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Names starting with the letters U-V

Name/Abstract	File no.
Ferdinand Uebel: An Inventory of His Papers	P1243
Personal and family papers related to Ferdinand Uebel's interest in fencing, his role as a fencing instructor, and his involvement with Twin Cities area athletic and fencing organizations.
Brenda Ueland: An Inventory of Her Papers	00099
Papers documenting the life (1891-1985) and career of a Minneapolis feminist and author. Includes digital content.
Brenda Ueland Family: An Inventory of Its Photographs	sv000129
Photographs of Brenda Ueland and her family, including her parents Andreas and Clara Hampson Ueland and her daughter Gabrielle. Also photographs of her siblings, friends, Andreas's first wife Anna and Brenda's third husband Sverre Hanssen. Includes digital content.
Union Gospel Mission: An Inventory of Its Records	00040
Minute books, financial records, and subject files of a St. Paul evangelistic and social service organization that was established in 1902 and provided religious services, meals, and shelter for transient and homeless men. Includes articles of incorporation, newspaper clippings, handbills, brochures, correspondence, and a few photographs.
Union Veterans' Union. John A. Logan Regiment, No. 2: An Inventory of Its Records	P2513
Miscellaneous records of a local chapter of a patriotic and mutual benefit organization composed of Union Civil War veterans, and also open to their sons and grandsons.
United and Children's Hospitals Retirees Club: An Inventory of Its Records	00931
Historical data; administrative files; and scrapbooks of a social and fund-raising organization formed in 1986 to encourage social interaction among retirees of United and Children's hospitals and predecessors St. Luke's, Charles T. Miller, and Riverview Memorial hospitals.
United Arts Council and Services: An Inventory of Its Records	00457
Administrative and programmatic records of a St. Paul umbrella association serving arts and cultural organizations in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
United Hospital: An Inventory of Its Records	00220
Corporate documents, board and committee minutes, historical background information, interview transcripts, annual meeting records and reports, financial records, newsletters, staff and employee records, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs documenting United Hospital and the four predecessor hospitals that merged to create it: St. Luke's, Charles T. Miller, Children's, and Riverview Memorial. The collection contains administrative records of all these institutions, including those of their women's auxiliaries. The records describe the conditions leading to the mergers, especially relating to high medical costs and declining use, and the negotiations finalizing the mergers. There is also information on the construction and dedication of the new United Hospital in 1980.
United Spanish War Veterans: An Inventory of Its Records	00458
Records documenting the activities of the Minnesota Department of the United Spanish War Veterans, its women's auxiliary, its local camps, and the national office. Also included are a few records of related organizations.
United States Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District: An Inventory of Its Records	00505
Permit files, project maps, correspondence, and other records of the St. Paul district office of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, a major army command that provides engineering services for the United States Army and Air Force and is also involved in water-related civil engineering work.
United States Army Infantry Regiment, 28th: An Inventory of Its Summary Court Records	P2239
Completed form reports recording charges, judgments, and sentences for minor infractions filed against enlisted men in Summary Court.
United States Army Quartermaster Corps: An Inventory of Its Consolidated Correspondence File Relating to Fort Snelling	M222
Largely correspondence and returns concerned with the purchase and distribution of stores for Fort Snelling, Minnesota, construction and repair of post facilities, and raising of crops and livestock.
United States Bureau of Indian Affairs: An Inventory of Selected Bureau Files Regarding Minnesota Chippewa Agencies	00588
Photocopied records selected from files in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, gathered together by a researcher for a doctoral dissertation on White Earth Reservation (Minn.) Indian claims. They include White Earth Agency central files (1890-1937), Chippewa Commission correspondence and biweekly reports (1894-1900), Consolidated Chippewa Agency files (1922-1939), Red Lake Agency central files (1909-1939), Chippewa logging files (1903-1924), and some financial records from the Leech Lake (1902-1908) and White Earth (1908-1921) agencies.
United States Chief of Naval Operations: An Inventory of Letters Relating to the Battleships	P2300
Photocopies of five letters describing the actions of the battleships Minnesota and St. Paul in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War II.
United States Coast Guard: An Inventory of Its Lighthouse Keeper Registers	00434
Indexes and registers for the Great Lakes region listing U.S. Coast Guard lighthouse keepers.
United States Dept. of the Interior: An Inventory of Selected Records Relating to Wagon Roads	m0090
Microfilm copies of selected correspondence, reports, and other papers relating to the construction of wagon roads from Fort Ridgely to the South Pass, and the Niobara-Virginia City wagon road. A branch of the latter was surveyed from the Minnesota border to the Cheyenne River.
United States Dept. of the Interior. Indian Division: An Inventory of Selected Files Relating to Minnesota and Northern Plains Indian Affairs	P1548
Photocopied files relating to Indian affairs in Minnesota and neighboring states, and to the Dakota Indians of the northern plains. They concern such matters as land cessions, claims for damages incurred during hostilities, management of Indian agencies, sale of timber on Ojibwe land, meetings of tribal and U.S. government representatives, furnishing of supplies to the Dakota Indians, and general government relations with the Dakota and Ojibwe.
United States Dept. of the Treasury. Office of the Third Auditor: An Inventory of Its Records	m0635
Vouchers and related documents submitted to the U. S. Department of the Treasury by the state of Minnesota to substantiate its claims against the federal government for reimbursement of military expenses incurred for the service of citizen militia and home guard units during the Dakota Conflict.
United States Dept. of the Treasury. Office of the Third Auditor: An Inventory of Its Records	m0636
Primarily audit reports, abstracts, and other accounting records (1862-1888) related to the audit and settlement by the Office of the Third Auditor, U.S. Department of the Treasury, of Minnesota Indian War claims against the federal government for reimbursement of military expenses incurred for the service of citizen militia and home guard units during the Dakota Conflict. Also present are a smaller number of analogous documents (1862-1887) pertaining to the state's claims for reimbursement of expenditures for state troops that served in the Civil War, which were settled jointly with its Indian War claims.
United States District Court Monitor for the Welsch Consent Decree: An Inventory of Its Welsch Consent Decree Files	welsch
Records relating to the Welsch consent decree, the result of a landmark court case that led to major changes in the treatment of Minnesota's institutionalized mentally retarded citizens.
United States General Accounting Office: An Inventory of Its Report In Re: Petition of the Sioux Tribe of Indians	M617
Audit performed by the General Accounting Office in response to a suit filed in U.S. Court of Claims by the Sioux Tribe of Indians in May 1923, which contended that the United States had not fulfilled its obligations arising from various treaties, acts, and agreements between the tribe and the United States government.
U.S. General Land Office: An Inventory of the Calendar of General Land Office Letters	glo003
Calendars of correspondence relating to the survey and sale of public land in Minnesota and the “Old Northwest Territory.”
U.S. General Land Office: An Inventory of Its Railroad Selection Lists	glo013
Lists of land parcels selected by congressional land grant railroads from the public domain as indemnity for land that was unavailable from their original grants.
U.S. General Land Office: An Inventory of Its State Trust Fund Land Selection and Approved Lists	glo014
An incomplete set of selection and approved lists for various categories of Minnesota state trust fund lands.
U.S. General Land Office, Alexandria Land District (Minn.): An Inventory of Its Records	glo004
Correspondence; registers of homestead, military bounty land, and timber culture entries; patent records; land contest records; and related materials covering land transfers in northwestern Minnesota.
U.S. General Land Office, Cass Lake Land District: An Inventory of Its Records	gr00440
Correspondence; registers of homestead and other types of land entries; patent records, land contest records; and related materials covering land transfers in northwestern Minnesota.
U.S. General Land Office, Crookston Land District (Minn.): An Inventory of Its Records	glo009
Correspondence; registers of homestead and other types of land entries; patent records, land contest records; and related materials covering land transfers in northwestern Minnesota.
U.S. General Land Office, Duluth Land District: A Description of Its Ditch Notices	glo001
Notices of public hearings on proposed drainage ditches, other watercourse improvements, and related roads and structures in north central Minnesota.
U.S. General Land Office, Duluth Land District (Minn.): An Inventory of Its Records	glo002
Correspondence; registers of homestead and other types of land entries; patent records; land contest records, and related materials covering land transfers in northeastern Minnesota.
U.S. General Land Office, Minneapolis Land District: An Inventory of Its Records	glo005
Correspondence; registers of homestead, agricultural college, military bounty land, and Sioux half-breed scrip entries; patent records; land contest records; and related materials covering land transfers in central Minnesota.
U.S. General Land Office, Red Wing Land District (Minn.): An Inventory of Its Records	glo011
Correspondence; registers of homestead, agricultural college, military bounty land, Indian reservation land, Sioux half-breed scrip, and timber culture entries; patent records; land contest records; and related materials covering land transfers in southern Minnesota.
U.S. General Land Office, Root River Land District (Minn.): An Inventory of Its Records	glo015
Correspondence; registers of homestead, agricultural college, military bounty land, and timber culture entries; patent records; land contest records; and related materials covering land transfers in southern Minnesota.
U.S. General Land Office, Saint Cloud Land District (Minn.): An Inventory of Its Records	glo006
Correspondence; registers of homestead, agricultural college, Indian allotment, military bounty land, Sioux half-breed scrip, miscellaneous scrip, and timber culture entries; patent records; land contest records; and related materials covering land transfers in central, north central, and northwestern Minnesota.
U.S. General Land Office, Stillwater Land District: An Inventory of Its Records	glo007
Correspondence, registers of homestead and agricultural college scrip entries; patent records; land contest records; and related materials covering land transfers in northeastern and east central Minnesota.
U.S. General Land Office, Winona Land District (Minn.): An Inventory of Its Records	glo008
Correspondence; registers of homestead, agricultural college scrip, half-breed scrip, military bounty land, and timber culture entries; patent records; purchase records for Indian reservation lands; land contest records; and related materials covering land transfers in southern Minnesota.
United States Office of Indian Affairs: An Inventory of Its Chippewa Annuity Rolls	M390
Annuity rolls and related records for Minnesota Ojibwe Indian bands who were paid annuities by the federal government under various treaties between 1841 and 1907. They include the names of Indian and half-breed heads of families, the names or the number of other family members (primarily women and children), and the amount of annuity paid.
United States Office of Indian Affairs: An Inventory of Its Indian Census Rolls	m0559
Microfilm (selected reels) of census rolls submitted each year by agents or superintendents in charge of reservations. The data on the rolls varies but usually includes English and/or Indian name, roll number, age or birth date, sex, and relationship to head of family. Reels included in this selection focus on Minnesota Ojibwe (Chippewa) and Dakota (Sioux) bands, though numerous Wisconsin and North Dakota groups are also included.
United States Office of Indian Affairs: An Inventory of Its Selected Records	P2669
Negative photocopies, a microfilm reproduction, and typed transcripts of manuscript letters, reports, circulars, Indian censuses, maps, drawings, and other documents concerning the Sioux (Dakota), Chippewa (Ojibwe) and Winnebago Indians under the jurisdiction of the Michigan and St. Louis superintendencies in present-day Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
United States Office of Indian Affairs: An Inventory of Its Selected Sioux (Dakota) Annuity and Census Rolls	m0405
Annuity and census rolls and related records for Dakota Indian bands whose members were paid annuities by the federal government under various treaties negotiated between 1849 and 1935.
United States Office of Indian Affairs. Consolidated Chippewa Agency: An Inventory of a Map of the Grand Portage Indian Reservation	c79
A blueline copy of a map depicting the Grand Portage (Minn.) Ojibwe Reservation, which has been annotated in colored pencil to indicate the ownership status of various land parcels: Grand Portage Band, Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, fee patented (private), trust allotments, and National Park Service.
United States Office of Price Administration: An Inventory of World War II Ration Books and Stamps	P944
A collection, from various sources, of ration books and stamps used by Minnesotans during World War II.
United States President's Quetico-Superior Committee: An Inventory of Its Records	00079
Correspondence, minutes (1934-74), printed materials, newspaper clippings, newsletters and news releases (1947-73), maps (1938-1950s), and legal files documenting the many activities of a committee established on June 30, 1934, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order No. 6783, to deal directly with U.S. government agencies in matters relating to conservation, preservation, and use of wilderness lands in northeastern Minnesota. The committee worked closely with the Quetico-Superior Council, a private organization sharing the same goals.
United States Railway Mail Service. 10th Division: An Inventory of Its Mail Train Schedules	00162
Periodic--monthly earlier on, then less frequently--pocket schedules issued by the 10th Division headquarters showing arrival times at all post offices of all trains serving the railway mail service in the division. The division included the upper peninsula of Michigan, and the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and (for earlier years) Montana.
United States Small Business Administration: An Inventory of Its Minnesota Small Business Award Files	P2354
Press releases and news clippings about recipients of its annual awards, including Minnesota Small Business Person, Small Business Exporter, Entrepreneurial Success, Young Entrepreneur, and various small business advocate awards and their respective companies.
United States Surveyor General of Minnesota: An Inventory of Its Accounting Records	ussg03
Accounts of survey appropriations and expenditures.
United States Surveyor General of Minnesota: An Inventory of Its Contracts for Surveys	ussg04
Contracts between the surveyor general and deputy surveyors for the survey of specified tracts of public land in Minnesota.
United States Surveyor General of Minnesota: An Inventory of Its Descriptive Lists of Survey Posts	ussg05
Compiled lists describing survey reference posts and locations of section, quarter section, and meander posts for each township in Minnesota.
United States Surveyor General of Minnesota: An Inventory of Its Land Survey Field Notes	ussg06
Handwritten copies of the notebooks kept by surveyors as they laid out the exterior and subdivision lines of each Minnesota township, recording survey reference points and marker posts and including plat drawings and comments on natural features.
United States Surveyor General of Minnesota: An Inventory of Its Land Survey Plats: Worksheets	ussg02
Plat worksheets of Minnesota’s interior township boundaries made by the surveyor general’s office from deputy surveyor’s field notes.
United States Surveyor General of Minnesota: An Inventory of Its Letters Received and Sent	ussg07
Correspondence relating to all aspects of the survey of public lands in Minnesota.
United States Surveyor General of Minnesota: An Inventory of Its Miscellaneous Records	ussg08
Annual and miscellaneous reports, inventories, manuals, various office work records, petitions for surveys, and timber agent accounts and correspondence.
United States Surveyor General of Minnesota: An Inventory of Its Plats of Township Boundaries	ussg09
Plats of various township boundaries drawn by the surveyor general’s office from deputy surveyor’s field notes.
United States. War Department. An Inventory of Its Confidential and Unofficial Letters	m0153
Two microfilmed letterbooks containing transcriptions of outgoing letters by departmental officials, including Lewis Cass and Albert M. Lea, who were involved with exploration of the upper Midwest.
United Way of the Saint Paul Area (Minn.): An Inventory of Its Records	00364
Records of the United Way of the Saint Paul Area pertaining to fund raising, long range planning, and fund distribution to member agencies.
Unity Church (St. Paul, Minn.): An Inventory of Its Records	00896
Records of this Unitarian church, relating to its administration, membership, clubs, committees, affiliation with state and national Unitarian associations and buildings, as well as the correspondence and files of Arthur Foote, its minister from 1945 to 1970.
University Baptist Church (Minneapolis, Minn.): An Inventory of Its Records	00839
Historical materials, constitutions, and bylaws; correspondence and related papers; meeting minutes; subject files; financial records; women's organizations; youth groups; and materials including church newsletters, bulletins, photographs, and related items.
University Lesbian-Gay Community: An Inventory of Its Records	P2398
Constitution, newsletters, correspondence, steering committee minutes, and other records of a lesbian and gay social organization at the University of Minnesota.
Upper Midwest American Indian Center (Minneapolis, Minn.): An Inventory of Its Center Records	P2279
Records related to a United Fund agency created to serve the needs of the Native American community in Minneapolis.
Upper Midwest Regional Educational Laboratory: An Inventory of Its Records	00399
Records describing the administration, projects, research, and funding of a federally funded organization whose purpose was to coordinate communication and cooperation between existing educational agencies in North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois. UMREL's primary focus was teacher preparation and experimental curriculum for the K-12 classroom.
Upper Midwest Women's History Center: An Inventory of Its Organizational Records	00734
Records and curriculum material (1980-1999) of the Upper Midwest Women's History Center, a regional teacher-training center founded in Minnesota that helped educators integrate women's curriculum into regular history classes.
Upper Mississippi Valley Ethno-History Committee: An Inventory of Its Memoranda and Reports	P2275
Memoranda and reports documenting the formation and activities of a committee of Midwestern anthropologists and historians organized to compile and inventory primary and secondary documentary sources relating to pre-1850 Indian-white contact in the region.
Urban Coalition Of Minneapolis: An Inventory of Its Records	00788
materials, subject, project and program files, published and internal reports, and committee and task force papers. Similar records of Urban Coalition Energy Programs, Inc. and Quality Weatherization and Construction Inc., two corporations that were founded by and out of the Urban Coalition of Minneapolis, are also included.
Urban Concerns Workshops, Inc.: An Inventory of Its Records	P2612
Records of a bipartisan organization created to help minorities and youth understand the political process.
V. Simpson Company: An Inventory of Its Records	00491
Correspondence files, legal and estate papers, real estate and accounting records, and other materials documenting the history of a family mortage and real estate corporation that owned farms and other properties in several states, including Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Montana, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Eva M. Valesh: An Inventory of Her Papers	P0039
Microfilm copy and typed extract (69 p.) of a reminiscence (1952, 232 p.) of the life of Eva McDonald Valesh, an early newspaper woman and labor organizer in Minnesota, as well as a few miscellaneous personal papers (1891-1983).
Horatio P. Van Cleve and Family Papers	00791
Correspondence, genealogical and biographical data, diaries, financial records, clippings, and miscellany of Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, a military officer and early Minnesota settler, his wife Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark, and various family members.
Sheldon Baird Vance: An Inventory of the Sheldon and Jean Vance Papers	00389
Papers of an American diplomat and his wife relating primarily to his years as American ambassador to the African nations of Chad and Zaire, as well as to earlier diplomatic service in such places as Brazil and France.
Vancouver, Westminster, Northern and Yukon Railway Company: An Inventory of Its Records	00661
Paid vouchers (1899-1902) and journal vouchers (1901-1903) documenting a railway in British Columbia.
Peter Vaughan: An Inventory of His Collection of Theater Programs	00575
Theater programs collected by Vaughan during his employment as theater critic for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Some programs contain his annotations and folded posters and postcards announcing some productions are included for some theaters.
Bruce F. Vento: An Inventory of His Papers	00265
Congressional papers of Bruce F. Vento (DFL-Minn.), a St. Paul, Minnesota high school science teacher who served three terms in the state legislature (1971-1976) and 12 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1977-2000). The collection is particularly strong in its documentation of energy, financial, environmental, and humanitarian issues, legislation, and policy in the 1980s and 1990s.
Veteran Firemen's Association of St. Paul: An Inventory of Its Records	P2306
Minutes and membership ledgers of a social, advocacy, and relief organization for retired St. Paul firemen.
Veterans Affairs Department: An Inventory of Its Registers of Educational and Other Assistance Programs	va003
Registers of individuals enrolled in various veterans’ rehabilitation and education assistance programs, particularly World War I, World War II, and Korean War veterans and war orphans.
Veterans Affairs Department: An Inventory of Its Veterans Graves Registration Reports	va001
Report forms for deceased veterans of the Civil and Indian wars, Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, Korean War, and Vietnam War who are buried in Minnesota. They were compiled by the Veterans Affairs Department during the period 1930-1969. For the period 1970-1975, some counties (mainly Goodhue, Hennepin, Houston, Ramsey, and Swift) and the Fort Snelling cemetery continued to submit reports.
Veterans Affairs Department: An Inventory of Its World War II Denied Bonus Appeal Records	va008
Appeals of denied applications for military service bonus payments to both veterans and beneficiaries of deceased Minnesota veterans of World War II.
Veterans Affairs Department: An Inventory of Its World War II Denied Bonus Beneficiary Records	va007
Denied applications for military service bonus payments to beneficiaries of deceased Minnesota veterans of World War II.
Veterans Affairs Department: An Inventory of Its World War II Denied Bonus Records	va006
Denied applications for military service bonus payments to Minnesota veterans of World War II.
Veterans Affairs Department: An Inventory of Its World War II Late Bonus Claims Paid	va005
Military service bonus payments to Minnesota veterans of World War II; paid between July 1954 and June 1975 through special legislation.
Veterans Affairs Department, Commissioner’s Office: An Inventory of Its Subject Files	va002
Correspondence and subject files of the commissioner's office, regarding all facets of the department.
Veterans Service Building Commission: An Inventory of Its Records	vsbc
Minutes and member correspondence, plans and specifications, contracts, abstracts of title, ledgers, budgets, and other materials.
Veteransville: An Inventory of Photographs	sv000110
Views of Veteransville, a locality in White Pine Township of Aitkin County, where in 1922 disabled World War I veterans purchased 80-acre lots of farmland. Only a few families remained by the late 1920s, after finding the land mostly rocks and stumps. Views show buildings, men farming, and construction of a log building. Includes digital content.
Vietnamese Community Oral History Project: An Inventory of Its Oral Histories	oh125
Vietnamese Minnesotans speak about their experiences coming to Minnesota, being born in Minnesota, and living in both Vietnam and Minnesota. They discuss issues regarding their immigration, Vietnamese social life, customs, and language. All of the narrators express their hopes for themselves, personally, and the Vietnamese community in the future. Interviewed by Phuoc Thi Minh Tran and Simon-Hoa Phan. This oral history project is part of the larger Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project and is a partnership between the Minnesota Historical Society and the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans.
Lydia Vinton: An Inventory of Her Family Diaries	P2410
Diaries (1879-1899) kept by Lydia Vinton describing her life on a farm she and her husband Austin Vinton owned in Waseca County, Minnesota, as well as diaries kept by a son (1858, 1867-1870) and grandson (1888-1889).
Andrew J. Volstead and Family: An Inventory of His Papers	P0012
Largely legislative and political materials of Volstead, a Granite Falls (Yellow Medicine County, Minn.) lawyer and Republican congressman (1903-1922), with some family and personal items. Most materials concern the National Prohibition Act (1919) and its consequences.
Voyageurs Region National Park Association: An Inventory of Its Records	00387
Correspondence, minutes, news releases, newsletters, printed items, clippings, and related material of an organization formed to encourage the development of the Voyageurs National Park, located around the Kabetogama peninsula in northern Minnesota. The group was headed by former Minnesota Governor Elmer L. Andersen, with Rita F. Shemesh as secretary.