Former Minnesota governors and their wives at the State Ceremonial Building, 1983. Pictured are, in the first row, left to right: Gretchen Quie, Jane Freeman, Esther Stassen, Medora Petersen, Lillian Anderson, and Harold Stassen; in the second row: Albert Quie, Orville Freeman, Marian Rolvaag, Karl Rolvaag, and C. Elmer Anderson; in the third row: Iantha LeVander, Alice Anderson, and Elmer L. Andersen; in the fourth row: Harold Levander, Jane Wangberg, and Mary Anderson; and in the fifth row: Lou Wangberg and Wendell Anderson.

Former Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater. Photograph taken by John Runk, Jr., in 1936, twenty-two years after the prison was shut down and its inmates were moved to a new facility.

Former president Harry Truman speaks to guests in Nelson Hall, the post’s headquarters, in July 1953 while visiting troops from the Missouri National Guard training at Camp Ripley. This was Truman’s second visit: he trained here himself in 1932 as a staff officer with the Missouri National Guard.

Old Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas, ca. 1911–1917. Dorsey Willis and other soldiers of the Twenty-Fifth Infantry were living in the building during the Brownsville Incident of 1906. DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, via Wikimedia Commons.