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.
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.
The site of Camp Crisp, a settlement for U.S. soldiers during the Dakota War of 1862, located between Mankato and New Ulm, 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.
Horse bones found at the site of the Battle of Birch Coulee. Part of the Dakota War of 1862, the battle was the most deadly for U.S. forces. 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.
Site of the Jewett murder scene in New Thunder, Minnesota, where the Jewett family was killed by Native Americans on May 2, 1865. 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.
Joe Campbell's Spring at Fort Ridgely. 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.
Large monument located at the site of Fort Ridgley in Minnesota. The monument is dedicated to US soldiers and citizens who perished during the Dakota War of 1862. 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.
Monument of the Wood Lake Battle, located in the Minnesota River Valley near Echo, 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.
Monument commemorating the "Surrender at Camp Release," the final act of the Dakota War of 1862 when the Dakota surrendered to U.S. troops. 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.
Path leading to an old potato hole at Yellow Medicine Agency. 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.
Remnants of a wagon with wheels made of log sections, found in New Ulm, 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.
Round Tower at Fort Snelling in Minnesota. The tower, built around 1820, was originally intended as a defensive tower, but has since served as a guard house, wash house, coal storage building, ordnance storehouse, prison room, office, private home with a commercial beauty shop, and museum. 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.
A trolley on tracks by the site of Camp Coldwater near Fort Snelling in St. Paul, Minnesota. The camp was located on a spring that supplied fresh water to troops at the fort. 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.
Site of mass execution of 38 Native Americans who were hung in a mass hanging on December 26, 1862, as it appeared in the 1920s in Mankato, Minnesota. A large sign reads: "Here were hanged 38 Sioux Indians, Dec. 26th, 1862" and marks the location. 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.
Site of mass execution of 38 Native Americans who were hung in a mass hanging on December 26, 1862, as it appearing in the 1920s in Mankato, Minnesota. A large sign reading "Here were hanged 38 Sioux Indians, Dec. 26th, 1862" marks the location. 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.
A large plaque on the eastern shore of Lake Calhoun marking the site of the first home built in Minneapolis by the Pond Brothers. 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 steamboat "Gracie Mower" docked at Minnehaha Creek and 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.
Stone marker on a ravine commemorating the Battle of New Ulm. The battle took place during the Dakota War of 1862. 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.
An old tree stump at the site of the Jewett murder scene in New Thunder, Minnesota, where the Jewett family was killed by Native Americans on May 2, 1865. 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.
St. Paul's College in St. Paul Park, organized in 1889 offered both a preparatory and collegiate course. St. Paul's was organized and supported by the Northern German Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This conference included German Methodist congregation in Minnesota plus some in Wisconsin and North Dakota. The school operated until 1917, closing under financial difficulties and the stress of being a German-speaking institution during World War I. Supporters were encouraged to shift allegiance to Hamline University.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
Panoramic view of the Hibbing High School Band with its members posed and seated in front of the bleachers at Cheever Field at the Hibbing High School, Hibbing, Minnesota.
Panoramic view of Hibbing High School Graduation Class of 1938 posed on and around the front steps of the Hibbing High School, Hibbing, Minnesota. The photograph is captioned: "Class - 1938, Hibbing Minn."
Panoramic view of Hibbing High School Graduation Class posed on and around the front steps of the Hibbing High School, Hibbing, Minnesota. Class year not indicated. Notation in lower right corner of photograph: #6521 Copyright pend.
Panoramic view of Hibbing High School Graduation Class of 1929 posed on and around the front steps of the Hibbing High School, Hibbing, Minnesota. The photograph is captioned: "Class - 1929 - Hibbing, Minn. "
Panoramic view of Hibbing High School Graduation Class of 1930 posed on and around the front steps of the Hibbing High School, Hibbing, Minnesota. The photograph is captioned: "Class - 1930 - Hibbing, Minn."
Graduating Class of Lakefield High School for the year 1914. Picture: Front Row (left to right): Helen Crawford, Ethyl Morrison, Helen Frees, Anna Matyas, Ethyl Dragoo, Georgia Johnson, Irene Thompson, Mertie Johnson. Back Row (left to right): Alvin Comstock, Warren Bond, Gilmore Johnson, Mr. Walter Maulsby (Principal), Cletus Murphy, Ludvig Stoyke, Mr. E. T. Walker (Superintendent).
A collection of photos collected and organized by Carleton College student, Paul Barney, Class of 1895. Barney later received his D. D. S. from the University of Minnesota and later was a dentist in the Mankato, Minnesota area.
Published in the Journal Junior, a Saturday supplement for children, on September 9, 1905, this cartoon shows a boy hoeing a row of schoolbooks. At the end of the row is a sign that says, "Nine months row," a reference to the beginning of the school year. In the published version, the caption reads, "A Long Ro Wto [sic.]: Never mind; it won't seem so long from the other end."
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.
Published on Thursday, March 24, 1904, this cartoon pokes fun at agriculture education. The published version's sub-caption reads, "Phineas (the Farm School Graduate)--'Isn't it strange that with all the wonderful development of the science of agriculture a man with a degree still has to milk a cow?'" A farmer sits on a stool in his barn, milking a cow. Hanging on the wall behind the cow is a diploma from the College of Agriculture bearing the name Phineas Stumpuller. Nearby are barnyard animals: a chicken, a duck, and a calf, who is nibbling contentedly on a page from Phineas's Thesis on Food Values of Milk Powder. The milk cow looks at the reader and says, ""That child just devours that scientific literature.""