A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Pullman porter Wade Hamilton, c.1920.
Pumping Station Number 3, c.1898.
The cover of Prince’s album Purple Rain (1984).
Prince fans in mourning watch a clip from the movie Purple Rain during an all-night dance party held at First Avenue on April 21, 2016, the day of Prince’s death from an accidental fentanyl overdose.
Put and Take game. Manufactured by Schaper Manufacturing Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1956.
Men posing near a large Christmas tree to be put up between the fountain and pavilion building in Gateway Park.
A pysanka, a traditional Ukrainian artwork made out of a hollowed, waxed, and painted egg, made ca. 1962.
Qeej (Hmong wind instrument) made by Shong Ger Thao of St. Paul, 1999.
Quadriga created by French for the Columbian Expo in Chicago, 1893.
Quadriga during application of gold leaf, 1979. Photographed by Elizabeth M. Hall.