Color image of a metal streetcar token holder, c.1900s.

Metal streetcar token holder

Metal streetcar token holder, c.1900s.

Métis dance at Devil’s Lake, Dakota Territory, ca. 1870. Drawing by Corporal Louis Voelkerer, Company A, Thirty-first United States Infantry.

Métis dance, Devil’s Lake, Dakota Territory

Métis dance at Devil’s Lake, Dakota Territory, ca. 1870. Drawing by Corporal Louis Voelkerer, Company A, Thirty-first United States Infantry.

Black and white photograph of Métis drivers with Red River ox carts, probably in Minnesota, 1860.

Métis drivers with Red River ox carts

Métis drivers with Red River ox carts, probably in Minnesota, 1860. Photograph by Benjamin Franklin Upton.

Black and white photograph of an unidentified Métis fur trader of Indian and French Ancestry, ca. 1870.

Métis fur trader

An unidentified Métis fur trader of Native American and French ancestry, ca. 1870.

Metropolitan Sports Center, ca. 1967. The complex, nicknamed the Met Center, was located near the Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington. The North Stars hockey team played there for their entire career in Minnesota.

Metropolitan Sports Center

Metropolitan Sports Center, ca. 1967. The complex, nicknamed the Met Center, was located near the Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington. The North Stars hockey team played there for their entire career in Minnesota.

The Met Center couldn’t find a tenant after the North Stars left for Dallas, and the arena sat empty until it was demolished in December 1994. Photo by Steve Clover.

Metropolitan Sports Center, post-North Stars

The Met Center couldn’t find a tenant after the North Stars left for Dallas, and the arena sat empty until it was demolished in December 1994. Photo by Steve Clover.

Black and white photograph of Metropolitan Stadium aerial, Bloomington, 1960. Photograph: Minneapolis Star Journal Tribune.

Metropolitan Stadium aerial, Bloomington

Metropolitan Stadium aerial, Bloomington, 1960. Photograph: Minneapolis Star Journal Tribune.

Black and white photograph of Metropolitan Stadium under construction. Photograph: Minneapolis Star Journal Tribune, 1955.

Metropolitan Stadium under construction

Metropolitan Stadium under construction. Photograph: Minneapolis Star Journal Tribune, 1955.

Color image of Metropolitan Stadium, Home of the Minnesota Twins and Vikings, ca. 1960.

Metropolitan Stadium, Home of the Minnesota Twins and Vikings

Metropolitan Stadium, Home of the Minnesota Twins and Vikings, ca. 1960.

Fleet of new, air conditioned buses purchased by the MTC in the early 1970s, after the commission acquired Twin City Lines. Photo by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; used with permission.

Metropolitan Transit Commission buses

Fleet of new, air conditioned buses purchased by the MTC in the early 1970s, after the commission acquired Twin City Lines. Photo by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; used with permission.

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