Portrait of St. Mark's Catholic School's 8th grade graduating class. Students and administrators are lined up in five rows inside the gym or auditorium.
This is a photograph of an early one-room schoolhouse shortly after it was moved to its present site as the first building at the Esko Historical Society's museum in Esko. The general membership at the time is photographed in front of the school house and next to the monument, which is inscribed with the following: "In Memory of the early Pioneers (1872) and the Early Finnish Pioneers who arrived in 1873." It was designed by local artist Edgar F. Olson. The smokestack to the left is from the Arrowhead Creamery. In the front row are Emil Johnson, Vieno Hill, Selem Lamminen, Hulda Heikkinen, and Julia Sunnarborg. The second row has ?, Mrs. Emil Johnson, Emerth Nynas, Mrs. Lamminen, Waino Heikkinen, Mrs. Palkie, Edgar Olson, and Ed Tan. In the third row are ?, Evert Myllymaa, and Jack Kinnunen.
At far right is teacher Aluise Knuti and her class at the Washington School in 1952. This was her first year of teaching, and she was only 21 years old. Some years later, the classroom pictured was named the Aluise Knuti Lounge in her honor, as well as being dedicated to Aluise as being one of the organizers of the active Esko Senior Citizen's group.
Interior view, a boy and girl sitting together reading books at the Riverview Lab School. Riverview opened in 1913 as a Lab School for the St. Cloud Normal School.
View of a boy and a girl sitting together at a table reading books at the Riverview Lab School, books on shelves in background. Riverview opened in 1913 as a Lab School for the St. Cloud Normal School.
View of three boys sitting together at a table reading books at the Riverview Lab School. Riverview opened in 1913 as a Lab School for the St. Cloud Normal School.
View of four boys and a girl standing together in a garden at the Riverview Lab School. Riverview opened in 1913 as a Lab School for the St. Cloud Normal School.
View of a boy, wearing shirt and pants, running, a boy stands nearby at the Riverview Lab School. Riverview opened in 1913 as a Lab School for the St. Cloud Normal School.
St. Mary's Catholic School's 8th grade graduating class standing outside with their diplomas. Seen from left to right are George Huss, Dorothy Scherer, Marlois Dellivo, Father J. Connelly, Joan Connolly, Mildred Ludowese, and Richard Smith.
Members of the safety patrol stand arranged in two rows and holding signs. John Hay School was one of two elementary schools on the North Side of Minneapolis that had a substantial Jewish population (the other was Willard School).
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Taken on the stage of the Washington School, this was the highly popular Teeny-Weeny Band in 1933. Note the wide range of instruments, including accordions, piano, violins, clarinets, harmonicas, xylophones, guitars, and percussion instruments, to name a few.
From front to back , the students in the agricultural class of 1933, led by teacher Harold Lawrenze, are identified as Fred Tan, Charlie Niemi, Hjalmer Stohlberg, Arnold Kuusiko, Elmer Hongisto, Eli Forstie, Toivo Jarvi, George Niemi, William Niemi, Oscar Sunnarberg, George Sunnarberg, Toivo Oja, Hjalmer Olson, George Maunu, Andrew Forstie, William Johnson, Hjalmer Niemi, Charlie Anderson, Leonard Saukko, Teacher Harold Lawrenze, Toivo Saukko, and Rudolph Oja. The photo was taken by Mr. Olson in 1933.
This is a photograph of school transportation vehicles and the Washington School. The second truck from the right side is Matt Pykkonen's panel truck, which was one of three motorized vehicles used to bus students. The three trucks were privately owned. There are seven horse-drawn school buses and three motorized vehicles, several of which appear to have students in them. The horses were also privately owned, but the horse-drawn wagons were owned by the school district. The Washington School was quite new in this photo, having been built in 1921. It housed grades 1 through 6.
Boys dressed in suits and girls in dresses are posed in front of the Elbow Lake Opera House with their diplomas. All wear a long-stemmed flowers on their lapels. The steeple of First Lutheran Church is seen in the background on the right. An old car is just behind the graduates on the right.