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Oil-on-canvas painting of Owamniyomni (St. Anthony Falls) intended to represent the site as it would have appeared in 1786, with Dakota people in the foreground. Painted in 1886 by Alexis Jean Fournier.
Owamniyomni (St. Anthony Falls), 1848. Oil painting by Seth Eastman.
An ox-cart train on a Red River trail, ca. 1860.
Oxen pulling a sled of white pine logs near Hinckley in Pine County, 1885.
Ozias B, Baker, private, Second Company of Minnesota Sharpshooters, c.1862.
Packaging Watkins Coconut Oil Shampoo, Winona, 1940.
Corrugated cardboard box used as a packing carton by Blia Cha Thao and family—Hmong refugees who moved from Thailand to Minnesota in 1993.
The flour-packing floor of Pillsbury-Washburn Company in Minneapolis, ca. 1890.
Dr. Padmakar K. Dixit, his wife, and their two daughters in Minnesota, 1962.
Page from promotional booklet, A Mother's Manual, 1928, from Ralston Purina.