NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt display, Minneapolis

Begun in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco in 1987, the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt grew into a nationwide community art project memorializing those who had been killed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Lovers, families, and friends of people who had died sewed quilt panels; others created them for individuals they had never met. In 1988, the quilt embarked on a national twenty-city tour and arrived at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis on July 16.

Colorized postcard of Turner Hall, New Ulm, ca. 1920.

Turner Hall, New Ulm

Turner Hall, New Ulm, ca. 1920.

Colorized postcard of Roosevelt High School, ca. 1910.

Roosevelt High School in Virginia

Roosevelt High School, ca. 1910.

Black and white photograph of a public school in Tower, ca. 1910.

Public school, Tower

Public school in Tower, ca. 1910.

Nellie Francis and the Folk Song Coterie, from Musical America, August 3, 1910.

Nellie Francis and the Folk Song Coterie

Nellie Francis and the Folk Song Coterie, from Musical America, August 3, 1910.

Frederick Weyehaeuser, 1924. Oil on canvas painting by M. Askinazy.

Oil on canvas painting of Frederick Weyehaeuser

Frederick Weyehaeuser, 1924. Oil on canvas painting by M. Askinazy.

Black and white photograph of the drum and bugle corps in pajama uniforms, 1930s.

Drum and bugle corps in pajama uniforms

Drum and bugle corps in pajama uniforms, 1930s.

Black and white photograph of a wedding shower for a drum corps member, 1930s.

Wedding shower for a drum corps member

Wedding shower for a drum corps member, 1930s.

Black and white photograph of T. W. Thorson, ca. 1950s.

T. W. Thorson

T. W. Thorson, ca. 1950s.

Black and white photograph of Theodore W. Thorson as pictured in Central High School yearbook, 1937.

Theodore W. Thorson

Theodore W. Thorson as pictured in Central High School yearbook, 1937.

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