Governor Rudy Perpich, c.1985.

The "Goofy Meets Gorby" t-shirt makes light of a meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, and Rudy Perpich, Governor of Minnesota, during Gorbachev's 1990 visit to the state.

Oil on canvas portrait of Governor Rudy Perpich and First Lady Lola Perpich, painted in 2000 by Mark Balma.

Governor Rudy Perpich at the Minnesota fishing opener in June of 1977.

Governor Rudy Perpich, c.1986. Photograph by Mark M. Nelson.

Governor J.A.A. Burnquist with members of the Minnesota Home Guard and the Motor Corps, c.1918

Frederick A. Scherf home, splattered with yellow paint, in reaction against Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.'s speech, Red Wing, 1918.

Portrait of Joseph Gilbert, c.1925.

Fragment of execution rope used to hang William Williams in 1906. The rope was too long, causing a slow, grisly death and prompting Minnesota to end the death penalty. Williams was the last person to be executed in Minnesota.