Business and Industry | Page 35

Water Wheel advertising brochure

Advertising brochure for the Sellner Water Wheel, 1923. Used with the permission of Rice County Historical Society. Sellner Collection, Rice County Historical Society, Faribault. Used with the permission of Rice County Historical Society.

Water Toboggan Slide advertising brochure

Cover of the advertising brochure for the Sellner Water Toboggan Slide, 1923. Sellner Collection, Rice County Historical Society, Faribault. Used with the permission of Rice County Historical Society.

Ideal Lamp Company catalog

Cover of the Ideal Lamp Company catalog, 1917. Sellner Collection, Rice County Historical Society, Faribault. Used with the permission of Rice County Historical Society.

Sellner Manufacturing Company

On April 24, 1926, Herbert W. Sellner filed an application with the United States Patent Office for an “Amusement Device” designed for parks and resorts. His goal was to provide riders with “pleasurable and unexpected sensations” by swinging, snapping, and rotating them in an unpredictable pattern. He named his creation the Tilt-A-Whirl, and it became the most popular ride made by his Faribault-based Sellner Manufacturing Company.

Rice, Henry Mower (1816‒1894)

As a trader, businessman, treaty negotiator, and legislator, Henry Mower Rice played a crucial role in Minnesota’s statehood and the development of St. Paul. At the same time, Rice was responsible for policies that benefited himself and his business partners at the expense of Minnesota’s Indigenous populations.

Honeywell employee

A worker inside Honeywell Corporation. Photograph by Olof Kallstrom for the Minnesota Geographic Society, 1978. Forms part of the Olof Kallstrom series of photographs from the Minnesota Historical Society’s City of Minneapolis documentary photography collection.