: Sales brochure featuring the 1969 Polaris Mustang. From “Pamphlets relating to snowmobiles and snow cruisers, 1939–.” Pamphlets collection (TL234), Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Polaris sleds dominated the 1967 St. Paul Winter Carnival “500” snowmobile race. From envelope titled “Snowmobile race, January 1967, trans returned,” box 612 of the
Minneapolis and St. Paul Newspaper Negatives Collection (1936–1987), Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

1963 Polaris Sno-Traveler at a show-and-swap meet in Maple Lake, Minnesota, August 2017. Photograph by Flickr user Greg Gjerdingen. CC BY 2.0.

One of the earliest known Polaris newspaper advertisements. Bemidji Pioneer, February 2, 1957.

1961 Polaris Sno-Traveler. This snowmobile was originally painted red and was decorated with white stenciling, decals, and pinstripes.

Polaris sales brochure produced after Edgar Hetteen’s pivotal Alaska-proving trek, ca. 1960. From “Pamphlets relating to snowmobiles and snow cruisers, 1939–.” Pamphlets collection (TL234), Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

1964 Polaris sales brochure. From “Pamphlets relating to snowmobiles and snow cruisers, 1939–.” Pamphlets collection (TL234), Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Organizers of an FMA tennis tournament at 3M Tartan Park (Lake Elmo), 1993. Photograph by Tito Sumangil. Used with the permission of Tito Sumangli.

The cover of the sheet music of “The Minnesota Boat Club March,” composed by Emile Oberhoffer and published in 1893. From folio M1658.M55 C65, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.