A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Pokegama falls, 1895. Eleven years after the original dam's completion.
Pokegama Sanatorium cottages, c.1920.
Polar bear at Como Zoo, 1937.
Polar bears Buzz and Neil in their habitat at Como Zoo, ca. 2010. Used with the permission of Como Zoo.
Polar bears Buzz and Neil in their habitat at Como Zoo, ca, 2010. Used with the permission of Como Zoo.
Hardy souls participating in the annual polar plunge event, International Eelpout Festival, ca. 2010s. Photo by Josh Stokes.
Polaris 500 Indy Classic snowmobile at Jay Cooke State Park, Minnesota. Photograph by Flickr user Tony Webster. CC BY 2.0.
One of the earliest known Polaris newspaper advertisements. Bemidji Pioneer, February 2, 1957.
Polaris RMK series snowmobile. Introduced in 1996, the RMK series of snowmobiles Polaris’s entry into the deep snow mountain sled market. Photograph taken in Island Park, Idaho, by Flickr user MotoWebMistress. CC BY 2.0.
Police and strikers, 1934.