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Burma-Shave tube with box, ca. 1950s. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Scheinwerfermann, September 3, 2008.
Burma-Vita Company, 2318 West Chestnut Avenue, Minneapolis. Photograph by Norton & Peel, May 9, 1941.
After deeming Swede Hollow an unhealthy place to live, the city evicted the remaining families and burned what structures remained, 1956. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch & Pioneer Press.
Governor J. A. A. Burnquist with military group, ca. 1916.
Joseph A. A. Burnquist gubernatorial campaign poster, 1918.
Burying ninety victims in one trench following the Hinckley fire, September, 1894.
Business buildings line this Cannon Falls street in the early 1880s. Such wood frame structures, often clustered together, proved susceptible to fire.
Downtown Hastings as it appeared ca. 1900.
Businesses in the Albert Lea Commercial Historic District at 104 and 106 South Broadway Avenue. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, 2019.
Businesses near the intersection of East 38th St and 4th Ave, Minneapolis, 1975.