Links to General Minnesota History

Hennepin History Museum -- web site describing the services and collections available on the history of Hennepin County and Minneapolis.  The web site has some early photographs of the area.

Iron Range Research Center -- part of the Ironworld Discovery Center, the IRRC has manuscripts, photographs, and other resources for researching the history of the iron range region.  The website provides a general overview of the collections.

The James J. Hill Group -- website concerning business history, especially the manuscript collections of James J. Hill and Louis Hill.  The site provides access to searching the 8000 images of the photographic archive, much of which concerns events in Minnesota from 1870 to 1940.

Midwest Archeological Center -- an excellent web site on the extensive collections at this Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.  In addition to describing the resources at the Center concerning archeology in the upper midwest, the site has links to many important museums and historic places in the region.

Minnesota Historical Society-- the best site for Minnesota history, with several features, including lists of the society's major manuscript collections and an on-line catalog of the society's photograph collection.  The Society's extensive Photograph Database has more than 100,000 photograph entries (many with online images), covering nearly all Minnesota topics. The database can be searched from the website.

Minnesota Historical Organizations -- a comprehensive listing of county historical societies, research centers, historic preservation groups and other organizations in Minnesota concerned with local and state history and culture.  Users may download the lists in a number of file formats. 

Northeast Minnesota Historical Center -- repository for the four counties of northeast Minnesota: Carleton, Cook, Lake and St. Louis.  The website provides an overview of the collections and information on doing research at the Center.

Northwest Architectural Archives -- a special collections library at the University of Minnesota which has "the records of architects, engineers, contractors, landscape architects, and interior designers from a region which includes Minnesota, western Wisconsin, northern Iowa, and the eastern Dakotas."  The website provides a general description of the collections and briefly summarizes the contents of the major manuscript collections.

Ramsey County Historical Society -- located in St. Paul, this site has information on the society's collections, its publications, and its museum.

Then and Now exhibit from the Clay County Historical Society -- the images on this web site contrast photographs taken before 1930 to photographs taken in 1993.  The images are of various communities and rural areas of Clay County Minnesota.  The exhibit was created by the Clay County Historical Society.