Minnesota State Hospital for the Insane in St. Peter, 1867. The institution was renamed St. Peter State Hospital in 1893.

August 1933, Charles Fremont Dight, Minnesota physician and founder of the Minnesota Eugenics Society, was tapping out a letter of congratulations. His recipient? Germany’s new chancellor, Adolf Hitler. MN90's Britt Aamodt reports.

Charles F. Dight in Minneapolis, undated. From box 1 of the Charles Fremont Dight papers, 1883–1984, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Photograph by Clara NiiSka published in the Ojibwe News (page 5) on August 16, 2002. Original caption: “Pediatrician Dr. Lydia Caros and family practitioner Dr. Lori Banazak, two of the physicians starting the Native American Community Clinic at 1213 E. Franklin Avenue in the Phillips neighborhood in south Minneapolis, stand in front of their clinic-in-progress with founding members of the board of directors of the Indian Health Board Vince Hill and Pat Bellanger.” Bellanger stands at the far right.

Elders represent Centro Cultural Chicano at the Fair of the Heart on September 7, 1986. Held in Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis and organized by the United Way, the event attracted thousands of people. From page 2 of Visiones de la Raza 10, no. 10 (October 1986) in box 1 of the Irene Gomez-Bethke papers, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Brian Coyle’s AIDS Memorial Quilt panel on display at the Livingston Lord Library at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Photograph by Trista Raezer-Stursa, November 30, 2021.

Inside front cover of the third edition of Charles Malchow’s The Sexual Life, published by C. V. Mosby Company in 1914. From the collection of, and used with the permission of, Ryan T. Hurt.