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MINNESOTA-THE NORTH STAR STATE
TERRITORIAL SEAL
MINNESOTA
GREAT
SEAL
MINNESOTA TERRITORIAL
1849 CENTENNIAL 1949
TERRITORY
OP
GREAT
CREATED
TERRITORIAL
CENTENNIAL
EMBLEM
SEAL
QUO SURSIM VELO VIDERE
1849
OF
MARCH 3, 1849
MIN
INNIN
32ND STAR IN
NATION'S FLAG
SEAL OF
TO
THE STATE OF
1858
MINNESO
SOTA
STATE SEAL
CENTEN
ENNIAL
1858 1958
STATEHOOD CENTENNIAL EMBLEM
19TH STAR IN UNION AFTER THE ORIGINAL THIRTEEN
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MINNESOTA STATEHOOD CENTENNIAL YEAR,
STATEHOOD DAY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1958. MIN-
NESOTA DERIVED ITS NAME FROM THE RIVER
"MINNISOTA" SO CALLED BY THE DAKOTA IN-
DIANS. THEY PRONOUNCED IT "MIN-NEE-
SOTAH" (MINI, WATER; SOTAH, SKYCOLORED).
FOR CORRECT PRONUNCIATION, THE CON-
VENTION HELD AT STILLWATER, IN 1848, TO
SECURE A TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION, IN-
STRUCTED ITS DELEGATES THAT THE NAME OF
THE TERRITORY BE WRITTEN "MINNESOTA."
MINNESOTA UNIVERSITY COLORS, MAROON
AND GOLD.
МРСС
NO. 1
MINN.
PUB. BY THE MINNEAPOLIS POST CARD CLUB
3310 N. SHERIDAN, MINNEAPOLIS 12,
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