Historic newspapers · Minnesota

Minnesota historic newspapers: 94,655 free digitised pages

Name: Minnesota historic newspapers (Chronicling America)
Creator: Library of Congress
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Everything below is what the Library of Congress holds online for Minnesota in Chronicling America, counted on 2026-10-06. The pages are free to read and searchable by name; an obituary or a marriage notice here is often the only record of a date before civil registration.

Titles with the most digitised pages

Newspaper	Years	Pages online
The Bemidji Daily Pioneer (Bemidji, Minn.)	1904–1971	5,829
St. Paul Daily Globe (Saint Paul, Minn.)	1884–1896	4,475
The Saint Paul Globe (St. Paul, Minn.)	1896–1905	3,276
The Redwood Gazette (Redwood Falls, Minn.)	1873–1940	3,032
The Sauk Centre Herald (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.)		2,856
Der Nordstern (St. Cloud, Minn.)	1874–1931	2,831
The Ely Miner (Ely, Minn.)	1895–1986	2,521
The Kanabec County Times (Mora, MN)		2,368
Morris Tribune (Morris, Minn.)	1880–2000	2,310
Mower County Transcript (Lansing, Minn.)	1868–1915	2,245

Counties

Ramsey 25,175 pages
Hennepin 15,722 pages
Stearns 6,557 pages
Beltrami 6,275 pages
Saint Louis 5,244 pages
Washington 3,919 pages
Brown 3,115 pages
Redwood 3,032 pages
Stevens 3,011 pages
Cook 2,747 pages

Cities

Saint Paul 24,587 pages
Minneapolis 14,971 pages
Bemidji 6,219 pages
Stillwater 3,919 pages
Saint Cloud 3,701 pages
New Ulm 3,115 pages
Redwood Falls 3,032 pages
Morris 3,011 pages
Sauk Centre 2,856 pages
Ely 2,521 pages

By decade

1840 to 1849 36 pages
1850 to 1859 2,005 pages
1860 to 1869 1,606 pages
1870 to 1879 3,858 pages
1880 to 1889 10,194 pages
1890 to 1899 16,133 pages
1900 to 1909 19,728 pages
1910 to 1919 18,551 pages
1920 to 1929 10,808 pages
1930 to 1939 5,614 pages
1940 to 1949 3,093 pages
1950 to 1959 2,396 pages
1960 to 1969 980 pages

Languages

English 82,776 pages
German 4,979 pages
Norwegian 2,780 pages
French 1,934 pages
Polish 1,870 pages
Swedish 1,538 pages
Danish 1,007 pages
Czech 501 pages

Ethnic press: African American, German, Norwegian, French, Polish, Irish, Swedish, Danish

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