Minnesota's first State flag, designed by Amelia Hyde Center of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and embroidered by Pauline and Thomane Fjelde, immigrants to Minnesota from Norway and respected needleworkers. The flag was exhibited and won a gold medal at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893.

: “Washington Prairie Parsonage.” Oil-on-canvas painting by Herbjorn Gausta, c. 1880–1889. Used with the permission of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, Decorah, Iowa.
Source: Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum

Harmony Concert Band at the Minnesota State Fair, ca. 1919. The band performed at summer concerts in Selvig Park.

The Harmony Concert Band at the Minnesota State Fair, ca. 1919. The band played indoor concerts at the Harmony Opera House in Harmony, Minnesota, in the early 1900s.

Interior of the Harmony Opera House in Harmony, Minnesota. Photograph by Carl Robert Moen, ca. 1909.

The Harmony Opera House (now the Old Legion Hall) Harmony, Minnesota. Photograph by Amy Jo Hahn, 2018

Description: Elstad Lutheran Church painting by Herbjorn Gausta, Fillmore County, Minnesota, Christmas 1939. Photograph by Mathias Bue.

Painting by Herbjorn Gausta titled “Mending the Net,” ca. 1900.

Painting by Herbjorn Gausta of a natural spring on a farm in Harmony, Minnesota. Date unknown.