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Covers all aspects of the city’s history and includes books, photographs, high school yearbooks, archival and manuscript collections, periodicals, maps, and thousands of files of newspaper clippings.
Minneapolis Historic Photo Collection
Search for historic images of the city.
Researching the History of Homes, Buildings and Neighborhoods in Minneapolis
Minneapolis Yearbook List
Index of yearbooks available for public and private city schools.
Minneapolis History
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Overview
  • Histories of Park Properties
  • Manuscripts and Archives
  • Clubs and Organizations Annotated Index
  • Personal Archives Annotated Index
  • Historic Newspapers (requires a registered library card)
  • Minneapolis Tribune (index to articles 1867-1908)
  • Minneapolis Morning Tribune (articles 1909-1922)
  • Star Tribune (1986 - present)
  • Historic Minneapolis Maps, 1848-1967

    Historic Platbooks
    1885 - 1898 - 1914

    Diaries
    Read about the daily life of Ezra Fitch Pabody, who grew up in late nineteenth-century Minneapolis
    Seth Eastman Sketchbook
    Pencil sketches and watercolors completed during the years 1838 to 1848.
    Historic Postcard Collection
    Index of historic postcards depicting scenes from around the City of Minneapolis.
    Albums
  • 1912 Minneapolis business photos, volume 1
  • 1912 Minneapolis business photos, volume 2
  • Nineteenth-Century Minneapolis Hotel Menus:
    Hotel Nicollet - Hotel Lafayette - West Hotel

    Heart of Minneapolis
    Photographs of downtown Minneapolis street corners in 1912


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      DIGITAL RESOURCES

    Minneapolis Historic Photo Collection

    Posters of World War II

    Seth Eastman Sketchbook

    Selections from the Minneapolis Collection contributed to Minnesota Reflections

    Star Tribune (1986 - present)