Engraving of the Como Shops published in Northwest magazine (April 1886, page 12).

Eunice Morberg and Mae Rideout looking at Crookston BPW scrapbooks, 1959.

Crookston BPW members selling Artist Series tickets, 1954.

Governor Knute Nelson's mahogany and leather desk, 1893.

Small maple sloping lid desk used by the Minnesota state Legislature has leather writing area and low gallery at rear with post and ball decoration. Two drawers below desk top had brass keyhole surrounds; one is missing. The base has four turned wooden legs and feet and low shelf with railing. Simple shelf designs ornament side corners; simple scroll designs are carved above front feet and below desk top front, ca. 1882.

Eastlake upholstered side chair, used in the second state capitol, ca. 1890s.

Drawing by Leroy S. Buffington, Architect, for the state capitol building, St. Paul, ca. 1881. Photographed by Farr.

St. Anthony Falls by Alexander Francois Loemans, ca. 1875. The painting may have been rescued from the Capitol fire in 1881 by Senator James Nathan Castle.

Civil War General George H. Thomas, by Samuel Woodson Price, 1880. The portrait may have been rescued from the House of Representatives chamber during the 1881 fire.

First State Capitol building showing enlargement of 1878. Photograph by Alfred Palmquist & Company, 1879.