"The Best Way To Settle It." Minneapolis Journal, April 12, 1889.

Reversible cotton vest with front panels of geometric cross-stitching made by a Minnesotan Hmong woman and sold by the Southeast Asian Ministry. Worn by Bea Vue-Benson, c.1999.

Hmong girl’s hat in the traditional style. Made in St. Paul in 1989.

Hmong story cloth (paj ndau) showing a traditional Laotian village scene. Made in Ban Vinai, Thailand, c.1989.

Inset of a Hmong story cloth (paj ndau) depicting the flight of the Hmong across the Mekong River, from Laos into Thailand. Made in 1985.

Paj ornament made by May Yang, c.1982.

Oil portrait of Abigail Hunt Snelling, c.1818.

“The Red Bull in the Winter Line,” painted by by Donna Neary, c.1988. The painting depicts close-in combat by the First Battalion, 168th Infantry, Thirty-fourth Division, during its five-day assault on Mount Pantano, November 1943. The painting forms part of the National Guard’s Heritage Series at the National Guard Bureau.

Left to right: Audre Lorde, Meridel Le Sueur, and Adrienne Rich, c.1980.

Meridel Le Sueur (right) with writer and poet Molly Culligan (left), 1980.