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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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- One map shows lots in Northfield prior to Minnesota’s statehood, giving it a date between 1855 and 1858.
- A second “map” is actually a bird’s-eye view of the city from 1869, looking southeast, with the viewer at the bottom looking from west of what’s now St. Olaf Avenue.
- The third map is a city street map from 1968 — more modern, but still 44 years old.
- The fourth item is a copy of the Rice County Journal, published from Northfield, dated Sept. 14, 1876, four pages long — one week after the raid on the First National Bank.
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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