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Minnesota’s “Gopher Gunners” get a huge hero’s welcome as they march down Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis upon returning home, May 8, 1919. The regiment experienced a similar tumultous welcome earlier the same day in St. Paul.
Souvenir handkerchief, manufacturer unknown, 1990. The commemorates a visit to Minnesota by Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, in 1990.
Gordon Parks in Washington, DC, on September 12, 2000. Photograph by John Matthew Smith. CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gordon Parks at the Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963. National Archives via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Report card issued to eight-grade student Rosalie [sic] Weiss by the Gordon School in St. Paul for the 1918–1919 school year.
Major General Gouverneur K. Warren, ca. 1863–1865. Photographed by Matthew Brady.
"Government ship canal during a storm, Duluth, Minn." Postcard c.1910.
Official Governor’s Portrait of Adolph Eberhart, 1917. Painted by artist Arvid Nyholm.
Governor Al Quie, legislators (including Allan Spear, third from left), and constituents with disabilities, ca. 1980.
Governor and Mrs. Adolph Eberhart with their children, 1914.