Students from Rochester Training School of Nursing, 1905. Dr. Laura Linton is standing in the back row, at center. Image used courtesy of the History Center of Olmsted County.

Laura Linton performs surgery in an operating room at Rochester State Hospital, ca. 1900–1910. Photo shared by ancestry.com user Tom Rasmussen on November 22, 2014. Public domain.

Laura Linton with members of her family. Pictured are (left to right): Christiana Linton (Laura’s mother), Laura Phelps (Laura niece), Sarah Linton Phelps (Laura’s sister, who was also a physician), Isabella Phelps (Sarah’s daughter), and Laura Linton. Photo shared by ancestry.com user ljohnson0189 on March 16, 2021. Public domain.

Laura Linton, ca. 1893. From A Woman of the Century (Buffalo, NY: Moulton, 1893), 464. Public domain.

Laura Linton, ca. 1896.

Meals On Wheels packaging machine invented by Oscar C. Howard. Manufactured between 1970 and 1990.

Broken headlight of the 1977 Ford LTD driven by Marshall County Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson during the Val Johnson incident (August 27, 1979). Undated.

Val Johnson posed inside a squad car at the scene of his collision with an unidentified force or object on County Road 5 in Marshall County on August 27, 1979. Photograph by Regene Radniecki for the Minneapolis Star, November 1979. Used with the permission of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson at the scene of his collision with an unidentified force or object on County Road 5 in Marshall County on August 27, 1979. Photograph by Stormi Greener. Originally published with “Deputy’s UFO Story Evokes Other Tales,” Minneapolis Star, September 11, 1979, 1. Used with the permission of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.