Staff of the Finnish-American reformers school Work People's College at 402 South Eighty-eighth Avenue West in the Smithville Riverside neighborhood, held classes for 35 years beginning in 1904.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Portrait of the Reverend George Henry Bridgman, Hamline University president, 1883-1912. Prior to coming to Hamline, he was a minister in the Canadian Methodist Conference and principal of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, New York.
Servers, cooks, and other college event participants are pictured in this panoramic photograph. Several carry copies of the Lutheran Minnesota Conference newpaper, Minnesota Statstidning. The group is pictured in front of what was then the campus gymnasium, where event meals were available for 25 cents.
Bethel Theological Seminary Faculty and Students 1927 pictured from left to right: (top row) George Hultgren, Director of Music; Adolph Olson, A.B., B.D.; Karl J. Karlson, Ph.D., Dean; G. Arvid Hagstrom, D.D., President; Arvid Gordh, Th.D.; E.A. Finstrom, Th.M., Ph.B. (sic), B.D.; Florence A. Price, Instructor in Elocution; (second row) Florence Nystrom; Willard Samuelson; Emily Satterberg; Lloyd Dahlquist; Lloyd Lenning; Arthur Nyborg; (third row) Gunnar Lindahl; Roger Wickstrand; Oscar Anderson; Albert Berg; Joseph Friberg; Conrad Peterson; Reuben Olson; Ernest E. Nelson; Linnea Stjernstrom; Frank Anderson; (fourth row) Arthur Ellison; Carl Seaquist; Fred Swedberg; Adolph Carlson; Reuben Holm; Elvert Forssell; Alphin Conrad; George Magnuson; Clarence Wallin; Marc? ?itzell; (bottom row) Ernest Nelson; Henry Peterson; Edwin Bonander; Reuben Omark; Alfred Shostrom; Alvin Johnson; Alfred Larson; Eric Frykenberg; Lawrence Selin; Gordon Carlson; Carl Olsson
Contributing Institution:
The History Center, Archives of Bethel University and Converge Worldwide - BGC
Portraits of Mankato State Normal School faculty and graduating class of 1877. The faculty are in the middle surrounded by the graduates. The faculty are from left to right and top to bottom: Mrs. Swann, Principal John, Miss Phillips, Mr. Miller, Mrs, Miles, Alma Pattee.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Portrait of first President for Mankato State Normal School. Edward Searing (1835-1898) served from 1880-1898. Three individuals served as Principal of the Mankato Normal School prior to Searing. Searing was the first to serve as President.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Large crowd observing cornerstone laying ceremony for Steensland Library. Steensland Library; cornerstone laying; Ellestad, nils J. (1845-1912) vice-president of the United Norwegian Church in America to right of cornerstone; Kildahl, John N. (1857-1921) college president, with cane to left of cornerstone. See http://www.stolaf.edu/collections/archives/shows/steensland/index.html
Mohn family sitting in front of Main overlooking Northfield. From left to right; Adults: Unknown, Unknown, College President Thorbjorn N. Mohn, Edward Mohn, Mrs. Mohn, Mrs. O.G. Felland. Children in front: George Mohn (in carriage), Ray Mohn, John Mohn, Thonny Felland, ""Pooh-Bah""- the campus dog mascot. See http://www.stolaf.edu/collections/archives/shows/cornerstone/index.html
1906 academy graduates. Academy graduates; Four girls at right: Mohn, Anna (1888-1963); Felland, Elsa; Hauge, Katherine; Ytterboe, Evelyn; two from right Nesdahl, Severt; four from right Thompson, J. Jorgenson (1881-1963); six from right Storholt, Eivind. Notice students clutching rolled diplomas.
Female academy graduates dressed for a party, with Ladies' Hall in the background. At left Felland, Osmund (in carriage under umbrella) and Felland, Thea J. (1853-1905); at right Felland, Thonny (1884-1976). Notice boardwalk on campus grounds.
St. Olaf Faculty on the veranda of the president's house. St. Olaf faculty; presidents house; Top to bottom, left to right: Glasoe, Rev. O.; Glasoe, P.M. (1874-1956); Homnes, F. Bue; Anderson, A.; Mellby, A.; Ryland, A.S.; Grose, Ingebrikt F. (1862-1939); Larson (Steensland) M.; Mellby, C.A. (1869-1963); Steensland, M.M.; Fossum, Andrew A. (1860-1943); Eikeland, P.J.; Lee, Olav (1859-1943); Ytterboe, H.T.(1857-1904); Flaten, Nils (1867-1947); Kildahl, John N. (1857-1921); Felland, Ole G. (1853-1938); Running, T.
People gathered following laying of the Hoyme Chapel cornerstone; taken from the porch of Steensland Library. Hoyme Chapel; cornerstone laying; Kildahl, John N. (1857-1921) college president to left of cornerstone on platform; Ellestad, Nils J. (1845-1912) vice-president of United Norwegian Church in America on platform to right of cornerstone. Notice boardwalks. See http://www.stolaf.edu/president/enewsletter/archives.html (October 2003)
Men's Dormitory (renamed Ytterboe hall in 1914 in honor of Prof. H.T. Ytterboe). See http://www.stolaf.edu/president/enewsletter/archives.html (March 2004)
A winter view of St. Olaf from the roof of Ladies' Hall, the Main, windmill, and Northfield are in the background. Notice gymnasium apparatus on edge of school grounds. See http://www.stolaf.edu/collections/archives/shows/cornerstone/index.html
Student body gathered in Hoyme Chapel (destroyed by fire in 1923), picture taken from pulpit of chapel. Note that girls and boys are seated in separate sections and men have their hats off while women kept theirs on. See http://www.stolaf.edu/president/enewsletter/archives.html (October 2003)
Children of the graduating class of the Saint Paul Talmud Torah nursery school, wearing caps and hand-made costume. The St. Paul Talmud Torah was created in 1956 through the merger of several different Jewish education institutions as a beneficiary of the United Jewish Fund and Council. Oversight for Jewish education was centered in the Jewish Education Association, which planned and developed all forms of local Jewish learning, including weekday school and Sunday schools.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Portrait of the Reverend Jabez Brooks, Hamline University president, 1854-1857 and 1861-1869. Prior to coming to Hamline, he was principal of a seminary in Watertown, Wisconsin, and a professor of Greek and mathematics at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. After leaving Hamline, he became a member of the faculty at the newly opened University of Minnesota.
The view is to the southwest from 7th Street and 8th Avenue South. Concordia College buildings shown include from left Academy Hall men's dormitory, Bishop Whipple Hall and the President's home. A house on 6th Street can be seen beyond and to the right of the President's house.
View is to the southeast showing the north and west sides of the Main Administration Building at Concordia College. A large formally dressed crowd poses in the foreground, in front are a number of uniformed band members.
The view is to the southeast looking toward the Old Main Administration building at right and Wheeler Hall Dormitory at left. In front of Old Main stands the Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway's streetcar number 6.
A group of faculty members attending the annual military inspection at the College of St. Thomas. From left to right: Reverend J. A. Corrigan, Reverend Michael A. Ryan, Reverend J. M. Reardon, Reverend O. Rowan.
Exterior view of Ramsey School, students with rackets posing in front. Caption reads: "First school house west of Campus, St. Paul City School System, about 1886"
Portrait of Alice Eddy Edwards, wife of the Reverend Elijah Evan Edwards and sister of the Reverend Thomas M. Eddy. Elijah E. Edwards was chaplain of the 7th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry during the latter part of the Civil War. Alice died in 1896.
Detroit Primary School in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). Written on the back is "Primary School, north side, Teacher Angie Brigam, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota".
Central Hillside; Washington Junior High School was built in 1911; 305 Lake Avenue North; brick building; trees; cars; bushes; street lights; houses; fence
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
This post card caption says The University of Minnesota, Duluth (UMD) was established on July 1, 1947 with 1.432 students, had 5,000 by 1967 and expects about 5,800 by 1970. UMD offers 53 majors in 34 academic areas plus 18 pre-professional programs and Air Force ROTC. UMD is one of five University of Minnesota campuses.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Group portrait of the Clionian Society. First row (left to right): Florence Hunt, Florence Buckbee, Dorothy Baumgart, Ella Stearns, Louise Davison, and Gertrude Smith. Second row (l-r): Adeline Rosenbrock, Cassie Stoddart, Carrie Alvord, Isabella Dodds, and Florence Switzer. Third row (l-r): Leonora Bye, Bernice Kellogg, Katie White, Edna Stewart, and Elva Davis. Fourth row (l-r): Forence Otis, Della Trotter, Helen Stratte, Selma Stratte, Marion Jones, and Vera Zimbeck.