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Spectacular Fair: The Minnesota State Fair

In this Collections Up Close video podcast, Minnesota Historical Society collections assistant Christopher Welter shares a few of the thousands of State Fair photographs in the MHS collection, with a special emphasis on the fair’s more spectacular offerings.

Speed Holman and passengers boarding a Hamilton plane

One of Minnesota’s most celebrated early aviators, Charles “Speed” Holman, looks on as passengers board his Northwest Airways plane, ca. 1929. Photo by Northwest Airlines, Inc.

Spinning frame and roving areas

Spinning frame and roving areas of the Faribault Woolen Mills Company, 2011. Photograph by Elizabeth A. Gales.

Spinning wheel used by Norwegian immigrants

Spinning wheel made in 1845 in Norway by Ole Johnson Helland, a fisherman. Ole and his wife, Anne Martha Olsdatter, immigrated to the United States in the 1870s and brought the wheel to Fillmore County, Minnesota. There, Ole's son, Henry O. Helland Ulven, met and married Betsey Pederson, daughter of Norwegian immigrants. The couple moved to Dakota Territory, settling in Clear Lake, South Dakota, where Betsey used the wheel for spinning her own yarn and knitting clothing for her family.

Spirit Drums: A Mu Daiko Concert (2001)

Taiko concert photo from Spirit Drums: A Mu Daiko Concert, performed by Daiko Mu during in 2001. Directed by Rick Shiomi and staged at the Southern Theater. Pictured are (front row, left to right): Angie Ahlgren, Al Zdrazil, Iris Shiraishi, Susie Kuniyoshi, Rick Shiomi, Kiseung Rhee, Jennifer Weir, Laura Rawson, Rachel Gorton, Ying Zhang, Su-Yoon Ko; and (back row, left to right: Patrick McCabe, Gregg Amundson, and Drew Gorton. Photograph by Charissa Uemura.

Spirit Island and the Stone Arch Bridge

Spirit Island and the Stone Arch Bridge, May 27, 1899.

Split in Two: The Dred Scott Decision—1857

Law Professor Lea Vandervelde (University of Iowa) explains the U.S. Supreme Court's 1857 decision, based in part on the Dred and Harriet Scott's time in Minnesota, and how the decision split the nation in two prior to the outbreak of war in 1861. Richard Josey (Minnesota Historical Society) focuses on the Scotts' time at Fort Snelling from 1836 to 1840.