Newspapers
The Miscellaneous Newspapers Collection consists of 17 bound volumes of print newspapers filmed on 15 volumes of microfilm. Volumes 4, 6-7, 9-11, and 12-17 contain single issues or short runs of miscellaneous newspaper titles. Volumes 5, and 21-24 contain single issues of various Minnesota newspapers compiled for a Minnesota newspaper exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. The finding aid lists the city of publication, newspaper title, issue date, and volume number. The titles are in no particular order on the reels of microfilm.
There is no microfilm for volumes 1-3, 8, or 18-20.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the
Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics
should
It appears that these miscellaneous newspapers were once bound in volumes and that the microfilm was made from the volumes. There is no microfilm for volumes 1-3, 8, or 18-20, and it is not known what these contained or why there is no microfilm. The "Minnesota Newspaper Exhibit, Columbian Exposition, 1893" is thought to be a collection created to highlight Minnesota cities and their newspapers at the World's Columbian Exposition. It is not known whether the collection was created at the Minnesota Historical Society or created elsewhere and donated to the Society.
Processed by: David Ehasz, Steve Krause, and Sarah Quimby, May 2012
Catalog ID number: 006376268