Exploring Minnesota’s Natural History will make frequently used materials from the geological, botanical, and zoological collections of the University Archives digitally accessible.

As the project progresses, digitized materials can be accessed at the UMedia Archive, and through the online finding aids for the collections. To view a finding aid, select a collection from the following list:

Geological

• Inventory of the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey papers, 1872-1906

• Minnesota Geological Survey papers, 1912-1978

• Minnesota Geological Survey Field Notebooks, 1877-1990

• Newton Horace Winchell papers, 1872-1908

• Christopher Webber Hall papers, 1880-1906

• Stephen Farnum Peckham papers, 1874-1880

• Department of Geology and Mineralogy records, 1915-1960

Botanical

• Department of Botany records, 1893-1989

Zoological

• Bell Museum of Natural History records, 1849-2006
• Henry Francis Nachtrieb papers, 1886 – 1929