Pair of brass western style spurs with metal boot straps. Each spur has a ten point iron rowel. The spurs were worn during the Civil War by Major Thomas B. Wilson of the 4th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
US District Court Judge Earl R. Larson, ca. 1980. Larson ruled in Welsch v. Likins (1974) that both the US Constitution and Minnesota state law required state-run institutions to provide habilitation (vocational training and other education) to their inmates.
A collage of the members of the United States Senate in 1860; Rice is in the middle of the third row down. When Rice entered the Senate as a Democrat in 1858, his party was deeply divided over the expansion of slavery into new territories.
USS (later SS) George G. Henryin 1917. The ship collided with and sank the USS Herman Frasch. Used with the permission of the US Naval Historical Center.