Dr. Ralph Farnsworth, professor at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine in St. Paul, examines a giraffe at the Como Park Zoo in St. Paul.
First School Board for Independent School District Number 287. First row, from left: Richard Emery, Byron Brekke, Clifford Smith, unknown. Back row, from left: Judson Anderson, Dan McPherson, Roald Anderson, Harry Picha.
Minnesota Secretary of State Joan Growe and vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro wave from the steps of the Hennepin County Government Center. Applauding supporters include Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Spartz (far right), St. Paul Mayor George Latimer (far left), Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Marlene Johnson (second from left), and Hennepin County Commissioner Mark Andrew (third from left).
Vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro speaks from podium outside the Hennepin County Government Center, applauded by Hennepin County Commissioner Mark Andrew, left; Lieutenant Governor Marlene Johnson, second from left; Hennepin County Commissioner John Derus, right of Ferraro.
Large crowd on south plaza of Hennepin County Government Center waits for political rally with Geraldine Ferraro, first female major-party candidate for vice president.
Geraldine Ferraro, first female major-party candidate for vice president, speaks at a political rally on the south plaza of the Hennepin County Government Center. Behind her are Minnesota Secretary of State Joan Growe, left, and Hennepin County Commissioner John Derus, right.
Geraldine Ferraro, first female major-party candidate for vice president, speaks at a political rally on the south plaza of the Hennepin County Government Center.
Geraldine Ferraro, first female major-party candidate for vice president, speaks at a political rally on the south plaza of the Hennepin County Government Center. On her jacket is a political button promoting Minnesota Secretary of State Joan Growe, who is partially visible behind her.
This board includes individual portraits of students from St. Cloud School of Nursing, Class of 1984 and Director Sister Mary Jude Meyer, O.S.B. Between the years 1967 and 1986, the term 'hospital' was dropped from the school's name. The photographs are color prints mounted on grey paper board, with identifications hand lettered in black ink. The first training school for nurses in St. Cloud, Minnesota, opened at St. Raphael's Hospital (predecessor to St. Cloud Hospital) in September 1908, one year after the state legislature mandated that all nurses working in Minnesota hospitals be licensed. As did the hospital, the education program operated under the auspices of the Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota. From its inception until it closed in 1987, the school was conducted as a three-year diploma program that blended academic and practical training for the nursing profession. In 1964, the school began admitting male and married students. The large format photo composite boards were first created in 1958 by two graduates of the school, Lidwina Kray and Marian Town, as part of the St. Cloud Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Association celebration of the school's 50th anniversary. The boards were displayed in a book-like frame that allowed viewers to page through the history of the school's students. Each year following, graduating classes added their portraits to the 'book.' There are 50 boards in all.
An aerial view of Pine River showing the new water tower on the left and the older water tower on the right. Some of the town's most iconic buildings have been removed by this time.