Historic Photos of Minneapolis
Containing nearly 200 vintage photos of the city of Minneapolis, (Historic Photos of Minneapolis) offer(s) viewers a black-and-white glimpse of how the city has changed over the past 150 years. The images, from the mid 1850s to the late 1990s, include buildings, protests, celebrations and sporting events.--Finance and Commerce Staff-Dolan Media NewswiresHeather Block Lawton provides text and captions for the photos in Turner Publishing Company's coffee table book Historic Photos of Minneapolis. The pictures provide a fascinating look at our city's history from milling days to the creation of the first skyway.- --About.com:MinneapolisIf you are a history buff or even remotely interested in the days gone by and live in or have ties to Minneapolis, Minnesota, there's a great book full of fabulous, clear, crisp and detailed photos ranging from the city's beginnings in the 1850s to more recent times in the 1970s. The book, Historic Photos of Minneapolis, has such high quality photos thanks to the Minnesota Historical Society, the Minneapolis Public Library and the Library of Congress. If prints of these historic photos were used in the production of this book, they must have been well taken care of from day one but I presume that negatives were used in the assembly of this collection of 200 photos. Not stopping at just photos, the book also contains well-researched, brief but informative captions written by the manager of the Special Collections Library at the Minneapolis Public Library, Heather Block Lawton. Ms. Lawton obviously spent quite some time researching and writing captions for the 200 photos contained in the book. --sorenson.blogspot.com