Flag design created by Rev. William Becker and Lee Herold in 2001 as a candidate for a new Minnesota state flag. The horizontal bands of blue, white, and green represent Minnesota’s skies, winters, farms, and forests, while the wavy lines suggest the state’s rivers and lakes.

The state seal of Minnesota in use between 1983 and 2013.

Plaque with a miniature Minnesota state flag and a chunk of moon rock embedded in Lucite. The flag was carried to the moon by the spacecraft America during the December 17–19, 1972, as part of the Apollo XVII mission. The rock is from the Taurus Littrow valley of the moon and technically known as "Sample 70017." This is a "Goodwill Moon Rock," one of which was presented to each state and 135 countries by President Nixon in 1973.

Minnesota state flag made by Fillmore & Bradbury in Minneapolis ca. 1968. This version of the flag was in use between 1957 and 1983.

Minnesota state flag made in Minneapolis by H. S. Crocker Company, ca. 1960.

The Minnesota state flag held aloft on June 28, 1949, in celebration of the creation of Minnesota Territory one hundred years earlier.

A Works Progress Administration artist makes a true proportion sketch from the original Minnesota state flag. The sketch was used to make copies of the flag for state occasions. Photograph by the St. Paul Daily News, 1936.

The white side of the Minnesota state flag, ca. 1900.

Minnesota state flag made in Minneapolis ca. 1898 by Pauline and Thomane Fjelde, the makers of the original 1893 flag. The Fjelde sisters presented the flag to the Fifteenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

The first Minnesota state flag, designed by Amelia Hyde Center of Minneapolis and embroidered by Norwegian immigrants Pauline and Thomane Fjelde. The flag was exhibited and won a gold medal at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, in 1893. The flag’s design incorporates symbolic elements around the state seal, including pink-and-white lady’s slippers (Cypripedium reginae); a red ribbon; the state motto, “L’Etoile du Nord” (the Star of the North); and three dates: 1819 (the year of the founding of Fort Snelling), 1893 (the year of the flag’s adoption), and 1858 (the year of Minnesota statehood). The nineteen yellow stars refer to Minnesota’s place as the nineteenth state admitted to the Union.