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Minnesota’s Greatest Generation

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Artifacts

Johnny Buskowiak used this footlocker while working in the
Civilian Conservation Corps in Plainville and Lake City, Minn., from 1938-1940.

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M8 Greyhound Armored Car built at the St. Paul Assembly Plant, 1944-45.

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Ford Custom Fordor Sedan, built at the St. Paul Assembly Plant, 1955.

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Boom

Boys building a bomb shelter during the
nuclear anxiety of the Cold War, 1952.

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NAACP members picketing for integrated lunch counters
outside Woolworth’s in St. Paul, Minn., 1960. Look for film
footage of this protest in the exhibit.

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New father views child through nursery window at Abbott
Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn., 1950. Experience an endless
vista of “baby boomers” in the exhibit.

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War

	Medal of Honor winner Ricky Sorenson at the soda fountain in Anoka, after coming home from fighting in the Pacific, 1945. Look for a similar soda fountain in the exhibit. [Preview] [Download High Res](3.0 mb) - Right click to download
	Virginia Mae Hope, from Faribault, Minn., a pilot for the Women’s Air Force Service, 1943. Meet a costumed history player portraying Hope in the exhibit. [Preview] [Download High Res](1.0 mb) - Right click to download
	Marines from St. Paul on Guam, 1944. [Preview] [Download High Res](2.7 mb) - Right click to download
	Girls say goodbye to Marine recruits at St. Paul Union Depot, 1942. [Preview] [Download High Res](890 kb) - Right click to download
	Japanese language translators at the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Fort Snelling, 1944-45. [Preview] [Download High Res](810 kb) - Right click to download

Depression

Farm family from Hollandale, Minn., who appealed for aid in the early years of the Great Depression, 1929.

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Children holding signs in a Workers Alliance picket line
in St. Paul, Minn., during the Great Depression, 1937.

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Civilian Conservation Corps workers building
a road near Baudette, Minn., 1933.

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