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Watercolor of old Fort Ripley by Minnesota artist Paul S. Kramer (1919–2012). Painted in 1989 as a study for a larger oil painting that hangs in Camp Ripley’s post headquarters.
Fort Ripley view from the north, 1864. Pen and wash drawing by Corporal August Harfeldt, Third Battery, Minnesota Light Artillery.
Fort Ripley, 1862. Pen and wash drawing made in 1864 by Corporal August Harfeldt, Third Battery, Minnesota Light Artillery.
Graphite drawing of Fort Ripley from east the Mississippi, 1863. Drawing by Jonathan Burnett Salisbury.
Graphite Drawing of Fort Ripley, 1863. Drawing by Jonathan Burnett Salisbury.
"I love Betsy-Tacy" pinback button, manufacturer unknown, c.1990-1994.
Front cover of the original edition of Betsy-Tacy, by Maud Hart Lovelace, published by Crowell Publishing Company, 1940. Cover art by Lois Lenski.
Front cover of paperback edition of Maud Hart Lovelace's Gentlemen from England, published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1993.
Front cover of book jacket for Early Candlelight, a novel by Maud Hart Lovelace, published by the University of Minnesota Press, 1949.
Merion Lovelace, daughter of Delos and Maud Hart Lovelace, c.1931.