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Melvin J. Maas with daughter Patricia and wife Katherine

Melvin J. Maas with daughter Patricia and wife Katherine, 1952.

Black and white photograph of Melvin Maas, 1931.

Melvin Maas high school portrait

Portrait of Melvin Maas from the 1916 edition of St. Paul Central High School's yearbook The Senior Annual.

Melvin Maas, Brigadier General

Melvin Maas as a Brigadier General in the Marines, c.1948.

Members of Battery B of Minneapolis, First Battalion of Artillery

Battery B of Minneapolis, First Battalion of Artillery, fires into Lake Pepin while at Camp Lakeview, the Minnesota National Guard’s summer training camp near Lake City in 1907. The artillery usually trained elsewhere in the summer due to Camp Lakeview’s small size. Photo by B. R. Suyer.

Members of Battery D, 151st Field Artillery

Some of the men from Battery D, 151st Field Artillery, pose with their M1897 75mm field gun at Camp Ripley, July 1939. Each battery had four guns. Used with the permission of the Minnesota Military Museum, Camp Ripley.

Black and white photograph of embers of Company A, Sixteenth Battalion of the Minnesota Home Guard, c.1918.

Members of Company A, Sixteenth Battalion of the Minnesota Home Guard

Members of Company A, Sixteenth Battalion of the Minnesota Home Guard, ca.1918. Standing at right is Captain Clarence Wigington, who petitioned the governor to allow the formation of an African American unit. To his left is Lieutenant Homer Goins. Seated (L to R) are Dr. George Berry and Sergeant William Griffin. The remaining pictured are unidentified.