Documents by Time Period: Documents from 1920 to 1949

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Documents of particular interest and reports and publications from these time periods, as well as documents of that period which do not fall in any other category.

Year	Title	Author/Source	File Name
General Chronological
1921	Standards: Special Classes for Defectives	MN Dept. of Education	21-SSC-DEPTED.pdf
1922	Feeble Mindedness	G. C. Hanna	22-FMD-GCH.pdf
1924	Are We Going to Meet Our Obligation to the Feeble-Minded	Hennepin County Child Welfare Board	24-AWG-HCC.pdf
1924	The Housing of Mentally Defective Girls	E.H. McIntosh	24-HDM-EHM.pdf
1924	Occupational Efficiency of the Mentally Defective	G. C. Hanna	24-OEM-GCH.pdf
1925	Outline of Mental Deficiency For Social Workers, Teacher, Others	F. Kuhlman, Director Research Bureau State Bd. Control	25-OMD-Kuhlman.pdf
1925	The Menace of the Feebleminded	G. C. Hanna	25-TMF-GCH.pdf
1927	A Brief Resume of Minnesota's Institutional Program for Its Handicapped Wards	C.J. Swendsen	27-BRM-CJS.pdf
1927	Comments on Commitment of Feebleminded Persons	Blanch La Du and others	27-CCF-BLD.pdf
1927	History of the Minnesota State Conference of Social Work and the Part the Institutions of the State Have Had in Its Program	Galen A. Merrill	27-HMS-GAM.pdf
1927	Minnesota State Institutions	Minnesota State Federation of Labor	27-mn-fed-labor-mn-state-inst.pdf
1927	Standards: Special Classes for Defectives	MN Dept. of Education	27-SSC-DEPTED.pdf
1930	The Feeble Minded, Blind and Deaf	J. M. Murdoch	30-FMB-JMM.pdf
1930	Fundamental Principles Involved in the Organization and Construction of an Institution for the Feebleminded	J.M. Murdoch	30-FPI-JMM.pdf
1931	Feeble-Mindedness in Minnesota	MN Board of Control	31-FMM-BOC.pdf
1931	The Prevalence of Feeble-Minded in Minnesota, The Methods of Dealing with Them, and Prevention	Frederick Kuhlmann	31-PFM-FNK.pdf
1931	A Plan for Minnesota for the Care, Control, and Training of Her Mental Defectives	MN Board of Control	31-PMC-BOC.pdf
1931	Standards: Special Classes for Defectives	MN Dept. of Education	31-SSC-DEPTED.pdf
1932	Organization of the State Board of Control and Something of its Early History	S. W. Leavitt	32-OSB-SWL.pdf
1932	Prevalence of Feeble-Minded in Penal and Correctional Institutions	Frederick Kuhlmann	32-PFM-FNK.pdf
1932	A Picture of Minnesota in 1932	Blanche L. La Du	32-PMN-BLL.pdf
1932	State Board of Control Law	S.R. Van Sant	32-SBC-SRV.pdf
1933	The Effect of Economic Conditions on Colony and Parole Plans for the Feeble-Minded	Charles Bernstein	33-EEC-CNB.pdf
1934	Comments on History of Board of Control	Blanche L. La Du	34-CHB-BLD.pdf
1934	Provisions for Mental Defectives in Some of the Other States	Frederick Kuhlmann	34-PMD-FNK.pdf
1938	Child Welfare Manual. Section L – The Feebleminded and Epileptic	MN State Board of Control	38-CWM-MSB.pdf
1940	Introduction of Frederick Kuhlmann	Neil A. Dayton	40-IFK-NAD.pdf
1940	100 Years of Special Care and Training	F. Kuhlmann	40-OHY-FNK.pdf
1940	The Treatment of Mental Defectives in Minnesota	E.J. Engberg	40-TMD-EJE.pdf
1943	Standards: Special Classes for Handicapped Children	MN Dept. of Education	43-SSC-DEPTED.pdf
1944	General Information for Employees of the Minnesota School and Colony	E. J. Engberg	44-GIE-EJE.pdf
1945	Problem of Controlling Tuberculosis in Public Institution	E. J. Engberg	45-PCT-EJE.pdf
1945	Teach Me A Guide for Parent of Subnormal Children	Mental Health Unit, Division of Public Institutions	45-TMG-Publicwelfare.pdf
1946	In-Service Training for Employees of Institutions for Mental Defectives	E. J. Engberg	46-IST-FJE.pdf
1947	Supervising Authority for State Hospitals	Mildred Methven	47-methven-sup-auth-st-hosp.pdf
1947	Summary of Conditions in State Hospitals for the Mentally Ill	MN Unitarian Conference Committee	47-mn-dpw-summ-conditions.pdf
1948	Institute on Mental Deficiency, November 1948	University of Minnesota	48-IMD-UOM.pdf
1948	Mental Health Program Press Release	Governor Luther W. Youngdahl	48-MHP-LWY.pdf
1948	Radio Statement on Mental Health	Governor Luther W. Youngdahl	48-SMH-LWY.pdf
1948	Radio Statement on Mental Hospitals	Governor Luther W. Youngdahl	48-RSM-LWY.pdf
1949	Minnesota Mental Health Policy Act	MN Legislature	49-MMH-LEG.pdf
1949	The Challenging New Frontier in Mental Health	Governor Luther W. Youngdahl	49-CNF-LWY.pdf
1949	Statement by Gov. Youngdahl at the Burning of Restraints	Governor Luther W. Youngdahl	49-SGL-Youngdahl.pdf
1906-1937	Table of Contents – Quarterly Conferences	MN Board of Control	06-TOC-MBC.pdf
Quarterly Conferences – State Board of Control – Presentations
Introductory Note – Quarterly Conferences of the Board of Control In 1901 the Legislature, with the support of Governor Van Sant, established the Board of Control "to manage, control and govern" the School for the Feeble-Minded at Faribault, the state hospitals, and other state institutions. Minnesota Laws 1901, chapter 122. Both the boards of trustees that had responsibility for those institutions and the Board of Corrections and Charities were abolished. For the first time there was a central board to govern the institutions, which had authority similar to that currently exercised by the Department of Human Services. The Board was abolished in 1939 with the creation of the state Department of Social Security. Minnesota Laws 1939, chapter 439. Section 3 of the 1901 law required the Board to meet in conference on a regular basis with the superintendents, wardens, and other executive officers of the institutions for which it had jurisdiction to discuss questions of management and how to secure economical management. The law required that minutes of these conferences be made and preserved. With an Eye to the Past includes most of the presentations and comments at these conferences by persons from the School for the Feeble-Minded at Faribault, the Colony for Epileptics at Cambridge, and the Minnesota State Hospital for Crippled and Deformed Children, as well as presentations and discussions relating to persons with developmental disabilities. Also included are copies of the complete Table of Contents and Indexes. The first of these Quarterly Conferences was held on July 30, 1901. The typewritten papers from the conferences from 1901 to May 1909 were bound in five numbered volumes which are at the Minnesota Historical Society. Box 109.F.13.9(B). Starting in 1906, the papers and proceedings were printed in the Quarterly Bulletin of the Board of Control. (There is some overlap from 1906 to 1909, with the proceedings available at the Historical Society in both forms.) The first two volumes of the printed Bulletin were numbered I and II. The November 1907 volume was numbered Volume VII, reflecting the fact that there were earlier volumes of the bound papers. In her 1934 Comments on History of Board of Control included here, Blanch L. La Du stated, erroneously, that the first of the quarterly conferences were held five years after the Board of Control was established. Apparently, the bound typewritten papers were not available to her. The published Quarterly Bulletin of the Board of Control is available at the University of Minnesota and Minnesota Historical Society libraries. The bound typewritten papers are available at the Minnesota Historical Society.
1906	Cumulative Index – Quarterly Conferences	MN Board of Control	06-IND-MBC.pdf
1906	Table of Contents – Quarterly Conferences 1906-1937	MN Board of Control	06-TOC-MBC
1920	Comments on Preventive Medicines	W.A. Errickson, F.U. Davis	20-CPM-WAE.pdf
1920	Institution Service Personnel	G.C.Hanna	20-ISP-GCH.pdf
1920	Minnesota's Work for Crippled Children	Elizabeth McGregor	20-MWC-ENM.pdf
1920	The Operation of the Wisconsin Sterilization Law	A.L. Beier	20-OWS-ALB.pdf
1920	What the Public Schools are Doing for Subnormal Children	Samuel A. Challman	20-WPS-SAC.pdf
1923	Epilepsy as a Curable Disease	Joseph C. Michael	23-ECD-JCM.pdf
1923	Epilepsy	Charles R. Ball	23-EPI-CRB.pdf
1923	A State Census of Mental Defectives	F. Kuhlmann	23-SCM-FNK.pdf
1923	What Science Can Do for the Feebleminded	Charles R. Ball	23-WSC-CRB.pdf
1924	The Housing of Mentally Defective Girls	E.H. McIntosh	24-HDM-EHM.pdf
1924	Occupational Efficiency of the Mentally Defective	G. C. Hanna	24-OEM-GCH.pdf
1925	The Menace of the Feebleminded	G.C.Hanna	25-GCH-MFM.pdf
1925	Heredity	George M. Higgins	25-HDT-GMH.pdf
1925	Mental Tests	Smiley Blanton	25-MTS-SNB.pdf
1926	A Partial Survey of Children Treated for Infantile Paralysis at Gillette State Hospital	Elizabeth McGregor	26-PSC-ENM.pdf
1927	A Brief Resume of Minnesota's Institutional Program for Its Handicapped Wards	C.J. Swendsen	27-BRM-CJS.pdf
1927	Comments on Commitment of Feebleminded Persons	Blanch La Du and others	27-CCF-BLD.pdf
1927	History of the Minnesota State Conference of Social Work and the Part the Institutions of the State Have Had in Its Program	Galen A. Merrill	27-HMS-GAM.pdf
1927	The State's Program for the Feeble-Minded	Frederick Kuhlmann	27-SPF-FNK.pdf
1928	Comments on Meals at Faribault	J.M. Murdoch	28-CMF-JMM.pdf
1928	A Clinic – Types of Feeble-Mindedness	D.E. McBroom	28-CTF-DEM.pdf
1928	Group Study on the Ketogenic Diet in Epilepsy-Preliminary Report	Theodora Wheeler	28-GSK-TNW.pdf
1928	Heredity as a Factor in Feeble-Mindedness	J.M. Murdoch	28-HFF-JMM.pdf
1928	The Institution – Minnesota School for Feeble-Minded	J.M. Murdoch	28-IMS-JMM.pdf
1928	The State's Care of Crippled Children	C.C. Chatterton	28-SCC-CCC.pdf
1929	Comments on Admission to Cambridge	D.E. McBroom	29-CAC-DEM.pdf
1929	Comments on Admission to Faribault	J.M. Murdoch	29-CAF-JMM.pdf
1929	Comments on Admission to Gilette	Elizabeth McGregor	29-CAG-ENM.pdf
1929	Juvenile Delinquency	F.W. Guilford, District Court Judge	29-JVD-FWG.pdf
1930	Comments on Food at Cambridge	D.E. McBroom	30-CFC-DEM.pdf
1930	Food Problems in State Institutions – or – Fundamental Principles Involved in the Organization and Construction of an Institution for the Feebleminded	J. M. Murdoch	30-FPS-JMM.pdf
1931	Comments on Development of Cambridge	Blanch La Du	31-CDC-BLD.pdf
1931	Comments by People from the City of Cambridge	Various	31-CPC-PCC.pdf
1931	Epilepsy	D.E. McBroom	31-EPI-DEM.pdf
1931	Graphic Representation of Incidence of Seizures in Epileptic Patients	Theodora Wheeler	31-GRI-TNW.pdf
1931	The Prevalence of Feeble-Minded in Minnesota, The Methods of Dealing with Them, and Prevention	Frederick Kuhlmann	31-PFM-FNK.pdf
1932	Ambulatory Apparatus	W.H. Von der Weyer	32-AMB-WHW.pdf
1932	Apparatus as Used Pre-Ambulatory	G.A. Williamson	32-AUP-GAW.pdf
1932	Demonstration of Surgical Results in Infantile Paralysis of the Lower Extremities	Wallace H. Cole	32-DSR-WHC.pdf
1932	General Outline of Treatment, Demonstration of Surgical Methods used for Extremities and Spine and Results	C. C. Chatterton	32-GOT-CCC.pdf
1932	History of Gillette State Hospital	Blanch La Du	32-HGS-BLD.pdf
1932	Modern Trends in Education of Interest to Institution Schools	Julius Boraas	32-MTE-JNB.pdf
1932	Organization of the State Board of Control and Something of its Early History	S. W. Leavitt	32-OSB-SWL.pdf
1932	Physiotherapy Department – Gillette State Hospital	M. Denny	32-PDG-MND.pdf
1932	State Board of Control Law	S.R. Van Sant	32-SBC-SRV.pdf
1933	Comments on Impact of (Economic) Depression on Institutions	Blanche L. La Du	33-CID-BLD.pdf
1933	A Century of Progress	F. Kuhlmann	33-COP-FNK.pdf
1933	The Effect of Economic Conditions on Colony and Parole Plans for the Feeble-Minded	Charles Bernstein	33-EEC-CNB.pdf
1933	Food Service in State Institutions	Eda Ferbert	33-FSS-ENF.pdf
1933	Modern Trends in Education of Interest to Institution Schools	Julius Boraas	33-MTE-JNB.pdf
1933	Special Educational Facilities for Handicapped Children in Minnesota	Kenneth Nilson	33-SEF-KNN.pdf
1934	Comments on History of Board of Control	Blanche L. La Du	34-CHB-BLD.pdf
1934	The Help Welfare Workers May Expect from State Institutions	Mildred Thompson	34-HWW-MNT.pdf
1934	Panel Discussion on Housekeeping in Institutions	Superintendents	34-PDH-SUP.pdf
1934	Panel Discussion on Repairs	Superintendents	34-PDR-SUP.pdf
1934	What Information May Be Passed On to Other Agencies?	Geo H. Freeman	34-WIM-GHF.pdf
1935	Intelligence Tests	Frederick Kuhlmann	35-ITS-FNK.pdf
1935	Panel Discussion on Outstanding Accomplishments at State Institutions During the Past Year	Superintendents	35-PDO-SUP.pdf
1935	a Study of the Incidence of Tuberculosis in State Institutions in Minnesota	H.A. Burns	35-SIT-HAB.pdf
1935	What Shall We Do with Blind Mentally Retarded Children?	J.M. Murdoch	35-WSE-JMM.pdf
1936	Discussion about Chaplains at Institutions	Superintendents	36-DCI-SUP.pdf
1936	The Feeble Minded Outside of the Institution	Mildred Thompson	36-FMO-MNT.pdf
1936	The Minnesota School for Feeble Minded	J.M. Murdoch	36-MSF-JMM.pdf
1936	Presentation of Types of the Mentally Deficient	A.R.T. Wylie	36-PTM-ARW.pdf
1937	Comments on Clothing Provided on Discharge	D.E. McBroom	37-CPD-DEM.pdf
1937	Resume of Medical Survey of State Institutions	Theodore H. Sweetser	37-RSM-THS.pdf
1938	Heredity and the Transmission of Hereditary Characteristics	E. J. Engberg	38-HTH-EJE.pdf
1945	Amendment to Standards: Special Classes for Handicapped Children	MN Dept. of Education	45-ATS-DEPTED.pdf
Minnesota State Conference of Social Work – Proceedings
Introductory Note – State Conference of Social Work In 1920, the name of the State Conference of Charities and Corrections was changed to the State Conference of Social Work. The members of this Conference included state and county officials and employees, officers and employees of private institutions and societies, and citizens interested in social issues. Presentations were made at the annual conference on a wide variety of issues. With an Eye to the Past includes excerpts from those proceedings from 1920 through 1934 pertaining to persons with developmental disabilities or presented by persons from the School for the Feeble-Minded at Faribault. These Proceedings are available at the University of Minnesota and Minnesota Historical Society libraries.
1921	Minnesota's Duties to Her Subnormals	Frederick Kuhlmann	21-MDH-FNK.pdf
1921	The Mental Deficiency Phase of Social Problems	Mary E. Bryne	21-MDP-MEB.pdf
1921	A State Program for Mental Defectives	Agnes Crawley	21-SPM-ANC.pdf
1921	Subnormality and Social Problems	Frederick Kuhlmann	21-SSP-FNK.pdf
1923	New Laws Relating to the Feeble-Minded and Some Statistics	Agnes Crawley	23-NLR-AND.pdf
1923	What Can Be Done for the Extra-Institutional Cases	Ann S. Litowitz	23-WCB-ASL.pdf
1924	Delinquency and Feeble-Mindedness	E. K. Wickman	24-DFM-EKW.pdf
1926	Feeble-Mindedness as a Problem for the State	Mildred Thomson	26-FMP-MNT.pdf
1926	Problems Relating to the Work of the Feeble-Minded	Mildred Thomson	26-PRW-MNT.pdf
1927	The State's Program for the Feeble-Minded	Frederick Kuhlmann	27-SPF-FNK.pdf
1928	Comments on Meals at Faribault	J.M. Murdoch	28-CMF-JMM.pdf
1929	A Demonstration of Mental Testing	Mildred Thomson	29-DMT-MNT.pdf
1929	The Feeble-Minded	J. M. Murdoch	29-TFM-JMM.pdf
1929	The Epileptic	D. D. McBroom	29-TNE-DEM.pdf
1934	The Progress in the Care of the Feeble-Minded	Frederick Kuhlmann	34-PCF-FNK.pdf
Problems of Feeble-Mindedness 1934-35
1934	Crime, Delinquency, and Feeble-Mindedness	George B. Vold	34-CDF-GBV.pdf
1934	The Care, Management and Treatment of Mental Defectives	J.M. Murdoch	34-CMT-JMM.pdf
1934	A Continuative Census and Registration of the Feeble-Minded	Frederick Kuhlmann	34-CRR-FNK.pdf
1934	Feeblemindedness as a Public School Problem	A.I. Heggerston	34-FPS-AIH.pdf
1934	Heredity and Feeble-Mindedness	D.E. Minnich	34-HFM-DEM.pdf
1934	Some Neurological Aspects of Feeble-Mindedness	J. Charnley McKinley	34-NAF-JCM.pdf
1934	The Neglect of Children as Related to Feeble-Mindedness	Florence S. Davis	34-NCR-FSD.pdf
1934	The Problems of the Feebleminded I	G. Lamb	34-PFM-GNL.pdf
1934	The Problems of the Feebleminded II	M. Manifold	34-PFM-MNM.pdf
1934	The Problems of the Feebleminded III	Chas. E. Dow	34-PFM-CED.pdf
1934	The Problems of the Feebleminded IV	Howard R. Hush	34-PFM-HRH.pdf
1934	The Problems of the Feeble-Minded from the Standpoint of an Institution	H.E. Hegstrom	34-PFM-HEH.pdf
1934	The Problem of the Feeble-Minded in the School	S. Alan Challman	34-PFM-SAC.pdf
1934	Report of Testing of a Group of Families Given Relief in 1929	Edna Dumaresq.	34-RTG-END.pdf
1934	Summary of the Following Papers	Caroline Perkins	34-SFP-CNP.pdf
1934	The Problem of the Feeble-Minded	John J. Doyle	35-PFM-JJD.pdf
1935	Delinquency and Feeble-Mindedness. A Reply to Vold.	Frederick Kuhlmann	35-DFM-FNK.pdf
1935	Education of the Feeble-Minded in the Home	Florence L. Goodenough	35-EFM-FLG.pdf
1935	The Institutional Point of View in the Care of the Feeble-Minded	D.E. McBroom	35-IPV-DEM.pdf
1935	Problem of Feeble-Mindedness as a Whole	Louise M. Clevenger	35-PFM-LMC.pdf
1935	Provisions for Mental Defectives in Some of the Other States	Frederick Kuhlmann	35-PMD-FNK.pdf
1935	The School's Part in the Management of Mental Defectives	S. Alan Challman	35-SPM-SAC.pdf
1936	A Review of the Laws of Minnesota Relating to the Feeble-Minded	Mildred Thomson	35-RLM-MNT.pdf
1963	Background Information from Thomson's "Prologue" (Excerpt, Page 96)	Mildred Thomson	63-BIT-MNT.pdf
Minnesota Bedlam Series (1948), Geri Hoffner, Minneapolis Morning Tribune Reporter
In 1948, Geri Hoffner, a reporter for the Minneapolis Morning Tribune, wrote a series of articles, entitled "Minnesota Bedlam." After methodically visiting Minnesota's state institutions. she wrote about the people she saw and the conditions she found. In very graphic terms, she described the scenes she came upon as ones "…that haunt you for a very long time…a stockpile of people… with very little treatment of any kind." Arthur Hager, photographer, accompanied Geri on these visits. Watch the Video Interview with Geri Joseph >> Geri Hoffner, reporter, and Art Hager, photographer for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, lived in Minnesota's state institutions for three weeks, talking with the people housed there and viewing the unfathomable conditions that surrounded them. For the "Minnesota Bedlam" and "Minnesota Bedlam Revisited" series, Geri Hoffner received a Sigma Delta Chi citation for distinguished reporting.
1948	Mentally Ill Need Care, Get Little Besides Custody, May 13, 1948	Geri Hoffner	48-MIC-GHT.pdf
1948	Mental Patients Sit in Untidy Loneliness, May 14, 1948	Geri Hoffner	48-MPL-GHT.pdf
1948	Attendants Hoe Hard Row, May 15, 1948	Geri Hoffner	48-AHR-GHT.pdf
1948	Mentally Ill Get Little Help	Geri Hoffner	48-MIH-GHT.pdf
1948	Patients Fed 8-Cent Meals, May 18, 1948	Geri Hoffner	48-PFM-GHT.pdf
1948	Chains Don't Cure Minds, May 19, 1948	Geri Hoffner	48-CCN-GHT.pdf
1948	"TB" Strikes Hard at Mentally Ill, May 20, 1948	Geri Hoffner	48-TBS-GHT.pdf
1948	Makeshifts Mark Hospitals' Care, May 21,1948	Geri Hoffner	48-MMC-GHT.pdf
1948	State Put to Shame by U.S. Mental Care, May 22, 1948	Geri Hoffner	48-SHC-GHT.pdf
1948	Hospital Needs Put at $6,000,000, May 24, 1948	Geri Hoffner	48-HNM-GHT.pdf
1948	Patients Need Sympathy, May 25, 1948	Geri Hoffner	48-PNS-GHT.pdf

With an Eye to the Past

Index of Historical Documents

DOCUMENTS BY TIME PERIOD: Documents from 1920 to 1949

General Chronological

Quarterly Conferences – State Board of Control – Presentations

Minnesota State Conference of Social Work – Proceedings

Problems of Feeble-Mindedness 1934-35

Minnesota Bedlam Series (1948), Geri Hoffner, Minneapolis Morning Tribune Reporter