Minnesota Digital Newspaper Project

FAIN: PJ-230669-15

Historical Society of Minnesota (St. Paul, MN 55102-1903)
Jennifer Agee Jones (Project Director: January 2015 to March 2019)
Shawn P. Rounds (Project Director: March 2019 to July 2024)
Shawn P. Rounds (Co Project Director: October 2017 to March 2019)

Funding details:
Original grant (2015) $250,000.00
Supplement (2017) $239,726.00
Supplement (2019) $242,129.00

The digitization of 100,000 pages of historic Minnesota newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 as part of the state's participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

The Minnesota Historical Society proposes to digitize 100,000 pages of Minnesota newspapers from the period 1690-1963, as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities' National Digital Newspaper Project. At the end of the project, the Society will transfer to the Library of Congress all digital files, essays, required metadata and duplicate microfilm, per the specifications of the grant. The Society holds the largest collection of Minnesota newspapers of any repository, represented by over 4000 titles. The collection is especially important because of Minnesota's role as a cultural and economic center in the Upper Midwest and its historical significance in the economic development of the entire Northwest. The Society will adhere faithfully to technical guidelines and standards of the NDNP and the Library of Congress; these will continue to be the framework for the work plan.

Associated Products

Minnesota Digitized Newspapers on Chronicling America (Web Resource)
Title: Minnesota Digitized Newspapers on Chronicling America
Author: Minnesota Historical Society
Abstract: Minnesota newspapers digitized for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) are available on the Library of Congress's Chronicling America website. Minnesota newspapers have been digitized by the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) for the NDNP since 2007, most recently in MNHS's 6th NDNP cycle, 2019-2022, in which 11 Minnesota newspaper titles were digitized. There are over 100 Minnesota newspaper titles in Chronicling America at present. Essays that give historical backgrounds for the titles are contributed the Minnesota Historical Society and are displayed in Chronicling America on the main page for each title.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/Minnesota
Primary URL Description: Page listing Minnesota Digitized Newspapers on the Library of Congress's Chronicling America website, produced for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

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