Color photograph of a dress made out of butter cartons used at the Minnesota State Fair, 1965.

Dress made out of butter cartons used at the Minnesota State Fair

Dress made out of butter cartons used at the 1965 Minnesota State Fair to promote the American Dairy Association of Minnesota. The dress has a Bertha collar and center back zipper; hook-and-eye closure at the collar; and a matching lined cape-let with a center front opening and plain rounded neckline edged in rick rack. A band with hidden buttons and snaps holds the cape and neckline in place. The A-line skirt has a waistline band with two plastic buttons and buttonholes in front and an inverted front pleat edged in rick rack. Round-cornered squares have been cut out from one-pound butter cartons representing various Minnesota creameries and machine-stitched onto the cape and skirt in horizontal rows to a stiffened interfacing.

Roméo et Juliet

Dress rehearsal of Roméo et Juliet

Dress rehearsal of the Minnesota Opera's 2008 production of Roméo et Juliette, by Charles Gounod. Presented between January 26 and February 3. Photograph by Flickr user Florida Grand Opera, January 24, 2008. CC BY 2.0.

Color image of a dress worn by Mary T. Hill for portrait sitting, 1913.

Dress worn by Mary T. Hill for portrait sitting

Dress worn by Mary T. Hill for portrait sitting, 1913.

Color scan of a dressing gown worn by Mary T. Hill, c.1910.

Dressing gown worn by Mary T. Hill

Dressing gown worn by Mary T. Hill, c.1910.

Dressmakers in Owatonna

Dressmakers in Owatonna

Dressmakers (Ida Larkey, Etta Annis Teachout, and Orena Elnora Teachout) in Owatonna. Photograph by Fred Mueller, ca. 1890

A piece of drill core used by E. J. Longyear near Mesabi station, ca. 1890. The piece measures approximately two and a half inches long and about one and an eighth inches in diameter.

Drill core

A piece of drill core used by E. J. Longyear near Mesabi station, ca. 1890. The piece measures approximately two and a half inches long and about one and an eighth inches in diameter.

Black and white photograph of driving piles for the Stockwood Fill, spring 1906.

Driving piles for the Stockwood Fill

Driving piles for the Stockwood Fill, spring 1906. View to northeast. Photographed by S. P. Wange, Hawley, MN.

Black and white photograph of drought farmers working on a farm to market road in Foster Township, south of Beardsley in Big Stone County, 1936.

Drought farmers working on a farm to market road

Drought farmers working on a farm to market road in Foster Township, south of Beardsley in Big Stone County, 1936.

Drs. Charles Horace Mayo and William James Mayo

Drs. Charles Horace Mayo and William James Mayo

Drs. Charles H. Mayo and William J. Mayo in the first operating room at St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, 1904.

Black and white photograph of the American Legion drum and bugle corps on parade at state competition in Albert Lea, Minnesota, August, 1935.

Drum and bugle corps in Albert Lea

The American Legion drum and bugle corps on parade at state competition in Albert Lea, Minnesota, August, 1935.

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