Archive for the 'Minnesota' Category

Original Public Land Survey Plat Maps of Minnesota

July 30, 2007

A digital collection of the state’s original plat maps drawn by the U.S. Surveyor General’s Office over the years 1848-1907. The original public land survey plats were created during the first government land survey of the state. The collection of plat maps can be viewed with a simple click to view or download over 3,500 [...]

Home Brewers’ Festival

July 12, 2007

Join us on August 17, 2007 for our annual Home Brewers’ Festival at the Bigwood Event Center in Fergus Falls. If you are a home brewer and would like to be included in this event or if you or your business would like to sponsor the event contact Chris Schuelke at 218-736-6038.
The area’s finest home [...]

Jacob O. Lundh, photographer and hardanger fiddle maker

July 3, 2007

Jacob O. Lundh had a photography studio in Henning between 1892 and 1895; between 1895 and 1900 he was in Battle Lake. Clair Haugen is interested in him and would like to contact anyone who knows anything about him or has studio photographs with “J.O. Lundh” printed on them. Contact him by posting to [...]

New Books in the Gift Shop

May 9, 2007

The following titles, published by MHS Press, are now available for purchase in our gift shop:
Churches of Minnesota: an illustrated guide by Alan K. Lathrop
Courthouses of Minnesota, Photography by Doug Ohman and Text by Mary Logue
Schoolhouses of Minnesota, Photography by Doug Ohman and Text by Jim Heynen
Barns of Minnesota, Photography by Doug Ohman and Text [...]

Minnesota Digital Library

April 18, 2007

I met with Marian Rengel, Outreach Coordinator for the Minnesota Digital Library Coalition, yesterday to discuss the possibility of our participation in Phase 3 of “Minnesota Reflections”. Check out the Minnesota Digital Library and specifically the images that we have submitted so far, and give us some suggestions as to which kind of images you [...]