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Gooseberry Falls State Park in autumn. Photograph by Tony Webster, October 15, 2015. CC BY-SA 2.0
Minnesota’s “Gopher Gunners” get a huge hero’s welcome as they march down Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis upon returning home, May 8, 1919. The regiment experienced a similar tumultous welcome earlier the same day in St. Paul.
Souvenir handkerchief, manufacturer unknown, 1990. The commemorates a visit to Minnesota by Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, in 1990.
Gordon Parks in Washington, DC, on September 12, 2000. Photograph by John Matthew Smith. CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gordon Parks at the Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963. National Archives via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Report card issued to eight-grade student Rosalie [sic] Weiss by the Gordon School in St. Paul for the 1918–1919 school year.
Major General Gouverneur K. Warren, ca. 1863–1865. Photographed by Matthew Brady.
"Government ship canal during a storm, Duluth, Minn." Postcard c.1910.
Official Governor’s Portrait of Adolph Eberhart, 1917. Painted by artist Arvid Nyholm.
Governor Al Quie, legislators (including Allan Spear, third from left), and constituents with disabilities, ca. 1980.