Fire Direction Center

Fire Direction Center

Fire Direction Center during a 151st Field Artillery training exercise at Camp Rucker, May 1951. Used with the permission of the Minnesota Military Museum, Camp Ripley

Black and white aerial image of a fire in the University District in 1938.

Fire, Ninth Street Southeast, Milling District, Minneapolis

Aerial image of a fire in the University District,1938.

Color image of Firefighter monument, 2014.

Firefighter monument

Photograph of a memorial to fallen firefighters erected by the Board of Fire Commissioners in St. Paul’s Oakland Cemetery in 1891. Photographed by Paul Nelson on April 25, 2014.

Firemen’s convention

Firemen’s convention

Firemen’s convention in Ashby, ca. 1890. Prince Honeycutt is seated sixth from the left. Used with the permission of Otter Tail County Society.

Image of firepit chain

Firepit chain

Wrought iron chain used by members of the Grand Portage Chippewa (ca. 1850–1920) to suspend kettles over a fire during the processing of maple sap.

Black and white photograph of the first (#3) and latest (#307) locomotives, Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company, Two Harbors, 1916.

First (#3) and latest (#307) locomotives, Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway

On predecessor road Duluth and Iron Range, two locomotives, 1916. The foreground features the first steam locomotive of the railroad.

Black and white photograph of women with civil defense home first aid kit display, 1954.

First aid kit display

Women with civil defense home first aid kit display, 1954.

Black and white photograph of the first board members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), 1968.

First AIM board members, 1968

The first board members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), 1968. Photograph by Roger Woo, courtesy of the American Indian Movement Interpretative Center.

First airplane flight over Minneapolis

First airplane flight over Minneapolis

An airplane piloted by Alexander T. Heine flies over Minneapolis, 1913. In that year, Heine became the first person to fly a plane over downtown Minneapolis.

Color image of a First American Legion Convention Button, 1919.

First American Legion Convention Button

Small circular button that reads "FIRST AMERICAN LEGION CONVENTION MINNEAPOLIS". It has a pin backing and was made by Williamson Stamp Co., Minneapolis. It commemorates the first convention held by the American Legion in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in November, 1919.

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