Entrance to the Brookdale Library which opened for service in 1981 at 6125 Shingle Creek Parkway, Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. A branch of the Hennepin County Library System, the library is housed in a larger complex that includes district courts and a Hennepin County service center.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Kids from the J. E. C. looked on along with neighborhood kids as participants leapt, threw and ran during sports contests staged at Center Days. The J. E. C. was administered in three parts: one administrative group owned and operated the building; one oversaw the Hebrew School, and one took charge of the community activities program.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Display area for circulating art prints and special exhibits in the Edina Community Library, a branch of the Hennepin County Library. The building, at 4701 West 50th Street, was designed by Arthur Hickey Associates Architects, was renovated in the 1990s and was used until 2002 when the library moved to its current location.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
This shows an Esko one-room school, during the 1907-1908 school year, showing a teacher and the students. The far left person is identified as "Esko Boy - Janitor." The teacher is identified as Hilder Swenson (Archer). All the youngsters were Finnish except one, it was noted. On the back of the photo it was written that this was ""a one-room school near Esko Corners where I taught Sept. 1907 to May 1908. All were Finnish but one family, the Johnsons, with whom I stayed. I am the one in the doorway with the funny hat that must have been home made. One of the Esko boys was janitor."" The back of the photo has a small cut-out photograph of Hildur Archer and Olga Johnson to her right, who was the oldest daughter of the Johnson family with whom she stayed.
Here is the proud graduating class of 1933 from the Esko High School, including Millard Olson, Henry Anadahl, Anne Nygren, Elvira Thompson, Albin Johnson, Iver Olson, Bill Stenman, Mr. A. L. Winterquist, Irene Lukkanen, Lila Frederickson, and Lillian Fredrickson.
A mock up of a section of an image called "The Word of Life" to be used on the exterior of the University of Notre Dame's Memorial library in South Bend, Indiana, which was installed on a wall of St. Boniface High School gymnasium, Cold Spring and being observed by clients and granite industry people.
This is a photograph of pupils and teacher in Esko one-room School with desks in foreground, blackboards, and clock in background. The Esko one-room school was used from 1897 to 1920, and was located at Thomson Road and Highway 61, and was also known as Mallinen's School. The building itself was moved in 1959 and can be toured at the Esko Historical Society site as the school building. Although the teacher and many of the pupils are not identified, some of their names can be read on the black board, including, #10 - Juntunen, Ida; #11 - Juntunen, Eddy; #12 - Juntunen, Joseph; #13 Juntunen, Yalmer; Kangas, Selma; Mattinen, Mary; #16 - Mattinen, Yalmer; #17 - Peterson, John; #18 - Peterson, Yalmer; #19 - Peterson, Adolph; #20 - Polo, Olga; #21 - Polo, Charles; #22 - P., Hilda; Isaac; #23 - Perry, Charles; #24 - Perry, Bessie; #25 - Point, Eddy; Sunnarborg, Julia; ?; Charles; Annie; Matthews, Geo.; #1 - Esko, Henry; #2 - Esko, Fred; #3 - Hiukka, Alice; #4 - Hiukka.
Young students stand on the steps of the school. The instructors stand in the back right. Temple of Aaron organized it's own Hebrew school in 1916. The multiplicity of Hebrew Schools in St. Paul was a marked difference from the centralized Hebrew instruction in Minneapolis, reflecting the diversity of the St. Paul community and it's lengthier history.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives