A hand-formed and hand-finished Arts and Crafts-style hammered copper jardiniere flowerpot, c.1910. Bottom center is stamped "Handicraft Guild/Minneapolis."

Handicraft Guild, 89 South Tenth, Minneapolis, c.1909. Photographer: Elgin R. Shepard.

Arts and Crafts style copper spoon. The underside has the monogram of the Minneapolis Handicraft Guild, c.1905–1918.

Glazed earthenware bookend impressed "Handicraft Guild/Minneapolis" on back, c.1905–1918.

Junior Class at Handicraft Guild, May 1914.

"Government ship canal during a storm, Duluth, Minn." Postcard c.1910.

"Grangers versus Grasshoppers, or the irrepressible conflict," carte-de-visite, c.1880.

This 1888 engraving depicts the 1873–1877 grasshopper plague in Minnesota and a method of capturing the young grasshoppers.

This postcard of "Elevator Row" in Clara City, Minnesota, c.1910, shows one of the major reasons rural people have gone to town since the 1880s: to connect to the railroad to sell grain.