In addition to my love of seeking out records related to railroad employees, I love to learn more about the workers on and about the steamboats that plied U.S. rivers. Newspapers, county histories, photographs, manuscript collections, and other records tell about the voyages, the workers, and much more. That’s why this press release about 138 […]
Where have your ancestral family photos ended up? With a relative, friend, several states away in a historical society, or in a box somewhere that was thankfully saved? From today’s Pioneer Press: “When a plastic Rubbermaid garbage can and a cardboard box full of unidentified black-and-white photos were dropped off at the Barnes County Historical […]
Did you have a View-Master as a child? I still have mine and a variety of slides. These were an outgrowth of the stereoscopic photography that was the rage in the late 19th into the early 20th centuries. Duplicate pictures were viewed through a stereoscope and the image appeared to be 3 dimensional. These are […]
Browsing through some midwestern and plains states items on CyndisList tonight, I came across a website I didn’t know about. The site is Digital Horizons: Life On the Northern Plains. The site’s home page says “Digital Horizons is an online treasure house of thousands of images, documents, video, and oral histories depicting life on the […]
Hidden in that old trunk is a photo with a name on the frame showing a Minnesota photographer. Now you have to figure out more about the photographer and where the photo may have been taken. The Minnesota Historical Society has several resources to help you on this search. Click here for that info. Before […]