Photograph of Wanda Gág in 1944.

Wanda Gág

Photograph of Wanda Gág in 1944.

Caricature of Wanda Gág

Print based on a pencil-drawn caricature of Wanda Gág made by Adolph Dehn in 1916. The Dehn drawing is reproduced in Gág's Growing Pains: Diaries and Drawings for the Years 1908–1917 (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1984). Used here by permission of the Trustees of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2013.

Lithograph on paper by Wanda Gág, 1930.

Lithograph by Wanda Gág

Lithograph on paper by Wanda Gág, 1930.

Photograph of Wanda Gág with a poster she submitted in a contest, 1914.

Wanda Gág

Photograph of Wanda Gág with a poster she submitted in a contest, 1914.

Photograph of Wanda Gág at the age of about three, c.1896.

Wanda Gág as a child

Photograph of Wanda Gág at the age of about three, c.1896.

Photograph of Wanda Gág in 1928.

Wanda Gág

Photograph of Wanda Gág in 1928.

Gág, Wanda (1893–1946)

Wanda Gág was determined to be an artist from an early age, and ultimately she succeeded. Her talent steered her through family hardship and hesitant early artistic efforts until she created Millions of Cats, her 1928 children's book. It has never been out of print.

The Andrews Sisters

Portrait of the three Andrews Sisters, from top: LaVerne, Patty, and Maxene, April 7, 1952.

Andrews Sisters

The Andrews Sisters hold a singular place among the many famous Minnesota-born musical talents who have made it big. Rising to fame in the swing era of the late 1930s, they developed their successful close-harmony formula early on. Patty, the blond mezzo-soprano, sang lead; Maxene, the brunette, sang soprano; and LaVerne, the redhead, sang contralto. The trio recorded more than six hundred songs, sold over ninety million records, earned fifteen gold records, and had a dozen number-one hits. Forty-six of their tunes made it to the Billboard Top Ten chart—more than either Elvis Presley or The Beatles.

Photograph of Marie Frances Robinson Fawcett

Marie Frances Robinson Fawcett

Photograph of Marie Frances Robinson Fawcett, third wife of Wilford "Captain Billy" Fawcett, in 1935. Fawcett met Robinson in 1924 when she was working for an American trapshooting organization.

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