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Color postcard with an image of the first statue of Shaynowishkung (He Who Rattles, also called Chief Bemidji) in Bemidji, ca. 1950.
Advertisement for an 1885 production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta The Mikado. St. Paul Daily Globe, October 28, 1885 (amusements section, page 8).
First St. Paul Union Depot (destroyed by fire 1915),1887.
First State Capitol building showing enlargement of 1878. Photograph by Alfred Palmquist & Company, 1879.
Black-and-white photo print of a drawing of the first Minnesota state capitol c.1853–1873.
Black and white photo print of a drawing of the first Minnesota state capitol, c.1853–1873.
First State Capitol, Tenth and Wabasha, St. Paul, 1875, showing the 1873 addition. From, Harper's Monthly, October 1875, p. 629.
First Stickney Store, facing east, ca. 1922.
A street scene of First Street South in Minneapolis, where the First Street Red Light District was. Photograph by C. J. Hibbard, ca. 1895.
View of the Hennepin Bridge from Nicollet Island, c.1868.