Charles Bender during the prime of his baseball career, 1911. Photograph by Paul Thompson. Bender, who is credited with inventing the slider (a type of breaking-ball pitch), was born on the White Earth Reservation of Ojibwe. He pitched in and won six World Series games—a first in the sport.
Carte-de-visite photograph of Charles E. Flandrau taken by Whitney's Gallery in December of 1862. Flandrau served on the Minnesota State Supreme Court from 1858 to 1864.
Charles Etchison testifying as a witness to the murder of Mary Fridley Price. From "State's Star Witness Completes Story of Alleged Murder," Minneapolis Journal, January 11, 1916, 6. Image reproduced from microfilm at the Minnesota Historical Society.
Charles F. Dight in Minneapolis, undated. From box 1 of the Charles Fremont Dight papers, 1883–1984, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.