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Students and teacher in home economics class

Students and their teacher in a home economics class, Daytona Beach Florida. Photograph by Gordon Parks, 1943. Wikimedia Commons via Library of Congress. Public domain.

Steel Workers Organizing Committee button

Steel Workers Organizing Committee dues button, 1941.

Underground mining on the Mesabi Range

Underground mining on the Mesabi Range, 1906. Photo by Underwood & Underwood.

Mesabi Iron Range

The Mesabi Iron Range wasn’t the first iron range to be mined in Minnesota, but it has arguably been the most prolific. Since the 1890s, the Mesabi has produced iron ore that boosted the national economy, contributed to the Allied victory in World War II, and cultivated a multiethnic regional culture in northeast Minnesota.

Veblen, Thorstein Bunde (1857–1929)

Economist and social scientist Thorstein Veblen has been called one of America’s most original and creative thinkers. His highly acclaimed treatise The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899) introduced the term “conspicuous consumption.” Veblen’s body of work remains seminal reading in understanding the modern consumer society and criticisms of capitalism.

Porter Kelsey House

The Porter Kelsey house was built in Andover in 1887 from materials produced by the owner’s own brickyard. In 2020, it is one of the few structures built with Kelsey Brickyard brick that still stands in Anoka County.

Building at Camp Rabideau

Camp Rabideau, Chippewa National Forest south of Blackduck, Minnesota, 2013. Photograph by Wikimedia user McGhiever. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Picnic shelter at Camp Rabideau

The picnic shelter at CCC Camp Rabideau F-50. Photo by Jerry Mathiason, 1994. From box 1 (144.G.8.4F) of Historic American Buildings Survey records related to Minnesota structures, 1882-2001, 1883. Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Army officer headquarters (interior)

Interior view of the army officer’s quarters (Building 13), CCC Camp Rabideau F-50. Photo by Jerry Mathiason, 1994. From box 1 (144.G.8.4F) of Historic American Buildings Survey records related to Minnesota structures, 1882-2001, 1883. Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Barracks at Camp Rabideau (interior)

Interior view of a barracks (Building 11), CCC Camp Rabideau F-50. Photo by Jerry Mathiason, 1994. From box 1 (144.G.8.4F) of Historic American Buildings Survey records related to Minnesota structures, 1882-2001, 1883. Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

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