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Exterior of St. Paul’s Highland Water Tower designed by Clarence Wigington and built in 1928. Photographed by Paul Nelson on August 4, 2014.
Highland Park Water Tower, St. Paul. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user McGhiever, July 7, 2018. CC BY-SA 4.0
Highland Park Water Tower, St. Paul, ca. 1940. Photograph by Donaldson Photo Company.
Interstate 35 exit for Highway 61, Duluth, Minnesota. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Tony Webster, March 10, 2018. CC BY 2.0
Highway 8 entering Interstate Park, Taylors Falls, MN, 1945.
Highway trucks delivering grasshopper poison to farmers, 1938.
Hiker on rocky hill in Lake Vermilion–Soudan Underground Mine State Park. Photograph by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Staff, October 30, 2007.
A promotional photo taken early in Hilda Simms’s acting career, c.1940.
Hilda Simms (right) posed with one of her younger sisters, Laura, c.1955.
Hilda Simms (left) posed for a promotional photo for Life Magazine, ca.1945.