The first college freshman class is shown in a classroom setting. Pictured are: (first row) Charlie Olson, Olivia Eckloff, Anna Eckloff, Dr. J. P. Uhler, E. C. Sahlstrom (Mrs. Aug. Hed), Mary Meyer (Mrs. Turitin), William J. Tilderquist, G. A. Petri.; (second row) A. Godenius[?], Solomon Eckman, Rev. A. G. Olson, Rev. C. P. Lundgren, G. S. Olson, Joseph A. Jackson; (third row) Alfred J. Holmes, A. F. Lundquist, C. O. Cassel, Bar, C. A. Ramstead, Anton W. Holmes, Adolph C Olson, C. E. Seashore, John F. Dahl, O. B. Solvanus.
Blenda Nelson, Luther Falk, Mary Anderson, Mable Johnson (back row) and Albert Loreen, Axel Hallberg, Ernest B. Anderson, and Bertha Almen (front row) are shown reading in this postcard portrait.
1890 Graduates of Sauk Centre High School. Graduates listed are Henry Capser, Bird Ship, John Boobar, Edith Law, Mame Toby, Belle Bruce, and Sid Betman.
This post card shows three college girls, including Esther Johnson and Mabel Lucken, and is addressed to Miss Amelia Turner, Ladies Hall, School of Agriculture, St. Paul, Minn. The back reads, "Dear Amelia: I suppose you are already beginning to cram for the exams. We are going to a surprise party for our mailman tonight. I have only 5 weeks of school left. E.J."
Gustavus Adolphus Academy (preparatory school) students in the class of 1909 appear in this studio portrait. Minnie Swenson is seated in the middle of the fourth row from the top.
Uniformed Gustavus Adolphus College Band members pose with instruments including drums, clarinets and brass. Band member Nathan Ofelt is seated 6th from the right, 2nd row.
Conservatory students surround Dr. Reinhold Lagerström (row 4, center). Among them is Anna Hilda Hedberg (Row 3, center with the black striped blouse).
Gustavus Adolphus College students surround their professor, Dr. Lagerström. Anna Hilda Hedberg is pictured in row 3, center, with the black striped blouse.
Five young women wearing freshman caps pose in this studio portrait. They are: (front) Marie Sigurdson, Elna Peterson, Myrtie Ostrom; (back) Irene Sander and Amy Turner.
Harriet Gilman, born and raised in Sauk Centre, attended State Normal School in Winona, Minnesota. After graduation, she returned to Sauk Centre and became a teacher at the Sauk Centre Public School until 1906.
Four Carleton students pose on a fake train car with the sign "Leaving Paris." Handwritten notes on back of postcard read "fun & nonsense, posed & planned" and "Warren Knowles album."
Schools in St. Cloud (1869-1909). Not to be surpassed by the neighboring new Holy Angels Parish in St. Cloud, which had established a high school in 1902, St. Mary's also conducted a high school from 1907 to 1914. With Sisters Meinrad Winter and Magna Werth as its first teachers, the school opened with seven pupils; only one student, Lillian Bastien, persevered to graduation (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives).
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in October 1919, Mankato Normal School in front of Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the front row, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in Fall 1924-1930, Mankato State Teachers College in front of the rebuilt Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the front row, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in June 29, 1923, Mankato State Teachers College in front of Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the front and second rows, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle of the second row.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in June 1926, Mankato State Teachers College in front of Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the front row, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in June 1927, Mankato State Teachers College in front of Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the second row, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
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
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in September 12, 1929, Mankato State Teachers College in front of Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the front row, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in October 1925, Mankato State Teachers College in front of Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the second row, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in October 1924, Mankato State Teachers College in front of Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the front row, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in September 16, 1930, Mankato State Teachers College in front of Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the front row, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in Summer 1922, Mankato State Teachers College. Faculty and staff are towards the front, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato