Online Catalogs

Minnesota Historical Society Collections
Minnesota Reflections (Minnesota Digital Library)
Bemidji State University Archives & Special Collections
MNopedia

Newspapers

Chronicling America Historic American Newspapers (Includes Bemidji Daily Pioneer, 1896-1922)

Maps & Aerial Photographs

General Land Office Historic Plat Maps
Beltrami County Interactive Maps
Minnesota Historical Aerial Photographs Online (University of Minnesota)

Minnesota Genealogy

Minnesota Official Marriage System
Minnesota Historical Society People Finder (Birth Certificate Index & Death Certificate Index)

Other

Cecelia Wattles McKeig’s Bemidji History page
Museo Beltrami (Houses artifacts collected by Giacomo Costantino Beltrami. Site is in Italian)

Video Resources

YouTube Find videos of exhibits and archival records from the Beltrami County Historical Society on our YouTube page, including this footage of the
1939 Paul Bunyan Winter Carnival:



The North Beltrami Heritage Center
(Videos of programs and oral histories on the Big Bog, Saum School, and other topics)

Other local programs and oral histories
(Filmed by David Quam):

The "Accidental Tourist" in Minnesota by Bob Bell

Jacob V. Brower by Barry Babcock

Ditching: The Bog that Couldn't Be Tamed by Diane Mostad

Alfred Petrowske Interview
(The Big Bog & his book On the Trail)

Robert Treuer Interview
(Bemidji area history)

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