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Dakota family using a horse-drawn travois

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.

Cycling routes around the Twin Cities

Cycling routes around the Twin Cities. Map created in 1899 by the St. Paul Cycle Path Association. Original available at the Minnesota Historical Society library as G4144 .T89E63 1899 .S75 2F.

Two women with bicycles near Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater Spring)

Two women with bicycles near Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater Spring), 1899.

Horse-drawn wagons, bicycles, automobiles, and a streetcar on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis

Horse-drawn wagons, bicycles, automobiles, and a streetcar at the intersection of Nicollet Avenue and Sixth Street in Minneapolis, 1905. By that year, all of these vehicles were jockeying for right of way on the city's crowded streets.

How Transportation Has Shaped the State

Moving through Minnesota: Transportation in the Land of Lakes

Humans have always been mobile creatures. Although some claim to prefer sedentary activities, most actually find it difficult to stay in one place for too long. Minnesotans are no different in this regard from anyone else. They vary only in the particulars. People have moved into, out of, and within the borders of the land we now call Minnesota for centuries. Their movements—and the ways they have moved—constitute the history of transportation in the state.

Arrowhead Country tourism brochure

Arrowhead Country tourism brochure, ca. 1926. Forms part of “Pamphlets relating to the Arrowhead Region in Minnesota, 1909–” (F614.A7), pamphlets collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.