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Images of the Edmund Fitzgerald - September 22nd, 2009 - 1 Comment
The Society recently acquired five prints and color slides of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald shortly before it sank in Lake Superior taking the lives of all aboard in a terrible storm. These colo...
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Conserving Minnesota's Battle Flags - November 3rd, 2009
The Minnesota Historical Society recently began a project to conserve several Civil War and Spanish American War battle flags. Doug Bekke, Assistant to the Textile Conservator, explains the painstakin...
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Base from Metropolitan Stadium - October 2nd, 2009
The Minnesota Twins 2009 season is winding down as I write. It's been a noteworthy year, as it's the team's last in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Come next April, the Twins will play at Target...
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Contemporary Minnesota Voices - October 19th, 2009
Currently on display in our Library Lobby are selected objects collected by the Society and whenever possible labels include a quote from the artists–revealing in their own words their thoughts ab...
150 Best Minnesota Books - view all
Home Grown Smut - November 4th, 2009 - 1 Comment
Wilford (Billy) H. Fawcett returned to Minnesota from World War I with a footlocker full of dirty jokes. On a slow night in 1920 while he was working at the Minneapolis Tribune he sorted through t...
