Members of Minnesota State Horticultural Society on summer tour to Duluth area. President Calvin Coolidge is in the lower center of the Photograph holding a basket of Latham raspberries which was presented to him as a token of appreciation. Photograph was taken in Superior, Wisconsin in front of the high school which served as the Executive Office in the summer of 1928, when the summer White House was located on the nearby Brule River.
Photograph of the governor signing the Dutch Elm Disease bill in 1977 with the Shade Tree Advisory Committee. Gov Rudy Perpich in the center, Glenn Roy at right, 4th from right is Ken Simons, seated left, Don Willekie.
Photograph of a plaque awarded to R. S. Mackintosh by the Minnesota State Horticultural Society in appreciation for over 50 years of service to the organization.
A. G. Ruggles, Minnesota State Entomologist and Professor of Entomology at the University of Minnesota 1918-1943, with Plum curculio (snout beetle), most severe plum pest.
Portrait of Kermit A. Olson. He was a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a major in horticultural science. Following graduation, he became superintendent of the Soil Conservation Service Nursery at Winona. After four years of military service during World War II�in the South Pacific with the 303rd Air Force�he served as the landscape consultant for the Veteran�s Administration, and the manager of the Grandview Seed Store in Edina, the Farm Store in Excelsior, and the Danish Seed Store in Minneapolis. At the time of his death, he was head horticulturist at the Veteran�s Administration Hospital in Minneapolis.