Knutson celebrates her first congressional win in 1954.

Coya Knutson and her secretary, Alice Lindquist, inspect a stack of campaign posters in 1954. Knutson’s husband, Andy, looks on.

Knutson frequently charmed voters by playing this Hohner accordion on the campaign trail throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Coya Knutson, ca. 1955.

Two future Vice Presidents of the United States — Professor Hubert Humphrey (center) and student Walter Mondale (right) — chat with Macalester president Charles Turck (left) in 1947.

Norwegian Minnesotans Walter Mondale and Karl Rolvaag (left and right) with fellow Norwegian Hubert Humphrey (center), ca. 1967. At the time, Humphrey was vice president, Rolvaag governor of Minnesota, and Mondale a US senator.

Minnesota Congresswoman Coya Knutson. Photograph by Harris & Ewing, ca. 1955.

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

Minnesota's first State flag, designed by Amelia Hyde Center of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and embroidered by Pauline and Thomane Fjelde, immigrants to Minnesota from Norway and respected needleworkers. The flag was exhibited and won a gold medal at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893.