Photograph of Zoar public school (District #20) c.1895. Teacher Vena Abbott stands with her students outside the school building. Photograph Collection, Carver County Historical Society, Waconia.

Zoar public school

Photograph of Zoar public school (District #20), c.1895. Teacher Vena Abbott stands with her students outside the school building. Photograph Collection, Carver County Historical Society, Waconia.

Zolio Versalles baseball card

Zolio Versalles baseball card

1963 Topps Minnesota Twins baseball card for Zolio Versalles.

“A young boy who lives near the nation’s capital” (photograph)

“A young boy who lives near the nation’s capital”

“A young boy who lives near the nation’s capital.” Photograph by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information, June 1942. Public domain.

Sheet music showing the four verses of “American Farm Bureau Spirit,” written by Lillian Atcherson and Florence Cheadle, 1930.

“American Farm Bureau Spirit” sheet music

Sheet music showing the four verses of “American Farm Bureau Spirit,” written by Lillian Atcherson and Florence Cheadle, 1930.

“American Gothic” (photograph)

“American Gothic”

“American Gothic,” a photograph of government janitorial worker Ella Watson by Gordon Parks, Washington, DC, 1942. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Color image of our thousand members of the division’s First Brigade Combat Team creating a new “animated” Red Bull emblem at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, just prior to departure for Iraq, March 2006.

“Animated” Red Bull emblem

Four thousand members of the division’s First Brigade Combat Team create a new “animated” Red Bull emblem at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, just prior to departure for Iraq, March 2006. Photograph by the U.S. Army.

“Ariel with Red Slippers”

“Ariel with Red Slippers”

Gene Ritchie Monahan’s “Ariel with Red Slippers,” 1958. Oil on canvas. 20 x 36. Used with the permission of Jean E. Monahan Kelly.

“Attack on Fort Snelling Bar and Grill”

“Attack on Fort Snelling Bar and Grill”

“Attack on Fort Snelling Bar and Grill.” Oil-on-canvas painting by Jim Denomie, 2007.

“Birch and Wildflowers”

Gene Ritchie Monahan’s “Birch and Wildflowers,” 1970s. Pen and ink on paper. Produced for the Rainy Lake Chronicle. Used with the permission of Jean E. Monahan Kelly.

“Cage Rooms” at the Standard Hotel

“Cage Rooms” at the Standard Hotel

: “Cage Rooms” at the Standard Hotel (114 Hennepin Avenue South, Minneapolis), June 29, 1960. At the turn of the century, chicken-wire sub-ceilings were a common feature in cheaper boardinghouses in cities with a large temporary workforce. While Minneapolis banned the construction of new “cage hotels” in 1918, many lasted right up to the Gateway’s demolition. Some tenants who were evicted had been in their rooms since the 1920s.

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