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The Bessesen Building (224 South Broadway Avenue, Albert Lea, originally used as the Bessesen Opera House) and surrounding buildings. Photograph by Titian Butash, July 30, 2024.
Bessie Stiegler and three other women in a row boat, ca. 1925.
Bessie the elephant, Lake Superior Zoo, 1974.
Color photograph of the exterior of Bet Shalom Congregation in Minnetonka. Photographed by Phillip Prowse c.2010.
Beth El Synagogue at Fourteenth Avenue and Penn Avenue North in Minneapolis, 1938.
Color photograph of the exterior of Beth Jacob Congregation c. 2012 by Lee Prohofsky.
Bethlehem Academy, Faribualt, 2016. Photograph by Paul Nelson.
The portraits track Betty Crocker’s changing image through her years as the General Mills marketing icon.