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Anoka Halloween Celebration float in the July 1987 American Legion Parade. Used with the permission of the Anoka County Historical Society.
Flood at Chaska, 1965.
Flood damage to Lake Superior Zoo, 2012.
The flooded NWSA campus during the 1920s. Earlier, it had been known to locals as a good duck-hunting grounds.
Members of a Minnesota Elks Club ready to perform in drag as the Flora Dora Girls, 1908.
Florence Helen Chase, Ernest Wabasha’s mother, with her sister Emma Chase Frazier, undated. Used with the permission of Cheyanne St. John.
Klingensmith, ca. 1930.
Klingensmith, second from left, at the National Air Races, at which she won the Amelia Earhart Trophy, 1932.
Klingensmith before her first flight, 1928.
Klingensmith poses in a photography studio, ca. 1930. She signed the print for her cousin Merle (Nelson) Arnold, with whom she grew up in the Oak Mound neighborhood of Oakport Township, Minnesota.