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1. Flower arranging by Horticultural Society members, Crookston, Minnesota

Creator:
Starkey, George
Date Created:
1940 - 1960
Description:
An arrangement of delphiniums and carnations beimng prepared for display and judging. Left to right: Mrs John T. Jackson, Mrs. Verle Nicholson, Mrs. William Klein.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

2. Man displaying potatoes at the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Photographic Laboratory, University of Minnesota
Date Created:
1950 - 1970
Description:
Photo of a grower proudly showing his potatoes to a member of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society at the Minnesota State Fair.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

3. Threshing grain, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Creator:
Hall, Myron, 1911-1996
Date Created:
1945 - 1955
Description:
Threshing grain in Stearns County.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

4. Stearns County Fair, Sauk Centre Township, Minnesota

Creator:
Hall, Myron, 1911-1996
Date Created:
1954-09
Description:
School or Student Day at the Stearns County Fair in Sauk Centre.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

5. Plowing the fields, Sherburne County, Minnesota

Creator:
Hall, Myron, 1911-1996
Date Created:
1949
Description:
Aerial view of the spring cultivating in Sherburne County.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

6. Lake Henry Co-op Creamery, Lake Henry Township, Minnesota

Creator:
Hall, Myron, 1911-1996
Date Created:
1943
Description:
Exterior view of the Lake Henry Co-op Creamery.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

7. Farmers in the field, Stearns County, Minnesota

Creator:
Hall, Myron, 1911-1996
Date Created:
1945
Description:
Stearns County farmers posing in the field during harvest time.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8. Cultivating corn at William Wolf farm, near Rockville, Minnesota

Creator:
Hall, Myron, 1911-1996
Date Created:
1950
Description:
Corn cultivation on the William Wolf farm, near Rockville, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

9. Vegetable display at the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Division of Horticulture, University Farm
Date Created:
1930 - 1950
Description:
Display of Minnesota grown vegetables at the Minnesota State Fair.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

10. Vincent Bailey speaking to a group, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940 - 1943
Description:
Vincent Bailey of Bailey Nurseries speaking to a group of gardeners.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

11. Vernon Ryan at the Bohnsack family farm, St. Patrick, Minnesota

Date Created:
1942
Description:
Seen from left to right are Arlyn Bohnsack, Vernon Ryan, LaVonne Bohnsack, Junette Bohnsack, Arthur Bohnsack, and Jeanne Bohnsack at the Bohnsack family farm in St. Patrick, MN.
Contributing Institution:
Scott County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

12. Vegetable Gardening Show, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1920 - 1950
Description:
Photo of vegetable display at a Minnesota State Horticultural Society Vegetable Gardening show, location unknown.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

13. University of Minnesota Veterinarian with two students, visit a cow on a farm, unknown location in Minnesota

Date Created:
1955 - 1965
Description:
University of Minnesota veterinarian and students conduct a field visit at a Minnesota farm to examine a cow. One of the students holds a case for a TB innoculation and/or test.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Veterinary Historical Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

14. Unidentified girl with dahlias at the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940 - 1960
Description:
Unidentified girl standing with champion dahlias at Minnesota State Fair.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Unidentified girl picking rasperries at the Smith farm, Excelsior, Minnesota.

Date Created:
1943-08
Description:
Unidentified young girl picking Latham raspberries on Smith farm in Excelsior, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. Trucks Delivering Flax to Schweitzer Flax Plant, Windom, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
Trucks delivering flax to the Schweitzer Flax Plant in Windom. One truck has a short bed while the other has a long bed.
Contributing Institution:
Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. Threshing with a larger crew, Lincoln County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1920 - 1940
Description:
Several man are working on this threshing crew. Even a young child is standing with a pitch fork in hand. As the day and work progressed, men would take off their coats and hang them on anything convenient.
Contributing Institution:
Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. Threshing grain, Lincoln County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940-10
Description:
A belt is running from the tractor to the threshing machine. Two men are on the stack of bundles pitching the bundles into the threshing machine. The threshing machine separates the grain from the straw. Along side it two horses are hooked up to a wagon. Two women came to bring lunch.
Contributing Institution:
Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Thomson Road, Thomson Township, Carlton County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1920 - 1940
Description:
This shows the Thomson Road just south of present day Interstate 35, lined with fence posts and stones removed from the field. There is a small shed in the background, and piles of stones and branches. This was located near the John Fredrickson's farm - formerly known as John Alatalo. John Alatalo homesteaded this farm in 1873, one year after he came to America from Finland. He died in 1876, and his was the first death among the early settlers in the area. John Alatalo's brother, Peter, took over the operation of the farm after John's death. In 1935 the owner of the farm was Peter Fredrickson Jr., who was born on the farm on March 2, 1889.
Contributing Institution:
Esko Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

20. Shelling Corn at the Paul Benson farm south of Storden, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
Tractors (4), wagons (3), and elevators sit in a harvested field with the corn piles to the right. Paul Benson farm is located one mile south and one mile east of Storden. Hans William Hanson farmed the land and Ole Thompson shelled the corn.
Contributing Institution:
Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

21. Schweitzer Flax Plant, Windom, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
Bringing flax to the plant for processing. Building with smoke stack in the backgound.
Contributing Institution:
Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

22. Robert Slavicek and unknown man, Jordan, Minnesota

Date Created:
1947
Description:
Robert Slavicek (right) and unknown man sitting on a log pile. Logs are resting on a sleigh hitched to a team of horses at the Slavicek family farm in Jordan, MN.
Contributing Institution:
Scott County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

23. Robert and Carol Dvorak with Beatrice Slavicek, Jordan, Minnesota

Date Created:
1945 - 1955
Description:
Pictured from left to right are Robert and Carol Dvorak, Beatrice Slavicek, and an unknown woman sitting on a bench at the Slavicek family farm in Jordan, MN.
Contributing Institution:
Scott County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

24. President Cortis Rice Jr greeting Dr S. L. Emsweller at Minnesota State Horticultural Society annual banquet, Minneapolis Minnesota

Date Created:
1956
Description:
Photograph of President Cortis Rice, Jr greeting Dr. S. L. Ensweller at the Minnesota State Horticultural Society annual banquet and garden forum at Mount Olivet Church, Minneapolis, October 12-13, 1956.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

25. Preparing planting rows,St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1930 - 1960
Description:
Photo of an unidentified man preparing planting rows at University of Minnesota Farm.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

26. Preparing ground for spring planting, Dale Township, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
Preparing ground in the spring using tractors with discs and hay rakes.
Contributing Institution:
Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

27. Portrait of A. G. Ruggles, Entomologis with Plum curculio, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940 - 1943
Description:
A. G. Ruggles, Minnesota State Entomologist and Professor of Entomology at the University of Minnesota 1918-1943, with Plum curculio (snout beetle), most severe plum pest.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

28. Plowing on the Torkelson Brothers Farm, St. James, Minnesota

Date Created:
1947 - 1948
Description:
Tractors plowing a field outside St. James. Ben Leinenweber on the Torkelson Brothers' Farm.
Contributing Institution:
Watonwan County Historical Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

29. Photograph of R. S. Mackintosh award from Minnesota State Horticultural Society, St. Paul, Minnesots

Date Created:
1943-11-29
Description:
Photograph of a plaque awarded to R. S. Mackintosh by the Minnesota State Horticultural Society in appreciation for over 50 years of service to the organization.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

30. Photograph of Mrs. William Augur, Golden Valley, Minnesota

Date Created:
1952-08
Description:
Mrs. William Augur of Tyrol Hills in her home tending to her Pathos aureus.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

31. Photograph of Minnesota Horticulturists Richard Stadtherr and Al Johnson, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950 - 1970
Description:
Photo of Minnesota Horticulturists Richard Stadtherr and Al Johnson examining Mollis hybrid azaleas.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

32. Photograph of members of the Men's Garden Club of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1945 - 1955
Description:
Photograph of members Men's Garden Club of Minneapolis. Back row L-R, Eldred Hunt, Cortis Rice, Joe Witmer, G. Victor Lowrie, Archie Flack. Front row unidentified.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

33. Photograph of membership numbers for Minnesota State Horticultural Society, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940 - 1960
Description:
Photograph of Thor Aamodt and unknown person with membership numbers for the Minnesota State Horticultural Society location unknown.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

34. Pat Conlan's log cabin, Springfield Township, Minnesota

Date Created:
1958
Description:
Log cabin with window to right of center door and fence in front. It was built in 1878 by Pat Conlan who was an early homesteader in Cottonwood County.
Contributing Institution:
Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

35. Old Time Threshing on August 12, 1958, Mora, Minnesota

Date Created:
1958-08-12
Description:
A photograph of a threshing machine with Russel Gilbertson, Clifford Hanson, Gordy Johnson, Jim Ernst, Henry Hamann, Clarence Tinker, Rufus Ponto, Ed Schults, and Leslie Olson.
Contributing Institution:
Kanabec County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

36. Minnesota Vegetable Exhibit, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1930 - 1950
Description:
Exhibit of Minnesota vegetables by the Section of Vegetable Gardening, Division of Horticulture, University Farm at the Minnesota State Fair.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

37. Minnesota State Horticultural Society Information Center, Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1954
Description:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society Information Center at the Minnesota State Fair.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

38. Minnesota State Horticultural Society information booth at the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950 - 1970
Description:
Unidentified members at the Minnesota State Horticultural Society information Booth at the Minnesota State Fair.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

39. Minnesota State Horticultural Society annual banquet with George Luxton and George Titus, Minneapoiis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1956
Description:
George Luxton's grandmother pays a surprise visit at the annual Minnesota State Horticultural Society banquet. George Titus, President of the Men's Garden Club of Minneapolis, was toastmaster for the evening. Second man standing is George Luxton, gardening editor for the Minneapolis Tribune newspaper.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

40. Minnesota Horticultural leaders, Dr Leon Snyder and Eldred Hunt, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950 - 1970
Description:
Minnesota Horticultural leaders Dr. Leon Snyder, director of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (left) and Eldred Hunt, executive secretary of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, exchanging views during a Minnesota Nurserymen's Association convention.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

41. Man with dahlias, St. Paul,. Minnesota

Date Created:
1940 - 1970
Description:
Unidentified man with a dahlia exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

42. Kanabec County Ram Association, Kanabec County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940-08
Description:
Five members of the 1940 Kanabec County Ram Association during the Annual Ram Exchange. Members pictured include: W.H. Bird, Jacob Evenson, Vertus Tamsen, William Regan, and A.E. Aulich, shown with their rams.
Contributing Institution:
Kanabec County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

43. Kanabec County Ram Association in 1940, Kanabec County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940-08
Description:
Four members of the 1940 Kanabec County Ram Association during the Annual Ram Exchange. Members pictured include: Fred Connell, Elmer Gotfredson, Albert Mattson, and Leo Rosnow pictured with their rams.
Contributing Institution:
Kanabec County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

44. G. Victor Lowne presents deed to Minnesota Landscape Arboretum to J. L. Merrill, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1958-02-06
Description:
G. Victor Lowne, President of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, presents the deed to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum to University President J. L. Merrill.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

45. Group on a garden tour, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1957-08
Description:
A group of unidentified Minnesota State Horticultural Society gardeners on a garden tour.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

46. George Mann combining oats, Windom, Minnesota

Date Created:
1949
Description:
George Mann combining with his tractor and Minneapolis Moline combine in the field.
Contributing Institution:
Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

47. Frank Schott stone barn, near Chokio, Minnesota

Date Created:
1943?
Description:
Exterior view of the stone barn built by Frank Schott in 1923. The barn is located near Chokio and Johnson, Minnesota. This is an important and rare barn design.
Contributing Institution:
Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

48. Flax Yard in Windom, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
Overview of the flax yard with the stacks of flax bales in the background. Trucks loaded with flax bales are driving into the yard.
Contributing Institution:
Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

49. Flax bales stacked in the field in Windom, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
Flax bales in the field with some loaded on trucks. A group of 2 to 3 men sit and have their lunch in the shade of a truck loaded with flax. A car with doors open sits in the field to the left of the lunch group.
Contributing Institution:
Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

50. Farming in 1940, Lincoln County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940
Description:
Threshing grain required many people and lots of work. One man is pitching bundles into the threshing machine while the other is watching the steam engine.
Contributing Institution:
Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

51. Evelyn Bohnsack in her farmhouse kitchen, St. Patrick, Minnesota

Date Created:
1947
Description:
Portrait of Evelyn Bohnsack standing in her kitchen at the Bohnsack family farm in St. Patrick.
Contributing Institution:
Scott County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

52. Document signing, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940 - 1950
Description:
Unidentified men signing an unidentified document.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

53. Delivering flax bales at Schweitzer Flax Plant, Windom, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
Line-up of trucks delivering flax bales to Schweitzer's Flax plant in Windom.
Contributing Institution:
Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

54. Corn storage at the Gust Youngren farm, Dale Township, Minnesota

Date Created:
1947-01-09
Description:
V. Paulson and Gust Youngren standing in front of two circular corn cribs filled with corn.
Contributing Institution:
Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

55. Corn line at the local corn factory, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950 - 1959
Description:
Cutting corn on the production line at the local corn factory.
Contributing Institution:
Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

56. Corliss Mead Dairy Farm, near Windom, Minnesota

Date Created:
1946?
Description:
Located on the edge of Windom, the Corliss Mead Dairy farm had a large barn, silo and other outbuildings. In the background you can see the Windom Elevator.
Contributing Institution:
Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

57. Combining soybeans on the Torkelson Brothers Farm, St. James, Minnesota

Date Created:
1947 - 1948
Description:
These men are on Massey combine machines combining soybeans on the Torkelson Brothers' Farm. Ben Leinenweber is pictured.
Contributing Institution:
Watonwan County Historical Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

58. Bull Demonstration by 4H member Sandra Hallstrom, Mora, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950 - 1959
Description:
4H Member Sandra Hallstrom demonstrating her bull during a 4H event.
Contributing Institution:
Kanabec County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

59. A. L Winterquist on a farm with cows, Thomson Township, Carlton County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1920 - 1940
Description:
This photograph shows A.L. (Albert L.) Winterquist on a farm in front of a building and two cows, with farm machinery in the far right foreground. Probably this was Mr. Winterquist's farm, since John Junkkonen sold a 40 acre tract in section 27 to A.L. Winterquist. Mr. Winterquist built a two-story modern dwelling on this tract, adjacent to Highway 61.
Contributing Institution:
Esko Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

60. Abner and Julia Grender playing on the farm with their children, Franklin, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
Abner and Julia (Rognlie) Grender with their two young children. The boy is riding a tricycle.
Contributing Institution:
Norwegian-American Historical Association
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs
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