Axel Waldemar Bondeson, Anna (Bondeson) Sophia Carlson, and Ellsworth Walden (Carlson) Bondeson, on their North Hero Township farm near Walnut Grove, Minnesota.
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.
Henry Grettum, a farmer near Detroit Lakes, recalls his early years of coming to Ulen, MN from Goodhue County in Minnesota. Mr. Grettum tells of his farm life at Ulen and Detroit Lakes and as farm manager north of Moorhead. He tells of his community activities. Mr. Grettum was 93 years old at the time of the interview. His ancestors are Norwegian.
Reynold "Ray" Steffenhagen (1920-2008) of Lake City, Minnesota discusses working in the family business of Sugar Loaf Dairy, Guernsey cows, pasteurizing and bottling milk, working for the Lake City Post Office, and being drafted into the army during World War II.
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.
Mrs. William Baker and Mrs. Leonard Johnson greeting visitors in the Minnesota State Horticultural Society membership booth at the Minnesota State Fair.