Topic: Agriculture / Physical Format: Postcards / Rights Status: No Copyright - United States

1. Button Farm, Hickson, North Dakota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Date Created:: 1905 - 1920
Description:: The Button Farm in Hickson, North Dakota. A group of farm houses and barns sit in a large field.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

2. Cart full of corn, Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Date Created:: 1910
Description:: Two draft horses pull a cart full of corn.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

3. Cattle in holding pens, Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1920?
Description:: View of cattle in holding pens.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

4. Edward Severson farm, Cotton Wood Lake, Medo Township, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1909
Description:: View of the Edward Severson Farm, Cotton Wood Lake, Medo Township, Section 27, with barns, house, windmill, and hay stack.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

5. Eward J. Naylor barn, Rapidan Township, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1920?
Description:: Edward J. Naylor Barn in Rapidan Township, with silo and house.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

6. Farms on Sheyenne River, near Harwood, North Dakota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Date Created:: 1907?
Description:: Overall view of farms on Sheyenne River near Harwood, North Dakota.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

7. Frank Dumdei farm, Janesville Township, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1895?
Description:: Threshing at the Frank Dumdei farm in Janesville Township.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

8. Frank Dumdei farm, Janesville Township, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1895?
Description:: Stacking grain on Frank Dumdei farm.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

9. Frank Dumdei farm, Janesville Township, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1895?
Description:: Threshing grain on the Frank Dumdei farm.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

10. Free lodging and delightful climate, Baudette, Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: Free lodging and delightful climate at Baudette, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

11. Haakon Bjornaas on his homestead claim, Rapid River, Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: Bjornaas on his homestead claim of 160 acres of timberland near the Rapid River area in Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

12. Haakon Bjornaas outside a tent, Rapid River, Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: Portrait of Bjornaas with his rifle, he is outside a tent on his 160 acres of timberland near the Rapid River in Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

13. Home of Mr. and Mrs. Byertoper, Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1920?
Description:: Mr. and Mrs. Byertoper in front of their home.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

14. Homesteader on an ox, Baudette, Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: View of a homesteader at Baudette, Minnesota riding an ox.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

15. Knutson Brothers threshing crew, Medo Township, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1912?
Description:: Portrait of the Knutson Brothers Threshing Crew with the Soo Line thresher.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

16. Leonard Beise farm, Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1914?
Description:: Leonard Biese farm, with shed marked T. T. & H. T. Distud, Breeder of Percheron Horses, with straw-burning steam tractor pulling straw rack, horse cart and three men
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

17. Locust Invasion of Nicollet County, Minnesota

Creator:: Berg, M.A.
Date Created:: 1877-06-22
Description:: This card was made to illustrate the terrible locust invasions of Nicollet and other counties in the 1870s. This card specifically mentions St. Peter and Nicollet County, and is dated June 22, 1877.
Contributing Institution:: Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

18. Men at work, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: Three unidentified men doing farm labor.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

19. Minnesota State Fair Grandstand, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1909
Description:: Postcard with an illustration of the "new steel grand stand" at the Minnesota State Fair.
Contributing Institution:: Hamline University
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

20. Minnesota State Fair, Main Building, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1900 - 1920
Description:: Postcard depicting the Minnesota State Fair's main building.
Contributing Institution:: Hamline University
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

21. Minnesota State Fair, Newspaper Building at night, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1900 - 1920
Description:: Postcard depicting the Minnesota State Fair's Newspaper Building at night. Portions of the building are tinted pink and blue to highlight its lights. Reverse has a message written in Dutch, which was sent to "Miss H. v. d. Molen" in Bussum, Netherlands.
Contributing Institution:: Hamline University
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

22. Minnesota State Fair street car entrance, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1900 - 1920
Description:: Postcard depicting the Minnesota State Fair's street car entrance and a garden.
Contributing Institution:: Hamline University
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

23. Mule and cart, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: Three men riding in a cart driven by mules.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

24. Pony and cart, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: View of four men with a pony pulling a small cart.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

25. Port Huron Rusher, Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Date Created:: 1905 - 1920
Description:: A Port Huron tractor and thresher stand in a field. Five men sit on the tractor.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

26. Ringheim log cabin, Medo Township, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1890?
Description:: Exterior view of the Ringheim Log Cabin in Medo Township.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

27. Steam engine, threshing machine and water wagon, Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1895?
Description:: Steam engine threshing machine and water wagons.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

28. Strawberry picking on Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1900 - 1910
Description:: A dozen people of all ages pose in a Lake Minnetonka strawberry field with their boxes for picking, postmarked 1908, with M.S. Company logos.
Contributing Institution:: Lake Minnetonka Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

29. Sylvan Border Farm, Underwood, Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Date Created:: 1905 - 1920
Description:: A view of the Sylvan Border Farm in Underwood. A barn, windmill and house are in the background surrounded by trees; and a harvested field covered in snow is in the foreground.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

30. The Pioneer Limited, Cook, Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949; Battleson & Bjornaas
Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: Hauling hay near Cook, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

31. Threshing at Wolverton, Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Date Created:: 1905 - 1920
Description:: A view of threshing equipment and farmers in Wolverton. Farm buildings can be seen in the background. A horse drawn wagon stands near the equipment.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

32. Threshing scene, Christine, North Dakota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Date Created:: 1905 - 1920
Description:: A group of farmers use a threshing machine and tractor at harvest time. Three carts pulled by teams of horses are piled high with hay.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

33. Bill Rulien at his Rapid River homestead cabin, Rapid River, Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Exterior view of a homestead cabin with Bill Rulien in Rapid River area in Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

34. Farmstead in winter, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: View of winter landscape with buildings in the background.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

35. Farmstead in winter, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Winter scene of a group of log cabins.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

36. Homesteader in front of a log cabin, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Homesteader in front of a log cabin.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

37. Homesteader in front of log cabin, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Man posing in front of log cabin with a rifle.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

38. Homesteader's cabin interior, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Interior view of a homesteader’s cabin.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

39. Homesteaders in winter, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Homesteaders and families at their snow-covered community of cabins.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

40. Homesteaders, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Men and women standing amid horses and cows.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

41. Homestead family in front of a log cabin, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Homestead family posing in front of log cabin during the winter.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

42. Homestead family, Rapid River, Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Homestead family posing in front of cabin in the Rapid River area, Lake of the Woods, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

43. Homestead of Mr. and Mrs. Sivert Hanson, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Mr. and Mrs. Sivert Hanson and Hussat in front of a log cabin.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

44. Man at work, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: View of a man breaking apart a stump.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

45. Ox pulling a wagon, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Two men on a cart drawn by an ox. The name "A. Weiler" is painted on the side of the wagon box.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

46. Port Huron Rusher threshing machine, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: View of the Port Huron and J. I. Case tractors and threshers.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

47. Portrait of a young child, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Portraint of a young child holding garden tools.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

48. Portrait of "Detter" a homesteader, Rapid River, Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Studio shot of Detter, a homesteader in the Rapid River area in Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

49. Portrait of W. H. Folsom, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Portrait of community leader W. H. Folsom.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

50. Threshing scene, Vining, Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: View of the Port Huron and J. I. Case tractors and threshers.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

51. Woman homesteader, northern Minnesota

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Woman homesteader in front of a log cabin in northern Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

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