Members of the Hallie Q. Brown Vagabond Club with tennis rackets, ca. 1930s. Pictured are (standing, left to right): Arthur Williams, Rosamund Collier, Annett Hatton, Hazel Warricks, Hazel Butler, and Albert Harper. Albert Harper kneels at front.

Rev. Dale Anderson (right) with Rev. David Wold (center) and LeRoy Cunningham (left) outside Pilgrim Baptist Church (732 Central Avenue West, St. Paul), March 28, 1974. Anderson and Wold played basketball for a local St. Paul team called the Preachers.

Members of a basketball team pose with Paul and Babe in Bemidji, March 16, 1969. Original caption: “Lumberjack players visited Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox after winning the Region Eight basketball championship. The players (left to right): Jerry Oelrich, Tony Burke, Tom Hill, Wayne Olson, Greg Beaumont, Jimmy Yost, Al Lyseng, Dwight Degerman, Craig Groslie, Dave Rose and Gary Vogel. Squad member Bill Hubbell was not in the photo.” From the folder “Bemidji” in box 145 of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Edina newspaper photographs collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Governor Karl Rolvaag with Iowa Governor Harold E. Hughes at the walleye-season opener at Gunflint Lake, May 15, 1965.

Participants in the Paul Bunyan Festival in Brainerd gather with a man dressed as the mythical lumberjack, ca. 1935.

Patients of the Children’s Preventorium of Ramsey County fish on Lake Owasso. Photograph by the St. Paul Daily News, ca. 1930.

Patients of the Children’s Preventorium of Ramsey County play basketball. Photograph by the St. Paul Daily News, ca. 1926.

St. Paul’s Central Police Station, 1900. Harris Martin died there in 1903 after having a heart attack on St. Peter Street.

Sixth Street in St. Paul, 1900. Boxing champion Harris Martin bested opponents in the back room of a saloon on this street in the late 1880s.

Drawing of Harris Martin that appeared on page five of the St. Paul Daily Globe on May 24, 1890.