Photograph of Coya Knutson and other congresswomen

Coya Knutson with other Minnesota congresswomen

Coya Knutson (fourth from left) poses with other Minnesota DFL congresswomen. From the Coya Knutson papers, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Photograph of Coya Knutson's accordion

Coya Knutson's accordion

Knutson frequently charmed voters by playing this Hohner accordion on the campaign trail throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Photograph of Coya Knutson

Coya Knutson, ca. 1955.

Coya Knutson, ca. 1955.

A drum puller and reels of cable being strung for the Cooperative Power Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota/United Power Association, Elk River, Minnesota high-voltage power-line construction through Grant County, Minnesota, 1976–1978.

CPA/UPA cable drum puller

A drum puller and reels of cable being strung for the Cooperative Power Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota/United Power Association, Elk River, Minnesota high-voltage power-line construction through Grant County, Minnesota, 1976–1978.

Cracked windshield of Val Johnson’s squad car

Cracked windshield of Val Johnson’s squad car

The cracked windshield of the 1977 Ford LTD driven by Marshall County Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson during the Val Johnson incident (August 27, 1979). Undated.

Ojibwe cradle board

Cradle board

Ojibwe cradleboard with beaded bow and velvet cover with beaded floral designs. Made by Mash-ko-wa-ni-ma doke (Strong Wind), Grand Portage Chippewa, no later than 1932.

Black and white photograph of Crag on "Point-no-Point Bluff at Frontenac, c.1870.

Crag on "Point-no-Point" Bluff at Frontenac

The Lakeside Hotel and scenic Lake Pepin, a widening of the Mississippi, is pictured, c.1870. With its cooler summer temperatures, the Lakeside drew tourists from around the nation, particularly the South.

A crane helicopter lining up a power-line tower’s top portion with its base during construction of a high-voltage power line through Grant County, Minnesota, 1976-1978.

Crane helicopter above a power-line tower

A crane helicopter lining up a power-line tower’s top portion with its base during construction of a high-voltage power line through Grant County, Minnesota, 1976-1978.

Creating the subbasement of the capitol

Creating the subbasement of the capitol

Original description on print: “Concreting and drainage–Subbasement, Minnesota State Capitol, #30, September 24, 1897, Cass Gilbert, Architect.” Photograph album, May 1896–November 1905 (+Reserve 47, Box 1). Minnesota Board of State Capitol Commissioners records, 1892–1914.

Black and white photograph of the interior of the Credjafawn Co-op Store, 678 Rondo Avenue, St. Paul, ca. 1950.

Credjafawn Co-op Store

Interior of the Credjafawn Co-op Store, 678 Rondo Avenue, St. Paul, ca. 1950.

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