The Minnesota Centennial Showboat being towed to a performance site on the Mississippi River, 1965. Photograph by the University of Minnesota Photographic Laboratory.

Minnesota Centennial Showboat and performers, 1965. Photograph by the University of Minnesota Photographic Laboratory.

Minnesota Centennial Showboat, ca. 1960. Photograph by the University of Minnesota Photographic Laboratory.

Minnesota Centennial Showboat at Stillwater levee, 1958. Photograph by John Runk.

The General John Newton (a sternwheeler towboat) while in service with the US Army Corps of Engineers, ca. 1950s.

Major General John Newton, officer of the Federal Army and namesake of the em>General John Newton sternwheeler towboat.

Theater-goers boarding the Minnesota Centennial Showboat on the East Bank River Flats below the University of Minnesota Campus, 1970. Photograph by the University of Minnesota Photographic Laboratory.

Two children ride a camel in Minneapolis at the intersection of Pillsbury Avenue and West Lake Street. Camels are traditionally used for transporting both people and goods in Somalia. Photograph by Bill Jolitz, 2012. Printed in Somalis in Minnesota, by Ahmed Ismail Yusuf (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012), 26.

Betty Strohfus, a World War II Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP), talks about her life and experiences as a WASP pilot with airmen and their families during a visit to Nellis Air Force Base on September 27, 2012. Strohfus was stationed at the base when it was called the Las Vegas Army Airfield (1943–1944).