The Simonet Furniture Store, Nelson and South Main Streets, Stillwater, ca. 1880. Founded in 1867 by Sebastian Simonet, a master carpenter and Romansh immigrant, ca. 1880. Photograph by John Runk.

Description: The Dacotah Building (366–378 Selby Avenue, St. Paul) viewed from the north side of Selby Avenue. Photograph by Charles W. Nelson, March 1976.

The Dacotah Building at 366–378 Selby Avenue, St. Paul. Photograph by Alan Ominsky, 1978.

The Dacotah Building at 366–378 Selby Avenue, St. Paul. Photograph by Alan Ominsky, 1978.

Close-up view of the front façade of the Dacotah Building at 366–378 Selby Avenue, St. Paul. Photograph by Alan Ominsky, 1978.

The front façade of Schoch and Company, a tenant of the Dacotah Building at 366-374 Selby, ca. 1900.

The Dacotah Building, 366–378 Selby Avenue, St. Paul. Photograph by David Kopacz, 2013. Used with the permission of David Kopacz.

Flour sack from George W. Florida’s Rockford Roller Mills on display in the Ames-Florida-Stork House. Made ca. 1895; photographed in 2014. Used with the permission of the Rockford Area Historical Society.

Letter sent from David Olmsted to Antoine Grignon requesting tea and sugar, June 21, 1851. Olmsted was living at and managing a trading post at Long Prairie at the time. From the Eben Douglas Pierce papers (Manuscripts Collection, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison). Used with the permission of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Views of the interior of Northwest National Bank, Minneapolis, ca. 1898. From Art Glimpses of Minneapolis: The City of Homes. ([Minneapolis]: Times Newspaper Company, 1898).