Small maple sloping lid desk used by the Minnesota state Legislature has leather writing area and low gallery at rear with post and ball decoration. Two drawers below desk top had brass keyhole surrounds; one is missing. The base has four turned wooden legs and feet and low shelf with railing. Simple shelf designs ornament side corners; simple scroll designs are carved above front feet and below desk top front, ca. 1882.

Eastlake upholstered side chair, used in the second state capitol, ca. 1890s.

Drawing by Leroy S. Buffington, Architect, for the state capitol building, St. Paul, ca. 1881. Photographed by Farr.

St. Anthony Falls by Alexander Francois Loemans, ca. 1875. The painting may have been rescued from the Capitol fire in 1881 by Senator James Nathan Castle.

Civil War General George H. Thomas, by Samuel Woodson Price, 1880. The portrait may have been rescued from the House of Representatives chamber during the 1881 fire.

First State Capitol building showing enlargement of 1878. Painted by Alfred Palmquist & Company, 1879.

First State Capitol, Tenth and Wabasha, St. Paul, 1875, showing the 1873 addition. From, Harper's Monthly, October 1875, p. 629.

The band Flyte Tyme, and friends, in Halloween costumes: Terry Lewis (in silver with arms outstretched), Cynthia Johnson (bottom center), and Jellybean Johnson (back right). Photograph by Charles Chamblis, ca. 1980. https://www.mnhs.org/search/collections/record/542d0884-061a-4226-b6dc-e0a3ace16f17

Children’s piano recital at Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House, Minneapolis, ca. 1953.

Back of Grand Theater, showing mural, March 2017.