A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Sign within Savanna Portage State Park, 2018. Photograph by Jon Lurie; used with the permission of Jon Lurie.
Signage in Franz Jevne State Park. Photo by Marjorie Savage, 2021. Used with the permission of Marjorie Savage.
Signed photograph of William Gates LeDuc in Washington, D.C., 1905. Given to the Minnesota Historical Society in 1899.
Sigurd F. Olson, ca. 1949.
Sigurd F. Olson, 1959.
Sigurd F. Olson, ca. 1960. Photograph by Eugene D. Becker.
Sigurd Olson, Tom Savage, and Russell Fridley (left to right) meet at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers (Bdote) to survey the recently created Fort Snelling State Park.
Hardwood stern canoe paddle used by Sigurd Olson, date unknown.
School of India for Languages and Culture (SILC) booth at India Day, 2004.