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Front cover of the April 1921 issue of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang.
Front cover of the July 1922 issue of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang.
Captain John P. Ernster, c.1918. Ernster commanded the Aero Division of the Minnesota Motor Corps.
Portrait of Jonathan Carver, who was an early explorer of the area that later became Carver County.
Captain Josias King, c.1864.
Captain L. W. Caffey, infantry instructor, at Fort Snelling, ca. 1917.
Captain Mahlon Black, Second Company of Minnesota Sharpshooters, c.1862. Photograph by Joel Emmons Whitney.
Captain’s uniform shoulder insignia, worn by Captain Mahlon Black, Second Company of Minnesota Sharpshooters, 1862–1865.
Car approaching a bridge with pedestrians along the Gunflint Trail. Photograph by William F. Roleff, 1936.
A car with a piece of timber rammed through its windshield at Fridley Terrace trailer park, May 7, 1965. Minneapolis Star photograph by Gerald Brimacombe. Minneapolis Star Tribune negatives collection (box 251), Minnesota Historical Society.