Portrait of George Swan Innis, Dean of Men and professor of Latin and history, Hamline University (1881-1921), and his family: from left, son Homer C., wife Alice V., and daughter Ethelwyn.
Portrait of the Reverend Jabez Brooks, Hamline University president, 1854-1857 and 1861-1869. Prior to coming to Hamline, he was principal of a seminary in Watertown, Wisconsin, and a professor of Greek and mathematics at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. After leaving Hamline, he became a member of the faculty at the newly opened University of Minnesota.
Raymond P. Kaighn, Class of 1898. He was Hamline University's first physical education director and Hamline's coach for the first intercollegiate basketball game ever played, which was against the Minnesota School of Agriculture in 1895. He also played on the first basketball team under the direction of James Naismith at the international YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Portrait of Helen Sutherland, Hamline University graduate (Class of 1863). She served as the university's preceptress from 1865 to 1867 and taught mathematics and English.
Henry Leslie Osborn and his wife Effie Osborn in their home at 1599 Hewitt Avenue. Osborn worked at Hamline from 1887 until 1932 and served as a biology professor, dean of faculty, and acting president. Effie Osborn taught piano at Hamline from 1895 until 1901.
Portrait of Alice Eddy Edwards, wife of the Reverend Elijah Evan Edwards and sister of the Reverend Thomas M. Eddy. Elijah E. Edwards was chaplain of the 7th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry during the latter part of the Civil War. Alice died in 1896.
Portrait of the Reverend Jabez Brooks, Hamline University president, 1854-1857 and 1861-1869. Prior to coming to Hamline, he was principal of a seminary in Watertown, Wisconsin, and a professor of Greek and mathematics at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. After leaving Hamline, he became a member of the faculty at the newly opened University of Minnesota.
Portrait of the Reverend George Henry Bridgman, Hamline University president, 1883-1912. Prior to coming to Hamline, he was a minister in the Canadian Methodist Conference and principal of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, New York.
Portrait of the Reverend Samuel Fletcher Kerfoot, Hamline University president, 1912-1927. A 1889 Hamline graduate, he was a minister in the Methodist church and president of Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, South Dakota, before becoming Hamline's president.
Postcard depicting the Reverend George Henry Bridgman, Hamline University president from 1883 to 1912, sitting in his office in University Hall (also known as Old Main). A photograph of James J. Hill is on top of the bookcase in the background. Reverse has a handwritten poem to the university.
Photograph of woodcut of the Reverend David Clarke John, Hamline University president 1880-1883. A Methodist minister, he earlier served churches in the East Baltimore conference, was a professor of natural sciences at the state normal school in Bloomsburg, a principal of a high school in Milton, Pennsylvania, and the pastor of Emory Chapel at Carlisle. He also was principal of the Mankato State Normal school. After leaving Hamline, he become pastor of the first Methodist Episcopal Church of Winona.