Booth at the 1934 St. Paul Folk Festival

Booth at the 1934 St. Paul Folk Festival

A booth at the St. Paul Folk Festival (a forerunner of the Festival of Nations) held in the St. Paul Civic Auditorium, April 27‒29, 1934. Photograph by Kenneth M. Wright Studios.

Boots worn by Maria Scholucha

Boots worn by Maria Scholucha

Leather boots worn by Maria Scholucha at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Minneapolis, ca. 1910–1919.

Boots worn by Prince in the movie Purple Rain

Boots worn by Prince in the movie Purple Rain

Boots worn by Prince in the movie Purple Rain, 1984.

Black and white photograph of BPWC members host employers at an Elks Club banquet on Boss Night, October 1961.

Boss Night

BPWC members host employers at an Elks Club banquet on Boss Night, October 1961.

Bottle dump in the basement of the Pioneer Hotel

Bottle dump in the basement of the Pioneer Hotel

Bottle dump in the basement of the Pioneer Hotel (125 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis), August 12, 1960. Because most of the buildings in Gateway were repurposed from large office buildings, many had cavernous brick basements. At the Pioneer Hotel, empty bottles of Hamm’s beer, Gluek’s beer, and Franzia muscatel were dropped down a chute into the basement and disposed of once the chute backed up.

Map of the boundaries of Iowa proposed by the Iowa Constitutional Convention of 1844.

Boundaries of Iowa proposed by the Iowa Constitutional Convention of 1844

Map of the boundaries of Iowa proposed by the Iowa Constitutional Convention of 1844.

Boutell’s frigidaire Aquatennial parade float, ca. 1950

Boutell’s frigidaire Aquatennial parade float, ca. 1950

Aquatennial Parade Floats[graphics], Sound and Visual Collection Call #I:3. Used with the permission of the Hennepin County History Museum.

Bow and arrows set

Bow and arrows set

Buckskin quiver, bow case, bow, and arrows. Possibly Plains Ojibwe or Plains Cree; created in the nineteenth century.

Black and white photograph of boxcar chapel in Swede Hollow, 1949.

Boxcar chapel in Swede Hollow, St. Paul; served the Mexican American Community

Boxcar chapel in Swede Hollow, 1949. Mexican Americans were the final immigrant group to call Swede Hollow home. Photograph by St. Paul Dispatch.

Boy and his bicycle

Boy and his bicycle

Boy and his bicycle, c.1890. Photograph by Frank Jay Haynes.

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