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Digital Collections in Minnesota

Digital Collections available from Minnesota Libraries, Historical Societies, and Museums.

  • ArtsConnectEd
    An educational collection presented by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Walker Art Center.
  • College of St. Benedict Archives
    Includes historical photos and a growing collection of scans of other campus publications and documents. See also the CSB/SJU Student Newspapers.
  • College of St. Catherine – Saint Paul, MN
    The College of St. Catherine Digital Collections include art works and writings of Ade Bethune, photographs from the early years of the St. Paul campus and from St. Mary's School of Nursing, and art works from the College's Fine Art Collection.
  • CSB/SJU Student Newspapers
    A digital archive of the student newspapers of the College of St. Benedict (1965-present) and St. John's University (1888-present).
  • Hennepin County Library–Minneapolis Special Collections
    Includes photos from the Minneapolis Collection, created by the Library Board in 1940.
  • Iron Range Research Center
    View images from the Iron Range Research Center's Digital Collections. Located in Chisholm, MN, the Iron Range Research Center (IRRC) focuses on the regional, local and personal history of Minnesota's iron ranges and the people who settled there.
  • Labor Review Archive
    Searchable archive of Minneapolis Labor Review newspaper, published 1907 to present. Resource for history of labor, business, politics. PDFs may be downloaded to reproduce photos, editorial cartoons, ads and other graphics.
  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts Online Collections
    Several online collections from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
  • Minnesota Historical Society Collections
    Many collections worth browsing—from the Civil War to Governor Ventura's speeches.
  • Minnesota State University – Mankato, MN
    The University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center photograph and negative collections.
  • Minnesota Video Vault
    A project of Twin Cities Public Television containing hundreds of programs from the tpt archives, current tpt productions, and programs from other regional public television stations.
  • Pennington County Historical Society
    Database and images of Pennington County Historical Society.
  • Scott County Historical Society
    Database and images of Scott County Historical Society.
  • St. John's University Archives
    Includes historical photos and a growing collection of scans of other campus publications and documents. See also the CSB/SJU Student Newspapers.
  • UMM Digital Collections
    University of Minnesota, Morris (UMM) Digital Collections is a collaborative effort of Admissions, Briggs Library, Computing Services, Media Services, and University Relations. UMM Digital Collections is currently made up of three distinct collections: The Campus Historic District, the UMM Heritage Collection and the UMM Today collection.
  • University of Minnesota IMAGES
    A gateway to digital projects at the University of Minnesota. IMAGES includes 18 collections of digital photographs and art work.
  • Vivarium
    Vivarium is the home of digitized manuscripts, art, rare books, photographs, audio, video and other resources from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University.
  • Winona Newspaper Project
    The Winona Newspaper Project is an archive of three late 19th century and early 20th century Winona, Minnesota newspapers. This archive includes available issues of the Winona Argus, the Winona Daily Republican and the Winona Republican Herald. The project currently provides access up to 1946 and includes over 150,000 pages of text.