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Early Aerial Photographs of Minneapolis Now Online

Over 500 aerial photographs of the City of Minneapolis (and some bordering suburbs) were recently added to the Minneapolis Public School Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections. The photographs were taken in the late 1920s and early 1930s by Joseph E. Quigley, the supervisor of sanitation for the Minneapolis Public Schools and a pioneering aerial photographer. The collection is a survey of land for existing schools and potential school sites throughout the city, taken at a time when enrollment was booming for the district—from 60,010 in 1918-19 to a peak of 90,073 students in 1932-33. In comparison, Minneapolis Public Schools currently enroll just over 36,500. 

Quigley’s angled (oblique) aerial photographs give a rare glimpse into the city’s housing, commercial centers, industrial corridors, and landscapes in a pre-freeway era when the city’s population was rapidly growing. The collection is one of the earliest aerial surveys of Minneapolis.

Tips for browsing and searching the Joseph E. Quigley aerial photographs online:

The collection is based around school buildings which existed in the 1920s and 1930s. Narrow your results by school (on the left sidebar) to find a particular area. See maps of schools in 1925 and elementary schools in 1957.

Photo descriptions include neighborhood names (and many neighborhoods were named after the schools!). Try searching yours in the search box in upper right (ex: Morris Park, Webber-Camden, Fulton, Marcy Holmes, King Field, Seward, Windom Park, etc.)

Try searching other nearby landmarks like churches, parks, lakes, hospitals, bridges, companies, and cemeteries (ex: Farwell Park, Fairview Hospital, Lakewood Cemetery, Powderhorn Lake, Franklin Avenue Bridge, etc.)

Need help? Contact Special Collections.

In fall of 2018, the Quigley aerial photos along with thousands of other school photographs were donated and transferred to the Hennepin County Library Special Collections. Special Collections would like to send a huge thanks to Michael Wilson and Peg Carlson, for without their energy and dedication, these photographs would still be in filing cabinets at the school district.

Photos top to bottom: Washburn High School (1929), Seward School (undated), Alcott School near Cedar Lake (1930s), Morris Park (1929), Kenwood School (undated), Douglas School in Lowry Hill (undated), Lake of the Isles and West High School (undated), Pratt School (undated), Clay School at Cedar-Riverside (1920s), Nokomis Jr. High (undated), Lind School (1929), East River Road near Shriners Hospital (1929)

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