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Excerpt from the song “Crush on You,” from the Jets’ self-titled 1985 album.
The cover of the Jets’ 1985 single “Crush On You.”
Cars on the Dan Patch line, 1910.
Arrival of one of the picnic trains of the Dan Patch Electric Line at Antlers Park, c.1912.
Dedication engraved on the Christopher Columbus Memorial on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol. Photograph by Peter DeCarlo, 2019.
Excerpt from the song “Escapade,” from Janet Jackson’s 1989 album Rhythm Nation 1814.
Clipping from the St. Paul Weekly newspaper, June 11, 1859. The article mentions the number of people who have moved to “around Northfield” to dig ginseng. It also mentions that “At Faribault sales amount to five or six tons per week.”
Locomotive for the "Hiawatha," Milwaukee Road. Photograph by Milwaukee Road News Bureau, 1935.
A “Hubert Humphrey for mayor” campaign worker rides his Cushman scooter before the Minneapolis mayoral election, 1947.
Moe, Lawrence. “The Poetry of Colorado Pete.” Shevlin, MN: Clearwater County Historical Society, 2008.