• Winona County Historical Society
• Minnesota State Historical Society
• Winona's Changing Demographics: A Cultural History of the Winona Area

• Using Primary Sources in the Classroom, Teaching ideas from the Library of Congress American Memory Project
• Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan , An extensive collection of documents at the Library of Congress, American Memory Digital Collection. Sample items include:
• The Minnesota guide. A handbook of information for the travelers, pleasure seekers and immigrants ...1869
• A summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summer resorts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, and the routes by which they can be reached, by the Chicago & North Western Railway Company (Chicago, 1884).
• The Frontier Holiday; being a collection of writings by Minnesota pioneers who recorded their divers ways of observing Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's. Ed. and illus. by Glenn Hanson.. Includes the manuscript Christmas in Early Winona
• Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West. With incidents of travel in that territory during the summer of 1849
• A 500 Mile Trip Down the Mississippi River in 1862. An excerpt from Tracks and trails; or, Incidents in the life of a Minnesota territorial pioneer by Nathan Dally. Includes Winona area descriptions.
• The Winona Daily Review. Brief information about an early Winona newspaper.
• Photographs of Early Winona from American Memory Detroit Photographic Company, 1880's and 1890's

• Sugar Loaf and Lake Winona,
• Sugar Loaf, Closeup View
• Mississippi River Railroad Bridge,
• Winona Houses on Broadway
• Winona County Courthouse
• Winona from Bluffs West of City
• Mississippi River Landing
• Raft Passing Below Draw Bridge
• Levee Below the Bridge
• Winona Saw Mill Plant
• Minnesota City and Valley of the Mississippi

• Maps of Early Winona from American Memory Map Collection, 1544-1996

• Map of Winona County, 1867
• Birds Eye View of Winona, 1867
• Winona Minnesota, 1899
• Township and Railroad Map of Minnesota, 1874

 
Search the Library of Congress American Memory Collection to find more documents, photos and map.

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