Men register in the Minneapolis Armory for the nation’s first peacetime draft, September 16, 1940. By the end of that first day, 400,000 Minnesotans were on the draft rolls.
Frank B. Mayer collection of sketchbooks, drawings, and oil paintings of Sioux Indians during the 1851 treaty negotiations at Traverse des Sioux and Mendota. From the Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection.