Color image of the SPCO onstage at the new Ordway Concert Hall, 2015.

SPCO onstage at the new Ordway Concert Hall

The SPCO onstage at the new Ordway Concert Hall, 2015.

Black and white photograph of the SPCO’s concert at Carnegie Hall, under conductor Leopold Sipe, 1969.

SPCO’s concert at Carnegie Hall, under conductor Leopold Sipe

The SPCO’s concert at Carnegie Hall, under conductor Leopold Sipe, 1969.

Black and white photograph of the SPCO playing “The Star Spangled Banner” at its Ordway debut concert, 1985.

SPCO’s Ordway debut concert

The SPCO playing “The Star Spangled Banner” at its Ordway debut concert, 1985.

Black and white photograph of the SPCO’s traveling wind ensemble at Saint Paul’s Pratt Elementary School, 1976.

SPCO’s traveling wind ensemble at Saint Paul’s Pratt Elementary School

Students at Saint Paul’s Pratt Elementary School get a taste of professional music-making from the SPCO’s traveling wind ensemble, 1976.

Speakers’ podium at Columbus Memorial dedication ceremony

Speakers’ podium at Columbus Memorial dedication ceremony

The speakers’ podium on the steps of the Minnesota Historical Society during the ceremony dedicating a Christopher Columbus Memorial on the grounds of the State Capitol, October 12, 1931.

Special Deputy Sheriff, Ramsey County badge

Special Deputy Sheriff, Ramsey County badge, issued to members of the Minnesota Home Guard during the Twin Cities Streetcar strike, 1917. This badge was worn by Edward Karow, Captain in the Thirteenth Battalion of the Minnesota Home Guard. Original badge is in the Edward Karow Scrapbooks, 1917–1925, Manuscript Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Spectacular Fair: The Minnesota State Fair

In this Collections Up Close video podcast, Minnesota Historical Society collections assistant Christopher Welter shares a few of the thousands of State Fair photographs in the MHS collection, with a special emphasis on the fair’s more spectacular offerings.

Speed Holman and passengers boarding a Hamilton plane

Speed Holman and passengers boarding a Hamilton plane

One of Minnesota’s most celebrated early aviators, Charles “Speed” Holman, looks on as passengers board his Northwest Airways plane, ca. 1929. Photo by Northwest Airlines, Inc.

Color image of spinning frame and roving areas of the Faribault Woolen Mills Company, 2011.

Spinning frame and roving areas

Spinning frame and roving areas of the Faribault Woolen Mills Company, 2011. Photograph by Elizabeth A. Gales.

Image of Spinning Wheel

Spinning wheel used by Norwegian immigrants

Spinning wheel made in 1845 in Norway by Ole Johnson Helland, a fisherman. Ole and his wife, Anne Martha Olsdatter, immigrated to the United States in the 1870s and brought the wheel to Fillmore County, Minnesota. There, Ole's son, Henry O. Helland Ulven, met and married Betsey Pederson, daughter of Norwegian immigrants. The couple moved to Dakota Territory, settling in Clear Lake, South Dakota, where Betsey used the wheel for spinning her own yarn and knitting clothing for her family.

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