Workers at the Western Freight traffic office, 1911. Photograph by Charles J. Hibbard. The "paperwork revolution" in the early twentieth century provided a whole new field of employment for Minnesota women.
Wheaties box featuring athlete and Olympic gold medalist Jim Thorpe, 2001. Thorpe (1887–1953) was a member of the Sauk and Meskwaki (Sac and Fox) Nation.
The Wheatley Aires, a men’s singing group, sing in front of an audience at Phyllis Wheatley Community Center (809 Aldrich Avenue North) with a pianist accompanying. ca. 1950. Photograph Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul
Relatively complete, un-smoked kaolin pipe found during excavations at the Réaume site, 2012. It is similar to ones that were popular in the late eighteenth century. Photograph by Don Hoffmann.