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Sugar beet cultivation in the Red River Valley

Sugar beet cultivation in the Red River Valley, ca. 1940.

Sugar beet farmers and tractor

Farmers with a tractor used on the F. H. Ross sugar beet farm near Fisher, 1932. From the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association records, 1919–1994, Northwest Minnesota Historical Center, Moorhead. Used with the permission of Northwest Minnesota Historical Center.

Sugar beet worker

Sugar beet worker near Fisher, Minnesota, 1937. Photographed by Russell Lee.

Sugar Means Ships

World War I-era poster encouraging the conservation of sugar, c.1917.

Sugarbush

Ojibwe people have made maple sugar for centuries and they continue to make it today. Watch how it's done in this video, shot in 2011. It takes about thirty-five gallons of sap to produce just one gallon of maple syrup. From there, the syrup can be boiled down further to get about seven pounds of sugar from one gallon of maple syrup.

Sugaring spoon

Spoon with burnt decoration on handle used for maple sugaring, ca. 1900–1950.

Suit worn by Jellybean Johnson in the movie Purple Rain

Suit worn by Jellybean Johnson in the movie Purple Rain (1984).

Sumaya Yusuf and Bibi Abdalla

Sumaya Yusuf and Bibi Abdalla at the Minnesota History Center, June 2004. Yusuf and Abdalla collaborated with the Minnesota Historical Society in 2003 and 2004 to conduct interviews with Somali Minnesotans for the Somali Skyline Tower Oral History Project.