Ruins of Pettit, Zenith, and Galaxy Mills after the Washburn A Mill explosion, Minneapolis, 1878. Stereograph by Nowack & Chase.

Ruins of Washburn A Mill and other mills after explosion, Minneapolis, 1878. Photograph by Jacoby.

Ruins of Washburn A Mill after explosion, Minneapolis, 1878. Photograph by Jacoby.

Washburn A Mill, Minneapolis, rebuilt after the 1878 explosion, ca. 1882.

The ruins of Washburn A Mill in Minneapolis after flour dust sparked an explosion inside the building, 1878.

Carrie H. Lippincott’s home (602–604 Tenth Street S., Minneapolis), ca. 1906. Lippincott is shown in the inset at the upper right. The image was printed in the 1906 Lippincott Seeds catalog and in periodicals like the Citizen and Farmer. Miss C.H. Lippincott seed company scrapbook, ca. 1893–ca. 1922, Sound and Visual Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Children gather outside the Women’s Advocates building in St. Paul, 2024. Used with the permission of Women’s Advocates.

The Lakeside Hotel on Lake Pepin with a steamboat on the water, 1868. Photo by Combs & Whitney.

The apse inside St. Adalbert Church, St. Paul, decorated for Christmas. Photograph by Augustine H. Mai, December 2020. Used with the permission of Augustine H. Mai.

The front facade of St. Adalbert Church, St. Paul, at 265 Charles Avenue. Photograph by Kimmy Tanaka, July 2013. Used with the permission of Kimmy Tanaka.