Baby's First Words. Material: paper, textile. Size: 9 1/2" x 12". Description: blue hard cover book, black printed title: Baby's Picture Book (reproduced from especially made photographs of things baby first comes to know), black and white graphic photo of child's wagon; contents: unnumbered pages of approximately 32 photographs including a duck rocking chair, kiddie kar (car), baby clothes, book (Little Black Sambo), high chair, velocipede (tricycle), jack-in-the box and top; handwritten ins ... more

Girl Scouts, Homemaking. Material: metal, paper. Size: 3/4" x 1" Description: gold, red and black metal pin - frying pan with a gold tea kettle on top - gold metal loop at top - pin attached to white paper label: "Homemaking, Cat. No 12-131, Girl Scouts, Price $.50."

Girl Scouts, Challenge of Social Dependability. Material: metal, paper. Size: 3/4" diameter. Description: white circular pin - black and red design on front - black print: "Social Dependabiltiy" - red Girl Scout logo - gold trim around edge - metal clasp at back - pin attached to white paper label: "Girl Scouts, 9-135, Challenge of Social Dependability."

Girl Scouts, First Class Pin. Material: metal, paper. Size: 1/2" diameter. Description: red, gold and green circular metal pin - print around top: "Be Prepared" - green leaf in center - gold metal clasp at back - pin attached to green paper label: "First Class Pin, 9-110, Girl Scouts."

Girl Scout, 30 Year Volunteer. Material: metal, paper. Size: 1/2" x 1/2" Description: gold, blue metal pin - gold print: "Girl Scout" at top - "30" in center - "Volunteer" at bottom - blue background - metal clasp at back - pin attached to white paper label: green girl scout logo - "Girl Scouts."

Girl Scout, 60 Year Volunteer. Material: metal.. Size: 1/2" x 1/2" Description: gold, blue metal pin - gold print: "Girl Scout" at top - "60" in center - "Volunteer" at bottom - blue background - metal clasp at back.

Cub Scouts' two-finger salute. Material: metal. Size: 1/2" diameter. Description: gold, blue metal pin - oval shaped - gold two finger salute in center - blue background - gold metal trim around edge - metal clasp at back.

Girl Scout Trefoil. Material: paper. Size: 1" x 1" Description: yellow and gold paper - trefoil shaped - "G S" at top - eagle in center.

Girl Scout Trefoil. Material: paper. Size: 1" diameter. Description: blue and gold paper - gold trefoil in center - blue background - gold trim around edge.

Boy Scouts Lifetime Badge. Material: metal. Size: 7/8" W. x 7/8" L. Description: red enamel over metal heart; gold colored border and fleur-de-lis emblem overlaid with eagle symbol and "Be Prepared" motto; reverse side: revolver safety pin catch.(Boy Scout Life Scout badge.)

Boy Scouts, Eagle. Material: metal, paper. Size: 3/4" x 1" Description: gold metal with eagle symbol in center; metal clasp at back.

Air Corps. Material: paper. Size: 1" x 1/2" Description: silver metal pin - eagle wings and propeller with "AC" in center with blue background.

St. Paul School Police. Material: metal. Size: 1/2" x 3/4" Description: silver metal pin - badge shaped pin - print on front: "I have served St. Paul School Police" - clasp on back.

American Legion School Award. Material: metal. Size: 3/4" diameter. Description: gold metal pin, print on front: "American Legion, School Award, Courage, Honor, Service, Leadership, Scholarship, American Legion", print on back: "1940 1/2" ; metal clasp at back.

Eagle Scout Badge. (a) Badge. Material: textile, metal. Size: 1 1/2" W. x 3" L. Description: red, white and blue vertically striped grosgrain ribbon suspended from metal banner - stamped across top: "Be Prepared"; silver metal eagle suspended from metal link at ribbon bottom. (b) Case. Material: textile, metal, leather. Size: 2" W. x 4" L. x 1/2" D. Description: navy blue leather over hard frame; lid hinged on back side; blue velvet insert displays ribbon; blue rayon top lid lining stamped in si ... more

Think Mink. Material: plastic, metal. Size: 2 1/2" diameter. Description: gold plastic front - hologram "Think Mink" - white trim - white plastic back - metal clasp at back.

Blackglama Mink Fur Topped Pen. Material: plastic, textile. Size: 5" Description: white plastic barrel with black fur mink around top; black print on barrel: "Blackglama, World's Finest, Natural Dark Ranch Mink."

Herter’s Bull Cook, Recipes and Practices 1955 Book. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 8 1/2". Description: green-tinted paper cover; brown print: Bull Cook, Recipes and Practices, by George Leonard Herter, Herter's, Waseca, Minnesota; Herter logo under title; green tinted cover photo: lake, trees, islands; contents: recipes and food information with a special section on wild game dressing and preparation; last chapter covers what to do in case of hydrogen or cobalt bomb attack (1955); helpful hints ... more

Waseca County Rural Schools Commencement 1925. Material: paper. Size: 4" x 6" Description: white paper - black print: "Twenty-First Annual Commencement of the Rural Schools of Waseca County 1925, High School Auditorium, Thursday, June Eighteenth Nineteen hundred twenty-five at two o'clock, Waseca, Minnesota" - program and class listed inside - class, motto, colors and flower listed on back.

Wilma Miller Class of 1925. Material: paper. 4" x 9 1/2". Description: white paper, "Class '25" cut out, gold seal - black print: "Wilma Miller."

Winona County: Whitewater Valley. Material: paper. Size: 9" x 12". Description: white glossy card stock, black print information: The Beaver Story, 100 years in the Whitewater Valley, Beaver, Minnesota; red graphic of Beaver Village plat in 1900; contents: 47 numbered pages tell the story of a pioneer village that grew, prospered and then was destroyed by flooding in the early 1900s due to lack of good conservation practices on farms along the Whitewater River; many of the eroded farms were p ... more

Winona County History 1883. Material: textile, paper. Size: 6" x 9". Description: green hard cover, gold cover and spine print: History of Winona County, Minnesota, illustrated 1883; contents: 966 numbered pages, black and white photos and sketches; information includes history and biographies, statistics gathered from interview with settlers, county and township records, newspapers, etc.

Washington County History. Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" x 11". Description: dark blue hard cover, gold graphic of trees, gold spine print: Washington: A Historyof the County; contents: 332 numbered pages, black and white photos and sketches with extensive history of the area, native American culture, early Minnesota statehood, the fur, lumber and wheat industries, the John Runk photo collection and 56 vignettes and tales of Washington County history; indexed.

History of Rice County, Faribault and Communities. Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" x 11". Description: black and buff card stock cover, graphic scketch of white trader with native American Indians, Rice County plat background; contents: 357 numbered pages and photographs detailing the history of Rice County and written for the American Bicentennial project; people names included: Faribault, Shields, Rice, Whipple, Grebner, McKenzie, Bruhl, Lauritsen; place names included: Faribault, Northfield ... more

Belgian Folkways in Southwestern Minnesota (Lyon County). Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Description: buff and green card stock, green print: Servants of the Land; contents: 69 numbered pages, black and white sketches and photos, information on the coming of the Belgians, the Louwagies, and peasant-capitalists.