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Research Center Reference Books

The library houses over 5,000 titles of reference books and periodicals specializing in mining, logging,
ethnicity, labor, local and regional histories, family histories, guides to genealogical research, microfilm
and fiche records, indexes, directories; most available for loan.

Books Available For Loan or Purchase
Ethnic Books

Family History Books

Genealogical Research Books
Labor Books
Local / Regional History Books
Logging Books
Mining Books


Special Collection of Titles Include :

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index: A Guide to Published Arrival Records of about 500,000 Passengers Who Came to the United States and Canada in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries, includes Annual Supplements, Filby The Wuerttemberg Emigration Index, 5 vols., Schenk/Froelke

Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications

The Famine Immigrants, 1846-1857

The Complete book of Emigrants, 1607-1776

The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1633


Mesabi Communities: A Study of Their Development, John Syrjamaki

History of Duluth & St. Louis County, Van Brunt

Culture Conflict: A Study of the Slovenes in Chisholm, Minnesota, Frank Paul Blatnik

A Survey of Tax Supported Adult Recreation Through Participation in Sports & Athletic Activities in Communities on the Mesabi Range, Frickey

Vermilion Lake Gold Rush of 1865-1866: A Speculative Failure, D. Miller

Education for Work and Labor Solidarity, Berman


Ghost Towns and Locations of the Mesabi and the Interurban Electric Line

Iron Range Country: A Historical Travelogue of Minnesota's Iron Ranges, I.R.R.R.B.

The Industrial Workers of the World and the Strike of the Iron Ore Miners of Minnesota, Lille

The Development of Labor Unionism in the Iron Mining Industry of the Virginia-Eveleth District, Marolt

Cradle of Iron, Warra

Iron Frontier, D.A. Walker

Celebrating 150 Years: Cleveland Cliffs, R. Osborne

Milford Mine Disaster, Berger

Seven Iron Men, Paul D. Kruif

Steel Serves the Nationa: The 50 Year Story of United States Steel, 1901-1951, Fisher

Mesabi Miracle: The 100 year History of the Pillsbury-Bennett-Longyear Association, Peter F. Torreano


Progressive Men of Minnesota

Who's Who in Minnesota, 1941, 1958, 1964

Minnesota: Its Story and Biography, Henry A. Castle

Minnesota in Three Centuries, 4 vols.

They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the State's Ethnic Groups

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