Colored print illustrating the home of Ignatius Donnelly in Nininger, Minnesota, 1874.

One of ninety-eight hand-painted scenic drops used for Scottish and York rites inside Winona's Masonic Temple.

One of ninety-eight hand-painted scenic drops used for Scottish and York rites inside Winona's Masonic Temple.

One of ninety-eight hand-painted scenic drops used for Scottish and York rites inside Winona's Masonic Temple.

Winona Masonic Temple, 1910.

Machinery at work stripping overburden for ore on the Mesabi Iron Range c.1905.

One-sheet poster advertising the Washburn Mills in Minneapolis. It highlights the importance of mechanization, local wheat and water power, and global ambition to the firm. Included in the 1889 carnival edition of the St. Paul Dispatch.

Engraving of a bonanza farm printed in the November 1, 1879 edition of the Independent Farmer and Fireside Companion (page 174). The image celebrates the commercial possibilities of large-scale, mechanized, and systematized wheat farming in the Red River Valley.

Four trade beads created in the eighteenth or early nineteenth century. These European-made objects took on new meaning and significance in the context of the fur trade.

Thirty-nine barrel-drawn, unevenly faceted glass beads created in the eighteenth or early nineteenth century.