Downtown Bloomington

Articles

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Mandolin enjoyed ‘golden age’ in late 19th century

Joe Johnson, self-appointed Courthouse ‘traffic director’

Community Christmas ‘sing’ once annual event

WW I home front featured French-Belgian relief

Brown’s delivered white-collar education

Museum’s newly acquired Lincoln letter window into legal career

First brick street in U.S. myth endures in Bloomington

Turner Hall lost monument to German pride

Cigar shop was where old men came to talk (and nap)

Phoenix Hall site of Lincoln’s last speech in Bloomington

Halloween 1945 followed world war’s end

Pre-Civil War Butler House survived into 1920s

Project to mark firefighter graves lesson in history

Spirits high for Depression-era Christmas

Sojourner Truth spoke in Bloomington

Short-lived performance hall once city’s finest

Airship pays visit to downtown Bloomington in 1910

Turbulent times at 19th century Bloomington hotel

In 1955, downtown Bloomington 'dressed in holiday style'

Pullman Strike left Twin Cities at standstill

Women’s suffrage debate captivates Twin Cities in 1870

Biographies

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Higgins, Hamer

Goodheart, James

Brokaw, Abraham

Bynum, Lincoln

Jung, Jacob

Moratz, Paul

Funk, Benjamin Franklin

Frank, Henry “Teddy”

Allin, James

Klemm, C.W.

Bradner, Judith Ann

Porter, Ida

Gridley, Mary

Pillsbury, Arthur L.

Thompson, Jennie

Wagner, Grace B.

Wickizer, Jennie MacDonald

Withers, Sarah

Northrup, Rose Whipp

Hawkins, Absalom

Schroeder, Dr. Herman

Schroeder, Baroness Maria von Buchau

Sanders, Isaac

Stipp, Dr. George Winfield

Howard, Emily

Huggins, Sophia

Livingston, Hilda

Hobbs, Dr. William C.

Finding Aids

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