James P. Taylor (center) in police custody on July 5, 1956, the day he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of Kenneth Lindberg. Box 423 of the Minneapolis Star Tribune negatives collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

James P. Taylor

James P. Taylor (center) in police custody on July 5, 1956, the day he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of Kenneth Lindberg. Box 423 of the Minneapolis Star Tribune negatives collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

Jane Grey Swisshelm, c.1860.

Color photograph of Jane Smith Williamson’s gravestone

Jane Smith Williamson’s gravestone in Greenwood, South Dakota

Jane Williamson’s tombstone in the cemetery on the former Yankton Reservation in Greenwood, South Dakota, bears a Daughters of the American Revolution marker identifying her as a descendant of a Revolutionary War veteran. Photograph by Lois Glewwe, 2010s.

Photogravure of Jane Williamson, undated.

Jane Williamson

Photogravure of Jane Williamson, undated. Reproduced in “What Israel Ought to Do,” a Sermon on Home Missionary Work in Minnesota, by Rev. Wm. C. Covert, October 12, 1899. Jane Williamson is the only woman pictured in this overview of Presbyterian missionaries in the early years of the Dakota Mission. The photograph from which this photogravure was made has never been located and its date is unknown.

photograph of a young woman displaying bobbin lace

Janette (Jeannette) Crooks displaying Battenberg lace piece

Janette (Jeannette) Crooks displaying Battenberg lace piece, c. 1900.

Black and white photograph of Japanese American soldiers at Fort Snelling, VJ Day, 1945.

Japanese American soldiers at Fort Snelling, VJ Day

Japanese American soldiers at Fort Snelling, VJ Day, 1945.

Japanese bamboo whisk for a doll

Japanese bamboo whisk for a doll

Japanese bamboo whisk for a doll. Part of the Miss Miyazaki Japanese friendship doll trousseau, ca. 1927.

Color image of a Japanese bronze Amida Buddha, undated.

Japanese bronze Amida Buddha

Cast bronze Amida Buddha figure shows evidence of blackish red paint and gilding [this is a National Bureau of Standards color]. The figure is seated cross-legged on a hexagonal base with the left upturned palm in the lap and the right hand resting on the right knee with fingers touching the ground. The head of the figure has Asian features with elongated ear lobes and topknot typical of Buddha representations. The statue is marked "Bronze/ 19th Century/ John Bradstreet/ Collection". The sculpture was acquired by Samuel A. Trubshaw as a collector for John S. Bradstreet & Co., Minneapolis, Minn.

Japanese group at the 1949 Festival of Nations

Japanese group at the 1949 Festival of Nations

Japanese group at the 1949 Festival of Nations, sponsored by the International Institute in St. Paul and held at the St. Paul Civic Auditorium, May 20‒23, 1949. Japanese people first arrived in Minnesota in large numbers beginning in 1942. They were moving inland to leave concentration camps established by President Roosevelt’s Executive Order #9066 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The 1947 Festival of Nations was the first in which Japanese people participated.

Black and white photograph of translators at the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Fort Snelling, 1945.

Japanese translators at Fort Snelling

Translators at the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Fort Snelling, 1945.

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