Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota's Past
Peg Meier, Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota's Past, © 1981, Neighbors Publishing, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Soft cover, 330 Pages, 0-932272-06-1, 977.6'04.
Subjects:
- Minnesota -- Social life and customs -- addresses, essays lectures. Letters, diary entries
- Minnesota -- Description and travel -- Addresses, essays, lectures. Letters, diary entries
- Minnesota -- Biography -- Addresses, essays, lectures. Letters, diary entries.
Book Description
The earliest European visitors to Minnesota marvel at the area's flora and fauna. A soldier at Fort Snelling contemplates deserting. Swedish settler Andrew Peterson makes a daily record of his haying schedule, dropping in, without comment, a note of his marriage. Sarah Christie pleads with her father in the 1880s for a chance to go to college. Turn-of-the-century accountant Walter T. Post keeps his family informed of his saving and spending habits. In the 1920s, the Pioneer Press publishes recommendations for young ladies seeking a spouse.
These stories and more emerge from select diary and journal entries, from published accounts and business records–the experiences of ordinary Minnesotans. Matched with drawings and photographs that capture a way of life at a particular moment, these impressions offer a telling history of the state in the words of its people.
Library of Congress Catalog Listing
LC Control Number: | 81011236 |
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Type of Material: | Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.) |
Main Title: | Bring warm clothes : letters and photos from Minnesota's past / collected by Peg Meier. |
Published/Created: | Minneapolis, Minn. : Minneapolis Tribune, [1981] |
Related Names: | Meier, Peg, 1946- |
Description: | 324 p. : ill.; 23 x 28 cm. |
ISBN: | 0932272061 (pbk.) |
Subjects: | Minnesota--Social life and customs--Addresses, essays, lectures. Minnesota--Description and travel--Addresses, essays, lectures. Minnesota--Biography--Addresses, essays, lectures. |
LC Classification: | F606 .B837 |
Dewey Class No.: | 977.6/04 19 |
Geog. Area Code: | n-us-mn |