Group Photograph with Leon Snyder in the center of the photo. Snyder was head of Horticulture at the University of Minnesota 1953-1970, and one of the founders of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. On Snyder's left is Madelyn Bezat, 3rd president of the Federated Garden Clubs of Minnesota, 1961-1963.
Etta Zrive and Abraham Bearman were born in different Lithuanian shtetls in the 1870s. Their clothes and home furnishings suggest they were economically comfortable by the time that this photo was taken in the early 1900s.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Formal portrait of Mrs. Frank Peterson. The information written under the photograph states; "This room is furnished with a fund established in 1924 as a tribute to Mrs. Frank Peterson who in 1912 while President of the Concordia Society of the Swedish Hospital organized its Young Ladies Auxiliary."
Studio portrait of Reuben Youngdahl, pastor of Mount Olivet Lutheran Church, Minneapolis. At one time Mount Olivet was one of the largest Lutheran church in the United States.