Search : Collections Online : Minnesota Historical Society. Welcome to Collections Online Collections Online explores the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society and provides access to numerous materials including photographs, artifacts, historical records, maps and atlases, oral histories, art, paintings, sound recordings and much more. These catalog records and digital images highlight Minnesota's history, and searching is aided by various filters. Questions? Please contact us. Check out the improved Collections Online for yourself and provide us with your feedback using the tab on the right. Need help ordering a photo?
If you would like to order a photo, please watch this video to learn about purchasing photos and obtaining photo permissions from the Reference Library. Featured Search On April 26, the Minnesota Historical Society's newest exhibit, Sights, Sounds and Soul: Twin Cities Through the Lens of Charles Chamblis, will open. From Lincoln to Obama: Thanksgivings at the White House | The Rundown News Blog. By: Allie Morris Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images A meal shared by Pilgrims and Native Americans might get most of the credit for the creation of Thanksgiving, but it was President Abraham Lincoln who officially proclaimed the last Thursday in November a holiday in 1864. 147 years later, a number of odd presidential traditions have grown around the customary feast and semi-regular troop visits. This year, President Obama pardoned the official Thanksgiving turkey, named Liberty and its alternate, Peace, in a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday. Some pin the origins of the turkey pardoning tradition on Truman, but staff at the former president's library haven't found a scrap of documentation to prove that's true.
In the slideshow below, see a collection of images documenting the presidents' Thanksgiving celebrations -- including shots of some turkeys who were lucky enough to receive a pardon ... and others who weren't. Boston Streets: Mapping Directory Data: Welcome Page. The Herald-Post Collection. American Memory from the Library of Congress. Fold3.com - Historical military records. 20th Century American History and Literature. The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War.
The Colonial Williamsburg Official History Site. Birthplace of Benjamin Franklin, Milk Street (por. Sioux City History Website. The Great Chicago Fire. Kansapedia. Digitizing Kansas Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1883-1922 - Sanborn Maps Project - KU Libraries. Tourist Attraction in NY | Battle Reenactments | Family Vacations Ideas. Regional History Project: UC-Santa Cruz. Oral History Projects: Welcome The Regional History Project has been documenting the history of the Central Coast of California and the institutional history of UC Santa Cruz since 1963, through oral history.
This web site includes the complete catalog of our collection, oral history resources, and links to other oral history sites on the Internet. All of the oral histories are available in full text (PDF) through our Digital Collections site and many are available on the University of California's escholarship site at Copies of our oral histories are also available for the cost of photocopying, which varies according to the length of the document.
Viewing Note: If you experience technical difficulties with accessing the PDFs though Digital Collections, try a different browser or contact us to let us know you are experiencing difficulties. The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Photographs. UMarmot » Digital Collections for UMass. Digital UMass contains the results of several initiatives to document the history of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and its predecessors the Massachusetts Agricultural College and Massachusetts State College. In addition to an on-going project to capture the oral history of the University’s administrators and reflections on student life, the archives has digitized materials relating to the early years of co-education at MAC and women’s education at the University. Additional materials will be added as they become available. The Collections Annual Reports, 1864-1932/33 College Monthly Student newspaper, 1887-1889 Distinguished Visitors Program, 1972-1979 Invited lectures on current topics by distinguished speakers (audio files in mp3 format).
Oral Histories Barnard, Ellsworth and Mary, Classes of 1928 and 1934 Bromery, Randolph W., Chancellor Class of 1919: Mary E. Selected records related to women’s education at Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1906-1924.