A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Babes in Toyland’s Kat Bjelland on the cover of the January/February 1991 issue of the fanzine Flipside. The inset image shows (left to right): Lori Barbero; Bjelland; and Michelle Leon.
Niagara Cave, Harmony, Minnesota, ca. 1936.
Anoka Halloween Celebration float in the July 1987 American Legion Parade. Used with the permission of the Anoka County Historical Society.
Flood at Chaska, 1965.
Flood damage to Lake Superior Zoo, 2012.
The flooded NWSA campus during the 1920s. Earlier, it had been known to locals as a good duck-hunting grounds.
Members of a Minnesota Elks Club ready to perform in drag as the Flora Dora Girls, 1908.
Florence Helen Chase, Ernest Wabasha’s mother, with her sister Emma Chase Frazier, undated. Used with the permission of Cheyanne St. John.
Klingensmith, ca. 1930.
Klingensmith, second from left, at the National Air Races, at which she won the Amelia Earhart Trophy, 1932.