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City of Hibbing: Bob Dylan Collection view detail comment email this

Description of the city of Hibbing collection of materials associated with songwriter and musician Bob Dylan, who was born Robert Allen Zimmerman and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota. Includes a bibliography of books, records, and related material. The site also includes an illustrated walking tour map of Dylan's Hibbing. "The walk starts at the building that was Zimmerman Electric and ends at the Androy, the site of Bob's Bar Mitzvah celebration."
http://www.hibbing.mn.us/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={BAAB49C0-081F-44C9-9AE9-426B88E5CB4C}
Topics: Musicians, U.S. History By Place

Last updated May 14, 2007


Minneapolis Photo Collection Web Database view detail comment email this

A searchable collection of approximately 10,000 photographs from the Minneapolis Public Library's historical photo collection. "The strength of the photo collection is in images of people, buildings, and events dating from the 1850s to 1960." Information is provided for each photo including date, photographer, and title.
http://www.mplib.org/dbtw-wpd/phosrc.htm
Topics: Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place

Last updated Jun 3, 2003


Minnesota Historical Society Visual Resources Database view detail comment email this

This searchable database contains information about photographs, artwork, posters, and other visual works from the extensive Minnesota Historical Society collections. These items "visually represent Minnesotans, their lives, landscapes, leisure and occupations from the pre-territorial period to the present." More than 180,000 items have been entered in the database. Of these, sixty percent have a corresponding visual image.
http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/
Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place

Last updated Mar 30, 2004


Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 view detail comment email this

A collection of historical materials pertaining to the states of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin from the 1600s through the early 1900s. Includes first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, and colonial archival documents. Searchable; and browsable by author, subject, and title. From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umhome.html
Topics: U.S. History By Place, United States History

Last updated Mar 30, 2004




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