Row of five girls dressed alike in flowered dresses and hats and carrying reticules, characters in the Minneapolis park system's annual playground pageant, produced by Mrs. Alice Dietz of the Recreation Department.
Five girls dressed alike in flowered dresses with dark sashes and holding aloft gauze drapes, characters in the Minneapolis park system's annual playground pageant, produced by Mrs. Alice Dietz of the Recreation Department.
A row of characters similarly dressed in costumes suggestive of bugs with carapaces, in the Minneapolis park system's annual playground pageant, produced by Mrs. Alice Dietz of the Recreation Department.
A row of kneeling children similarly costumed in trousers, tunics, and caps with antennae, characters in the Minneapolis park system's annual playground pageant, produced by Mrs. Alice Dietz of the Recreation Department.
Five men have been busy loading a straw bundle wagon and are taking a break. The straw bundles will be later threshed in a threshing machine. The men are sitting on and around the large steam engine. One man is sitting on the large wheel used by the belt to power the threshing machine.
Professor G. H. Towley and student A. Elmer Turner, Commercial Department, Gustavus Adolphus College, confer at the teacher's desk before class begins.
Early years in St. Cloud (1857-1863). In 1863 when the number of sisters in St. Cloud had increased to fourteen, they began to look for a more congenial environment. Seven of the sisters responded to an invitation to establish a Benedictine convent in Atchison, KS. Five of these founders of the Atchison group are identified on the photograph, taken in 1888, as follows: (seated:) Sisters Gertrude Kapser, Evangelista Kremeter, Gregoria Moser; (Standing:) Sisters Armanda Meier, Boniface Bantle;.The remaining sisters in St. Cloud chose to move to nearby Clinton (St. Joseph), a flourishing German community, where three of the sisters had already established a mission and two were teaching in the district school there. The main reasons for seeking a more congenial environment was the controversy of public versus parochial schools. The sisters were caught between the American bishops'/pastors' ideal of establishing a parochial school system and the parishioners' resistance to supporting two school systems. The parishioners also resisted the loss of the kind of control over their parishes and schools that they were accustomed to having in Germany. Besides the school controversy, there was the undeniable fact that the sisters needed time to adjust to their new environment. They had not yet mastered the English language or the school discipline needed in America so different from that of their girls' boarding school in Bavaria. Also some citizens viewed the sisters' appearance in religious dress and teaching religion in the district school as violations of the American ideal of separation of church and state (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives; McDonald, pages 53-55; Terry Jaakkola and Julia Lambert Frericks, Shadows Illuminated, pages75-79).
Five unidentified Chippewa children seated in the grass, taken in Onamia, Minnesota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Audrey, Trip and Gus DeMann in horse-drawn carriage, with Chip DeMann on horse behind them and unidentified woman standing in front on the grass at the 125th anniversary of Holy Cross Church.