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51. Reception rooms (Teacher's Parlor) at St. Mary's Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850 - 1880
Description:
The name F. S. Bean is written on back of card. Room features Victorian style decorations and furnishings.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

52. School room at St. Mary's Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850 - 1880
Description:
View of a school room at St. Mary's Hall. The students sat on benches. The name F. S. Bean is also written on back of card.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

53. Edward D. Neill, founder and first President of Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850 - 1890
Description:
Stereograph of Edward Duffield Neill, founder and first president of Macalester College, sitting in the parlor of his home on Summit Avenue.
Contributing Institution:
Macalester College
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

54. Golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bosworth, Windom, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850 - 1900
Description:
A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bosworth sitting in chairs at the altar of the Baptist Church for their Golden Wedding Anniversary.
Contributing Institution:
Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

55. Letter from M. J. Ross from Lebanon Junction, Kentucky

Creator:
Ross, M. J.
Date Created:
1850 - 1900
Description:
Mrs. Alexander Ross (M. J. Ross) wrote this undated letter from Kingston to her cousin. She mentions her family and their health. The top portion of this letter is missing.
Contributing Institution:
Olmsted County Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

56. Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. H. Z. Mitchell, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850 - 1900
Description:
Studio portraits of a Mr. and Mrs. H. Z. Mitchell.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Studio portraits

57. Scandia Baptist Church, Waconia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850-1940
Description:
View of the exterior of the Scandia Baptist Church, with a group of people standing at the front entrance.
Contributing Institution:
The History Center, Archives of Bethel University and Converge Worldwide - BGC
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

58. A. A. Zimmerman Hardware Store, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850?
Description:
Interior view of the A. A. Zimmerman Hardware Store, Sporting Goods Department.
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

59. Adam Jefferson house, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850?
Description:
Exterior view of the Adam Jefferson House.
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

60. Albert Schippel house, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850?
Description:
Albert Schippel house. Image caption reads, "Cottage for Albert Schippel Esq, corner Sixth and Vine Streets."
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

61. Alice Pierce, Frank Merritt, Frank, George and Lillian in front of a house, Good Thunder, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850?
Description:
Two women, one man, and two boys with horse and buggy in front of a house. Note on back of photo says,""Grandma Pierce Alice, Grandad Pierce Merritt, Frank, George, Lillian. This house is down by Bill Phelps, Good Thunder, Mn."
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

62. Dakota tawoonspe, wowapi II (Dakota lessons, book II)

Creator:
Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883
Date Created:
1850?
Description:
Dakota language (Santee dialect) primary reader for children, in a variety of type styles with woodcuts. University of St. Thomas, Archibishop Ireland Memorial Library call number: PM1024.R6 D6
Contributing Institution:
University of St. Thomas - Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

63. Hunting the Buffalo in Winter

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1850?
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. Two Native American men on snowshoes are shown hunting buffalo.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

64. Indian Shooting Fish

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1850?
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. A Native American is shown as he is catching fish by using a bow and arrow.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

65. Indian Woman Dressing a Buffalo Skin

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1850?
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

66. Medicine Dance of the Winnebagoes

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1850?
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. The print shows a medicine dance performed by members of the Winnebago tribe.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

67. Men baling hay, Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850?
Description:
Unidentified men baling hay, with harvesting machinery.
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

68. Minnesota Year Book for 1851

Creator:
Le Duc, W.G.
Date Created:
1851
Description:
Travel guide and miscellanea useful to recent immigrants to Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

69. Session Laws of the Territory of Minnesota passed by the Legislative Assembly at the session commencing Wednesday, January 1, 1851

Creator:
Legislative Assembly, Territory of Minnesota
Date Created:
1851
Description:
Early territorial session laws in Minnesota, from January 1, 1851 to March 31, 1851. Published in 1851.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Revisor of Statutes
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

70. View of St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Whitney, Joel Emmons
Date Created:
1851
Description:
View of the Mississippi River with an island and buildings on the riverbank. The photographic print was created from an 1851 daguerreotype by Joel Whitney.
Contributing Institution:
Macalester College
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

71. Fort Snelling, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1851 - 1870
Description:
litho print, may be hand-colored; view of Fort Snelling from the Mississippi River from opposite shore looking up towards the Round House and Barracks with ferryboat crossing the river; man standing in foreground on shore
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

72. Ingjerd Mansson, mother of Swan J. Turnblad, Sweden

Date Created:
1851?
Description:
Tintype portrait of Ingjerd Mansson. Ingjerd was Swan J. Turnblad's mother. The tintype is hand-tinted and in a paper frame.
Contributing Institution:
American Swedish Institute
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Tintypes

73. Olof Mansson, father of Swan J. Turnblad, Sweden

Date Created:
1851?
Description:
Tintype portrait of Olof Mansson. Olof was Swan J. Turnblad's father. The tintype is hand-tinted and in a paper frame.
Contributing Institution:
American Swedish Institute
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Tintypes

74. Minnesota Year Book for 1852

Creator:
Le Duc, W.G.
Date Created:
1852
Description:
Travel guide and miscellanea useful to recent immigrants to Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

75. Session Laws of the Territory of Minnesota passed by the Legislative Assembly at the session commencing Wednesday, January 7, 1852

Creator:
Legislative Assembly, Territory of Minnesota
Date Created:
1852
Description:
Early territorial session laws in Minnesota, from January 7, 1852 to March 6, 1852. Published in 1852.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Revisor of Statutes
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

76. Worship of the Sun

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1852
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. It shows a Native American ceremony.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

77. St. Walburg Convent, Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germany

Date Created:
1852 - 1864
Description:
Origins of St. Benedict's Monastery (convent), St. Joseph, Minnesota. From its beginnings in the eleventh century, St. Walburg Convent in Eichstätt, Bavaria, survived many trials of fire, war, famine, and secularization. "Fortunately for America, when the call came to plant a branch house in the new soil of the New World, the religious spirit of St. Walburg Convent was at its height." (McDonald, page 7). In 1851 St. Walburg Convent, EichstÃtt, Bavaria, was challenged by an invitation from Boniface Wimmer, OSB, (a missionary monk from Bavaria in America as early as 1846) to go to America to teach the children of the German immigrants. On June 18, 1852, Sister Benedicta Riepp with Sisters Walburga Dietrich and Maura Flieger blazed the trail for the Eichstätt sisters to the New World by way of the steamer, "Washington." They reached New York amid the confusion of fire crackers and shooting cannons for the July 4th celebrations. Undaunted, they traveled on to settle in St. Marys, PA. New members soon joined them. With the second group (3 nuns and one candidate) from Eichstätt, they were ready to establish other convents in frontier settlements, among them the Northwest Territory in the area which later became the state of Minnesota. In summary, the origin of St. Benedict's Convent, St. Joseph, MN, can be traced as follows: in 1852, the Bavarian branch of Benedictine Sisters who came to America first settled in St. Joseph's Convent, St. Marys, PA.; in 1857, a small group of sisters from St. Joseph's Convent (PA) ventured to the western frontier -- to St. Mary's Parish, St. Cloud, MN; in 1863, the St. Cloud group of sisters moved to St. Joseph, MN. In St. Joseph, they established St. Benedict's Monastery which became the largest Benedictine monastery in the world. (Early records refer to St. Benedict's Monastery as St. Benedict's Convent.) [St. Benedict's Monastery Archives (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives; Sister Grace McDonald, OSB, With Lamps Burning, pages 7-10).
Contributing Institution:
Saint Benedict's Monastery
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

78. Ashley Crowl Riggs Ledger Book, 1852-1873, Minnesota

Creator:
Riggs, Ashley Crowl, 1828-1907
Date Created:
1852 - 1873
Description:
Ashley C. Riggs kept a ledger book journal from 1852-1873. The earliest entries are from Cold Spring (Stearns County), Minnesota and Watab (Benton County), Minnesota. The ledger's earliest entries record his activiites as an Indian Agent for the Winnnebago Indians for the years 1852-1853. The second portion of the ledger is Riggs' diary which documents his activities in and around Monticello, Minnesota for the years 1864-1873. Riggs was a key figure in the development of the Minnesota Territory and early Monticello, Minnesota community when he laid claim in 1854 to a piece of land on the Mississippi River. He built othe first ferry to shuttle people across the River. In 1861 he enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Contributing Institution:
Cold Spring Area Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Ledgers (account books)

79. Collated Statutes of the Territory of Minnesota and Decisions of Supreme Court

Creator:
Legislative Assembly, Territory of Minnesota, by resolution of March 5, 1853
Date Created:
1853
Description:
First compiled territorial statutes in Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Revisor of Statutes
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

80. Minnesota Year Book for 1853

Date Created:
1853
Description:
Travel guide and miscellanea useful to recent immigrants to Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

81. Striking the Post

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1853
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. The print shows a Native American activity in which a number of men are involved.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

82. Baldwin School Requirements and Prohibitions handbill, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Neill, Edward Duffield, 1823-1893
Date Created:
1853 - 1885
Description:
Small handbill listing seven requirements and four prohibitions of the Baldwin school. There is a space for a signature, showing the student "assents to the above requirements and prohibitions."
Contributing Institution:
Macalester College
Type:
Text
Format:
Bulletins

83. Indians Travelling

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1853?
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. The print shows Native Americans moving with their belongings to a new location.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

84. Baldwin School Addresses, St. Paul, Minnesota Territory

Creator:
Baldwin School
Date Created:
1854
Description:
Addresses Delivered at the Dedication of the Edifice of the Preparatory Department, of the Baldwin School, Saint Paul, Minnesota Territory; And Catalogue for 1853. There are colored pencil notations in the booklet.
Contributing Institution:
Macalester College
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

85. Baldwin School and College of Saint Paul Catalogues, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Baldwin School
Date Created:
1854
Description:
Catalogues of the Baldwin School, and the Academic Department of the College of Saint Paul, Minnesota. MDCCCLIV. The catalogues have information on trustees, instructors, pupils, and a statement and general plan for the College of Saint Paul.
Contributing Institution:
Macalester College
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

86. Buffalo Chase

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1854
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood. The print shows a mounted Native American man about to kill a buffalo with an arrow.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

87. J. B. Wakefield and Jim Ohio Dog, Blue Earth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1854
Description:
James Wakefield in hunting clothes with his dog. Wakefield was a member of the Minnesota State House of Representatives and Minnesota State Senate. He became the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota and was a U. S. Congressman.
Contributing Institution:
Faribault County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

88. Waheoka, Minnesota Territory

Date Created:
1854
Description:
A map of a proposed community named Waheoka, including streets, blocks, and lots. The Minnesota River is included. The community was apparently to be located in Nicollet County, with southern and eastern boundaries along the Minnesota River, apparently near St. Peter and Traverse des Sioux. Spring Lake, looking more like a small stream on the map, divided the community into an east section and a west section. Waheoka was surveyed by Z. Wise in 1854 for Lyman Leach and Monroe Wright.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Plats (maps)

89. Otsego cemetery plat map, Wright County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1854?
Description:
Otsego cemetery plat map is the original plan of the cemetery drawn in approximately 1854, showing plots purchased by the city's founders and pioneers. It was designed during the time of the Rural Cemetery Movement and is an example of an early community graveyard (and cemetery association), not associated with a church.
Contributing Institution:
Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Maps

90. Portrait of Jabez Brooks, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Fisher, George
Date Created:
1854?
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Hamline University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Cabinet photographs

91. Rare envelope containing "Rock Bend" in address; sent to Charles E. Flandrau, Rock Bend, Minnesota Territory

Date Created:
1854?
Description:
The community of St. Peter was initially, and for a very brief time, known as Rock Bend, a name taken because of the presence of a sharp bend in the course of the Minnesota River on the east side of the settlement. The name was used probably from late in 1853 until sometime in 1854. The envelope shown here, addressed to Charles E. Flandrau (1828-1903), who was living in the area at the time, is one of only a few objects that survived with the name "Rock Bend" on it. Flandrau, himself, became a very prominent resident of the State of Minnesota. Among many other duties during his lifetime, he commanded the defenders of New Ulm in August of 1862 and later served on the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

92. First public school, Red Wing, Minnesota

Date Created:
1855
Description:
Pictured left to right are Rev. J.W. Hancock, S.S. Grannis, and H.B. Baldwin. The school was built in 1854 and later torn down around 1891.
Contributing Institution:
Goodhue County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

93. Indian Doctor Concocting a Pot of Medicine

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
Date Created:
1855
Description:
This is a print by the artist and military officer Seth Eastman, who was stationed in Minnesota before statehood.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Prints (visual works)

94. Map of Curtis Survey, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Creator:
St. Cloud State University
Date Created:
1855
Description:
Map of Curtis Survey, St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Maps

95. Portrait of John W. North, Northfield, Minnesota

Date Created:
1855
Description:
Portrait of John W. North with his child in 1855.
Contributing Institution:
Northfield Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Studio portraits

96. Rise and Progress of Minnesota Territory

Creator:
Emerson, C. L.
Date Created:
1855
Description:
Demographic, business and industrial information of the Minnesota Territory prior to Statehood
Contributing Institution:
Stillwater Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

97. Man with oxen team and hay wagon, Oronoco, Minnesota

Date Created:
1855 - 1860
Description:
William Koenig (of Oronoco Township) is holding a pitch fork and standing next to an oxen team. A wagon filled with hay is being pulled by the team.
Contributing Institution:
Olmsted County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

98. Stereoscopic views of Minnesota scenery; First Suspension Bridge view from Nicollet Island to Minneapolis

Date Created:
1855 - 1870
Description:
Landscape view, publisher from Saint Paul. Minnestereographs of Minnesota Scenery, From Taylor's Book Store, St. Paul. Toll keeper's office and bridge abutment in foreground.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

99. Mason and Boardman Hardware Store, St. Peter, Minnesota

Date Created:
1855 - 1887
Description:
Exterior view of the Mason and Boardman hardware store in St. Peter, which was located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Grace street. photograph E1393 shows the same "HARDWARE" sign.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

100. Eureka, Minnesota Territory

Date Created:
1855?
Description:
A map showing the community of Eureka, including streets, blocks, and lots. The Minnesota River is included. Eureka was located in Section 33, T109N, R28W of Nicollet County, Minnesota, and was surveyed by Daniel L. Turpin. This town did not survive the severe economic downturn that began in 1857 that affected the entire United States and the Territory of Minnesota. It can now be regarded as part of Lost Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Plats (maps)
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