A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Rachel Carson, biologist, conservationist, and writer, ca. 1930s.
Radio microphone used by Northwest Airlines personnel, c.1950.
Railroad and Warehouse Commission office in the second state capitol, ca. 1903.
Camp for workers laying tracks for the Virginia and Rainy Lake Railway north of Virginia, 1902.
Railroad depot in Iona, 1909.
Logging tracks laid through the pine forest by the Virginia and Rainy Lake Company, ca. 1928.
Railway Mail Service clerks load mail bags onto a Great Northern Railway Post Office car at the St. Paul Union Depot, 1949. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press.
Ranier Bridge, Ranier, ca. 1910.
Draw Bridge, Ranier, ca. 1930.
Rainy Lake photographed by Jun Fujita, 1931. Collection of Graham and Pamela Lee. Used with permission.