Studio portrait of Rev. Olaf Refsdal and family of Chetek, Wisconsin. Refsdal was an author and poet in the Norwegian language and a leader in promoting temperance among Norwegians.
Photograph collage of the members of the Norwegian-American temperance movement. Includes: Gustav Eide, O. Br. Olson, Waldmar Ager, F.L. Tronsdal, O.S. Sneve, J.J. Skordalsvold, E.E. Lobeck, J.L. Nydahl, Theo S. Reimstad, Adelsten Berge, Anna Qvale Andersen, O. Løkensgaard, K.T. Thorvildsen, B.B. Haugan, H.P. Rud, and K. Lokensgaard.
Portrait of the officers of Templars of Tempereance. Identified in this picture are Gustav Eide, who later moved to the midwest and lived in Minneapolis (thrid from the left in back row), and John Figved, who came west and settled in Milwaukee (first from left in front row).
Studio portrait of Gustav and Christine Eide who were married in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Eide was very active in the Norse Temperance movement in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Formal portrait of the O.S. Sneve family of Brookings, South Dakota. Sneve was a leader inthe Temperance movement amoung Norwegians, especially in South Dakota.
Photograph collage of the members of the Wisconsin Totalafholdsselskab (Total Abstinence Society). Includes: E.T. Saugstad, Theo. Thorsen, F.L. Tronsdal, E.E. Lobeck, P.S. Thompson, Rev. Chr. Ytterhus, and Rev. O. Gulbrandson.
George Luxton's grandmother pays a surprise visit at the annual Minnesota State Horticultural Society banquet. George Titus, President of the Men's Garden Club of Minneapolis, was toastmaster for the evening. Second man standing is George Luxton, gardening editor for the Minneapolis Tribune newspaper.
Photograph of a plaque awarded to R. S. Mackintosh by the Minnesota State Horticultural Society in appreciation for over 50 years of service to the organization.
Displays at the Minnesota State Horticultural Society annual meeting at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota. Left to right are Jerry Shannon, Don Miller, Elsie Miller, JoAnne Ray, Chris Ray, Andrew Ray
Proclamation of Horticulture Awareness Week in May of 1982. Seated is Gov Al Quie and unknown man. Standing L-R, Lee Hallgren (President), Elsie Wieser, Thor Aamodt, Fred Glasoe, Glenn Ray (Executive Secretary).
Group Photograph of some members of the Minnesota Horticultural Society at late summer meeting,. Front row L-R Chas M. Loring, J.R. Cummins, J.M. Underwood, Pres. W.W. Pendergast, Supt O.C. Gregg, H.H. Heins. Top row L-R Prof C.B.Waldron, Thos. Tunis Smith, Sec'y A.W. Latham, Prof. Thos Shaw, O.M. Lord, Ex-Sec'y A.J. Philips.
A. G. Ruggles, Minnesota State Entomologist and Professor of Entomology at the University of Minnesota 1918-1943, with Plum curculio (snout beetle), most severe plum pest.
Group Photograph of members of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society at a summer meeting and dinner in Drill Hall at University of Minnesota, St. Paul Campus in 1899. Mr. Cody is standing at the rear of the photo.
Members of Minnesota State Horticultural Society on summer tour to Duluth area. President Calvin Coolidge is in the lower center of the Photograph holding a basket of Latham raspberries which was presented to him as a token of appreciation. Photograph was taken in Superior, Wisconsin, location of the Executive Offices in the summer of 1928.
Proclamation of Horticulture Awareness Week inJune of 1983. Seated is Gov Rudy Perpich . Standing L-R, Fred Glasoe, Charlie King, Lee Shannon, Glenn Ray (Exec Secretary), Lee Hallgren (President), Bob Churilla, Ray Swanson.
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.
G. Victor Lowne, President of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, presents the deed to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum to University President J. L. Merrill.
Group of horticulturalist professors on an outing. Pictured L-R in top row: Samuel B Green (MN), LC Corbett (WV), SC Mason (KN), B Von Herff (Ohio College), W.R. Lazenvy, L.R. Jones (VT), R. McGinnis, Chas F Wheeler (MI), E.S. Goff (WI), S.A.Beach (NY), Stintson.
Fred Glasoe, prominent Minnesota horticulturist, teacher, and host of the Home and Garden radio show on KSTP, stading among dahlias. He was president of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society in 1984-1985. .
Dr. Leon Snyder receiving the Gold Medal for Outstanding Horticultural Achievement from William Hull, president of the Men's Garden Clubs of America and past president of the Men's Garden Club of Minneapolis.
Members of Minnesota State Horticultural Society on summer tour to Duluth area. President Calvin Coolidge is in the lower center of the Photograph holding a basket of Latham raspberries which was presented to him as a token of appreciation. Photograph was taken in Superior, Wisconsin in front of the high school which served as the Executive Office in the summer of 1928, when the summer White House was located on the nearby Brule River.
Portrait of Kermit A. Olson. He was a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a major in horticultural science. Following graduation, he became superintendent of the Soil Conservation Service Nursery at Winona. After four years of military service during World War II�in the South Pacific with the 303rd Air Force�he served as the landscape consultant for the Veteran�s Administration, and the manager of the Grandview Seed Store in Edina, the Farm Store in Excelsior, and the Danish Seed Store in Minneapolis. At the time of his death, he was head horticulturist at the Veteran�s Administration Hospital in Minneapolis.
Photograph of President Cortis Rice, Jr greeting Dr. S. L. Ensweller at the Minnesota State Horticultural Society annual banquet and garden forum at Mount Olivet Church, Minneapolis, October 12-13, 1956.
Minnesota Horticultural leaders Dr. Leon Snyder, director of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (left) and Eldred Hunt, executive secretary of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, exchanging views during a Minnesota Nurserymen's Association convention.
Lloyd Bachman, right, vice president of Bachman's, was honored by the University of Minnesota's Advisory Council to the Institute of Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics for his service to the council from 1958 through 1977. He is presented here with a merit award for his service by Leslie Peterson, chairman of the advisory group. Bachman ser4ved as chair of the group in 1970 and 1971 and as a representative to the Minnesota State Horticultural Society during his 19 years on the council.
Photograph of the governor signing the Dutch Elm Disease bill in 1977 with the Shade Tree Advisory Committee. Gov Rudy Perpich in the center, Glenn Roy at right, 4th from right is Ken Simons, seated left, Don Willekie.
An arrangement of delphiniums and carnations beimng prepared for display and judging. Left to right: Mrs John T. Jackson, Mrs. Verle Nicholson, Mrs. William Klein.
Caption on the back reads: "Mr. and Mrs. Ole Hoimyr, who lived in Bandon Township. She was a sister of Pastor N.P. Xavier, who served Ft. Ridgely and Dale Lutheran Church from 1876 to 1891. Mr. Hoimyr was "klokker" in the church (assistant pastor) and taught Norwegian religious school. The Hoimyr's had one daughter, Palm, wife of George Olson of Franklin." Nils Xavier was a Sami pastor.