To discuss potential donations of local history collections, please contact us at libarchives@d.umn.edu or 218-726-8526. Please be ready to discuss the following information:

• The organization, person or group of people who created the materials
• General subject of the materials (examples: an individual's work, a social movement, community, church, business or industry)
• Type of materials (examples: photographs, scrapbooks, reports, correspondence, meeting minutes, posters, flyers, video, buttons, etc.)
• Format of the materials: hard copy and / or digital
• An estimate of the number of boxes or folders / items

In addition to its own collections on the history of Duluth and greater Northeastern MN, the UMD Archives holds the Northeastern Minnesota Historical Collection which are on permanent loan from the St. Louis County Historical Society.  Please contact the St. Louis County Historical Society for information on donating materials to them.

Current collecting areas include:

• COVID-19

• Immigration

• Businesses

• Organizations, social, political, cultural, religious, educational and others

• Tourism

• Construction and buildings

• Arts and music events and venues

• Special events such as the Duluth-Superior Pride, Duluth Homegrown Music Festival and Grandma’s Marathon

• Photographic materials of Northeastern Minnesota from any time period

• Political campaigns of all kinds

• Duluth neighborhoods

• Local environmental topics

• Lake Superior

• Labor history

• Agriculture including community gardens, community supported agriculture and farmer’s markets

• Mining