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Railway Post Office exam practice kit - January 13th, 2010
Into the 1960s, much of the nation's mail moved on railroads. Passenger trains carried Railway Post Office (RPO) cars equipped with sacks and slots that allowed clerks to sort mail en route. Sorted ma...
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Photographs from the Hill Family Collection - February 2nd, 2010
The Hill Family Collection, which includes the papers of St. Paul tycoon James J. Hill and other Hill family members, contains over 8,000 individual photographs and graphic images. In this podcast...
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The Minnesota Poe Daguerreotype: Nevermore to be found? - February 6th, 2010
How did Edgar Allen Poe arrive in the far-western parts of the country, in Minnesota Territory, two years after his death? In 1851, Mary Elizabeth Bronson LeDuc brought her daguerreotype of the ...
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Ice-skating! - January 13th, 2010
Minnesotans have long enjoyed the opportunity winter affords for outdoor recreation, especially of the ice variety. We have put together items relating to these icy entertainments, from Ice Follie...
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Home Grown Smut - November 4th, 2009 - 8 Comments
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...
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