Minnesota Standoff, Minnesota Political History. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 9". Description: yellow glossy card stock cover with black and white graphic depicting two politicians balanced on a see-saw over the Capitol dome; cover title: "Minnesota Standoff, the politics of deadlock", by Rod Searle. Contents:139 numbered pages; information about how a group of negotiators representing both political parties dealt with a unique political deadlock; indexed.

Panzram 1st Addition to City of Waseca. Material: paper. Size: 22" W. x 16" H. Description: blue paper - white print: "Lincoln" at top - "Fair Grounds" along left side - "Washington Boulevard" along bottom - "North Ninth St" in center - "Scale 1" = 60' H.A. Panzram's First Addition to the City of Waseca." 9th Street North.

Age of Barns. Material: paper. Size: 9" x 11". Description: black cardstock cover; multicolored barn roof graphic; cover information: "An Age of Barns" by Eric Sloane - contents: 95 numbered pages of barn information, graphics, sketches and paintings - bibliography.

Chautauqua Movement. Material: paper. Size: 5 x 7 1/2". Description: dark blue hard cover; gold spine printed title: "The Chautauqua Movement"; contents: 308 numbered pages of information covering Chautauqua inception, development, summer schools, college of liberal arts, school of theology, the Chautauqua Press, objections stated and answered, the "Hall in the Grove" and the future of Chautauqua.

Little Book of Barns by Pachaske. Material: paper, metal. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Description: buff colored paper cover stapled to unnumbered pages, black printed title and author on cover; contents: several unnumbered pages of barn stories, facts and drawings.

Minnesota Round Barn Photo Directory and Script. (a) Album: Material: paper, plastic, metal. Size: 7 1/2" x 11". Description: brown vinyl album entitled: "Minnesota Round and Polygonal Barns and Farm Machinery" - contents: 43 plastic sleeves containing over 200 color photos of barns, tractors and other farm implements and buildings. (b) Script. Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" x 11". Description: white copy paper containing mimeographed map of Minnesota with barn locations marked and about 2 ... more

Tractors and Equipment Photo Album: Material: paper, plastic, metal. Size: 7 1/2" x 11". Description: brown vinyl album entitled: "Minnesota Farm Machinery: Tractors, Equipment and Vintage Autos" - contents: 22 plastic sleeves containing 130 color photos of tractors, combines, autos etc.

Farm Buildings from 1907. Material: paper. Size: 8" x 10". Description: dark green hard cover with red print title: "Farm Buildings" - contents: 310 numbered pages of farm building information, plans, photos and schematics.

History of Hy-Vee Food Stores. Material: paper. Size: 9" x 12". Description: red hard cover with gold print: "The Family of Hy-Vee; Sixty Years of Tradition" - contents: over 268 pages of information telling the story of the Hyde and Vredenburg families and development of their grocery business in Iowa in the 1930s; black and white as well as color photos.

Century Farms of Minnesota. Material: paper. Size: 9" x 12". Description: brown hard cover with gold print: "Century Farms of Minnesota" and a raised farmstead graphic - contents: 351 numbered pages of information about famrs from frontier times to statehood, the coming of the railroad, production, farm equipment and immigration - black and white photographs of farms and farm families.

Minnesota Agriculture to 1885. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 9". Description: green hard cover with green dust cover - white printed information on dust cover: "The Earth Brought Forth" by Merrill E. Jarchow; a history of Minnesota Agriculture to 1885 - contents: 314 numbered pages of information and sketches about the history of farms and farming in Minnesota - references to Waseca County taxes, claim dispute, fair, Horse Thief Detectives and the DeGraff Lake Elysian Stock Farm of Alton Townsh ... more

History of Minnesota Business. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" x 9". Description: black hard cover with red paper dust cover and white and black print: "Land of the Giants" by Don W. Larson; multi colored business logos - contents: 178 numbered pages of information and photos about the history of business in Minnesota including the timber industry, James J. Hill and the railroad, grain and flour milling, iron ore mining, Gamble-Skogmo, Honeywell, Super Valu, Land O' Lakes; the Depression, Worl ... more

Minnesota Farmers' Institute Annual. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 9". Description: gray paperback with black printed information an farmyard plat - contents: 320 numbered pages of information including the Institute's financial statement, superintendent's report, advertising, and description of the state of farms in Minnesota as of 1914; black and white photos and drawings including schematics and plans.

For the Record: Law & Lawyers in Minnesota. Material: paper. Size: 9" x 11". Description: mottled red and white hard cover, computer keyboard graphic, black print title information: "For the Record, 150 Years of Law & Lawyers in Minnesota". Contents: 458 numbered pages of illustrated history; references to Waseca County and the Moonan, Gallagher, Friedel, Hough, Senn, Pinnell, Castor, Fitzgerald families; indexed.

Minnesota State Bar Association History. Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" x 11". Description: tan cardstock cover with sepia historic photos and white and brown printed title: "The First 100 Years the Minnesota State Bar Association". Contents: 282 numbered pages of bar association information and photographs; references to Waseca, Waseca County, and Waseca County Courthouse (old and new) as well as John Moonan, Clifford Gardner, Andrews, Child, Collester, Isker, Maloney and McGovern.

Waseca Boy Scouts #85 and 86. Material: paper, plastic, metal. Size: 10" W. x 11 1/2" L. Description: blue vinyl three-ring binder - contents: many pages of photocopied scout pictures of Waseca troop activities during the 1960s and 1970s.

History of the American Legion. Material: paper. Size: 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Description: red hard cover with blue paper dust cover, gold title print and American Legion seal graphic. Contents: 610 numbered pages and black and white photos of the American Legion from 1919-1989.

ODD Fellows Lodge History and Manual. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 9 1/4" x 2 1/2" D. Description: red hard cover with gold and black printed title: "ODD Fellowship, Its History and Manual". Contents: 694 numbered pages and drawings about the Independent Order of ODD Fellows throughout the world including history, constitution, by-laws, jurisdictions, encampments, patriarchs, Rebekah Degree and biographies of several ODD Fellow leaders and their portraits; drawings included of visiting cards, ... more

ODD Fellows Annual for 1849. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" X 9". Description: green hardcover with gold engraved graphics on front and spine. Contents: 320 numbered pages of stories, poems and engravings meant to instruct and entertain its readers.

IOOF Code of General Laws. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 9". Description: buff colored hard cover with title: Code of General Laws of the I.O.O.F. Contents: 320 numbered pages of laws, constitution, rules of order, Rebekah Degree code, patriarchs militant code and supply price lists.

Swedish Immigrant, Mina Anderson Memoir. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 9". Description: blue hard cover with multicolored paper dust jacket, Mina Anderson photo on front; title: "I go to America; Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson" - contents: 294 numbered pages with photos and pertinent graphics; index. Immigration.

Black Baseball in Minnesota. Material: paper. Size: 7 1/2" x 9 1/2". Description: red hard cover with multicolored paper dust jacket; cover graphic of baseball player in action; title: "Swinging for the Fences"; contents: 243 numbered pages of information and black and white photos about African American baseball players and teams in Minnesota history; the EACO Flour Baseball Team of Waseca is included in the index.

Minnesota Future Farmers History. Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" x 11". Description: blue paper back with black and white FFA photos and yellow FFA logo - contents: 320 numbered pages and black and white photos document the Future Farmers of America organization from the 1920s to the 1980s in a pictorial chronology.

Minnesota Etcher, George Earl Resler, 1882-1954. Material: book. Size: 9" W. x 12" L. Description: white glossy cardstock cover with small landscape graphic on center front - contents: 116 numbered pages includes many of Resler's prints as well as biographical information.

Marcus Hauck Reflections. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 8 1/2". Description: yellow hard cover with white paper dust jacket; jacket graphic: wheat and sun; cover information includes title and author: "Reflections.. .from a Depression Adolescence to Age Sixty-Two", by Marcus John Hauck - contents: 72 numbered pages of information and black and white photos covering his life, family and career and selected newspaper columns he authored.