A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
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.
Quadriga encased in scaffolding during application of gold leaf, 1979. Photographed by Elizabeth M. Hall.
Quadriga, Daniel C. French and Edward C. Potter, sculptors, c.1907.
Workers use hand tools to widen rock fissures in a Red Wing limestone formation and break stone free, c. 1890.