A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Library, Rochester State Hospital, 1951.
LiDAR map of the Red Rock Ridge and its cultural sites, ca. 2018. Photograph by MnTOPO/Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
Dr. J. B. Dalton demonstrating a lie-detector machine to Olivia Johnson, St. Paul Police Department, ca. 1935. Photograph by the St. Paul Daily News.
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Leavenworth, c.1820.
Lieutenant Josias King, 1862.
Diagram showing the different stages of black stem-rust disease—the kind that attacks the barberry bush. Date unknown.
Child's life jacket with zipper front, adjusting laces, and web belt, manufactured ca. 1965. Obverse is decorated with a lake scene and Peanuts characters Snoopy and Woodstock paddling a canoe.
Three opaque light blue pony beads made between 1700 and 1837.
Full view of the 257-foot electric light mast at Bridge Square, Minneapolis, c.1884.
Edith Ebringer of Bemidji and Dorothy Blanchard of Thief River Falls light the Paul Bunyan statue's pipe, Bemidji. Photographed in the 1940s.