Exploring St. Paul's past through the pages of the Pioneer Press.
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AWAY WITH YOU, MICROFICHE: The Minnesota Historical Society has digitized 750,000 pages of the @PioneerPress dating back to the 1860s, reports @nickwoltman. There’s a searchable database. History at your fingertips… twincities.com/2025/09/25/mi…
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Wow! Wow! Much of @PioneerPress old newsprint on the Internet to read and enjoy as one trapses through this 'jewel archive'. Thanks to @mikeburbachPP and @nickwoltman among others. Also ourselves with the Legacy $$$. twincities.com/2025/09/25/mi…
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Minnesota Historical Society launches online Pioneer Press archive twincities.com/2025/09/25/mi… via @pioneerpress
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One of the FBI's original 10 Most Wanted Fugitives was caught in St. Paul -- by a bunch of kids twincities.com/2025/03/15/wi… via @pioneerpress
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One of the FBI’s original 10 Most Wanted Fugitives was caught in St. Paul — by a bunch of kids pipr.es/9JycI2l
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On April 24, 1949, the St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press published its 420-page centennial edition, the 2nd largest paper in U.S. history, complete with funnies and a letter from President Truman. I’d like to thank the reader that dropped off this gem…
The debut issue of the Minnesota Pioneer – the state's first newspaper and the earliest ancestor of the @PioneerPress – hit the streets of St. Paul 175 years ago today.
With our 175th birthday coming up next year, we dipped into the Pioneer Press photo archive to bring you "Twin Cities Snapshots," a hardcover photographic history book featuring more than 250 images by PiPress photographers. Available for pre-order here: store.twincities.com/product…
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Wabasha at 5th
St. Paul, Minnesota
Nov. 23, 1949
Image: St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press via @mnhs
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Sad news, @nytarchives on Twitter is retiring after eight years. I've been lucky enough to post on this scrappy little account hundreds of times and met lots of passionate folks interested in our archives. Here's my favorite tweets! 🧵
Happy #StPatricksDay! Here’s Jack Biorn of Action Building Services affixing a 12-foot “O” to Dayton’s department store on March 16, 1992. It was the second year in a row the downtown St. Paul landmark, which is now Treasure Island Center, had dressed itself up for the holiday.
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This is a great “secret” viewpoint in St. Paul, looking across I-35E.
Growing trees have partially blocked the view over the decades - here’s that same general view from 2020
Former @PioneerPress photographer Roy Derickson called this photo of St. Paul's twin domes "Church and State." He shot it in September 1981 with a telephoto lens from Jessamine Avenue and Mississippi Street, about a mile northeast of the Capitol.
On this date in 1918, workmen removed a statue of Germania from the Germania Life Insurance building in downtown St. Paul. A wave of anti-German hysteria swept the U.S. after its entry into World War I, and Minnesota was no exception.
Remember glasnost? Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, visited the Minnesota Governor’s Residence in St. Paul during a 1990 tour of the United States. Gov. Rudy Perpich and his family treated the Gorbachevs to a lunch of Red Lake walleye.
Sixty years ago today...
Local things that were named after #JohnGlenn while he was orbiting the Earth in 1962: a school, a child.
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