Minnesota Digital Library News

The Minnesota Digital Library is pleased to announce an exciting oral history addition to Minnesota Reflections. The Crow Wing County Historical Society has made available in Minnesota Reflections an extensive series of interviews conducted during 1936-1939 by the Works Progress Administration. These interviews are type-written pages and number more than 1,200. Together they are made up of more than 3,400 transcribed pages. The content of theses interviews reflect the lives, experiences, and genealogy of people who lived in Crow Wing County.

Staff at Minitex and the Minnesota Digital Library are pleased to announce the formal launch of a new resource for Minnesota Reflections users.

New Minnesota Reflections contributor Wyoming Historical Society have added a series of early school blueprints that document the planning and construction of an early school in the Wyoming, Minnesota area. 

22 new Hmong language materials have recently been added to the Hmong Cultural Center's collection in Minnesota Reflections. These materials reflect the first of its kind in Minnesota Reflections, and we are excited to introduce a new language to Minnesota Reflections!

A series of oral history interviews from the Heritage Education Commission is one of the newest additions to Minnesota Reflections. The Heritage Education Commission is located in Moorhead and is an independent, non-profit commission developed for the purpose of creating, initiating and conducting programs and projects which aid in the preservation or restoration of the cultural heritage of the Upper Midwest region. Listen to the interviews or read the transcripts here.