Abandoned brick house located at the site of the Yellow Medicine Agency. The Yellow Medicine Agency was destroyed during the Dakota Conflict of 1852, and the site is now part of Upper Sioux Agency State Park in Minnesota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
The Lightweight Noiseless Electric Streetcar Co. built streetcars inside the Snelling Shops of Twin City Rapid Transit. This an ad shows a car built for Chicago.
The Lightweight Noiseless Electric Streetcar Co. built streetcars inside the Snelling Shops of Twin City Rapid Transit. This an ad shows cars built for Chicago and Grand Rapids.
Most photographs of downtown Duluth will also capture the Aerial Bridge, and so it is with this image of Superior Street at Fifth Avenue West. The Spalding hotel was completed in June 1889. It was razed in the summer of 1963 along with many other buildings in the Gateway Renewal Project. The total cost of razing Gateway buildings was $258,000, including demolition of the Spalding hotel at the cost of $43,500.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Familiar Leif Erikson Park began as Lakeshore or Lake Shore Park. The stone towers and the stage between them are under construction. F. Rodney Paine was the Duluth Park Superintendent beginning in 1926. He had a master's degree in forestry from Yale University. He was the son of Emilie Macklot Sargent Paine and Frederic William Paine. He took hundreds of snapshots documenting improvements and maintenance in the parks.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
There are 15 black and white aerial photographs of the City of Saint Paul. On the inside front cover of the atlas there is a street map of the City of Saint Paul. This map is divided into 15 sections. Each section corresponds to a numbered map.On the inside back cover is an index that gives the population of Saint Paul for the year 1920. An explanation is provided that describes the geographic division of streets for the City of Saint Paul.
This aerial view shows the roller coaster and fun house at Excelsior Amusement Park, on the shores of Lake Minnetonka. The amusement park was built in 1926.
The Winona State Teachers College campus is at the center of this photo of Winona. It was probably taken from Garvin Heights, the bluff to the south of Lake Winona.
Contributing Institution:
Winona State University, Darrell W. Krueger Library
Aerial view from the south village limits of New Brighton was taken by MacGillis & Gibbs Company, a pole yard company, which is seen in the lower half of the photo. Notable buildings include the First Congregational Church, New Brighton Elementary School, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, and the New Brighton Village Hall.
Affidavit of C.M. Lockwood stating that the Stillwater Guard became Company B, 1st Minnesota Volunteers and that the Last Man's Club was composed of members of this unit.
The Aftenro Society was organized in 1908 by a group of Norwegian women to raise money for the construction of a good Christian old people's home. Their first building was opened in 1921 with 30 residents and was named for the Norwegian word meaning �Evening�s Rest� (Aftenro). The Aftenro home presently continues its function as a home for the aged, in its location at 1423 North Nineteenth Avenue East. In this view of the new building, the entire front grounds area is a vegetable garden.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The Aftenro Society was organized in 1908 by a group of Norwegian women to raise money for the construction of a good Christian old people's home. Their first building was opened in 1921 with 30 residents and was named for the Norwegian word meaning �Evening�s Rest� (Aftenro). The Aftenro home presently continues its function as a home for the aged, in its location at 1423 North Nineteenth Avenue East. In this view of the new building, the entire front grounds area is a vegetable garden.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Aftermath of the W.W. Eastman tunnel collapse that caused the loss of St. Anthony Falls to erosion. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Burnt trees and fields near the St. Louis River after the Great Hinckley Forest Fire. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
This photograph shows Superintendent of Thomson Township Schools, Albert L. Winterquist, as well as his house and car, along the present day Highway 61.
This postcard shows Albin Ruikka and John Ruikka in their Maxwell ragtop convertible. The Maxwell automobile company was formed in 1904 and ceased to exist in 1925. The back of the postcard has handwriting saying, "Albin Ruikka John Ruikka in old Maxwell."
Alexander Faribault's house at Faribault, Minnesota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
This photograph shows A.L. Winterquist, the first superintendent of the newly consolidated Thomson Township (Esko) School District, wearing his World War I (WWI) uniform. He's sitting on the seat of a vehicle on the Alex Esko farm.
This photograph shows A.L. (Albert L.) Winterquist on a farm in front of a building and two cows, with farm machinery in the far right foreground. Probably this was Mr. Winterquist's farm, since John Junkkonen sold a 40 acre tract in section 27 to A.L. Winterquist. Mr. Winterquist built a two-story modern dwelling on this tract, adjacent to Highway 61.
A group of amateur vaudeville performers are assembled on the stage in the auditorium of the Charles Thompson Memorial Hall. Two performers are dressed as a young girl and a young boy, one woman is draped in the American flag, and one man looks like Charlie Chaplin. The man standing in the center of the back row and looking like George Washington is Anton Schroeder.
Color postcard of the American Board Mission in Fenchow, Shansi, China by Holmes and Flinn Architects out of Chicago Illinois. Carleton College participated in a mission program hear from the early 1900s until the late 1948.
Exterior view of American Exchange Bank, 401 Chestnut Street. Incorporated in March 1904, it was reorganized as American Exchange National Bank in November 1919.
The American Flag and an unknown building at Fort Snelling in Minnesota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Panoramic view of the American Legion Band, from the Press Lloyd Post Number 247 of Chisholm, Minnesota. Members are in band uniforms and are posed for a group photograph with their instruments at the front entrance of the Chisholm City Hall building in Chisholm, MN. On the right portion of the photograph is a sign on the City Hall building that reads: "Entrance to Skating Rink". Also at the right portion of the photograph are three women with a car.
Panoramic view of the American Legion Post Number 54 from Red Wing, Minnesota Band and the American Legion Post Band from Minneapolis, Minnesota and non band members posed on and around the front steps of the Hibbing High School, Hibbing, Minnesota.
Program for the Official Regional Meeting of the American Library Association held in Sioux City, Iowa, October 13-16, 1925, conducted by the State Library Associations of Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Topics include adult education, county libraries, small libraries, and lending department problems. Speakers included Frank Walters, University of Minnesota Librarian and Executive Board Member of the American Library Association.
The American Range Corporation's Annual Employee Picnic held in Shakopee. Evelyn (Huth) Cox is standing above the "N" in "American" and is wearing a white hat. Judge J.J. Moriarity is standing to the right of the band's horn player. Moriarity is dressed in a white shirt and tie. To the right of Moriarity is Evelyn's father Hal Huth, an employee of the American Range Corporation.
A child representing the Board of Tax Levy places an apple labeled "$73,000 raise in salary" on his teacher's desk, and the teacher smiles at him. The Minnesota Gopher stands in the classroom door, tipping his hat.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities and news, annual financial reports. Also includes detailed accounting of the interior finish of the church and its elevation to a minor basilica. Book was also used as a scrapbook for programs and newspaper clippings pertaining to the church and Catholic events in the city.
The 1925 narrative report covers Farm Bureau business and mentions two bank closings. County Commissioners were asked for help in hiring the Extension staff. The document outlines the scope, nature, and results of Extension work. It includes Animal Husbandry, Agriculture Economics, Rural Engineering, Poultry, Womens Clothing, Nutrition, and Boys and Girls Clubs (4-H). Interesting facts; pole beans planted for silage, an outbreak of cholera, lime sulfur and arsenate sprayed on orchards, Womens Clubs held project meetings. The supplement contains crop yields, acres, farm calls, livestock and poultry numbers, demonstrations, exhibits, meetings, and members and attendance.
Contributing Institution:
Dodge County Extension Office, University of Minnesota Extension
The 1926 annual report contains two Documents: The 33-page Annual Extension Review, Analyses, Interpretation and Presentation Summary, and the 50-page Narrative Report. Narrative report contains: Farm Bureau Report meeting reports, picnic activities (pages 1-3); Projects Goals and Methods (pages 4-7); Soils and Crops rental problems, barley, truck crops (pages 8-9); Livestock and Dairy Milking Shorthorns, feed school, Vernon Coop (pages 9-10); Rural Engineering and Marketing construction advice, blueprints, Water in buildings, Pyrotel for blasting, coop marketing (pages 10-13; Home poultry considered womens work, proper housing for poultry (page 13); Boys and Girls Clubs (4H) - retention in program, State Fair precedes County Fair (pages 13-14); Projects Goals and Methods (pages 15-16); Soil fertilizer, names of men using fertilizer (pages 17-19); Crops Gopher Oats, barley crop show, cabbage (pages 19-20); Dairy - cow testing, (pages 21-22); Poultry study of first poultry project, tour (pages 23-24); Marketing truck growers marketing problems, Growers Association director names, onions, cabbage (pages 24-26); Boys and Girls 4-H Clubs State Fair and Junior Livestock Show names and placing, camp (pages 27-28); Summary of Activities (pages 29-32); Statistical Summary (page 33); 1927 Projects, Goals and Methods (pages 34-36); Outlook (page 37); Boys and Girls Club Projects and members (pages 38-42); Adult Poultry Project Clubs and members (pages 43-49); Farm Bureau Board of Directors (page 50).
Contributing Institution:
Dodge County Extension Office, University of Minnesota Extension
The 1928 annual report contains two documents; 31-page Annual Extension Review, Analyses, Interpretation and Presentation Summary; 44-page Narrative Report. The Narrative Report contains Farm Bureau Overview including picnic, work in Home Economics Department and free bedding at the fair (pages 1-5); Projects Goals and Methods (pages 6-9); meetings held with location map (pages 10-13); Soils and Crops, seed sold at Extension Office, Gopher Oats, landlord problems, noxious weed control not popular (pages 14-17); Livestock, cattle testing, hog tattooing (page 17); Dairy Cattle Testing Association with officers, herd management, purebred sires (pages 18-19); Poultry clinics held, culling lessons, turkeys (pages 19-20); Engineering blue prints furnished (page 20); Rodent Control cyanide (pages 20-21); Agriculture Economics Better Farming Club (page 21); Home Management labor saving hints (pages 21-22); Boys and Girls Club work first Bread Baking and Sewing Contest, other contest with results, U of M Short Course, State Fair (pages 22-24); Recommendations for 1929 (page 29); Statistical Summary (page 29); Outlook for 1929 (page 30); Cow Testing Association including membership a map (pages 32-33); Home Management Clubs and members (pages 34-37); Boys and Girls Clubs Projects and Membership (pages 38-43); Farm Bureau Board of Directors (page 44).
Contributing Institution:
Dodge County Extension Office, University of Minnesota Extension
The 1927 annual report contains two Documents; the 31-page Annual Extension Review, Analyses, Interpretation and Presentation Summary; and the 40-page Narrative Report. The Narrative Report contains Farm Bureau Overview including picnic (pages 1-3); Projects, Goals and Methods (pages 4-7); Meetings held and map of those Extension Agents attended (pages 8-11); Rag Doll method of seed testing (page 15); County proclaimed tuberculin free (page 19); dairy (pages 18-19); poultry (pages 20-21); rodent control (pages 21-22); Boys and Girls Clubs (4H) (pages 22-28); year's statistical summary (page 29); Detention Outlook (page 30); Cow Testing Membership and map (pages 31-32); leaders and membership of Poultry Project with map (pages 31-39); Boys and Girls Clubs projects, members and map (pages 40-45); Farm Bureau Board of Directors (page 45).
Contributing Institution:
Dodge County Extension Office, University of Minnesota Extension
Young Men's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1924 - 1930
Description:
This is an application card to attend Camp Menogyn, Grand Marais, Minnesota. The application includes space for the camper to provide his name, residence, phone, age and weight and the answers to two questions--Can you swim? and Can you handle a canoe?
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives
Aquipaqueton Island, near Onamia, Minnesota, where Father Louis Hennepin was taken captive by local Dakota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Aquipaqueton Island, near Onamia, Minnesota, where Father Louis Hennepin was taken captive by local Dakota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Aquipaqueton Island, near Onamia, Minnesota, where Father Louis Hennepin was taken captive by local Dakota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Two unidentified men on Aquipaqueton Island, near Onamia, Minnesota. This is the site where Father Louis Hennepin was taken captive by local Dakota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
1920s architectural plan of Minneapolis General Hospital campus; at the time it was called the Minneapolis City Hospital. All buildings were later torn down in 1976.
John M. Arend General Blacksmithing and Auto Repairing shop with a sign that reads "Hamburger" in the window in Trosky. A sign over the doors reads, "Wholesale Old Style Lager Beer."
A row of children dressed similarly in outfits with pointed hems, pointed bodices, and pointed hats, characters in the Minneapolis park system's annual playground pageant, produced by Mrs. Alice Dietz of the Recreation Department.
A row of costumed characters in skirts or breeches, tunics, and caps, in the Minneapolis park system's annual playground pageant, produced by Mrs. Alice Dietz of the Recreation Department.
Large group of characters, all dressed alike in white ruffled dresses and headdresses, in the Minneapolis park system's annual playground pageant, produced by Mrs. Alice Dietz of the Recreation Department.
Large group of characters, all dressed alike in white ruffled dresses and headdresses, in the Minneapolis park system's annual playground pageant, produced by Mrs. Alice Dietz of the Recreation Department.
Two rows of girls dressed alike in layered dresses and knee-high boots, characters in the Minneapolis park system's annual playground pageant, produced by Mrs. Alice Dietz of the Recreation Department.
Several rows of costumed characters, with a platform in the background, in the Minneapolis park system's annual playground pageant, produced by Mrs. Alice Dietz of the Recreation Department.
Several rows of costumed characters, with a platform in the background, in the Minneapolis park system's annual playground pageant, produced by Mrs. Alice Dietz of the Recreation Department.
Several rows of costumed characters, with a platform in the background, in the Minneapolis park system's annual playground pageant, produced by Mrs. Alice Dietz of the Recreation Department.
The proud employees of the Arrowhead Co-Op Creamery Association pose in front of a fleet of six or seven Arrowhead trucks. The man in the truck is John Antilla; on the hood of the truck is Walter Stenman. From left to right, in the upper row, are Frank Rooney, Ben Mallinen, Hjalmer Mattinen, Anton Oak, Elmer Oak, Orrie Stenroos, Clarence Stenman, and Arvid Peterson. The men in the lower part of the photo are Erick Mattson, Bill Mattson, Benharte Pentilla, ? Juntelinen, Hugo Sarkela, and Carl Hultberg.
The photograph shows the Arrowhead Co-Op Creamery Building with 14 Arrowhead Creamery trucks, plus the staff, in downtown Esko. To the far left is a portion of the Lincoln School. The photograph was taken on the north side of present day Highway 61, looking south. As of 2011 the site is occupied by the Esko Post Office building and its parking lot, as well as a part of the museum site. The figures in white appear to be male employees of the Creamery, except for the one on the farthest to the right with the shorter white skirt, who appears to be a woman, perhaps a secretary or a office worker.
The proud staff of the Arrowhead Creamery are posed in front of their fairly new delivery truck. From left to right at Charles Marks (or Charles Markus, as his name is written on the back of the photo), the chairman; Charlie Stenman, Albert Olson, Evertt Mylymaa, Niila Seikula, Andrew Wolanen, Nels Johnson, Charlie Antilla, Oscar Johnson, A.L. Winterquist, and T. Larson, Manager.
"Art Department of the Minneapolis Public Library, Dec. 13, 1926. Before the Music Department was moved from the front room. Leonora Mann (left) and Ruth Thompson (right) at the charging desk. Phot made by J.H. Kammerdiener and given by him to the Minneapolis Collection, April 1942."
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Arthur T. Adams looking upon a stone marker at the location of the Dustin Massacre, where four members of the Dustin family were murdered by a party of Dakota during the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. It is believed, though never proved, that the attack party was led by members of Little Crow's party. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Notarized document filed with St. Louis County officially changing the name of the Swedish Christian Mission Church to Salem Mission Church of West Duluth. This is a negative copy of the original document which was lost in the 1932 church fire