Ralph Samuelson, 1925. Samuelson, an eighteen-year-old from Lake City, Minnesota, is credited with inventing water skiing on Lake Pepin in 1922.

Ralph Samuelson

Ralph Samuelson, 1925. Samuelson, an eighteen-year-old from Lake City, Minnesota, is credited with inventing water skiing on Lake Pepin in 1922.

lithograph showing farm, houses, and rolling fields

Residence of John M. Bayard, section 26, Mount Pleasant Township, Wabasha County

Residence of John M. Bayard, section 26, Mount Pleasant Township, Wabasha County from An Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Minnesota, 1874.

Rocks with pictographs at Nett Lake, ca. 1934. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.

Rocks with pictographs at Nett Lake

Rocks with pictographs at Nett Lake, ca. 1934. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.

Scheie Lutheran Church altar painting

Scheie Lutheran Church altar painting

Description: Scheie Lutheran Church altar painting by Herbjorn Gausta, ca. 1885–1895. Photograph by Amy Jo Hahn, 2017.

Photograph of Side View of Dacotah Building

Side view of Dacotah Building

The Dacotah Building at 366–378 Selby Avenue, St. Paul. Photograph by Alan Ominsky, 1978.

Southdale Center, Seventieth and France, Edina.

Southdale Center, Seventieth and France, Edina

Description: Southdale Center, Seventieth and France, Edina, c.1958.

Upside-down American flag flying at Wounded Knee

Upside-down American flag flying at Wounded Knee

An American Indian Movement (AIM) flag flies at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, 1998. AIM members adopted the upside-down US flag, a signal of distress, as a symbol of their movement. Photograph by Jon Lurie, 1998. Used with the permission of Jon Lurie.

Virginia and Rainy Lake Mill, Virginia, ca. 1910.

Virginia and Rainy Lake Mill

Virginia and Rainy Lake Mill, Virginia, ca. 1910.

Workers on strike at the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant

Workers on strike at the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant

Picket line at the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP) blocking Gate #4. Photograph by H. W. Holmberg, August 8, 1967. Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant files, box 143.E.17.3B.

Yoruba head

Yoruba head

Shrine head, between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. This is a memorial portrait head from the royal city of Ife in western Nigeria, a center of power from 1100 to 1400. Ife artists made heads in bronze and terra-cotta that were part of complete figures or, as here, freestanding. Creative Commons Public Domain 1.0.

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