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A loon in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness inside Minnesota. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Albert Maruggi, January 15, 2018. CC BY 3.0
Loon postcard, ca. 1980.
Two loons with a perch on Upper Hay Lake near Pequot Lakes, Minnesota. Photograph by Anita Ritenour, August 25, 2018. CC BY 2.0
Chinese loose-leaf tea container for a doll. Part of the Miss Miyazaki Japanese friendship doll trousseau, ca. 1927.
Carte-de-visite of Loren Webb, Captain, Eleventh Minnesota Infantry Regiment, Company D., c.1861–1865.
Lorena Duarte (La Prensa editor) 2001‒2006, ca. 2000s. Used with the permission of Lorena Duarte.
Lori Cole with open-face sandwiches at Riverfest’s Stavanger Smorgasbord on June 10, 2018. Photograph by Janelle Kaye. Used with the permission of Janelle Kaye.
Loring Cascade, 1920. Loring donated this artificial waterfall in 1917.
Loring donated this shelter at Loring Park, 1906.
Loring Park with a view of St. Mary's Basilica, Minneapolis. Postcard, c.1917.