This house at 44th and West Broadway was a rental property owned by Andrew B. Robbins. Pictured out front are from left to right, Alfred Parker, Mrs. Raliegh Parker, Fred Baker Jr. Bakers's Aunt Mrs Guptel and Mrs. Christensen, the blacksmith's wife. The house was struck by kightening and burned to the ground in 1902.
Future Minnesota Governor John A. Johnson and his wife camping with friends near St. Peter. The names are on the reverse side of the photograph. John A. Johnson is number 15 and his wife is number 21. The photograph was taken in the 1890s.
Mary Probstfield and an unidentified women stand in a field in front of a cook car. A cook car was a wagon that was used as a portable kitchen to cook meals for threshing crews.
Pastor Thomas Johnsen (1837-1906) served as the pastor of the Norseland Lutheran Church (originally known as Nicollet Lutheran Church) in Nicollet County, Minnesota from 1863 until 1906. He was a member of the Norwegian Synod. His original field was the entire area west of the Minnesota River. He served the area and established churches in sixteen counties of Minnesota.
Exterior view of the Oliver Faribault house in the background. Young woman with walking stick sitting on the lawn next to a small child in a rocking chair, holding a walking stick. This image is a reprint from Patricia Cates.
Ole and Betsy Peterson of Bernadotte Township in Nicollet County are shown with their children. From left to right the children are: Clarence, Alice, Theodore, and Minnie. A note on the reverse states that the photograph was taken in St. Peter on September 12th, 1892.
A line men standing in front of the first carload of ore from the Mesabi Range, on display at the Union Depot in Duluth, Minnesota. People include a policeman, railroad employees, businessmen, workers and a couple of younger males.
This photo shows three St. Peter women wearing hats. They are Mabel Doty, Isabella Davis, and Bertha Ludcke. These women were 1894 graduates of St. Peter High School.
A small group is sitting in front of Charles Thompson's Riverside Stock Farm residence, where he raised horses. Mr. Thompson is the man with a mustache standing on the right end. Writing at the bottom of the photo reads: "Chas. Thompson's residence, Windom, Minn. July 5-8, 1896."
Veterinarian Myron H. Reynolds in buggy, drawn by his horse Lucille. Reynolds, trained as a veterinarian, pharmacist, and physician, was appointed staff veterinarian at the Division of Veterinary Science in the College of Agriculture at the St. Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota in 1893. He helped organize the Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association, served on the Minnesota Board of Health and on the Livestock Sanitary Board. He was the University's only veterinarian until 1904. The St. Paul campus Power House, built in 1897, is in the background, right.
From left to right: Clay Evenson, Herman Maves, Jo Poetz, John A. Johnson, Albert Dick, and William Everett. The men are camping at Case's Point at Lake Emily, east of St. Peter. Johnson later served as governor of Minnesota from 1905 until 1909.
A photograph of Richardson D. Barrett, son of Theodore H. and Georgia Barrett, on the front steps of his home located in Section 9, Donnelly Township, Stevens County, Minnesota. He holds a suitcase and a hat in his left hand. Two dogs are on the steps with him.