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Photographs of an Era

Photographs of an Era highlights over 100 images of the Greatest Generation. The thumbnails on the front of the cube take you to the full image. Click on the top or side of the cube to see more thumbnails.

Find more images in the Society's collection of over 60,000 photographs from this era.

Images of the War Images of the Boom VJ Day crowd celebrating in downtown Minneapolis. Red Lake Elementary School Grades 5th and 6th; enrollment 27, crowded classroom. Wedding in the family of Mr. and Mrs. George Kamp; bride and groom posed at altar; groom in military uniform. NAACP members picketing outside Woolworth's for integrated lunch counters, St. Paul. View of 1500 Buchanan Street Northeast, Minneapolis. Motorola television display at Forster Company, Golden Valley. View of housing development near John Tierney farm, Sixty Second Street and Penn Avenue South, Richfield. Boys building a bomb shelter. Fathers in caps and gowns with their children, University Village, St. Paul.

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