Jay Catherwood Hormel

Jay Catherwood Hormel

Jay Catherwood Hormel of Austin, Minnesota, president of the Hormel Packing Company, ca. 1923.

SPAM

In 1937, the George A. Hormel Company, a meat-packing business in Austin, Minnesota, introduced SPAM luncheon meat to use up an excess of pork shoulder in their inventory. In the eighty years since its introduction, SPAM has fed millions of people and is available in more than forty countries and in over fifteen varieties and sizes.

Hudson’s Bay Company Trading Post, Georgetown

In 1859, the Hudson’s Bay Company built a trading post and steamboat landing near the meeting point of the Red and Buffalo Rivers in Minnesota. They named the post and the surrounding town Georgetown. The traders left the post during the US–Dakota War of 1862 but returned when the war ended. When the Northern Pacific and other railroad companies built lines through Clay County in the 1870s, the Hudson’s Bay Company abandoned its post at Georgetown.

Hudson's Bay Company fort at Pembina

Hudson's Bay Company fort at Pembina, ca. 1870. From the Canadian Illustrated News, 1871.

Hudson’s Bay Company storehouse, Georgetown

Hudson’s Bay Company storehouse, Georgetown

The former Hudson’s Bay Company storehouse at Georgetown, Minnesota, with a bridge over the Red River in the background, 1959.

Hudson’s Bay Company storehouse, Georgetown

Hudson’s Bay Company storehouse, Georgetown

The former Hudson’s Bay Company storehouse at Georgetown, Minnesota, 1959.

Photograph of Abdirahman Issa Kahin

Abdirahman Issa Kahin

Abdirahman Issa Kahin, owner of the Afro Deli & Coffee chain of restaurants, inside his business in Minneapolis. Photograph by Bill Jolitz, 2012. Printed in Somalis in Minnesota, by Ahmed Ismail Yusuf (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012), 58.

Saluma Omar in her jewelry shop inside Karmel Mall

Saluma Omar in her jewelry shop inside Karmel Mall in Minneapolis. Photograph by Bill Jolitz, 2012. Printed in Somalis in Minnesota, by Ahmed Ismail Yusuf (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012), 55.

Photograph of AMISOM Ambassador Maman Sidikou with a Somali Minnesotan business owner.

AMISOM Ambassador Maman Sidikou with a Somali Minnesotan business owner

African Union (AU) Special Representative for Somalia and AMISOM (African Union Mission in Somalia) Ambassador Maman Sidikou (left) greets a Somali business owner in Minnesota during a tour of Somali communities throughout the state in September 2015. Public domain.

Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co.

Lois Jenson and her coworkers Patricia S. Kosmach and Kathleen Anderson filed the lawsuit Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. in 1988, after years of harassment at Eveleth Mines on the Mesabi Iron Range. The case became the first sexual harassment class action tried in US federal court and set a precedent for future harassment trials.

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