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Just in time for the 109th anniversary of the Minneapolis Labor Review, the newspaper’s online archive now features a new interface and speedier searches.
The Labor Review is the official publication of the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation and captures more than a century of worker history, including organizing drives, the historic 1934 truckers strike and numerous people and events.
The archive allows visitors to search the text of all 109 years of the newspaper by name, date or topic. Users see the image of the newspaper page as it actually appeared in print and can download a pdf file of the page.
Students or scholars will find that photos, cartoons and newspaper text in downloaded pdf files offer high-quality images for use in print, or video documentaries or websites.
In a change from the old archive interface, the pages of the most recent issue of the Labor Review no longer will need to load before a search may begin. Instead of a pull-down menu narrowing searches to 10-year periods, searches now may be completely customized.
The new “Issue List” pull-down menu brings up the date of every issue of the newspaper going back to the first issue in April 1907. Hover over the date of a specific issue and the front page of that issue will appear. Click on the date and all the pages of that issue immediately will appear and you can quickly scroll from the first page to the last page.
Access to the archive is free.
Find the Labor Review archive at this link.
The Labor Review’s sister publication, the St. Paul Union Advocate, also has a digital archive, available on the top navbar at this link.