The steamer City of St. Louis on Lake Minnetonka, ca. 1885. Photo by William H. Jacoby.

The whaleback Christopher Columbus in Duluth harbor, ca. 1885.

Red Wing, War Eagle, and an unidentified steamboat at the St. Paul levee, ca. 1875.

Oil-on-canvas painting depicting a Dakota family using a horse-drawn travois (an animal skin stretched between two poles) to haul their possessions. Painted in 1869 by Seth Eastman. From the art collection of the US House of Representatives; used with permission.

Cycling routes around the Twin Cities. Map created in 1899 by the St. Paul Cycle Path Association. Original available at the Minnesota Historical Society library as G4144 .T89E63 1899 .S75 2F.

Two women with bicycles near Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater Spring), 1899.

Horse-drawn wagons, bicycles, automobiles, and a streetcar at the intersection of Nicollet Avenue and Sixth Street in Minneapolis, 1905. By that year, all of these vehicles were jockeying for right of way on the city's crowded streets.

Arrowhead Country tourism brochure, ca. 1926. Forms part of “Pamphlets relating to the Arrowhead Region in Minnesota, 1909–” (F614.A7), pamphlets collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Canoers completing a portage in the Superior National Forest, ca. 1930.