Photograph taken at an athletic banquet. Left to right: Superintendent Les Brown, Roland Hoberg Assistant Coach, Bernie Berman, Coach U of M, Frank McCormick Athletic Director University of Minnesota, 7 John Burma, OHS Head Coach.
Group of winter travelers using early snow machines. Written on the reverse of the image: "Middle is Al Hendrickson and other Audobon people on way to see Dorothy." #411D stamped upside down.
Interior view of gymnasium in the basement of Old Main at Macalester College showing young men and a child using the equiptment.Contributed by Richard Uriah Jones, Macalester College Class of 1901, and Macalester Head of Chemistry Department 1903-1941, and Dean of the College, 1917-1936.
From caption on back, "C. L. Koons and A. A. Palmer halfbacks in the famous football game in which Macalester College defeated Hamline University 40-0 in 1896 or 1897."
Bernard "Ben" Simons (1912-1995) discusses the fishing barge at Lake City, Minnesota. He also discusses being the Lake City harbormaster, replacing the fishing barge, excursion boats, recent development of Lake City, the ice skating rink, Vietnamese fishers, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's visit to Lake City.
Marvin Howatt (1941-), of the Cliff and Coulee Climbers Club, presents the history of snowmobiling in Lake City and Wabasha County, Minnesota. Marvin also discusses snowmobile registration, grant-in-aid funding, trail building, landowner permits, landowner liability, trail signage, trail maintenance, and trail maps.
Faded image of a five man hunting party (identified in "people" category). Four in hats, three in overalls, and all carrying shotguns. Two men hold up beer glasses as if in toast. Man on far right holds fish in his right hand. Jake Krekelberg and Jack Guenther.
Blaine Baesler (1920-2015), a three-sport player in high school, including making All Conference as a football player, discusses growing up and playing football, basketball, and baseball in Lake City, Minnesota, and ice boating on Lake Pepin. He also discusses how his father, a harness maker, helped Ralph Samuelson, the inventor of waterskiing, experiment with making straps for water skis.
Jim Stubstad (1922-2011) describes the development of Central Point in Lake City, and his life on Lake Pepin. He discusses his career in the US Navy and in rocket science, and boating, ice boating, boat building, sailing, and climbing Maiden Rock at Lake Pepin. He mentions the Sea Wing Disaster, water pollution, Zump Adolph's popcorn stand, the Old Goats Club, and renovation of the Lake City State Bank clock.
Portrait of four boys posing as a kind of musical act. Roman Schmitt, at left, dressed in dark cap and sweater vest with bowtie and white trousers, holding a harmonica in one hand and a baton in the other, possibly acting as director. Other three boys dressed identically in dark caps, light sweater vests with dark stripes, bowties and white slacks, each holding a harmonica.
Studio portrait of the Ortonville Baseball Team. On the floor: G. Culve and R. S. Norman. Seated: unknown, Hanes, unknown, Gowan. Standing: E. Larson, unknown, coach unknown, Neil Cliff.
Outhouse in the summer. Signs leading up to the outhouse on the trail said, "Hurry," then, "Hurry, hurry," then "Hurry, hurry, hurry." On the side of the outhouse the sign says. "Now Take Your Time." Isle of Pines; Knife Lake; Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Black and white photograph of a parade going past Ries Bottling Works at Holmes and Third Streets in Shakopee, 1945. Ries Bottling Works was established in 1872 and torn down in 1978. The photo shows the American Legion marching past. Little boy is saluting the marching soldiers which are carrying flags.
Parade on South Front Street with a horse cart and marching band. Note on back of photo says, "Patterson Mercantile, 216 S. Front, G. B. Owen Piano, 220 S. Front."
Fragment of a picture postcard (both ends cut off) showing boy on a bare back horse wearing overalls, broad hat and brandishing a length of rope. Another boy holds the reigns and bridle. Visible in background are small buildings, a church steeple and carriage. One of the boys is identified as George Vancore.
The families gathered for this picture included the Rosenthals (back row), Marcuses (middle, seated) and Eisenbergs (front). Harry Brand is standing with his foot on the chair. German Jews arrived in Minneapolis in the 1860s, followed by a large influx of Eastern European Jews in the 1880s. The South Side neighborhood around Franklin and 15th Avenues was home to Romanians and Russians.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Exterior view of the Summer Tent. Written on the reverse of the image: "1980 Dorothy's cabin, Trinity Lutheran senior High Youth group Detroit Lakes, Minnesota."
Three men on frozen Knife Lake. The men, identified as Lowell Alice, Dorothy's great-nephew on the far left and John Smargis. They are in the process of "putting up ice" for the summer months.
Two men wearing winter gear on the frozen lake. One holding a shovel the other is operating a gas-powered ice saw in preparation for putting up ice for the summer. Written on the back, "Arvo I? Arvo K? Scoring ice- Feb 1954."
Walnut Grove Baseball Team: Manager Otto B. Dahlgren; Also shown are Donald I. Remington, R. Gibbs, Art Gibbs, W. Nelson, R. Nelson, Hanson, Knutson, Schwarm, Flodine, Larson, and Hegna.