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Me-gee-see, Dick Gahbowh, and John Mitchell at Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post, ca. 1915.
Paper order form used in the late 1960s by customers of Oscar C. Howard’s Meals on Wheels food delivery program.
Meals On Wheels packaging machine invented by Oscar C. Howard. Manufactured between 1970 and 1990.
Measuring a prisoner's head (possibly at Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater), ca. 1900.
Meat case containing bologna and wieners inside Nerstrand Meats and Catering, 2019. Photo by Jeff M. Sauve.
Mechanic Arts High School, St. Paul, ca. 1928. Photograph by Charles P. Gibson.
Lifepak 12 defibrillator manufactured by Medtronic. Photographed on June 12, 2006.
Medtronic Founder Earl Bakken (left) and Medtronic CEO Winston Wallin (right) with an early pacemaker model, 1986. Photographed by Jeffrey Grosscup.
Medtronic’s headquarters in Fridley. Photographed on September 7, 2012.
Medtronic pacemaker, built by Medtronic, Inc., ca. 1957 and 1958.