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Old Northfield Maps, Post-Bank Raid Newspaper Now Online

Three old maps of Northfield and one newspaper from September 1876 are now available online at the Northfield History Collaborative.

If you’ve ever wanted to scan an item that’s larger than your scanner, you know how much trouble it is. That’s why we at the Northfield History Collaborative are so thankful for the Minnesota Digital Library. Through their association with the University of Minnesota, they have access to fancy equipment designed to handle oversized items.

The Minnesota Digital Library handled four items from the last spring that are available online both at their site, and now in ours as well.

Included are three maps and one newspaper:

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All four of these are items that are fragile and therefore were difficult for the public to access before. Now you can look at them in close detail and from anywhere on the planet — with internet access, anyway.

Read more about these items at the Northfield History Collaborative's blog.

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