A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Photo of Selvig Park, Harmony, Minnesota, 2018. Photograph by Amy Jo Hahn.
Selwyn Chief iron made by the Selwyn Engineering Company of St. Paul, ca. 1930s.
Lithograph of Henry M. Rice, ca. 1860. From The History of Minnesota (fourth edition), by Edward Duffield Neill (Minnesota Historical Co., 1883).
Senate Chamber, second state capitol, St. Paul, ca. 1900. Photographed by Charles P. Gibson.
Senator Eugene McCarthy speaking at St. John's University, 1968.
Minnesota state senator Harry Wing (seated at right) signs a complaint charging 200 members of the People's Lobby with interference with the legislature, April 9, 1937.
Senator James E. Madigan, 1919. From the Forty-First Minnesota Legislative Session Manual.
Senator Ole O. Sageng, “The Napoleon of Woman Suffrage.” From the Forty-First Minnesota Legislative Session Manual.
Senator Paul Wellstone at a meeting with the Hospital Board of Directors from Abbott Northwestern Hospital, 1991. Photographed by Jeffrey Grosscup.