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	<description>Every object tells a story, and Collections Up Close presents short, illustrated features that highlight the stories and history behind selected items in the Minnesota Historical Society's museum collections.</description>
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		<title>Home Grown Smut</title>
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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 the jokes and put them into a pamphlet he titled &#8220;Captain Billy&#8217;s Whiz-Bang&#8221; [whiz-bang being the sound shells made during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/11/home-grown-smut/</link>
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		<title>Conserving Minnesota&#8217;s Battle Flags</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 painstaking process of examining and treating each of these historic banners.

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		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/11/conserving-minnesotas-battle-flags/</link>
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		<title>Preserving Death: Funerary Objects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We get into the Halloween spirit with a podcast on death-related objects in the Society’s collection. Curator Matt Anderson provides an overview of changing funeral customs, and then shares a look at a casket, a hearse, tombstones, and more.

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		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/10/preserving-death-funerary-objects/</link>
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		<title>Contemporary Minnesota Voices</title>
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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 about the materials, the finished pieces, and the passions that inspire them. This exhibit will be up until early December.
For millennia artists have been bringing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/10/contemporarymnvoices/</link>
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		<title>Good Government through Digital Infrastructure and Preservation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Through the Library of Congress&#8217; National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) the Minnesota Historical Society and its partners are developing a way to preserve and provide access to the digital records of state legislatures.   Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and Robert Horton, Minnesota Historical Society&#8217;s Director [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/10/good-government-through-digital-infrastructure-and-preservation/</link>
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		<title>Base from Metropolitan Stadium</title>
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The Minnesota Twins 2009 season is winding down as I write. It&#8217;s been a noteworthy year, as it&#8217;s the team&#8217;s last in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Come next April, the Twins will play at Target Field, in the open under blue skies for the first time in over 25 years.
The Twins&#8217; move reminds me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/10/base-from-metropolitan-stadium/</link>
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		<title>Images of the Edmund Fitzgerald</title>
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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 color slides were shot by vacationing tourists, Jerry and Marilyn Sexton, as the ship passed through the Soo Locks in Sault Ste Marie, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/09/images-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald/</link>
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		<title>Minnesota and the Federal Writers&#8217; Project Exhibit</title>
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The Great Depression was a terrible time for Minnesota and the rest of the nation. One of the New Deal programs intended to get people back to work was the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA was one of the Roosevelt Administration’s most successful projects, creating jobs in everything from road construction to feeding people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/09/minnesota-and-the-federal-writers-project-exhibit/</link>
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		<title>The Northfield Duster</title>
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Like the First Minnesota&#8217;s charge at Gettysburg, or the Dillinger gang&#8217;s escapades in St. Paul, every good Minnesotan knows the story of the Northfield Raid. On September 7, 1876, Frank and Jesse James, along with Cole, Jim, and Bob Younger, attempted to rob the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota. When clerk Joseph Lee Haywood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/09/the-northfield-duster/</link>
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		<title>The Ferrell Collection: Cataloging and Photography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Collections Assistants Jane Wong and John Fulton discuss their efforts to catalog and photograph more than 3,000 different objects in the Richard Ferrell Flour Milling Industry History Collection. The size of the collection, together with some of the unusual items it contained, presented special challenges. You can learn more about the collection from Mr. Ferrell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/09/the-ferrell-collection-cataloging-and-photography/</link>
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		<title>Come All Ya Rounders</title>
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If you have been paying attention to our civic fathers lately you would have heard the news that a Nineteenth Century technology is going to lead us into the bright Green future. Sometime before I die, light rail (formerly known as Street Cars or the Trolley) is on track to whisk us to Minnesota Twins [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/08/come-all-ya-rounders/</link>
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		<title>The Biggest Thing in the Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our most frequently asked questions is, What is the biggest thing in the Society’s collection? Objects Curator Matt Anderson provides the answer in this podcast. It certainly stands out - even among the various cars, boats and wagons in the collection.

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		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/08/the-biggest-thing-in-the-collection/</link>
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		<title>A book, a bonus, and a good friend</title>
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Every once in a while the Minnesota Historical Society Library gets in a great book with a little bonus; not only is the text of the book important or interesting but the story of where the book has been is also fascinating. Very few of these back stories get better than the one for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/08/a-book-a-bonus-and-a-good-friend/</link>
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		<title>Maps on Endpapers</title>
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Of the many uses of maps, one of our favorites is to decorate the endpapers of books. As the new exhibit in the Library Lobby shows, endpaper maps can be both beautiful and helpful to the reader. Works of fiction and nonfiction use this illuminating and artistic technique to enhance books. Come take a look!
This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/07/maps-on-endpapers/</link>
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		<title>Frightening map</title>
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As the curator of the currently showing “Minnesota on the Map” exhibit an elderly gentleman asked me if I could do the entire exhibit again with completely different maps. My immediate response was “I wish,” and then I told him that with another 23,000 maps in our collection to choose from it would be easy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/07/frightening-map/</link>
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		<title>Highlights from the Hill Family Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hill project cataloger Jillian Odland shares some fun and quirky objects, photos and letters she&#8217;s found while working on the papers of St. Paul railroad baron James J. Hill, his son Louis W. Hill, and other Hill family members.

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		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/07/highlights-from-the-hill-family-collection/</link>
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		<title>Picturing Minnesota</title>
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This blog has at least one faithful reader. He comments on every entry but insists on privately leaving his criticism off the blog. So in order to protect his anonymity let’s refer to him pseudonymously as TO’S. TO’S noticed that the list was favoring the wordy over the graphic and suggested that the next ten [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/07/picturing-minnesota/</link>
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		<title>Selected James J. Hill Digital Scans Now Available Online</title>
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Digital scans of 1,047 selected correspondence, clippings, and reports from the James J. Hill papers are now available on the web. These files, in pdf format, are accessible through an online inventory,  which lists a description of each item and provides a link directly to each digital version.
The digitized material comes from the General Correspondence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/07/selected-james-j-hill-digital-scans-now-available/</link>
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		<title>The Gun that Wounded John Dillinger</title>
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With all of the excitement over the new John Dillinger movie, Public Enemies, we remember that the notorious gangster spent time in St. Paul. In those days of crime and depression, St. Paul had something of a truce with criminals: so long as the gangsters didn&#8217;t tear up the city, local authorities would not bother [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/07/the-gun-that-wounded-john-dillinger/</link>
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		<title>Flour Power: The Richard Ferrell Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Avid collector and donor Richard Ferrell describes how he got into collecting and the lessons he learned on the way to amassing the Richard Ferrell Flour Milling Industry History Collection, now a part of the Historical Society&#8217;s collections.

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		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/06/flour-power-the-richard-ferrell-collection/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Re&#8221; Count Bobblehead Doll</title>
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The 2008 election cycle was remarkable, distinguished by the historic victory of Barack Obama and significant gains for the Democratic Party in general. As Minnesotans know, one bit of election business remains undecided six months later. Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken continue their contest for Minnesota&#8217;s vacant U.S. Senate seat.
As usual, the St. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/06/the-re-count-bobblehead-doll/</link>
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		<title>Underwear!</title>
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Munsingwear, Minnesota’s giant in underwear production, created knit underwear suitable for the entire family.  Marketing this underwear engaged even the family’s youngest.  Parents were encouraged to dress their children in “perfect fitting, long wearing, non-irritating” union suits.  Children were encouraged to bring their doll to be included in the Munsingwear family; or, in the 1930s, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/06/underwear/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;Zen Again</title>
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We joked awhile ago that any Minnesota author or book to make the cover of Time Magazine is automatically on our list. Let’s say the same thing for any Minnesota author or book the makes it into the Guinness Book of World Records.
Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/06/zen-again/</link>
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		<title>World War II Sweetheart Jewelry</title>
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The Minnesota&#8217;s Greatest Generation exhibit prompted a number of new acquisitions to the collection. Among the most recent is a pair of bracelets made by Duluth native Ralph &#8220;Lefty&#8221; Brodin in 1943, while he was stationed in North Africa.
Manufactured and handmade jewelry pieces were popular mementos during both World Wars. For girlfriends, fiancées, wives, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/06/world-war-ii-sweetheart-jewelry/</link>
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		<title>In Search of Lorenzo Lawrence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Search of Lorenzo Lawrence is a story about identity lost and found. Dr. Elden Lawrence (Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota) is a Dakota scholar and writer. For the past several years, Elden has been doing research in the MHS collections, trying to find out more about his ancestor Lorenzo Lawrence, who played a key role in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/05/in-search-of-lorenzo-lawrence/</link>
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		<title>Woods, Words, and Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)
In 1950 the Japanese created the title of Ningen Kokuhō or Living National Treasure for select artists who are both masters of their craft and keepers of an important aspect of their culture. As a local wood engraver and fine press printer,  Gaylord Schanilec is such a living treasure.
The Minnesota Historical Society [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/05/woods-words-and-art/</link>
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		<title>Cameron Booth?</title>
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Cameron Booth
Portrait of a Soldier, 1918
Oil on board

In 2008, the Historical Society was the grateful recipient of a generous gift from Eva and Michelle Terrell, Portrait of a Soldier, by Cameron Booth. An extraordinary early painting by one of Minnesota’s best known 20th century artists, this oil sketch portrays a somewhat gaunt, uniformed soldier with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/05/cameron-booth/</link>
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		<title>A Working Class Poet Is Something to Be</title>
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First I&#8217;ll begin with an apology to the faithful readers of this blog. It has been too long between entries and I promise that will not happen again. There was an unusual confluence of good news leading me to rest on my laurels and bad news resulting in a furlough here at the MHS. [Op-ed: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/05/a-working-class-poet-is-something-to-be/</link>
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		<title>1955 Ford Customline Sedan</title>
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Three-dimensional objects in the Society&#8217;s collection come in all shapes and sizes. While most are small enough to display in a glass case, others take up more room. Such is the case with one of my favorites, a 1955 Ford Customline Sedan. The car is one of our most recent acquisitions, and currently is on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/05/1955-ford-customline-sedan/</link>
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		<title>1955 Ford Sedan: Vehicle for Family History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Collections Curator Matt Anderson presents the story of a 1955 Ford Sedan MHS acquired for the Minnesota&#8217;s Greatest Generation exhibit. The car was purchased new, and then driven by three generations of the Bergan-Carr family before arriving in our collection. Oral history, family photos, and film of the St. Paul Ford plant add to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/05/1955-ford-sedan-vehicle-for-family-history/</link>
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		<title>Manuscript Sermons by the Right Rev. H. B. Whipple, D.D., LL. D., Bishop of Minnesota</title>
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The oratory skills of Minnesota&#8217;s first Episcopal Bishop, Henry Benjamin Whipple, were highly regarded in the U.S. and abroad.  A recent donation gives readers the opportunity to read selected sermons written by Whipple with quill pen and ink.   This volume provides the opportunity to leaf through many pages of Whipple&#8217;s flowery hand and experience the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/04/manuscript-sermons-by-the-right-rev-h-b-whipple-dd-ll-d-bishop-of-minnesota/</link>
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		<title>The Ramsey Piano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cindy Olsen, Acting Site Manager at the Alexander Ramsey House, discusses conservation work recently done to the house’s 1872 Steinway grand piano, and the unusual circumstances involved in the preservation of a musical instrument. Pianist Jeremy Roth accompanies her comments with Bach’s “Prelude in C Major.”

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		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/04/the-ramsey-piano/</link>
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		<title>North Shore Prints</title>
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This past winter I organized the exhibition Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900-1945 which is on view at the James J. Hill House through the spring and summer of 2009. The exhibition of over 50 prints by 42 artists explores an exciting chapter in the history of art making in Minnesota. This period witnessed a revival [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/04/north-shore-prints/</link>
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		<title>Preserving Digital Content in the 21st Century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bob Horton, Director of Library, Publications &#38; Collections, takes a look at the considerable challenges involved in preserving digital content. While content keeps growing and storage media keep changing, historical organizations  struggle to keep up.

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		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/03/preserving-digital-content-in-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<title>Populist Moment?</title>
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&#8220;If you put a banker, a lawyer and a capitalist in a barrel and roll it down a hill, no matter where it stops there will always be a son-of-a-bitch on top.&#8221;    Saying from the Farmer&#8217;s Movement

An article in the New York Times this week suggested that, given the bad economy [there I go again], [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/03/populist-moment/</link>
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		<title>Delisle globe, 1765 - Quicktime VR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a spin!
The Delisle Globe is a spectacular and important recent addition to our collection and is currently on view in the Minnesota on the Map exhibit.
We can now offer you the chance to move and manipulate this amazing and fragile 1765 French globe yourself in ways one never could in real life. Take your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/03/delisle-globe-1765-quicktimevr/</link>
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		<title>Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900 - 1945</title>
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Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900-1945, an exhibition of over 50 prints by 42 artists currently on view at the James J. Hill House, explores an exciting chapter in the history of art making in Minnesota. Reflecting national trends, printmaking in Minnesota before 1945 was dominated by two distinct styles. This period witnessed a revival [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/03/minnesota-prints-and-printmakers-1900-1945/</link>
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		<title>USS Minnesota Photograph and Relic</title>
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The Society recently acquired a pair of interesting items associated with the Navy frigate USS Minnesota. The vessel was launched in 1855 and served as flagship of the Union&#8217;s Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. The Minnesota is best remembered for her participation in the 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads, the famed clash between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/03/uss-minnesota-photograph-and-relic/</link>
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		<title>The town that isn&#8217;t there</title>
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If this blog were called &#8220;favorite people&#8221; mine would hands down be Ignatius Donnelly. Since it is not I&#8217;ll  work him in in another way. How ‘bout a map of the town Donnelly planned as the Chicago of the north?
George P. Hopkins 
Plan of the city of Nininger, Dakotah County, Minnesota.
Philadelphia: T. Sinclair’s Lith. 
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/03/the-town-that-isnt-there/</link>
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		<title>Delisle globe, 1765</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Map Curator Pat Coleman gives us an introduction to &#8216;Minnesota on the Map:&#8217; Four Centuries of Maps from the Minnesota Historical Society Collection: an exhibit he has curated that opens on February 28. The exhibit includes 100 maps from the MHS collection of over 22,000. Pat also shares his insights to a recently acquired globe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/02/delisle-globe-1765/</link>
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		<title>An Arts Job is a Job!</title>
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Strike me dead if I don’t stop beginning every conversation with the words “the economy” but we were just talking about the last time we were in such a pickle. It reminded me both of another of Minnesota’s greatest books and a successful model for government to support the arts and mitigate the recession.
Minnesota: A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/02/an-arts-job-is-a-job/</link>
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		<title>Lincolnalia on view</title>
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Currently on view at the Library Lobby until mid-April is an exhibit of items from the Minnesota Historical Society collection relating to Abraham Lincoln and his connections to Minnesota. The Library is free and open to the public - come and see!
Learn more:

Library hours
Lincoln Bicentennial and Minnesota web page


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		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/02/lincolnalia-on-view/</link>
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		<title>Electoral Ballot from 1860</title>
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One of my favorite things in the Collection is this simple electoral ballot for Abraham Lincoln, from the 1860 election. It is the first presidential election Minnesota as a state was able to participate in, and one that turned out to be tremendously important for both our state and the country. From the Civil War [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/02/electoral-ballot-from-1860/</link>
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		<title>Catch the News!</title>
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Catch the news!  View news clips from one of the country&#8217;s premiere television news film collections, KSTP-TV Archive.  Completed in 2008 to celebrate the State&#8217;s sesquicentennial and KSTP&#8217;s sixtieth anniversary, a new web page highlights the KSTP-TV Archive.  http://www.mnhs.org/collections/kstp/
The complete archive holds over 3 million feet of news film (1948-1976) and 2,500 videotapes (1976-1993).  KSTP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/02/catch-the-news/</link>
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		<title>White Bear Sno Scooter</title>
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With winter cold and snow abundant, children around the state are taking out their sleds and heading for the hills. Some of them might wish they had one of these beauties: a Sno Scooter built by the White Bear Water Ski Company.
This scooter belonged to a St. Paul family that purchased it in the late [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/01/white-bear-sno-scooter/</link>
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		<title>Day in the Life of Dan Cagley, Collections Manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do the Historical Society&#8217;s objects move into exhibits, or in and out of the building? To find out, we throw the spotlight on one of the solid citizens of the Society, our unheralded Collections Manager Dan Cagley. He keeps over 250,000 3–D objects safe and available. We follow Dan over the course of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/01/day-in-the-life-of-dancagley/</link>
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		<title>A Dark Chapter in Minnesota’s Political History</title>
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The last time the economy sucked this bad and left wing of the political spectrum was in the ascendency, the right wing used every possible trick to bring them down. In the 1938 gubernatorial race a book was published that was so repugnant that it makes our list of 150 best books.
Ray P. Chase. Are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/01/a-dark-chapter-in-minnesota%e2%80%99s-political-history/</link>
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		<title>Minnesota Electoral College Assembly Records Transferred to the Minnesota State Archives</title>
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A few days ago the Minnesota Secretary of State&#8217;s office transferred records of the Minnesota Electoral College Assembly that occurred on December 15, 2008.  On that day, Minnesota&#8217;s ten Electors unanimously cast votes for Barack Obama and Joseph Biden for president and vice president in a ceremony held in the Minnesota State Capitol Rotunda.  Pictured [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/01/minnesota-electoral-college-assembly-records-transferred-to-the-minnesota-state-archives/</link>
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		<title>Cased Images – Daguerreotypes and Tintypes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just what is the difference between a daguerreotype and a tintype? Photo curator Diane Adams-Graf explains what distinguishes these two early photographic processes. Actual daguerreotypes and tintypes are pulled apart and viewed in detail. (3 min. 8 sec.)


View Daguerreotypes and Tintypes in the Society’s Visual Resources Database
Explore the history of photography further in the Directory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/01/cased-images-%e2%80%93-daguerreotypes-and-tintypes/</link>
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		<title>All Tractors, All the Time</title>
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Interested in photographs of tractors?  The Minnesota Historical Society is the place to look!
The Minneapolis-Moline Negative Collection is now available to the public.  This collection holds 14,180, black and white negatives of tractors, agricultural implements, machinery, and power units manufactured by that company between the 1930s and 1960s. Each of these images is described in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2008/12/all-tractors-all-the-time/</link>
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