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Canoe teams prepare for the final leg of the Paul Bunyan Canoe Derby, a 450-mile race down the Mississippi. Organizers planned the race so that teams would finish the final leg through downtown Minneapolis on the first day of the inaugural Aquatennial. Used with permission of the Hennepin County History Museum.
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