Karl Rolvaag with Harold E. Hughes

Karl Rolvaag with Harold E. Hughes

Governor Karl Rolvaag with Iowa Governor Harold E. Hughes at the walleye-season opener at Gunflint Lake, May 15, 1965.

Paul Bunyan Festival participants

Paul Bunyan Festival participants

Participants in the Paul Bunyan Festival in Brainerd gather with a man dressed as the mythical lumberjack, ca. 1935.

Children’s Preventorium patients fishing

Children’s Preventorium patients fishing

Patients of the Children’s Preventorium of Ramsey County fish on Lake Owasso. Photograph by the St. Paul Daily News, ca. 1930.

Children’s Preventorium patients playing basketball

Children’s Preventorium patients playing basketball

Patients of the Children’s Preventorium of Ramsey County play basketball. Photograph by the St. Paul Daily News, ca. 1926.

Central Police Station, St. Paul

Central Police Station, St. Paul

St. Paul’s Central Police Station, 1900. Harris Martin died there in 1903 after having a heart attack on St. Peter Street.

Sixth Street, St. Paul

Sixth Street, St. Paul

Sixth Street in St. Paul, 1900. Boxing champion Harris Martin bested opponents in the back room of a saloon on this street in the late 1880s.

Drawing of Harris Martin

Drawing of Harris Martin

Drawing of Harris Martin that appeared on page five of the St. Paul Daily Globe on May 24, 1890.

Harris Martin

Harris Martin

Print based on a photograph of Harris Martin, 1887. Original caption: “Harris Martin, the Black Pearl, a Famous Boxer of St. Paul, Minnesota.” Police Gazette (New York), June 4, 1887, page 13.

Harris Martin

Harris Martin

Harris Martin in Minneapolis, 1887. The photograph appeared on page two of the St. Paul Globe on April 27, 1903.

Martin, Harris (1865–1903)

Harris Martin, also known as George Harris, was a middleweight boxer who went by the moniker “the Black Pearl.” In 1887 he became the first Colored Middleweight Champion of the World in a fight staged on the banks of the Mississippi, making him one of the most famous boxers of the period.

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