District 62 Country School, Ann Township, Cottonwood County, Minnesota. Back row: Teacher, boy, girl, girl, girl, girl, Roy Gilbert, girl, girl; 3rd Row: girl, boy, Otto B. Dahlgren, Clarence Munson, girl, girl, boy, boy; second row: Albert Dahlgren, girl, girl, girl; front row sitting: girl, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, girl
Exterior view of the Distrtict 42 Country School, Ann Township, 1902. The schoolhouse was located on the southwest corner of the northwest 1/4 in section 8. Shown are: Left to right, back row: Nellie Pederson (Mrs. I.N. Lunde), Tillie Harold, Henrietta Hanson, Menora Steen, Mabel Heggerston (Mrs. E. Kopperud), Alma Hanson, John Steen, Fred Pederson. Front Row: Jennie Steen, Mabel Aamodt, Ella Steen (Mrs. H.W. Fingarson), Edwin Heggerston, Peter Harold.
Exterior view of the District 43 Country School in Ann Township. Pictured is the schoolhouse, with teacher, Rose Norman, off to the left and 9 unidentified female children and 6 unidentified male children. 37 students were at the district that year but they are not all pictured here. The students included: Ester Backenberg, Ruth Backenberg, Anna Gullickson, Henry Gullickson, Martin Gullickson, Willie Gullickson, Alfred Haugan, Anna Haugan, Mary Haugan, Albin Haugen, Anna Haugness, Enga Haugness, Carl Johnson, Jens Johnson, Marie Johnson, Ragna Johnson (Kaas), Thea Johnson, Albert J. Kaas, James P. Kaas, Albert Kleven, Galena Kleven, Jennie Kleven, Martin Kleven, Oluf Kleven, Thor Kleven, Joseph Nelson, Nordahl Nelson, Cora Nordsiden (Kaas), Helga Nordsiden, Henry A. Nordsiden, Lillie Nordsiden, Minnie Nordsiden (Bakken), Nora Nordsiden, Oscar Nordsiden, Albert Olson, and Henry Takle.
District 62 Country School, in Gales Township, north of Walnut Grove. Photograph includes: John Erickson, Bert Garwood, Judith Olson, Harry Wilson, Oscar Nordgren, Maude Gilbert, and Miss Moonem.
East Central Regional Library bookmobile visiting Cloverton, Pine County, Minnesota. Founded in 1959, ECRL is the oldest existing regional public library system in Minnesota. Headquartered in Cambridge, it is a consolidated library system with 14 libraries and Outreach Services and serves residents in Aitkin, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, and Pine counties.
Exterior view of Edwards Hall, former men's dormitory, at the end of Princeton Avenue in St. Paul. 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.
Envelope of the Ard Godfrey House (28 SE University Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota) addressed to Edwin Clark, Secretary of the Hennepin County Territorial Pioneers' Association.
Cambridge, chosen as the site for the headquarters of the new regional system in 1959, had also been the headquarters of the Isanti County Library, which was established in 1946 in Cambridge, Minnesota. Founded in 1959, ECRL is the oldest existing regional public library system in Minnesota. Headquartered in Cambridge, it is a consolidated library system with 14 libraries and Outreach Services and serves residents in Aitkin, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, and Pine counties.
Postcard of the gable front schoolhouse with a bell tower and the entrance at one end and a chimney at the opposite end. Three windows with closed shutters. In white lettering the caption reads, "Public School, Helena, Minnesota."
Portrait of high school class seated at desks. Identified by row, front to back in "people." Other students (possibly another class that shared the same room) are visible in background. Jay McDevitt and Bill Crahan.
Adele Johnson was born in Casselton, ND. She discusses her first teaching experiences, including private music lessons, after graduating from MSC. She later taught music at Concordia College and then Moorhead State. During this time period, her involvement in community affairs, politics, the Democratic Party, and also she worked for Congressman Bob Berglund. She is now retired.
Alice Grannis Murdoch (1894-1988) of Lake City, Minnesota discusses her interest in researching local history, her collection of Native American artifacts, and her teaching career.
Catherine Fossay was born and raised in Fergus Falls, MN. Mrs. Fossay describes her years as a student at Moorhead State, particularly her experiences as a student teacher at the Model School on campus, and as a teacher in the affiliated rural school at Oak Mound. Included in her reminiscences are student activities and productions.
Dr. Clarence Glasrud was born in North Dakota October 15, 1911. He attended Moorhead State and joined the faculty in 1947 as an instructor in the Division of Language and Literature. He received his MA and PhD from Harvard. He taught at MSU from 1952 to 1977 when he retired and was considered an excellent teacher. Interview 2 of 2.
Former school superintendent Donald Karow (1905-1990) discusses the history of schools in Lake City and Wabasha County, including the effort to consolidate the rural schools into the Lake City school district. He talks about school buildings, class sizes, school curriculum, extracurricular activities, and community support for the schools.
Gustav L. Schoberg, on the Concordia College faculty from 1930 to 1970, was a professor of German and French and also head of the department. He was also an assistant to President J.N. Brown in public relations, publicity, fund raising, and student recruiting through the Depression of the thirties and World War II.
Helene Kaeding was born in St. Peter, MN. Mrs. Kaeding describes her ethnic background, her father's business, and attending school at Gustavas Adolphus. She began teaching in 1931 and married in 1940. She describes the difference in attitudes toward education in the various communities in which she taught, and how discipline and respect for teachers has changed.
Dr. Joseph L. Knutson was born February 14, 1906 in Grafton, ND, where his father was a Lutheran pastor. Dr. Knutson begins the interview with a short biographical sketch. Dr. Knutson was president of Concordia College from 1950 to 1974. He discusses the college's finances and its relationship to the American Lutheran Church. Concordia College's natural constituency for enrollment was from the Norwegian Lutherans of North Dakota and Minnesota.
Justin W. Swenson was born near Battle Lake, Minnesota. Mr. Swenson describes his career as a superintendent of public schools. He discusses attitudes toward education, special education, and changes in public schools over the years.
Lois Selberg is a native of Rustad, Minnesota. She speaks first of her high school education and her early experiences at Moorhead State. She describes what entering college meant to her in the way of intellectual enlightenment. Mrs. Selberg discusses what the college was like during wartime.
Lucy (Mickow) Nibbe (1911-2005) discusses her childhood in Hammond and Lake City, Minnesota her education in Lake City, and her career as a rural school teacher at Gilbert Valley and Sugar Loaf Valley, and at Bluff View in Lake City.
Marilla Jacobs was born on June 28, 1906 in Battle Lake, Minnesota and describes her childhood. Mrs. Jacobs attended Moorhead State Normal School, began teaching in 1927 and retired 1971. She discusses her early teacher training, experiences, and changes in teaching over the years.
Matilda Moen's parents farmed near Northwood, North Dakota. Matilda Moen begins by talking about her experiences while a student in a rural school and of her parents and her family. She also discusses teaching in rural schools. She retired in 1965.
Dr. Dovre reflects upon his career at Concordia College since joining the faculty in 1963, with emphasis upon his years as President of Concordia. He also remarks on the connections between Concordia College and the Fargo-Moorhead community.
Phyllis Thysell was born and raised in South Dakota. Mrs. Thysell was instrumental in the development of the Red River Arts Center, which later became the Plains Art Museum. She discusses her involvement in various community arts groups.
Reinhold Utke was born and raised in the Enderlin, ND area. Student life at Moorhead State during the depression of the 1930's is the main topic of this interview. Mr. Utke talks about his decision to attend Moorhead State, financing his education, and student living conditions. Social activities, chapel, and student organizations, such as Alpha Epsilon, are also covered.
William Jones' career was as an educator. He first taught in Thief River Falls. He conducted the band there. He had various jobs in other towns until they came to Moorhead in 1972. He is presently the Academic Vice-President of Moorhead State University and his wife is director of External Studies also at MSU. They both are planning to retire at the end of the 1984-1985 school year.
William A. Smaby was born at Peterson, Fillmore County, Minnesota, in 1904. He reflects on his experiences as the Concordia College business office manager since 1952. Mr. Smaby discusses the importance of rural students attending college, interest of parents and teachers, and salary negotiations. He also describes the problems and successes of the greatest �growth period� in the history of the College.
Photograph showing the exterior of St. Agatha's Conservatory. The first location (1884-1886) of St. Agatha's Conservatory of Art and Music was in the Lick house, on 10th and Main streets. (It had belonged to Dr. William Lick, an eye doctor charged with the murder of his wife.) Classes of music and needlework were offered here. The house also served as a residence for about 20 Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet teaching in downtown Catholic grade schools.
Display of the T.H. Lewis Collection of artifacts. These were artifacts taken from Native American burial mounds in the Mississippi River basin, and put on display for a short time at Macalester College. Macalester founder and first President Edward D. Neill was one of the first excavators of the mounds at Burial Mounds Park in St. Paul, Minnesota, and described some of the objects in this collection.
Group portrait of two men looking off to the left and two women looking at the camera. A walkway, clothesline, and hammock are visible in the background.
Brick Oneota school built in 1888 at 4420 West First Street; designed by architect Oliver Traphagen; the building also served as the Oneota Village Council Chambers before the village of Oneota became part of West Duluth; brick and brownstone with name over entrance; Romanesque windows with keystones; over the protests of families and the community club students were reassigned to the Merritt school when the Oneota was closed in 1946 then used for storage and razed in 1973 for construction of an industrial park; 16495
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
