Black and white photograph of a Great Northern Railway float, at the St. Paul Winter Carnival, 1942.

Great Northern Railway float

Great Northern Railway float, St. Paul Winter Carnival, 1942.

Great Northern Railway Veterans’ Association button

Great Northern Railway Veterans’ Association button

Great Northern Railway Veterans’ Association pin, ca. 1913–1940.

Great Northern Railway Veterans’ Association certificate

Great Northern Railway Veterans’ Association certificate

James J. Hill's certificate of membership (#1) in the Veterans’ Association of the Great Northern Railway. Issued in St. Paul on April 9, 1913. From the Louis W. Hill papers, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Great Northern Railway Veterans’ Association pin

Great Northern Railway Veterans’ Association pin

Great Northern Railway Veterans’ Association pin, ca. 1913–1940.

Great Northern Railways Veterans’ Association badge

Great Northern Railways Veterans’ Association badge

Great Northern Railways Veterans’ Association badge, ca. 1913–1916.

Black and white photograph of the Great Northern Railway’s Winnipeg Limited crossing the Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis, ca. 1955.

Great Northern Railway’s Winnipeg Limited crossing the Stone Arch Bridge

The Great Northern Railway’s Winnipeg Limited crossing the Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis, ca. 1955.

Black and white photograph of the Great Northern streamliner train in Glacier National Park, ca. 1955. Photograph by the Great Northern Railway.

Great Northern streamliner train in Glacier National Park

Great Northern streamliner train in Glacier National Park, ca. 1955. Photograph by the Great Northern Railway.

Great Northern Veterans’ Association

Great Northern Veterans’ Association

The Great Northern Veterans’ Association assembled at memorial services at North Oaks, Minnesota, 1918. Photograph by William Bull. From the Louis W. Hill papers, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Great Seal of Minnesota Territory

Great Seal of Minnesota Territory

The Great Seal of Minnesota Territory, ca. 1849. From William Watts Folwell's A History of Minnesota, Vol. 1 (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1921), 461.

Great Seal of the Territory of Wisconsin

Great Seal of the Territory of Wisconsin

The Great Seal of the Territory of Wisconsin, after 1838. The themes of oncoming civilization and retreating “savagery” were—and are—common pioneering motifs. The seals of Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, and North Dakota portray plowmen, while standalone plows appear on ten others. Kansas and North Dakota seals depict retreating Native people as well. The seal of Wisconsin Territory, containing both a foregrounded plowman and a Native man gesturing westwards, may have influenced the Minnesota seal.

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