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Black-and-white photograph of the second Mount Zion building.
Photograph of the second Ramsey County courthouse, c.1908. This view is looking northeast. The Victory parking ramp later occupied this space.
The second Shaynowishkung (He Who Rattles, also known as Chief Bemidji) statue, erected in Bemidji in 1952. Photograph by Anne Hantz, 2014.
Second State Capitol, 1886.
The second state capitol and powerhouse prior to demolition, 1937. Photographed by the St. Paul Dispatch.
Second state capitol prior to demolition, 1937. Photographed by the Minneapolis Star Journal.
View of Second Street in Hastings. Postcard featuring a photograph by J. G. Sieben, ca. 1908.
Second Street in Winona. Photograph by Hoard & Tenney, ca. 1870.
A street scene at the intersection of Second Street North and Second Avenue North, Minneapolis, around the time that Ida Dorsey operated a brothel on Second Avenue. Photographer unknown, ca. 1912.
Cass Gilbert’s original plan of the second floor of the Minnesota State capitol, ca. 1896. Public domain.