A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Animal cages, Como Zoo, St. Paul, ca. 1936.
Animal house, Como Zoo, St. Paul, ca. 1940.
Steel animal trap created in New York between 1800 and 1900.
Steel animal trap used by the Hudson’s Bay Company.
Detail view of an Anishinaabe or Dakota dance blanket, 1840s-1850s. Robert J. Ulrich Works of Art Purchase Fund, Mia accession number 2007.1. Public domain.
Cover art for Jim Northrup’s Anishinaabe Syndicated (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2011).
Anna and Lena Ewert posing with a quilt they made and donated to the Tabor College Carson Center quilt auction, 2009.
Anna Arnold Hedgeman, ca. 1950s. Used with the permission of Hamline University.
Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Averell Harriman, 1960s.
Anna Arnold Hedgeman being sworn in to Robert F. Wagner, Jr.'s mayoral cabinet, 1954. Wagner was the mayor of New York City from 1954 until 1965.