Three students with campus welcome wagon, one professor is inside wagon. Wagon is pulled by a horse. Popcorn and peanuts are sold from the wagon. Bottom of the photo reads: "Our Welcome."
Students outdoors with brooms for beating mattresses clean. Back of photo reads: 'Miss Dora Bohrer. Dear Sir Dora: I received your postal and was glad to hear from you and I am well and wish you the same. It is raining most all the time here and when it doesn't rain the weather is cold that is all fro this time. Best regards to all of you from E. Bohrer'
Five students, one with a rag wrapped around his head. Back of photo gives student's names: 1. W. Rathert, 2. B. Strasen, 3. A. Borchhardt, 4. Otto Walter, 5. Louis Lauce.
This black and white, silent film documents the statue's unveiling on October 30, 1921. The bronze statue was a gift to our campus by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rubbert of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The statue was modeled after a Luther monument in Worms, Germany, and designed by German sculptor Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel. It was cast by the Flour City Ornamental Iron Company of Minneapolis. The statue is over 12 feet high, stands on a pedestal of St. Louis granite, and weighs over 40 tons. On the day of the unveiling, there were more than 3,000 people present. Myrtle Rubbert Buenger, daughter of the donors and daughter-in-law of Concordia's President Theodore Buenger, pulled the cord to unveil the statue. Since the unveiling in the original location at Luther Hall, the statue has moved twice and now resides near the entrance to campus at the Lutheran Memorial Center. The Martin Luther Statue is a significant campus landmark for Concordia University, Saint Paul. The statue has resided in v
"A Day at Our Saint Paul Concordia" is a black and white, silent film that documents the lifestyle of a student at Concordia College, Saint Paul in the 1920s and 1930s. The film includes shots of the campus, dormitories, classroom instruction, a gymnasium class, a baseball game, and clips from a graduation ceremony. The film highlights many of Concordia's early professors: Martin A. H. Graebner (President), Herman Wollaeger, William Moenkemoeller, Ernest Lussky, Oswald Overn, Fred Wahlers, William Dobberfuhl, E. G. Richard Siebert, Paul Stor, and Oliver Harstad.
Exterior view of the President's home, on the east side of the campus. This was the oldest stone house in the state of Minnesota, and was torn down in the late 1950s or early 1960s. Note: the building is no longer standing.
Group portrait of some of the members of the Wahlers and Graebner family. Martin Graebner is on far left and Art Wahlers is sitting on the woman's knee.
Students lying on grass outside with brooms, mattresses and blankets hanging on clotheslines. The brooms are used to beat the mattresses clean. Taken near the old dining room.
Students lying on grass outside with brooms, mattresses and blankets hanging on clotheslines. The brooms are used to beat the mattresses clean. Taken near the old dining room.
Students lying on grass outside with brooms, mattresses and blankets hanging on clotheslines. The brooms are used to beat the mattresses clean. Taken near the old dining room.
Interview with William H. Lieske, Concordia College class of 1937, from Matairie, Louisiana, in 1981. Pastor Lieske talks about, among other things, his classmates and what they did upon graduation, Concordia's first two presidents ' Theodore Buenger and Martin Graebner ' as teachers, pranks played on professors, the gradual diminishment of hazing and the gradual rise of coeducation, free time activities, the geography of the campus and its old tunnel system, the deaths of three students during his time there, and participation in musical groups and athletic teams. This interview was conducted by librarian Margaret Horn (at Concordia from 1956-1987) during a summer sabbatical, and was made possible in part by a grant from Aid Association for Lutherans (now 'Thrivent').
