Farm Congress, 1916-1918 Irrigation Congress, 1916 I.W.W., 1920 Knights of Pythias, 1920 Know America Association, 1919 Minnesota Public Health Association, 1919-1920 Minnesota State Fair, 1919 National Absent Voters' League, 1916 National Agricultural Association, 1917 National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1920 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1916-1918 National Association of Railway and Utilities Commission, 1919 National Association of Vicksburg Veterans, 1917 National Cadet Corps League, 1916 National Civic Federation, 1918-1920 National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, 1916-1918 National Conference Marketing and Farm Credits, 1916 National Co-Operative Re-Adjustment Association, 1919 National Drainage Congress, 1920 National Electric Light Association, 1920 National Highways Association, 1916-1918 National Public Works Department Association, 1920 National Rivers and Harbors Congress, 1916-1920 National Security League, 1919 Panama Pacific Inter-National Exposition, 1916 Republican National Committee, 1920 Society of American Indians, 1919-1920 Society of American Republics, 1919-1920 The Southern Commercial Congress, 1917 United Spanish War Veterans, 1919 United States Good Roads Association, Inc., 1920 Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1916 State Association of County Attorneys, 1918 War Camp Community Service, 1919 Miscellaneous Files 111.F.12.8F 87 Public Examiner's Biennial Report, July 1918 Correspondence Relating to Military Affairs, 1916. 7 folders.