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Winslow House Register Goes Digital

2025-09-02T03:04:18-05:00

A portion of page two of the Winslow House Register One of our first  digitization projects In a large nutshell, digitization is the process of converting an analog format, say, paper, into a digital one, say, a pdf or [...]

Winslow House Register Goes Digital2025-09-02T03:04:18-05:00

A Love for Making

2025-07-22T11:27:36-05:00

From the Sandy Spieler digital collection Back when I was in library school, I was introduced to makerspaces, and I got hooked. I fell in love with this idea of playing in the library and creating something out of [...]

A Love for Making2025-07-22T11:27:36-05:00

Win, Place, or Short lived

2025-06-28T15:03:14-05:00

Frank S. Harris, Minneapolis Fire Department, 1904. Not the first Our culture has taught us that first is something to want. First to finish is fastest, smartest, and best. To be the first person of color in a profession [...]

Win, Place, or Short lived2025-06-28T15:03:14-05:00

Can we change our history?

2024-11-06T12:14:38-06:00

Note from one of Hennepin History Museum's former directors, Joseph Zalusky, written on framed 1861 map of St. Anthony and Minneapolis. ...Or why we deaccessioned an 1861 St. Anthony-Minneapolis Map One answer to the question above is, I hope [...]

Can we change our history?2024-11-06T12:14:38-06:00

The Power of Paper

2024-08-22T14:17:18-05:00

Bill of sale for Slye family slave called London, Rehoboth, Massachusetts, 1722     I’m sure you’re aware that Hennepin History Museum has an archive of historic documents and photos, but we also have digital collections. Although we don’t [...]

The Power of Paper2024-08-22T14:17:18-05:00

Our Friends at MDL

2024-04-05T12:06:19-05:00

Explore Hennepin County History Online with the Minnesota Digital Library By Stephanie Hess, Minnesota Digital Library Digital Curator St. Anthony Falls milling district with trestle bridge and Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis, 1895. The Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) contains digitized [...]

Our Friends at MDL2024-04-05T12:06:19-05:00

Minnesota Pandemic Oral History

2023-12-30T12:10:28-06:00

Just when I thought it was safe to go to public gatherings without a mask – healthy immune system, fully vaccinated, small group of people, COVID jumped all over me! The new variant of the virus saw me as “fresh meat” [...]

Minnesota Pandemic Oral History2023-12-30T12:10:28-06:00
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