Minnesota Digital Library collection
Explore the Minnesota Digital Library's digital collection for topic ideas and primary sources for your project. Search by Topics, People, Groups, Places, and Events. Note: these are not complete lists, but rather lists to get you started with your research.
Topics
Browse the Minnesota Digital Library topic terms to discover a range of content:
- Agriculture
- American Indians
- Animals
- Architecture
- Business and Industry
- Communication
- Crime and Punishment
- Education
- Environment
- Health and Medicine
- Immigration and Ethnicity
- Labor
- People of Minnesota
- Politics and Government
- Religion
- Social Issues
- Sports and Recreation
- The Arts
- Transportation
- Weather
- Steam engine used in threshing, Lincoln County, Minnesota
- Main Street, Chokio, Minnesota
- Blue glass bottle with cork stopper for Mark's Celebrated Eye Water from P. M. Mark Medi...
- Ojibwe women holding sticks to play Double Ball, Grand Portage, Minnesota
- Young people dressed for Lucia, American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
People
Enter these names in the Minnesota Digital Library search bar to get started.
- Hilma Berglund
- Henry Bosse
- Seth Eastman
- James J. Hill
- Sinclair Lewis
- Dorothy Molter
- Ernest Oberholtzer
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- and more!
Groups
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- State Grange of Minnesota
- Women Suffragists
- Native Americans - Boarding Schools
- Native Americans - teaching and religious materials in Dakota language
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- and more!
Places
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- Duluth
- St. Cloud
- Mankato
- Rochester
- Minneapolis / St. Paul
- Fort Snelling
- Iron Range
- Red River Valley
- and more!
![Wingdams above S. [South] St. Paul, Minn. [Minnesota], 1889](https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/army:384/full/!800,800/0/default.jpg)
Events
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- Fires and Natural Disasters
- 1934 Teamster Strike
- Northfield Bank Raid
- Prohibition & Temperance
- Suffragettes
- World War I
- World War II
- and more!
- The Organizer (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Volume 1, Number 7
- Police officers and illegal liquor, Northfield, Minnesota
- Farewell Celebration for Robbinsdale's World War I contingent, Robbinsdale, Minnesota
- First National Bank, Northfield, Minnesota
- Cloquet and Moose Lake Fire of 1918, Cloquet and Moose Lake, Minnesota
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