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Banking and Finance
Other Industries
Central Business District
Central Business District (Part II)
Labor

Websites

Hennepin History Museum
http://www.hhmuseum.org/
History of the Farmer-Labor Movement in Minnesota (1917-1948)
http://justcomm.org/fla-hist.html
Institute for Minnesota Archaeology
http://www.fromsitetostory.org/sources/papers/mnarch49/49a-archpo.asp
Minneapolis Convention Center
http://www.minneapolis.org/mpls_convention_ctr.html
Minneapolis Downtown Council
http://www.downtownmpls.com/
Minneapolis Farmers' Market
http://www.mplsfarmersmarket.com/
Minneapolis Grain Exchange
http://www.mgex.com/
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce
http://www.minneapolischamber.org
Minnesota AFL-CIO
http://www.mnaflcio.org/
Minnesota Historical Society
http://www.mnhs.org/
Minnesota's National Register Properties
http://nrhp.mnhs.org/
Ninth Federal Reserve District
http://minneapolisfed.org/info/mpls/history/index.html
St. Anthony Falls Heritage Center
http://www.mnhs.org/events/saf/safdesign.html
The World of Work: History of Work in Minnesota
http://www.pierz.com/~mlic/features/wowork/index.html

Business and Industry - 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.
Minneapolis past [videorecording]. Find a Copy!
Saint Paul, MN: KTCA: KTCA/Video [distributor], c1993.
Legacy of Minneapolis: preservation amid change. Find a Copy!
1st ed. Bloomington, MN: Voyageur Press, c1983.
Millett, Larry. Twin cities then and now. Find a Copy!
St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1996.
Minneapolis frontiers, firsts & futures: a bicentennial commemorative guide to the history of the city of Minneapolis. Find a Copy!
[Minneapolis] : Minneapolis '76 Commission, [1976].
Stipanovich, Joseph. City of Lakes: an illustrated history of Minneapolis. Find a Copy!
Woodland Hills, Calif.: Windsor Publications, Inc.,1982.

Business and Industry - Specific Resources

Down on skidrow [videorecording]. Find a Copy!
Saint Paul, MN : KTCA/Video, c1999.
Downtown: a history of downtown Minneapolis and Saint Paul in the words of the people who lived it. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis, MN : Nodin Press, c2000.
Faue, Elizabeth. Community of suffering and struggles: women, men, and the labor movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945. Find a Copy!
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1991.
Flanagan, Barbara. Minneapolis-St. Paul: linked to the future. Find a Copy!
Memphis, Tenn.: Towery Pub., c1997.
Frame, Robert Murray. The progressive millers : a cultural and intellectual portrait of the flour milling industry, 1870-1930, focusing on Minneapolis, Minnesota. Find a Copy!

Gelbach, Deborah L. From this land: a history of Minnesota's empires, enterprises, and entrepreneurs. Find a Copy!
Northridge, Calif.: Windsor Publication, 1988.
Kane, Lucile M. The falls of St. Anthony: the waterfall that built Minneapolis. Find a Copy!
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987.
Kaufman, Sam H. The skyway cities. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis, Minn.: CSPI, c1985.
Kuhlmann, Charles Byron. The development of the flour-milling industry in the United States, with special reference to the industry in Minneapolis. Find a Copy!
Clifton [N.J.] A.M. Kelly, [1973, c1929]
Larson, Don W. Land of the giants : history of Minnesota business. Find a Copy!
1sted. Minneapolis: Don Books, 1979.
The leading industries of The City of Waters: Minneapolis, Minn. Find a Copy!
New York: Reed & Co., 1881.
Millikan, William. A union against unions: the Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and its fight against labor, 1903-1947. Find a Copy!
1st ed. St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001.
Minneapolis, metropolis of the Northwest: first in grain shipments, foremost in the lumber production and the leading flour market of the world. Find a Copy!
[Minneapolis, Minn.] : The Star Publishing Co., 1887.
Moore, Allan. Oral history project No. 20, 22, Grain milling in Minneapolis [sound recording]. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis, Minn.: Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library, 1974.
100 years of Minnesota business. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis, MN: City Business, 1999.
Petersen, Penny A. Hiding in plain sight: Minneapolis' first neighborhood. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis, MN: Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Associated/NRP, [1999].
Popple, Charles Sterling. Development of two bank groups in the central Northwest; a study in bank policy.
Mass., Harvard University Press, 1944.
Find a Copy!

Rosheim, David L. The other Minneapolis: or, the rise and fall of the Gateway, the old Minneapolis skid row. Find a Copy!
Maquoketa, Iowa: Andromeda Press, 1978.
Tselos, George D. The Minneapolis labor movement in the 1930s. Find a Copy!
1970, c1971.

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

  • Advertisers and Advertising
  • Biography: name of person
  • Banks and Banking: general and under name of bank
  • Building: name of building
  • Business: name of business
  • Chamber of Commerce
  • City Planning & Renewal
  • Downtown Council
  • Industries: Grain, Flour, Lumber, Paper, etc.
  • Labor: unions
  • Minneapolis Community Development Agency
  • Minneapolis Grain Exchange
  • Neighborhood Revitalization Program
  • Printing and Publishers
  • Shopping Centers
  • Stores: name of store
  • Strikes: name of strike
  • Theaters: name of theater

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