Bill Baker’s 1980 Olympic jersey and hockey stick, 2004. Baker, who was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and played hockey for the University of Minnesota, was part of the "Minnesota Miracle," in which the US men's hockey team (twelve of whom were originally from Minnesota) defeated the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics. Photograph by Flickr user public.resource.org.

Page from the Bankers in Burnt Cork pamphlet. This show was a blackface minstrel production organized by the St. Paul chapter of the American Institute of Banking. From the Minnesota Historical Society pamphlet collection, St. Paul.

Billy the deer at four years old, Lake Superior Zoo, ca. 1927.

Aerial view of BioCON, a free carbon experiment investigating the effects of global change on ecosystems, in Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. Photograph by Jacob Miller, July 26, 2014.