September 4, 2018 Archival donations come to the museum through a variety of sources. This past spring the archive received a donation from Walker Methodist Care Center. Dr. Hayward McKerson had passed away in December 2017 and with no known surviving family members, the care center reached out to the [...]
August 6, 2018 In 1934, the streets of Minneapolis were a battleground. Teamsters had declared a city-wide strike to end discrimination against union workers, and their cars of strikers chased heavily-guarded trucks to keep them from crossing picket lines. Roving battles [...]
March 5, 2018 Long before women won the right to vote in 1920, women were given the opportunity to vote in small-scale local elections through organizations like the National Woman’s Relief Corps (WRC). This ballot box was used by the women [...]
September 18, 2017 By Evan Walker This desk was made by students in the industrial arts class at South High School for the 1892 Republican National Convention. The chairman of the Republican Party, James S. Clarkson, sat behind it during the [...]
January 18, 2017 On a cold day in January 1876, Mahala Fisk Pillsbury of Minneapolis, a prominent community member and philanthropist, took on a new title: Minnesota’s First Lady. Her husband of twenty years, businessman John Sargent Pillsbury, had just been [...]
March 15, 2016 If you've lived in the Twin Cities for long - or even if you've just passed through the MSP airport frequently - you're likely aware of our local Humphrey connections. Those not originally from here are more likely [...]
February 27, 2016 It's an election year, and the collective eye has once again turned to politics. Hennepin History Museum's collection is filled with campaign materials, including this pin once belonging to a Rudy Boschwitz supporter. Rudy [...]
