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Limestone bluffs along Lynch Creek southeast of Chatfield in Fillmore County, Minnesota, ca. 1900.
Television character Roundhouse Rodney (played by Lynn Dwyer on WTCN) signs an autograph for a young fan, c.1965.
Lynne Jackson talks about her great, great-grandparents, Dred and Harriet Scott, who lived at Fort Snelling before taking their fight for freedom to the US Supreme Court.
Prince’s hand-written lyrics to “I Hope We Work It Out,” 1977. Manuscript Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.
Bottling machinery at the M. A. Gedney Company, c.1912.
M. A. Gedney Company workers bottling product, c.1912.
M.W. Savage and Dan Patch, c.1905.
M1 Abrams tanks arrive at Camp Ripley on flatcars, 2015.
"Ma" Barker, reported member of the Barker-Karpis gang, 1931. Photograph by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Actors in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, by August Wilson, at the Penumbra Theatre, 2014. Photograph by Michael Daniel. CC BY-SA 2.0