An airplane piloted by Alexander T. Heine flies over Minneapolis, 1913. In that year, Heine became the first person to fly a plane over downtown Minneapolis.
Horses pulling a car out of mud on a dirt road. Photograph by Kenneth Melvin Wright, ca. 1927. Minnesotans advocated for better roads in the 1920s and beyond.
Harold Sturgis (seated at left) and his electric automobile (one of the first automobiles used in Minnesota) draw a crowd outside the West Hotel, Minneapolis, 1896.
Advertisement for the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway, a predecessor of James J. Hill’s Great Northern Railway, with the recently completed Stone Arch Bridge in the foreground, 1885.
Oil-on-canvas painting depicting a Dakota family using a horse-drawn travois (an animal skin stretched between two poles) to haul their possessions. Painted in 1869 by Seth Eastman. From the art collection of the US House of Representatives; used with permission.