Minicon 9
Minicon 9 was held 11–13 October 1974 at the Minneapolis Public Library and the Dyckman Hotel (Minneapolis). It was the second Minicon in 1974 and the second of two fall Minicons after Minicon 5. The guests of honor were Judy-Lynn del Rey and Lester del Rey. It was chaired by Don Blyly and Jim Young and had a membership of about 190.
Committee
Bev Swanson -- Registration Dick Tatge -- Art Show Ken Fletcher -- Art Show Denny Lien -- Auction Gerry Wassenaar -- Huckster's Room Mark Hansen -- Party Supplies Jan Applebaum -- Treasurer Margie Lessinger -- Recorder Fred Haskell -- Official Happy Deadwood
Program Booklet
Here is the program booklet in PDF (3 MB), or the same, but lower quality and a much smaller download (150 kB). Here's a text-only transcription (3 kB).
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Here are individual page images, available here in a range of qualities and file sizes. Most people want the third column, in which the files have been substantially cleaned up to remove the grain of the paper, bleed through from adjacent pages, etc., but are still plenty high resolution.
| Raw scans (~50 MB) |
High res, cleaned (~10 MB) |
Lower res, enhanced (~500 kB) |
Smallest files (~15 kB) |
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| Front cover | Front cover | Front cover | Front cover |
| 2–3 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2–3 |
| 4–5 | 4–5 | 4–5 | 4–5 |
| 6–7 | 6–7 | 6–7 | 6–7 |
| Back cover | Back cover | Back cover | Back cover |
The Minicon 9 program book is in the public domain due to having been published between 1923 and 1977 without a copyright notice.
Photos
A Minicon 9 Photo by David Dyer-Bennet.