Former Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater

Former Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater

Former Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater. Photograph taken by John Runk, Jr., in 1936, twenty-two years after the prison was shut down and its inmates were moved to a new facility.

Black and white photograph of former president Harry Truman speaks to guests in Nelson Hall, the post’s headquarters, in July 1953

Former president Harry Truman speaking at Camp Ripley

Former president Harry Truman speaks to guests in Nelson Hall, the post’s headquarters, in July 1953 while visiting troops from the Missouri National Guard training at Camp Ripley. This was Truman’s second visit: he trained here himself in 1932 as a staff officer with the Missouri National Guard.

Black and white photograph of former squatters and lumberjacks from the Beltrami Island area in Northern Minnesota, 1939.

Former squatters and lumberjacks from the Beltrami Island area in Northern Minnesota

Former squatters and lumberjacks from the Beltrami Island area in Northern Minnesota. When the land was bought up by the government, this home-Northern Minnesota Pioneers' Home-was established. All these men are over seventy." Photographed by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration in 1939.

Fort Brown

Fort Brown

Old Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas, ca. 1911–1917. Dorsey Willis and other soldiers of the Twenty-Fifth Infantry were living in the building during the Brownsville Incident of 1906. DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, via Wikimedia Commons.

Black and white photograph of the steamer International at Fort Garry, looking northward from the Assiniboine River, 1870.

Fort Garry and the steamer International

The steamer International at Fort Garry, looking northward from the Assiniboine River, 1870. Photograph by Alex J. Russell’s Red River Country, etc., 1870. Steamboat 'International' in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Reproduced in Russell Blakely, “Opening of the Red River of the North to Commerce and Civilization,” Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society VIII (1898), 45–66.

Black and white photograph of Fort Ripley, 1862.

Fort Ripley

Fort Ripley, 1862.

Black and white photograph of Fort Ripley in the early 1870s.

Fort Ripley in the early 1870s

Fort Ripley in the early 1870s. The somewhat taller structure to the rear left is the newly built hospital and headquarters, which replaced the one that burned down in July 1870. The fort’s three six-pounder brass cannons are pointed at the river.

Black and white photograph of a sign marking the site of old Fort Ripley, 1850.

Fort Ripley sign

The site of Fort Ripley is within the boundaries of present-day Camp Ripley. The remains of the powder magazine can be seen in the background of this 1950 photo.

Oil on canvas painting by David Geister, 2006.

Fort Snelling

Fort Snelling, c.1835. Oil on canvas painting by David Geister, 2006.

Black and white photograph of Fort Snelling, c.1865.

Fort Snelling

Fort Snelling, c.1865.

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