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Cases of Fun – Norton & Peel Photograph Collection - February 24th, 2010 - 2 Comments
Toyland Department, Dayton's, Minneapolis, 1940
Take a look at the new finding aid for the Norton & Peel Photograph Collection! Would you like to see an image of a chimpanzee in Longfello...
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150 Year-Old Civil War Hardtack! - March 11th, 2010
Curator Matt Anderson shows a very old piece of food from the Minnesota Historical Society's collection: an original piece of hardtack from the Civil War. It's one of the more bizarre items in the col...
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The Minnesota Poe Daguerreotype: Nevermore to be found? - February 6th, 2010 - 3 Comments
How did Edgar Allan 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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People, Places, Things: Selections from the Permanent Collection - March 12th, 2010 - 1 Comment
On view at the Hill House Gallery through September, 2010
This exhibition is an opportunity to showcase fine work from the Society’s vast collection of art by and about Minnesota. Focusing on...
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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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