Porky! The Famous Pig with only two legs getting a scrub down by his owner in September 1946.

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A Bristol Type 170 Freighter aircraft off-loading a car at Wold-Chamberlain Field in 1946.

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A watercolor painting on paper of a barn made by Minnesota artist Bob Brown in the 1930s or 40s.

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A Saint Paul Saints baseball player coming home during a July 4th, 1949 game.

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A woman looking at a map of possible nuclear (?) bomb targets in Minneapolis, July 8, 1948.

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Boxer Elmer “Kid Violent” Ray at home with one of his heavyweight boxing trophies on August 20th, 1946.

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Medal of Honor recipient Donald E. Rudolph of Minneapolis, Minnesota visits his old principal at North High, October 4, 1945.

An “Eisenhower” field jacket belonging to Donald Rudolph was featured in the Item of the Day post for May 12, 2014. You can view that post here.

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U.S. Army master sergeant’s “Eisenhower” field jacket that belonged to Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Donald E. Rudolph of South Haven, MN. The jacket has a 5th Army patch on the left sleeve shoulder, a 6th Division patch on the right sleeve shoulder and chevrons for the rank of master sergeant on each sleeve above the elbow. It also has ribbon bars for the Congressional Medal of Honor, Bronze Star, Purple Heart (with one oak leaf cluster), Army Good Conduct, American Defense Service, American Campaign, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign (with two battle stars and a spearhead), National Defense Service, Philippine Liberation, and WWII Victory medals.

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A bald man getting a tattoo on the top of his head, January 23, 1947.

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Minnesota has long had a vibrant science fiction writing community. Clifford Simak was one of its brightest stars; this is one of his early works, “Aesop,” published in 1947 in Astounding Science Fiction.

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