Delivering flax bales at Schweitzer Flax Plant, Windom, ca. 1950.

Flax bales stacked in a field in Windom, ca. 1950.

Float created by Nelson’s Ice Cream Company passing the State Theater in the Flax Day parade in Windom, late 1940s.

Orin Christensen and other members of a horse club ride in a Flax Day parade in Windom, late 1940s. Published in the Cottonwood County Citizen, July 5, 2017.

Aerial view of Schweitzer Flax Plant, Windom, 1947.

Flax Day picnic with Cedric Adams (front row, center), George Grams, and Gert Tibodeau (rear row, left to right), Windom, 1947. Photograph by Don Berg.

Flax Queen and other royalty riding in a car in the Flax Day parade, Windom, 1947.

Wang Ger Hang harvesting tomatoes at the Hmong American Farmers Association’s farm in Vermillion Township (Dakota County) ca. 2015. Photograph by Mike Hazard; used with the permission of Mike Hazard.

Farm in Dakota County cultivated by the Hmong Americans Farmers Association. Photograph by Mike Hazard, ca. 2015; used with the permission of Mike Hazard.