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Steamboats Itasca and War Eagle at the St. Paul levee, 1859.
Photo print of the steamboats Itasca and War Eagle at the St. Paul levee, 1859.
The steamer City of St. Louis on Lake Minnetonka, ca. 1885. Photo by William H. Jacoby.
The steamer Ethel Howard, 1898. The Ethel Howard, shown here at Central Point, delivered the bodies of victims of the sinking of the Sea Wing to Red Wing in 1890.
The steamer Sea Wing, c.1889.
Elsa Jemne’s mural for the Stearns County Courthouse, installed in 1922.
Steel Workers Organizing Committee dues button, 1941.
Steer being exhibited, Minnesota State Fair, 1947.
Stella Lyght, seated, at Northern Lights Resort, 1930. From the John Lyght photograph collection.
Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk, 1908.