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Websites

The American Variety Stage
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
City of Minneapolis: Office of Cultural Affairs
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/citywork/city-coordinator/oca/index.html
Flyte Tyme
http://www.flytetyme.com/html/
Guthrie Theater
http://www.guthrietheater.org/
Hennepin History Museum
http://www.hhmuseum.org/
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
http://www.artsmia.org/
Minneapolis Music - Bars and Clubs
http://www.minneapolis.com/music/
Minnesota Historical Society
http://www.mnhs.org/
Minnesota Music Directory
http://www.citypages.com/mmd/
Minnesota Orchestra
http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/
Minnesota State Arts Board
http://www.arts.state.mn.us/artsmn/artsmn.html
Minnesota Venue, Club, & Calendar Listings
http://www.pauserecord.com/venues/MN.html
Minnesota's National Register Properties
http://nrhp.mnhs.org/
Moving the Shubert Theater
http://stubbsmovers.com/shubert.shtml
prince.org (unofficial site)
http://www.prince.org/
Twin Cities Folk Information
http://lrc.geo.umn.edu/people/haskell/MFD.html
Twin Cities Music Guide
http://twincities.citysearch.com/section/music/
The Vaudeville Theater
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/muldrew/vaudeville6.html
Walker Art Center
http://www.walkerart.org/

Arts and Entertainment - General Resources

Atwater, Isaac. History of Minneapolis. Find a Copy!
New York, Munsell Pub. Co., 1895.
Shutter, Marion Daniel. History of Minneapolis, gateway to the Northwest. Find a Copy!
Chicago, Minneapolis, Clarke Publishing Company, 1923.
Stipanovich, Joseph. City of Lakes: an illustrated history of Minneapolis. Find a Copy!
Woodland Hills, Calif.: Windsor Publications, Inc., 1982.

Arts and Entertainment - Specific Resources

Besse, Kirk J. Show houses: Twin Cities style. Find a Copy!
1st ed. Minneapolis, MN: Victoria Publishing, c1997.
Chapman, Louise. The first years of music in Minneapolis, 1850-1900. Find a Copy!
[Minneapolis, Minn.: L. Chapman, 1944?]
Coen, Rena Neumann. Painting and sculpture in Minnesota, 1820-1914. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis: Published by the University of Minnesota Press for the University Gallery of the University of Minnesota, c1976.
Cooper, Lois. Thursday Musical: the first century, 1892-1992. Find a Copy!
Golden Valley, Minn.: Thursday Musical, c1992.
Flanagan, Barbara. Ovation: a partnership between a great orchestra and a great audience. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis: Minnesota Orchestra, c1977.
Gebhard, David. A guide to the architecture of Minnesota. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis: Publishing by the University of Minnesota Press for the University Gallery of the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Society of Architects, c1977.
Grossman, Audley Mitchell. The professional legitimate theater in Minneapolis from 1890 to 1910. Find a Copy!
Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1981
Guthrie Theater's 25th anniversary season preview [videorecording]. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis, MN: Guthrie Theater and LeBeau-McCluskey Production, 1988.
Hess, Jeffrey A. Their splendid legacy: the first 100 years of Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis, Minn.: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, c1985.
Hill, Lawrence James. A History of Variety-Vaudeville in Minneapolis, Minnesota: from its Beginning to 1900. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis: L. J. Hill, 1979.
Hüsker Dü. Zen Arcade [sound recording]. Find a Copy!
[West Germany] : SST Records, p1984.
Jacob, Bernard. Pocket architecture, Minneapolis: a walking guide to the architecture of downtown Minneapolis. Find a Copy!
Rev. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Minnesota Society, American Institute of Architects, c1987.
Jones, Liz. Purple reign: The Artist Formerly Known as Prince. Find a Copy!
Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, 1998.
Kodály, Zoltán. Háry János suite / Kodály. Hungarian sketches ; Roumanian folk dances / Bartók [sound recording] Find a Copy!
[United States] : Mercury, [1957], Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra; Antal Dorati, conductor. Recorded in the Northrop Memorial Auditorium, University of Minnesota, Nov. 17, 1956.
Lamb, Barbara Sue. The influence of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra on the development of the orchestra in the Minneapolis Public Schools 1903-1930. Find a Copy!
1977.
Lamb, Barbara Sue. Thursday Musical in the musical life of Minneapolis. Find a Copy!
1983.
Lost Twin Cities II [videorecording]. Find a Copy!
A production of KTCA-TV. St. Paul, MN: KTCA/Video [distributor], c1995.
Mahler, Gustav. Das Lied von der Erde [sound recording]. Find a Copy!
San Franciso, CA : Reference Recordings, p1999. Jon Villars, baritone ; Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano ; Minnesota Orchestra ; Eiji Oue, conductor. Recorded at Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN, February 16-18, 1999.
Millett, Larry. Lost Twin Cities. Find a Copy!
St.Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, c1992.
Millett, Larry. Twin Cities then and now. Find a Copy!
St. Paul, Minn: Minnesota Historical Press, 1996.
Minnesota 1900: art and life on the upper Mississippi, 1890-1915. Find a Copy!
Newark: University of Delaware Press, c1994.
Nelson, Marion J. Art pottery of the Midwest. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis: University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, 1988.
Nilsen, Per. Prince: the first decade: dancemusicsexromance. Find a Copy!
London, England : Firefly Publishing, 1999.
Prince. Controversy [sound recording].
Produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince.
Find a Copy!
Burbank, CA : Warner Brothers, 1981.
Purple rain [videorecording]. Find a Copy!
Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 1984.
Replacements. Let it be [sound recording]. Find a Copy!
[Minneapolis, MN] : Twin/Tone Records, p1984. Recorded at Blackberry Way Studios, Minneapolis, MN.
Riedel, Johannes. Sweeter than the honeywell: 100 years of music and friendship: the Apollo Club Male Chorus of Minneapolis, 1895-1995. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis, Minn.: Apollo Club of Minneapolis, c1995
Torbert, Donald R. Significant architecture in the history of Minneapolis. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis, 1969.
Whiting, Frank M. Minneapolis theater: from Old Fort Snelling to the Guthrie. Find a Copy!
1st ed. [St. Paul]: Pogo Press, c1988.

Materials available in the Special Collections Department

Special Collections, 3rd floor of the Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, 612/630-6350, email: specialcollections@mplib.org

Vertical Files

  • Art: Gallery: name of gallery
  • Art: Minneapolis Arts Commission
  • Architect: name of architectural firm
  • Biography: name of individual
  • Buildings: name of building
  • Music: General by date
  • Music: name of group or organization
  • Theaters: General by date
  • Theaters: name of theater

Manuscripts/Archives by name of organization or individual

  • Emil Oberhoffer
  • Thursday Musical Club
  • Minneapolis Symphony (later Minnesota Orchestra)

Indexes for Minnesota Vaudeville and Theater newspapers, 1880-1921

Indexes for Sweet Potato, Jazz Master, and City Pages, 1979-1983

Programs for events and performances: organized by facility and then by date

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