Photograph showing a stone path which extends from the camera to a building, surrounded by manicured grounds. The beautifully landscaped grounds were one part of the serene setting that enticed Hazelden's original founders.
Portrait of R. C. Lilly. Mr. Lilly was a prominent banker and financier, and a founder of the Coyle Foundation, which authorized and initially backed purchase of the Porter farm for the establishment of what was to become Hazelden.
Photograph showing the shoreline of a lake and trees. Hazelden provides an environment that is conducive to the chemically dependent person's sense of self-worth and dignity.
Photograph looking across a street that is in the foreground, to a park bench surrounded by trees and grass. Hazelden's grounds are considered to be a 'little spot of heaven' and maintaining a beautiful and serene setting continues to be a priority.
Approximately 40 students listening to an anatomy lecture delivered by Dr. Andrew Soderlind at The Swedish Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis. Two nursing instructors are seated at the front of the classroom.
The garden courtyard on the north side of The Swedish Hospital's B Building featured a small sunken pool and several flower beds. The nurses' residence is visible beyond the courtyard wall.
Two student nurses prepare trays for patients at St. Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis while two nurses supervise their activities. The student nurse in the background is busy loading trays onto a dolly system that will transport the meals to smaller diet kitchens on each floor for distribution to patients.
Main kitchen at St. Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph gives the following description: The steam table is close to the table on which the trays are set. The lift serves four floors. Directly above the main Diet Kitchen are the four small floor diet kitchens where trays are received and taken at once to the patients. The lifts are hydraulic and steam heated. Except in extremely hot weather ice cream may be served on the tray without melting. On the four floors eighty patients are served in fifteen or twenty minutes.
An external view of Minneapolis General Hospital from the corner of 7th Avenue South and 6th Street; 1 is the Employees Building; 2 is the Laundry Building; 3 is the Administration Building; though it is winter, laundry windows are open.