A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Electric shovel in operation at the Mesabi Mountain open pit mine in Franklin, ca. 1935. Photographed by Kurt B. Florman.
Television, radio and phonograph department, Dayton's Southdale store, 1958.
Elephant House at the Duluth Zoo, ca. 1940.
Elevator after cyclone, Rochester. Photographed by Elmer & Tenney, August 21, 1883.
Elevator doors of the Minnesota Building, 2009. The lavish ornamentation of the doors is typical of the art deco style. Photograph by Thomas R. Zahn.
Elevator, Northwestern National Bank, Minneapolis, ca. 1930.
This postcard of "Elevator Row" in Clara City, Minnesota, c.1910, shows one of the major reasons rural people have gone to town since the 1880s: to connect to the railroad to sell grain.
Elevator to Foshay Tower observation balcony, Minneapolis, 1948.
Eleventh Minnesota national battle flag.
Elias W. Mortimer, Sergeant in Company F, Fifth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, c.1865. Photograph by Joel Emmons Whitney.