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Streetcars : Newspapers

Suggested Newspapers & Dates

Newspapers:

Dates:

  • 1872: First St. Paul Streetcar
  • 1875: First Minneapolis Streetcar
  • 1888: Conversion to electric cars
  • 1954: End of the Streetcars 

 

Newspapers

Newsboy distributing January 1937 Minneapolis Journal.

The Minnesota Historical Society holds the world's largest collection of Minnesota newspapers, with dates ranging from 1849 to the present day.

Past issues of most newspaper titles are available on microfilm in the MNHS library, but there is also digital access to select newspapers

Use the links to the left to search for newspapers available at MNHS and to search within digitized newspaper collections.   

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