Electrifying Minnesota March 26, 2009

'Fairy, Goddess, Wizard, Genie? Imagining Electricity,' part of the Bakken's new 'Electrifying Minnesota' exhibit, is now open in the Great Hall. For those trying to !sell' electricity as a safe, progressive commodity at the end of the 19th century, the public's doubts and worries about this new form of energy were a challenge. Publicity was designed to put a face on electricity, to give it a friendly and familiar human form. Fairy, Goddess, Wizard, Genie? features some of the late 19th and early 20th century images used to bring electricity down to earth and into the home.