Workmen cutting open a Coke vending machine after a boy gets his hand stuck.

Photographed by a Minneapolis newspaper photographer on May 20, 1948.

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Stencil painted and stained wooden chest with two hinged lids. Floral paintings at top corners of each side panel consist of stenciled green leaves and blue flowers with yellow centers. There are also stencil paintings of floral/filigree at each lid outside corner as well as two identical stencil paintings in blues, greens and yellows on front and back. These consist of two couples, in folk costume, dancing between flowers. Negative space is used in each to imply shape. Made for the Works Progress Administration / Federal Art Project St. Paul Handicraft Project, circa 1935 – 1942.

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The 1947 St. Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace melting during warm weather, January 27, 1947.

Photographed by a Minneapolis newspaper photographer on January 27, 1947.

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Scene of a fire at the Snyder Drug Store at 8th and Hennepin in downtown Minneapolis on March 1, 1947.

Photographed by a Minneapolis newspaper photographer on March 1, 1947.

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A lithograph on paper showing a Northern Minnesota landscape made by Adolf Dehn in 1949.

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On this day, January 13th in 1978 Hubert H. Humphrey died at the age of 67. This newspaper photograph shows Humphrey waving goodbye to the Minneapolis Mayor’s office after he won a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1948. He would be elected as Vice President in 1964 and ran for President in 1968.

Photographed by a Minneapolis newspaper photographer on November 30, 1948.

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Action during a 1948 basketball game between the Minneapolis Lakers and the Providence Steamrollers.

Photographed by a Minneapolis newspaper photographer on November 24, 1948.

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Ash-blue rayon faille strapless evening gown with a draped apron effect. Worn by Beatrice Bella (BeBe) Shopp, as Miss Minnesota, for Miss America evening gown competition (9/10/1948) and while being crowned Miss America 1948.

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A Minneapolis candy maker with big and small candy-canes.

Photographed by a Minneapolis newspaper photographer on November 4, 1946.

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An ambulance driver scraping the ice off his windshield during a December 9, 1949 snowstorm.

Photographed by a Minneapolis newspaper photographer on December 9, 1949.

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