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David Judson Winton: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society

Correspondence, financial records, minutes, reports, clippings, photographs, printed materials, and related papers (mainly 1950-1973) concerning the personal interests and activities of Winton, a Minneapolis (Minnesota) businessman and head of the Winton Lumber Company and its affiliates and subsidiaries, 1929-1973.

Laird, Norton Co.: An Inventory of Its Corporate Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Records of, and information about, a family-owned, Winona (Minn.)-based lumber company, 1855-1958.

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Forestry Employees Association: An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Organizational records, minutes, correspondence, and subject files of a volunteer association of employees in the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry, 1938-2010.

Northwest Paper Company: An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Correspondence and related papers (1910-1953); financial, tax, and production records (1888-1963); plat books (undated); maps (1890-1967); and photographs (undated and 1925) of a northern Minnesota paper company, one of many Weyerhaeuser family lumber business interests, 1883-1967.

Osborne Bros. (Boy River, Minn.): An Inventory of Its Company Records

Financial records and miscellaneous correspondence of a firm engaged in "piece work" logging operations in north central Minnesota. Material is concerned with logging camps, the hiring of lumberjacks, and with the production, sale, and shipment of railroad ties, pulpwood, mining timber, and other forest products, 1911-1917.

Some Sources for Northwest History Minnesota Farmers' Diaries

Strauss Skates, Inc. - An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

1854-1998 (bulk 1910s-1996). Subject files, newspaper clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, daybooks and order books, and other records of a family-owned, St. Paul-based ice skate manufacturer, bicycle dealer, and sporting goods retailer founded in 1887 by German immigrant John E. Strauss. The specially-tempered Strauss skate blades were used by many famous speed and figure skaters.

The Farmer and Minnesota History

By Frank E. Balmer for Minnesota History Magazine. St. Paul, MN, 1926.

Weyerhaeuser Family: An Inventory of Their Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society

Business and personal papers of Minnesota lumber magnate Frederick Weyerhaeuser and his descendants. There is information about the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company and various subsidiary and affiliated companies, and about family members and their activities, 1860-2003.