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Polar bears Buzz and Neil in their habitat at Como Zoo, ca. 2010. Used with the permission of Como Zoo.
Polar bears Buzz and Neil in their habitat at Como Zoo, ca, 2010. Used with the permission of Como Zoo.
Hardy souls participating in the annual polar plunge event, International Eelpout Festival, ca. 2010s. Photo by Josh Stokes.
Polaris 500 Indy Classic snowmobile at Jay Cooke State Park, Minnesota. Photograph by Flickr user Tony Webster. CC BY 2.0.
One of the earliest known Polaris newspaper advertisements. Bemidji Pioneer, February 2, 1957.
Polaris RMK series snowmobile. Introduced in 1996, the RMK series of snowmobiles Polaris’s entry into the deep snow mountain sled market. Photograph taken in Island Park, Idaho, by Flickr user MotoWebMistress. CC BY 2.0.
Police and strikers, 1934.
Police carry out a raid on slot machines, St. Paul, 1935. Photograph by the St. Paul Daily News.
Police destroy an illegal alcohol still during Prohibition, 1925. Photographed by the St. Paul Daily News.
Police attempt to move a striking worker off a WPA job site in the Twin Cities by dragging him, 1939.