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Children admiring statues of Paul Bunyon and Babe the Blue Ox in Bemidji, Minnesota - 1945. (Photo by Andreas Feininger/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFEmagazine #1940s #Minnesota
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Carol Dempster by Hoover Art Studios
"Bill, Emily & E.S. - Dec 25 1951." It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in this latest episode of Minnesota Kodachromes. Photo by Hubert Tuttle. Full size.
Source: shorpy.com
September 1939. "Abandoned factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota." 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
Source: shorpy.com
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A woman on a farmer’s shoulder emphasizes a corn crop’s height in Minnesota, 1916.Photograph by A. W. Thompson, National Geographic
August 1941. "One end of the Hull-Rust-Mahoning pit, largest open pit iron mine in the world, near Hibbing, Minnesota. The pit is two and a half miles long, three quarters of a mile wide and about four hundred feet deep." Medium format safety negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Source: shorpy.com
(via Eva Zeisel's Playful Search for Beauty | Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York)
Town and Country series, introduced 1946, manufactured by Red Wing Pottery, Minnesota.
Source: cooperhewitt.org
October 1940. Moorhead, Minnesota. "Fox chained to automobile." 35mm negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Source: shorpy.com
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girls’ archery group with bows and arrows, Minnesota, 1935
or in today’s parlance, bitchez & bows!
Source: collections.mnhs.org
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The GOP presidential candidate launched his campaign yesterday with a fancy video and a promise to tell the truth to the American people. Well, except for when it comes to his record on climate change. And spending cuts. And the Wall Street bailout. You know, maybe this “truth” thing isn’t working out so well.