Selected James J. Hill Digital Scans Now Available Online
Digital scans of 1,047 selected correspondence, clippings, and reports from the James J. Hill papers are now available on the web. These files, in pdf format, are accessible through an online inventory, which lists a description of each item and provides a link directly to each digital version.
The digitized material comes from the General Correspondence series and the Northern Pacific Reorganization materials within the James J. Hill papers, and cover topics including the attempted merger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads between 1893 and 1905 and the debate among Hill and other financiers over a potential loan to England and France during World War I.
These digital files came to the Minnesota Historical Society along with the Hill Family Collection, and we're pleased to make them available to users. The original documents can be found in the James J. Hill papers, an inventory of which is also available online.
Selected digital items from the James J. Hill papers
Full inventory of the James J. Hill papers
Source: MN Historical Society blog
