Demonstration of an injection technique to anesthetize a cow for surgery at the Division of Veterinary Medicine in the College of Agriculture, University of Minnesota. The University provided ongoing training to Minnesota veterinarians in a series of "short courses" during the first half of the twentieth century. This photo was taken at a short course on surgery in 1931.
H.G. Laveral (right) and unidentified herdsman dipping a pig in lime and sulphur solution to control mange at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul campus. The poster in the background, produced by the University of Minnesota Extension Service, shows a hog louse and a hog mange mite.
Dog being spayed observed by a group of veterinarians and two boys. This photograph documents the University's Short Course for veterinarians, a form of continuing education that was available to all Minnesota veterinarians.
Draft horse with a large fibroma tumor between its front legs. The horse was part of a continuing education clinic for veterinarians held at the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota in 1934..
Dr. Al Leman with piglets. Leman was an extension veterinarian at the University of Minnesota. In 1974, he helped to organize a conference for Minnesota pig farmers. Leman left the University of Minnesota in 1986. The University has continued to sponsor the conference, and named it in honor of Dr. Leman in 1992.
Dr. Robert K. Anderson and his Gentle Leader dog harness. In 1956, the University of Minnesota's College of Veterinary Medicine and School of Public Health developed a joint program in veterinary public health, and Anderson became the first director. For more than three decades he taught both veterinary students and public health students about food safety, zoonotic diseases, and epidemiology. Dr. Anderson developed the Gentle Leader collar with Ruth Foster, then President of the National Association of Dog Obedience Instructors. The collar became widely popular when released in 1989. "Dogs are the only animals we train by choking" Anderson said.
Dr. Ralph Farnsworth, professor at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine in St. Paul, examines a giraffe at the Como Park Zoo in St. Paul.
Hog restrained for a medical procedure. This photograph documents the University's Short Course for veterinarians, a form of continuing education that was available to all Minnesota veterinarians.
Horse being prepared for surgery. The abdomen is noticeably distended, surgery could be for a case of colic. The veterinarian adminstering the anesthetic is Dr. Clifford Fitch. This photograph documents the University's Short Course for veterinarians, a form of continuing education that was available to all Minnesota veterinarians.
Lucille Bishop holding horse Genevieve at the St. Paul Campus. The horse was part of a brucellosis research project. Behind Bishop is the east side of the University's Dairy Barn building.
Members of the first Minnesota Live Stock Sanitary Board, formed in 1903. The board was formed to "protect the health of domestic animals of the state," and included three livestock breeders and two veterinarians. Seated, left to right: J.J. Furlong, W.W.P. McConnell, Forest Henry. Standing: veterinarians S.H. Ward, Charles E. Cotton, and Myron Reynolds. Dr. Ward served as the board secretary.
Moose grazing in shallow water, presumably in northern Minnesota. Photo is marked on reverse: "Blindness due to eye worm." Minnesota's moose were suffering from a mysterious, deadly malady in the 1930s. University of Minnesota veterinary researchers worked to find the cause.
Researchers Alvin Weber and Richard Dierks with the electron microscope purchased by the University of Minnesota's College of Veterinary Medicine in 1962. The college was the first veterinary school in the U.S. to install an electron microscope.