A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Prince performing “Purple Rain” at First Avenue, August 3, 1983. Photograph by Joel Bremer. CC-BY-SA 4.0.
Prince's star, outside the front entrance of First Avenue, painted gold in his memory, 2016.
Prince, 2009. CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prince, ca. 1995–2000.
Picture of Prince printed in Bryant Junior High School’s 1973 yearbook.
Printing machine in the office of the Waconia Patriot. Date and photographer unknown.
Recreation hour in the prison yard at Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater, ca. 1905.
Inmates in the prison yard at Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater, 1909. Photo by John Runk, Jr.
Prisoners at Minnesota State Prison working in the on-site twine factory, 1925.
Prisoners working at sewing machines, Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater, 1950.