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                                        About: Collections

                                        Edina Historical Society
                                        4711 W. 70th Street
                                        Edina, MN 55435
                                        612-928-4577
                                        Email

                                        Office hours:
                                        Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
                                        Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon
                                        or by appointment


                                        We want your history

                                        The Edina Historical Society focuses on one topic: Edina.

                                        We do not collect just any old item. Our artifacts must tell the story of Edina: its homes, people, neighborhoods, schools, city government, environment, organizations and businesses (to name just a few sub-topics.)

                                        We do collect new items as well as old. The 2009 Edina High School yearbook is just as important as the first one issued in 1951. We document the first skyscraper as well as the first farm. And we want your story to add to those of the first Edina settlers.

                                        We cannot order Edina history from a catalog. We depend on the public to donate items. We also actively seek out pieces of Edina history from residents before they are lost forever.

                                        Topics being researched (see blog for more details):
                                        Edina Theater,
                                        following 75th anniversary in August 2009
                                        Edina Schools,
                                        for 150th anniversary exhibit in 2010
                                        Tingdale Brothers, and other major Edina real estate developers
                                        Queen Anne Kiddieland
                                        Early suburban Edina (post WWII to 1970s) -
                                        Edina pool, France Avenue drive-in, development of first rec sports teams, last farms, gravel pits, freeway construction, and other history-making changes in the boom years.

                                        Other items needed:
                                        Edina High School yearbooks
                                        - missing 1997, 1998, 2000 to present
                                        Edina phone directories - missing 1957, 1998-99, 2000-01
                                        Morningside phone directories - We need phone books for Morningside addresses during the years Morningside was a separate village from Edina (1920 to 1966).



                                         



                                        Edina Historical Society, 4711 W. 70th Street, Edina, MN 55435. 612-928-4577 Copyright 2009-2012