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Sinclair Lewis, photographed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, 1945.
Sinclair Lewis’ childhood home, December 1975. Photographed by Henry Harren.
Three individuals standing in front of Singer's Hall, Young America, 1870s or 1880s.
A row of people wraps around the front of Singer's Hall, 1870s or 1880s.
Sioux quartzite cliff in Blue Mounds State Park, 2007.
A Sioux Quartzite ridge and hiking trail at Pipestone National Monument, 2010. Photograph taken by Flickr user Brian Jeffery Beggerly.
Sister Antonia McHugh, St. Catherine College’s first dean and first president, 1936.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny examining a child and lecturing to visitors c.1945.
Sister Irmina Kelehan (bottom left) and other Sisters of St. Joseph setting sail for Japan, 1956. Photographed by Don Bosco. Image used courtesy of the archives of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Paul Province.
Video about Australian nurse Elizabeth Kenny, founder of the Sister Kenny Institute, created by the Minnesota Historical Society, May 22, 2012.