The Minnesota Historical Society’s Visual Resourse Database has a great collection of historic photographs from throughout the state. You can browse thumbnails very easily—great for researching or just whiling away the time. A new finding aid pulls together the historic images from Norton & Peel, a commercial photography studio that was based in Minneapolis from 1886-1969. As you can guess, the photos range from horse-and-buggy street scenes to growing suburbia. The collection is sorted by decade, so explore your favorite historical period in the Twin Cities via historic photographs. Read more about this great new tool here.