A.J. Rockne, c. 1940

A.J. Rockne

Rockne seated at his senate desk, c.1940.

A.W. Jesperson, salesman for Watkins' Remedies of Minneapolis

A.W. Jesperson, salesman for Watkins' Remedies of Minneapolis

A.W. Jesperson, salesman for Watkins' Remedies of Minneapolis, posed with his horse-drawn buggy, Princeton, c.1900.

Color image of an abandoned bridge pier in the Mississippi River, downtown Minneapolis, 2016. Photograph by Paul Nelson.

Abandoned bridge pier in the Mississippi River, downtown Minneapolis

Abandoned bridge pier in the Mississippi River, downtown Minneapolis, 2016. Photograph by Paul Nelson.

Black and white photograph of abandoned Fort Ripley, c.1895.

Abandoned Fort Ripley

Abandoned Fort Ripley, c.1895. On the left is one of the original officers’ quarters; in the foreground is the hospital and headquarters built to replace the original structure that had burned down in July 1870.

Black and white photograph of abandoned Fort Ripley as seen from the east side of the Mississippi River, c.1895.

Abandoned Fort Ripley as seen from the east side of the Mississippi River

Abandoned Fort Ripley as seen from the east side of the Mississippi River, c.1895.

Abandoned log barn

Abandoned log barn

An abandoned log barn on the Matt and Kaisa Hill farmstead, Pike Township, St. Louis County. Wayne Gudmundson, Testaments in Wood: Finnish Log Structures at Embarrass, Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1991), 60. From the book: “This deteriorated barn was divided into two pens by a log partition and had walls made of unhewn logs secured at the corners with saddle notches. It is one of six log buildings on the Hill farm” (78).

Abdi Farah (Abdi Phenomenal), Safiya Tusmo, and Awil Ali Waarabe

Abdi Farah (Abdi Phenomenal), Safiya Tusmo, and Awil Ali Waarabe

Composite image of Abdi Farah (Abdi Phenomenal), Safiya Tusmo, and Awil Ali Waarabe in stills taken from the documentary film Somalia: A Nation of Poets, which premiered on Twin Cities PBS in January 2017. Used courtesy of Ka Joog and Twin Cities PBS.

Photograph of Minneapolis City Council Member Abdi Warsame.

Abdi Warsame

Minneapolis City Council Member Abdi Warsame. Photograph by Tony Webster, January 8, 2018. CC BY-SA 2.0.

Photograph of Abdirahman Issa Kahin

Abdirahman Issa Kahin

Abdirahman Issa Kahin, owner of the Afro Deli & Coffee chain of restaurants, inside his business in Minneapolis. Photograph by Bill Jolitz, 2012. Printed in Somalis in Minnesota, by Ahmed Ismail Yusuf (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012), 58.

Photograph of Abdirizak Haji Hussein, a  former prime minister of Somalia and a Minneapolis resident until his death in 2014.

Abdirizak Haji Hussein

Abdirizak Haji Hussein, a former prime minister of Somalia and a Minneapolis resident until his death in 2014. Photograph by Bill Jolitz, 2012. Printed in Somalis in Minnesota, by Ahmed Ismail Yusuf (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012), 9.

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