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.""
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in 1921, Mankato State Teachers College in front of Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the back rows, with President Charles H. Cooper towards the right in the back.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota, with a large crowd lining up by the dining hall. Tents and flags all around the park.
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota, with a group of children playing with tents and Okabena Lake shore in the background. 1447
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota, with tents and the pavilion in the background. Lake Okabena also in the background. 1437
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota, with a group of children playing with tents and Okabena Lake shore in the background.
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota, with a large crowd lining up out side the pavilion. Dining hall in the background. 1425
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota. Rushmore Row is a line of tents where Rushmore, Minnesota, people were staying. The people in the photo are 1. Mrs. W.R. McChord 2. Mrs. Oscar Malmquist 3. Mr. Oscar Malmquist 4. Mr. W R. McChord
Photo of 7th St. N. in Willmar, MN. You can see the Seminary in the distance. Peter Bonde was sheriff in Kandiyohi county from 1906-1927. He was known as the Prohibition Sheriff. Images in this collection were taken by Peter Bonde from 1890-1910.
Women and children dressed up posing for photo. Little girl with sash around her shoulder. Possible school pageant. Peter Bonde was sheriff in Kandiyohi County from 1906-1927. He was known as the Prohibition Sheriff. Images in this collection were taken by Peter Bonde from 1890-1910.
Women and children dressed up posing for photo. Little girl with sash around her shoulder. Possible school pageant. Peter Bonde was sheriff in Kandiyohi County from 1906-1927. He was known as the Prohibition Sheriff. Images in this collection were taken by Peter Bonde from 1890-1910.
Chautauqua Celebration in Chautauqua Park, Worthington, Minnesota. A row of tents with a family gathered in from of one, some sitting in a hammock tied between two trees.
Children playing on a bench in the park with A.T. Latta Dry Goods painted on it. Small dog and tents also in the photograph. Photograph was taken during a Chautauqua celebration.
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota, with a group of people sitting in chairs and on the ground between rows of tents. 511
Tent set up in Chautauqua Park Worthington, Minnesota, with Go To A.T. Latta for Dry Goods. On back Chautauqua grounds on Lake Okabena, Worthington, Minn. - Boy buying taffy is my cousin Lyle Buchan. Little boy is Chester B. His mother Aunt Bella with knob on top. About 1905
Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota. A row of tents with a family gathered in from of one, having a picnic. Some of the people are: Anna Hedberg, Loren Clark, Nancy Clark, Mrs. Webster and Belle Webster.
The Fillmore County country school exhibits building on the fairgrounds in Preston. Built by Evenson & Paulson Builders, the blocks were furnished by Cast Stone Block Factory in Lanesboro.
Students and staff are standing in front of the first school building that was used as a temporary home for the Minnesota Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb. One of the school's founders, Judge Rodney A. Mott, rented Major Fowler's store on what is now the corner of Division and Central Avenue in Faribault, and the school opened in this temporary home on September 9, 1863. This building was used during 1863-1868, and the school's name changed to "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind" during this time.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Longfellow elementary school at eighth street and sixtieth avenue west or Norton northwest corner Elinor; architect was Palmer and Hall; it closed in 1957 and was razed in 1959
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Two students looking at "Christian Activities" board that contains a quote from Milton, "There is nothing that makes men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. Wealth is of the heart, not of the hand." Student Senate flyer is visible beyond students.
Contributing Institution:
The History Center, Archives of Bethel University and Converge Worldwide - BGC