Cookhouse at Sulphur Camp, 1916. Sulphur Camp was the location of early taconite research, near current-day Babbitt, Minnesota.  Peter Mitchell, a prospector from Michigan, explored the area and found that taconite was plentiful on this part of the Iron Range.

Cookhouse at Sulphur Camp

Cookhouse at Sulphur Camp, 1916. Sulphur Camp was the location of early taconite research, near current-day Babbitt, Minnesota. Peter Mitchell, a prospector from Michigan, explored the area and found that taconite was plentiful on this part of the Iron Range.

Page about a physical education program from the 1977 edition of Hawkeye, the annual yearbook of the Cooperative School Rehabilitation Center, Minnetonka.

Cooperative School Rehabilitation Center yearbook

Page about a physical education program from the 1977 edition of Hawkeye, the annual yearbook of the Cooperative School Rehabilitation Center, Minnetonka.

Cootie game

Cootie game

Cootie game, 1949.

Cootie game in its original 1966 packaging

Cootie game in its original 1966 packaging

Cootie game in its original cardboard packaging, manufactured in 1966.

Photgraph portrait of Joseph Volk in his uniform, including his hat.

Copy photoprint of framed tintype, Joseph H. Volk in his Union Army uniform, Fourth Minnesota, Company C.

Joseph H. Volk in his Union Army uniform, Fourth Minnesota, Company C, c.1864.

Photograph of Cora Best's Ice Axe

Cora Best's ice axe

Personalized ice axe used by Cora Johnstone Best. The blade is inscribed with her name. Axes of this type were used by early mountaineers to cut steps in ice and snow. The broken handle pictured here would have originally been approximately four feet long. Used with the permission of the photographer, Cheryl Jacklin-Piraino.

Photograph of Cora Best

Cora Johnstone Best

Cora Johnstone Best, ca. 1930.

Photograph of Cora Johnstone Best at Lake of the Hanging Glaciers

Cora Johnstone Best at Lake of the Hanging Glaciers

Cora Johnstone Best at Lake of the Hanging Glaciers, near Windermere, British Columbia, Canada. Photograph by Audrey Shippam, 1923.

Picture of Cora Johnstone Best lead-climbing an ice route

Cora Johnstone Best lead-climbing an ice route

Cora Johnstone Best lead-climbing an ice route in the Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada, near Jumbo Mountain. Photograph by Audrey Shippam, ca. 1923.

Cora Johnstone Best’s autograph

Cora Johnstone Best’s autograph

Autograph of Cora Best that reads, “Yours ‘till the bears get me, Cora Johnstone Best.” Found on the interior of a Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies pamphlet, ca. 1924.

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