Two women with bicycles near Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater Spring)

Two women with bicycles near Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater Spring)

Two women with bicycles near Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater Spring), 1899.

Tying wild rice stalks

Tying wild rice stalks

An Ojibwe woman ties together stalks of wild rice with basswood fiber to prepare them for harvest. Photograph by Frances Densmore, ca. 1930s. From Reserve Album 96, page 27.

Black and white photograph of typesetting with Linotype machines at West Publishing Company, 1917.

Typesetting with Linotype machines at West Publishing Company

Typesetting with Linotype machines at West Publishing Company, 1917.

Black and white photograph of U-Meet-Us, Black Senior Citizens Lounge, and Minneapolis Urban League, East 38th St and 4th Ave, Minneapolis, 1975.

U-Meet-Us, Black Senior Citizens Lounge

U-Meet-Us, Black Senior Citizens Lounge, and Minneapolis Urban League, East 38th St and 4th Ave, Minneapolis, 1975.

U.S. Army officer's Model 1850 sword and scabbard

U.S. Army officer's Model 1850 sword and scabbard

Captain Leonard Aldrich of the Eighth Minnesota's Company F carried this sword during the 1863 Henry Sibley expedition against the Dakota.

U.S. Army percussion cap pouch

U.S. Army percussion cap pouch

Josiah Lathrop of the Eighth Minnesota's Company H used this 1850 model pouch during the Civil War.

U.S. Army waist belt

U.S. Army waist belt

This Brooklyn, New York-made waist belt belonged to Josiah Lathrop of the Eighth Minnesota's Company H.

Color poster promoting food conservation printed by Forbes Lithographers in Boston, Massachusetts,c .1918.

U.S. Food Administration poster (“Food Will Win the War”)

Poster promoting food conservation printed by Forbes Lithographers in Boston, Massachusetts, c.1918.

Color U.S. Food Administration promotion poster designed by William McKee, c.1918.

U.S. Food Administration poster (“The World Cry, ‘Food’”)

U.S. Food Administration promotion poster designed by William McKee, c.1918.

Color image of U.S. Light House Service uniform hat.

U.S. Light House Service uniform hat

United States Light House Service uniform hat worn by Orren Young, the first head light keeper at Split Rock Light Station. Young wore the hat between 1910 and 1928.

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