A rare stereographic daguerreotype showing St. Anthony falls in Minneapolis in the 1850s.

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A set of twins in downtown Minneapolis on a hot July 9, 1951.

This image forms part of our Minneapolis and St. Paul Newspaper Negative collection. Additional photographs in this series may be available in the library, please view the finding aid here.

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The new MNHS exhibit Sights, Sounds and Soul: Twin Cities Through the Lens of Charles Chamblis opens this Saturday, April 26 so all this week we will post just a few of the over 2000 Charles Chamblis photographs we have in our collection.

In this photograph you can see disk jockey Bernard “Short Lunch” Walker working at P.J. Clarke’s in 1982.

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The new MNHS exhibit Sights, Sounds and Soul: Twin Cities Through the Lens of Charles Chamblis opens this Saturday, April 26 so all this week we will post just a few of the over 2000 Charles Chamblis photographs we have in our collection.

In this photograph you can see the band Sweet Taste of Sin performing at the Jet-Away Club in 1985.

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The new MNHS exhibit Sights, Sounds and Soul: Twin Cities Through the Lens of Charles Chamblis opens this Saturday, April 26 so all this week we will post just a few of the over 2000 Charles Chamblis photographs we have in our collection.

In this photograph you can see Chico Harris (a.k.a. Chico Fatfingers) and Kyle Ray posing with an Isley Brothers record at the Hot Licks store in 1980.

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For more information on the whole collection of Charles Chamblis photographs, please view the finding aid here.

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The new MNHS exhibit Sights, Sounds and Soul: Twin Cities Through the Lens of Charles Chamblis opens this Saturday, April 26 so all this week we will post just a few of the over 2000 Charles Chamblis photographs we have in our collection.

This photograph shows The Philadelphia Story (also known as the Valdons) performing in the mid 1970s: (Left to right) Maurice Young, Clifton Curtis, Monroe Wright, Bill Clark.

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For more information on the whole collection of Charles Chamblis photographs, please view the finding aid here.

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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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A P-47 Thunderbolt outside a March 26, 1944 Air Expo in Minneapolis.

Photographed by a Minneapolis newspaper photographer on March 26, 1944.

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Postcard that reads “It may seem funny but — Minneapolis is a very fascinating town!!” and which has a blue felt “Minneapolis” banner attached. Circa 1920.

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And for more from the 1920s don’t miss:

• Dry Times: Temperance, Prohibition, and Gangster in Minnesota, 1900 – 1933 Library Lobby Exhibit
• American Spirits: the Rise and Fall of Prohibition exhibit opening November 9
• Road to Prohibition podcast

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Daguerreotype of St. Anthony Falls and stores along Main Street, St. Anthony, made in the 1850s.

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