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The British flag that flew at Grand Portage in the late 1700s; photograph ca. 1960.
Broadway Avenue businesses in the Albert Lea Commercial Historic District. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, 2019.
Broadway in Crookston, ca. 1950s.
City hall at the corner of Broadway and Fletcher Streets, Crookston, 1914.
City hall at corner, looking north on Broadway, Crookston, October 2016.
The Brody Loan Company at 115 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, 1950s. Customers could pawn dress clothing and jewelry at the store or use them as collateral for payday loans. Photograph by Dick Palen.
Broken headlight of the 1977 Ford LTD driven by Marshall County Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson during the Val Johnson incident (August 27, 1979). Undated.
Broken headstone at Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery in Minneapolis, 2016. Photographed by Paul Nelson.
Bronze capstan from the wreck of the Hesper.
Statue of Knute Nelson in front of State Capitol building, 1940. Sculpted by John K. Daniels.