Minnesota Digital Library achieves 60,000 digitized items milestone

Since 2003, the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) has helped digitize content from over 200 contributing organizations in the state. These materials include photographs, postcards, maps, bound and individual documents, letters, three-dimensional artifacts, oral histories, and much more. Recently, MDL achieved a new milestone: there are now over 60,000 unique digitized items in our free, searchable online database.

In honor of this milestone, we invite you to discover something new on our website at mndigital.org. Here are some places to start:

• Browse images of people and places in Minnesota over time in the still image collection.
• Read historical documents, handwritten or typed, in the text collection. [Please note: all handwritten cursive items have been transcribed for clarity and accessibility.]
• Explore the state’s cartography using MDL’s historic map collection.
• Listen to people share their memories through the oral history collection.
• Watch vintage film footage of places and events in the moving image collection.

MDL is always open to adding new content from new and existing contributors. Please contact us or visit our website for more information.