MDL Minnesota Studies Resources

Afternoon automobile outing in Blue Earth

Armour Golf Course in Minneapolis

Amateur vaudeville performers on stage

Busy day at Lake Harriet

Penny arcade at the Excelsior Amusement Park

Two women and a girl with their car

First National Bank in Duluth

First Esko Cooperative Store

Oral history interviews
Conducted with people who lived during the Great Depression.

Issues of The Organizer
The newsletter published by the General Drivers Local 574 of the Teamsters Union during a strike in the 1930s.

Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) tree planting crew

C.C.C. crew fighting forest fires on Isle Royale

C.C.C. crew building the Cascade River State Park bridge

Lima Mountain lookout cabin built by the C.C.C. in 1936

Road work with C.C.C. bulldozer

Certificate of Discharge from the C.C.C.

C.C.C. Company newsletters

C.C.C. Company panorama photographs

⇒ More Civilian Conservation Corps materials

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) workers on a construction project in Lincoln County

W.P.A. crew removing snow in Virginia

W.P.A. workers building projects in Grand Marais

Murals at the Duluth Zoo painted by the W.P.A.

Blueprints for the Wyoming grade school W.P.A. project built in 1938

Videos showcasing W.P.A. projects at Camp Ripley

The Story of W.P.A. in the Minneapolis Parks, Parkways and Playgrounds books

Oral history interviews conducted by W.P.A. workers in Crow Wing County

⇒ More Works Progress Admin. materials

Ira Weil Jeffery from Minneapolis, killed at Pearl Harbor

Portraits of soldiers from Kanabec County

Female Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railway workers during World War II

U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School at St. Olaf College

Cold Spring Granite Company wartime manufacturing

World War II Veterans oral history collection 
From Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.

World War II Veterans oral history collection
From St. Cloud State University.

Letters to and from Henry Peterson
Peterson utilized German Prisoner of War labor at his farm during WWII.

V-Mail Letters to Columbia Heights newspaper
Written by soldiers abroad to their community back home

Minnesota History Timeline, Part 2
Part 2 of this timeline explores significant moments in the history and development of Minnesota from 1900 to 2020.

Primary Source Sets:

• Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota
• Excelsior Amusement Park
• Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934
• Motion picture theaters in Minnesota

CCC Camps in Minnesota map
Explore this map to view a selection of Minnesota's 148 Civilian Conservation Corps work relief camps.

War Stories: World War II exhibit
Meet some Minnesotans who joined the world in a fight against oppression and tyranny.