One-sheet poster advertising the Washburn Mills in Minneapolis. It highlights the importance of mechanization, local wheat and water power, and global ambition to the firm. Included in the 1889 carnival edition of the St. Paul Dispatch.
Washing tubs, boards, and dolly pins used by interpreters at Historic Fort Snelling to teach visitors about the fort’s laundresses. Photo by Bobbie Scott, 2012.
Soldier's Monument unveiled by Bloomer in 1917, located on the grounds of the Washington County Courthouse, Stillwater, Minnesota. Photograph by Peter DeCarlo, 2009.
: “Washington Prairie Parsonage.” Oil-on-canvas painting by Herbjorn Gausta, c. 1880–1889. Used with the permission of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, Decorah, Iowa.
Source: Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum
A pocket watch taken from the hand of a victim of the Great Hinckley Fire of 1894. The watch has a silver alloy case and a white porcelain face. Manufactured in 1884 by the Elgin National Watch Company of Elgin, Illinois.