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Author : Heather Block Lawton
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 159652328X
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1618586556
From Father Louis Hennepin and Saint Anthony Falls, to becoming the ?milling capital of the world?, Historic Photos of Minneapolis is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives. With around 200 photographs, many of which have never been published, this beautiful coffee table book shows the historical growth from the mid 1800's to the late 1900's of ?The City of Lakes? in stunning black and white photography. The book follows life, government, events and people important to Minneapolis and the building of this unique city. Spanning over two centuries and two hundred photographs, this is a must have for any long-time resident or history lover of Minneapolis!
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,83 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1618584065
Minnesota’s past is defined by its remarkable natural resources, and shaped by its native peoples and early settlers. From the fur trade and the establishment of Fort Snelling, to harnessing the power of the Mississippi River as a means to fuel emergent logging and milling industries, Minnesota’s history is that of a land like no other. Pioneering Minnesotans embraced everything that the sprawling prairies, rich farmlands, and more than 10,000 lakes offered. Boomtowns and small towns sprang up and were connected to the thriving metropolises of Minneapolis and St. Paul through a great labyrinth of railways. From the time photographers first started pointing their cameras in the direction of Minnesota’s land and people, crystallized moments from the state’s history were captured, and stories preserved. The archival images collected in Historic Photos of Minnesota offer unique insights into the state’s not-so-distant past. Spanning more than 100 years, this book documents everyday lives and significant events in Minnesota’s extraordinary history.
Author : Susan Marks
Publisher : Turner
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 9781596525238
Minnesota's past is defined by its remarkable natural resources, and shaped by its native peoples and early settlers. From the fur trade and the establishment of Fort Snelling, to harnessing the power of the Mississippi River as a means to fuel emergent logging and milling industries, Minnesota's history is that of a land like no other. Pioneering Minnesotans embraced everything that the sprawling prairies, rich farmlands, and more than 10,000 lakes offered. Boomtowns and small towns sprang up and were connected to the thriving metropolises of Minneapolis and St. Paul through a great labyrinth of railways. From the time photographers first started pointing their cameras in the direction of Minnesota's land and people, crystallized moments from the state's history were captured, and stories preserved. The archival images collected in Historic Photos of Minnesota offer unique insights into the state's not-so-distant past. Spanning more than 100 years, this book documents everyday lives and significant events in Minnesota's extraordinary history.
Author : Susan Marks
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2011-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596527911
Author : Tom Weber
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2022-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681342603
A concise history of Minneapolis, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see the City of Lakes--newly updated with reflections on the city at the center of a global social uprising. Minneapolis is Minneapolis because of the water--because of the Mississippi River, and St. Anthony Falls, and the beautiful lakes that dot the city's neighborhoods. Energized by the power of a magnificent waterfall that was harnessed with stolen technology, it became a major, even global, city. In this succinct and thought-provoking book, Tom Weber provides an urban biography of the City of Lakes. The confluence of the Mississippi and the Minnesota River is a sacred place for Dakota people, who have lived here for millennia. Since the city's beginnings in the 1850s, Minneapolis has experienced continual collapses and rebuilding. Some collapses were real, as when the Falls were nearly destroyed; some are metaphorical, as when corruption and the mob threatened to overtake the life of the city. Weber also explores the effects of the rebuilding and who was in charge: who was left in, and who was left out. In this updated paperback edition, a new conclusion recounts the context for and the worldwide reaction to the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in May of 2020. In the midst of a pandemic, the city was thrust into the global spotlight, and a spotlight was turned once again on the legacies of racism and inequality that brought Minneapolis to the breaking point. Cities, like people, are always changing, and the history of that change is the city's biography. This book illuminates the unique character of Minneapolis, weaving in the hidden stories of place, politics, and identity that continue to shape its residents' lives.
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873519922
The spirit of a vibrant city at a critical time, recalled in images and words that delight those who experienced it--and those who wish they had.
Author : Larry Millett
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873513272
Twin Cities: Then and Now is an engaging, startling, and at times heartbreaking look at the dramatic evolution of landscapes in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Larry Millett, author of Lost Twin Cities, explores the changing appearances of Minneapolis and St. Paul from the vantage point of their relatively static streets. Seventy-two historic photographs taken from the 1880s to the late 1950s, are paired with Jerry Mathiason's elegant new black-and-white photographs to provide superb visual comparisons between then and now. Millett's lively and informative essays examine the often astonishing changes wrought by time and circumstance. Maps and detailed informational graphics provide orientation and identify hundreds of significant buildings and places in the photographs.
Author : Harold C. Chapin
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Minneapolis (Minn.)
ISBN :
"84 Collotype illustrations from photographs, many with more than one image. Historical photographs including some from daguerreotypes. Photogravures by the Chicago Photogravure Co."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 102.
Author : Hanje Richards
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Minneapolis
ISBN : 9781571456878
Celebrating America's favorite cityscapes, this series combines historic interest and contemporary beauty. Then and Now features fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially commissioned, full-color images of the same scene today. A visual lesson in the historic changes of our greatest urban landscapes.