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The modern and minimalistic exterior of the Walker’s Barnes building viewed against the Minneapolis skyline, June 1, 2009. The 2005 addition by Herzog & de Meuron is visible at right. Photograph by Flickr user Matt. CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Walker Art Center complex. Photograph by Steve Plattner, August 6, 1975..
An interior hallway of the Walker Art Center. Photograph by Flickr user jpellgen (@1179_jp), June 10, 2017. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Interior view of the Walker Art Gallery (later called the Walker Art Center) showing paintings exhibited in the salon style, ca. 1890.
T.B. Walker standing on the grand staircase of the Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis, c.1925.
The sawmill operated by Walker, Judd & Veazie at the town of Marine Mills (later renamed Marine on St. Croix), ca. 1880.
The sawmill operated by Walker, Judd & Veazie at the town of Marine Mills (later renamed Marine on St. Croix), ca. 1882.
Walker, Judd & Veazie sawmill at Marine Mills (Marine on St. Croix) ca. 1890. Photograph by John Runk.
Ivory-tipped cane with a hidden triangular-section dagger used by Jean-Baptiste Faribault, ca. 1800–1810.