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Minnesota State Capitol dome

The dome of the Minnesota State Capitol and the quadriga sculpture, "The Progress of the State." Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Mulad, July 6, 2005. Public domain.

Minnesota State Capitol in 1963

The Minnesota State Capitol, 1963. Photograph By Eugene Debs Becker.

Minnesota State Capitol, Then and Now

A slideshow contrasts video footage of the Minnesota State Capitol in 2017 with photographs of the building earlier in its history.

Minnesota state flag

The design chosen by a State Emblems Redesign Commission in December of 2023.

A Works Progress Administration artist makes a true proportion sketch from the original Minnesota state flag. The sketch was used to make copies of the flag for state occasions. Photograph by the St. Paul Daily News, 1936.

Minnesota state flag, 1949

The Minnesota state flag held aloft on June 28, 1949, in celebration of the creation of Minnesota Territory one hundred years earlier.

Minnesota state flag, 1983–2023

The design of the Minnesota state flag adopted in 1983 and used until 2023. The nineteen yellow stars, which form a star themselves, refer to Minnesota’s place as the nineteenth state admitted into the union.

Minnesota state flag, ca. 1898

Minnesota state flag made in Minneapolis ca. 1898 by Pauline and Thomane Fjelde, the makers of the original 1893 flag. The Fjelde sisters presented the flag to the Fifteenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment.