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Taconite stockpile, Silver Bay. Photograph by Walter H. Wettschreck, ca. 1965.
Mississippi River and dam, Little Falls, ca. 1890.
Lake Itasca, early 1980s. Photograph by Stephen R. Davis.
Dam on Elk Lake, Itasca State Park, ca. 1940.
Fort Snelling. Oil-on-canvas painting by Alexis Jean Fournier, 1888.
Aerial view of St Peter State Hospital (St. Peter, Minnesota), April 13, 1954. Photo by the Minneapolis Star Journal–Tribune.
Employees of the St. Peter State Hospital (St. Peter, Minnesota) cutting ice on the Minnesota River, next to the hospital, January 1940.
The intersection of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers (Bdote), including Fort Snelling and Pike Island (Wita Tanka). The Sibley Historic Site is in the center foreground. Oil-on-canvas painting by Edward Kirkbride Thomas, ca. 1840.
Ruins of the Walker, Judd & Veazie saw mill at Marine Mill (Marine on St. Croix), May 1, 1909.
A waterfall and stream at the Marine Mills historic site at Marine on St. Croix, ca. 2010s. Photograph by Minnesota Historical Society.