Northern States Power (now Xcel Energy) Building on Nicollet Mall, circa 1980
Another image from the Minneapolis Information Library slide collection that we are digitizing and plan to have online in 2013.
Holiday Decorations on Nicollet Mall, 1970s
Some images from the Municipal Information Library slide collection that we are currently digitizing, look for more information about the collection in 2013.
Most dispatches are from librarians at the James K. Hosmer Special Collections. Special Collections' Minneapolis History Collection covers an extensive array of materials on city history, including thousands of photographs, clippings, documents, books, programs, reports, yearbooks and hundreds of archival collections. Special Collections also houses several other collections on World War II, 19th century literature, the Abolitionist movement, Mark Twain, and the History of Books and Printing. You can visit Special Collections at the Minneapolis Central Library. Hennepin County Library includes 41 libraries. More than 5 million books, CDs and DVDs in 40 world languages. Almost 1800 public computers. One great system serving 1.2 million residents of Hennepin County. We're on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, too.
