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Detail view of Wilderness, Elsa Jemne’s mural for the Ely Post Office, 1940.
A postcard with a color illustration of the "wishing well" inside Niagara Cave, Harmony, Minnesota, ca. 1945.
"Woman in a Rocking Chair," c.1885. Watercolor on paper by Robert Koehler.
Workers, c.1934–1941. Oil on canvas by Dorothea Lau.
Yellow Kidney, Keeper of the Beaver Bundle, oil-on-canvas painting by Elsa Jemne, 1926.
Painting by Herbjorn Gausta titled “Young Mother,” 1885.
Zebra Tapestry, 1928. Tapestry by Clara Mairs.
Charles Biederman sculpture from 1956-68. Painted metal; size: 32 x 45 x 5½ in.
Sculpture by Charles Biederman. #6 / 1975 / 1976. Gift of Allegra and Paul Parker to the Minnesota Historical Society.
The "Goofy Meets Gorby" t-shirt makes light of a meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, and Rudy Perpich, Governor of Minnesota, during Gorbachev's 1990 visit to the state.