Sunbeam Band swimming at Harriet Island

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Sunbeams are youth mission organizations which were started in the late 19th Century.

Date: Approximately 1904

Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

This file appears in: Harriet Island

By Paul Nelson
Nature made it an island, but it is an island now only in name, its back channel filled in 1950 to connect it to the shore. It takes its name from Harriet Bishop (1817 -- 1883), who came from…