Great Northern Railway Veterans’ Association pin, ca. 1913–1940.

Officers of the Veterans’ Association of the Great Northern Railway in 1913. Association of the Great Northern Railway, 1908‒1914 (Minnesota: The Association, [1914?]).

James J. Hill, Mary T. Hill, James J. Hill II (Jerome), Cortland Hill, and members of the Great Northern Railway Veterans’ Association with seventy-five roses presented to Hill in Glacier Park, Montana, on May 29, 1913--his seventy-fifth birthday. William John McMillan Sr, president of the association, is at the left, holding his hat. From the Louis W. Hill papers, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

James J. Hill's seventy-fifth-birthday, Glacier Park, Montana, 1913. The dinner was attended by members of the Great Northern Railway Veterans Association. From the Louis W. Hill papers, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society. Photograph by Brown Photography Studio.

The Great Northern Veterans’ Association assembled at memorial services at North Oaks, Minnesota, 1918. Photograph by William Bull. From the Louis W. Hill papers, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

James J. Hill's certificate of membership (#1) in the Veterans’ Association of the Great Northern Railway. Issued in St. Paul on April 9, 1913. From the Louis W. Hill papers, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Quong Long, the owner and operator of a Chinese laundry in Red Wing, ca. 1883.

Floyd B. Olson, governor of Minnesota, with Clyde Herring, governor of Iowa, November 13, 1935

Sawmill operated by Norwegian immigrants to Thor (Aitkin County), Minnesota, ca. 1900.