Swedish railroad laborers

Swedish railroad laborers

Swedish railroad laborers (possibly on Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad tracks), ca. 1900. Young Swedish immigrant men helped build railroad lines across Minnesota.

Color image of the Swedish-language headstone of Swan Swanson in Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery Cemetery in Minneapolis, 2016. Photographed by Paul Nelson.

Swedish-language headstone of Swan Swanson

Swedish-language headstone of Swan Swanson in Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery Cemetery in Minneapolis, 2016. Photographed by Paul Nelson.

Color image of Gedney Sweet Midget Pickles label, c.1958.

Sweet Midget Pickles label

Gedney Sweet Midget Pickles label, c.1958.

Launching of the vessel “Sweetgum,” built by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Co., Duluth, Minnesota. Image courtesy of the United States Coast Guard.

Sweetgum Launch in Duluth

Launching of the vessel “Sweetgum,” built by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Co., Duluth, Minnesota. Image courtesy of the United States Coast Guard.

Cover of a brochure published by Swift & Company, a national meatpacker and margarine producer with operations in St. Paul. From the Davis, Kellogg & Severance Law Firm Records, 1878-1941, Minnesota Historical Society.

Swift’s Jersey Butterine

Cover of a brochure published by Swift & Company, a national meatpacker and margarine producer with operations in St. Paul. Image is from the Davis, Kellogg & Severance Law Firm Records, 1878-1941, Minnesota Historical Society.

Swift’s oleomargarine newspaper advertisement

Newspaper advertisement for Swift & Company, a national meatpacker and margarine producer with operations in St. Paul.

Photograph of swim class at Macalester College, 1930

Swim Class at Macalester

A swim class (ca. 1930).

Swimming Fair Hills Resort

Swimming Fair Hills Resort

Swimming Fair Hills Resort, Detroit Lakes, ca. 1930.

Black and white photograph of the NWSA swimming pool, 1932.

Swimming pool in Physical Education Building

The NWSA swimming pool was sixty feet long and twenty-four feet wide, 1932. The water level on the springboard end was nine feet and the shallow end four-and-a-half feet.

Black and white photograph of swine on display, 1905.

Swine, State Fair

State Fair display swine, 1905.

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