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The Westbrook Auxiliary’s food stand, open during Hospital Days, set up inside the Westbrook Community Center, 1998.
Westbrook band marching in the 1981 Hospital Days parade.
Collection of Westbrook Hospital days promotional buttons on display at Westbrook’s Heritage House Museum. Photograph by David Van Loh, 2017.
Contestants of the Westbrook Queen Pageant held during Westbrook Hospital Days, ca. 1970.
A corn root worm inside the tassel of a corn plant. U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2003.
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.
Weyerhaeuser Twin City yard and surrounding area, 2563 Franklin Avenue, St. Paul, 1953. Photographed by Ver Keljik.
The whaleback Christopher Columbus in Duluth harbor, ca. 1885.
Wheat harvest at G.S. Barnes and Company farm in Glyndon (Clay County), c.1878.
Wheaties cereal advertising, ca. 1925.