A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Future chief justice Warren Burger, ca. 1936.
Warren Upham, 1916.
Warwick "Perfection" safety bicycle, patented in 1888.
Washburn A Mill ruins, 2016. Photograph by Paul Nelson.
The rebuilt Washburn A Mill, 1971.
Photograph of the Washburn A Mill, designed by William de la Barre, c.1882. Photographer: Henry R. Farr.
Washburn Crosby Flour Mills, Minneapolis, ca. 1890.
One-sheet poster advertising the Washburn Mills in Minneapolis. It highlights the importance of mechanization, local wheat and water power, and global ambition to the firm. Included in the 1889 carnival edition of the St. Paul Dispatch.
Washburn Mill Company poster, created by the St. Paul Dispatch, 1889.
Washburn-Crosby Flour Mills advertisement for Gold Medal Flour, Threshing Scene, c.1900.