Axel Waldemar Bondeson, Anna (Bondeson) Sophia Carlson, and Ellsworth Walden (Carlson) Bondeson, on their North Hero Township farm near Walnut Grove, Minnesota.
Interior of the City Meat Market taken in February of 1910. The store was owned by John G. Weicks and Edward Harry Weicks from January of 1910 to December of 1914.
Photograph of the Steen family on their farm with Iver Pederson's threshing crew, posed by the threshing machine. This photograph was taken in 1909. The little boy is Conrad Steen, shown next to his parents, Carl August Williamson Steen and Annie (Peterson) Steen, with his sister Jennie standing nearby. Also depicted is Carl Steen's sister Anne Marie (Steen) Pederson. The photograph was taken during a coffee break.
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.
Rolland Robert Freeman is shown in front of his Implement, Bicycle and Hardware store. The building was built by Freeman in 1892 and he sold it to a soloon operator in March of 1898. The sales promotion is 'buy a binder and recieve a bicycle for free.'
A photograph of Hans and Mattie Sanbo's wedding on their farm, July 12, 1900. The Sanbo farm was in Ann Township, Cottonwood County, Minnesota, just south of Walnut Grove.
The interior of Hesnault's Pharmacy, which stood on Main Street in Walnut Grove. The man behind left counter is unidentified but the man behind right counter is J.F. Hesnault. John F. Hesnault & Eleck C. Nelson ran the business starting in August of 1903. In 1918 Eleck C. Nelson sold his shares to A.J. Keller who sold out to John F. Heslnault in March of 1927. John F. Helsnault ran the business himself until September of 1938. He sold out to H.C. Nelson & Justin Hagen September of 1938, the name of the store changing to Nelson and Hagen Pharmacy. Nelson & Hagen sold out to Carl A. "Pete" Peterson in June of 1980 changed the name of the store to Peterson Drug. Carl A. Peterson sold out to Donald Pederson in May of 1987 the name changing once more, this time to Pederson Drug.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.), photograph taken in Tracy on April 28, 1912 to commemorate the 93rd Anniversary of the American I.O.O.F. organization's existance in Tracy, MN. The photo was taken in front of the Tracy Citizens State Bank by F.K. Ives. Shown are: 1. Wm. Harriman 2. E.E. Converse 3. M.W. Baker 4. W.B. Harwood 5. Chas. Herder 6. Jacob W. Hirshfield (dry goods store) 7. C.W. Bulen (postmaster) 8. Ulric "Bim" Dilger (mail carrier) 9. J.P. Olson (dry goods store) 10. John Olson 11. W.B. Thompson 12. J.T. Jackson 13. Col. Charles Berdan (auctioneer) 14. Buck Swoffer (?)
Johnny Johnson, Petra (Halvorsdatter) Johnson, and family members at their home near Plum Creek. Johnny Johnson was mentioned in Laura Ingalls Wilder's novel about her time near Walnut Grove, "On the Banks of Plum Creek."
Logan Post Office located in Johnsonville Township, Redwood Count. Fred Radtke, Senior family home, store, and Post Office. This building was in section 7 of Johnsonville Township. The building was still standing in 1985. Shown are Louise, Little Elsie, Augusta, Emma, Grandma Minnie Burmiester, Emil, Henry, Mrs Fred (Minnie) Radtke Sr., and William, Fred Ratdke Sr., Herman, and Fred Jr. William is in the doorway, Fred Ratdke Sr., Herman and Fred Jr. are in the horse drawn buggy.
Photograph taken at the Lute Addison farm. Lute is holding onto a white horse and his family is in a carriage in background. The date is uncertain. There is a potato patch shown in the forground, and the background shows the prairie before 1915.
Photograph of a celebration on Main Street in Walnut Grove. Businesses shown include: Northwestern Hotel & Restaurant, Chicago Fair, City Drug Store, L.T. Ellefson, C.L. Wichner Saloon, Wichner; C.L., and City Meat Market. All of the buidings shown on the south side of Main Street burned in 1903.
Olive Bertleson (Bell) is shown on her pony "Nettie." Olive was taking music lessons from Edith Gillis Alberton, daughter of Reverend Gillis at the time and this fact is noted on the back of the photograh. While this is a city street grass can be seen growing. This photograph was taken just west of the current telephone switching building on the north side of Main Street.
Pupils of the Norwegian Parochial School of the St. Olaf Congregation shown in front of Saint Olaf Luthern Church in rural Ann Township. Left to right, front row: Henry Nordsiden, James "Jim" Kaas, Maurice Heggerston; Ben Kleven, Edward Kleven, Conrad Steen, Henry Johnson, Lawrence Fingarson, Alice Steen, Ingolf Heggerston, shown in front of Mrs. Heggerston Adner Heggerston. Second row: Henry Fingarson, Lillie Nordsiden, Carl Johnson, Martin Kleven, Edwin Heggerston, Ella Steen. Third row: Albert Kleven, Marie Johnson, Jennie Steen, Alma Aamodt, Alma Kelven, Jennie Kleven. Fourth row: Cora Nordsiden, Mabel Heggeston, Ragna Johnson, Galena Kleven, Menora Steen, Nora Nordsiden. Back row: Fred Pederson, John Pederson, Oscar Nordsiden.
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.
Walnut Grove Fire Department Photograph, taken in 1905. Shown are: Left to Right; Herman Runge, A.W. Olson, O.W. Gremmert, William Severs, Ben Johnson, J.C. Jacobs, John Betts, True Towne, Ed Wiecks, John L. Doig, Albert "Bert" Bertram, Arthur Boyle, Gustav H. Schultz, Fred Clarke, Unknown, Alfred Benson, Charles N. McDonald, Frank Garlock, Henry Garlock Up On Ladder: Ulric "Bim" Dilger. Walnut Grove's first jail was housed in this building.