A group of unidentified Minnesota Horticulturists at the annual meeting of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society in 1898. They are standing in front of the Minneapolis Courthouse.
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.
Formal Portrait of Harriet Coxe Fillebrown on her 50th wedding anniversary with Jonas Walter Fillebrown, White Bear, Minnesota. Harriet is wearing her wedding gown.
Group photograph of a football team at Windom High School. Pictured are: Dolan; Eli Lund, Dud Brady, Lee Van Nest, Dick Van Nest, Bus Hanson, George Hale, Superintendent Sandberg, L. Severson, Joe Noble, Ben Frost, Danny Pitman, Con Dolan, and Coach Hocker.
A photograph of four rows of unidentified children from the 1928 Home Ec Club. All of the children appear to be female, though many of their clothing and haircuts are ambiguous.
Group portrait of 1905-1906 co-ed Hyperion Society in front of a backdrop. Front row (left to right): Gilchrist, Jones, and Smith. Second row (l-r): McDonald, S. Brown, Payne, Thompson, N. Johnson, Acheson, and Piper. Third row (l-r): R. Jones, H. Jones, Evans, Marvin, Kale, Throop, Hyslop, Salisbury, and Hood. Top row (l-r): P. McEwen, Berg, Evans, Leck, McDonald, Barker, R. Wallace, Mahlum, and Fulton.
Joe Numero and his business partner, Fred Jones, were responsible for the creation of the first refrigerated truck. Their invention, financed by Numero and engineered by Jones, revolutionized interstate commerce. A trucking company could deliver perishable products to far-flung markets without fear of spoilage en route. The invention happened at a fortuitous moment--the beginning of WWII, when the country had need of moving large quantities of produce and meat across long distances to feed hungry troops.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Portrait of Joe Whitford. Mr. Whitford built the first cabin on the townsite in the summer of 1857 and was responsible for naming the city in honor of his benefactor, James Fergus.
Studio portrait of the John and Margaret Cooley family. John Cooley (1837-1908) came to the United States as a 15 year old stow-away on a windjammer sailing from Hampshire, England in 1852. He married Margaret Taylor (1839-1927) of Rochester, New York in 1858. They arrived in Pope County in 1868 after several years in Wabasha County.
Joseph Schanfield was born in Romania, and became successful in Minneapolis' booming turn of the century real estate and insurance markets. At 23, he became the head of the Adath Jeshurun congregation on Minneapolis's South Side. During his years of service to the community, there were few leadership positions he did not hold, including president of the Jewish Sheltering Home and the Jewish Home for the Aged, as well as the Adath Cemetery Association.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
This portrait of Hiram Mendow was taken after his graduation from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1915. Mendow had a extraordinary career as a practicing attorney in Minneapolis, where he represented "Kid Cann" Blumenfeld, head of Minneapolis's bootleg syndicate, among others. The family immigrated from Lithuania, and Mendow began work at the age of six, delivering newspapers and shining shoes. Mendow litigated a number of famous cases, and continued practicing law well beyond his 100th birthday.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Front, left to right: August Christian Dahl, Hattie L. Hoffman, Hiram J. Llloyd, Jennie C. Ekle. Middle: Anna E. Morris, Paul Arthur Callaghan, Stella Lumley, Hans M. Olson. Back: Effie Johnson, Edmund Franklin, Ella F. Hodson. See Mankatonian 3/1899.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
The Kongsvinger Symphonia Band, associated with Kongsvinger Free Lutheran Church of Rendsville Township, existed from ca. 1907 until 1924. The band produced a concert series and played for community events in the surrounding area. Originally directed by Rev. Abs from Hancock, it was later directed by Adolph Sherstad. Postcard version of 87.27.2. Front row, left to right: Albert Johnson, Peter Awsumb Second row, left to right: Joseph Wilson, Prof. Kask, Emil Awsumb, Rev. Abs, Conrad Sherstad, Adolph Sherstad, L.P.Norby Third row, left to right: Henry Peterson, Matt Jergenson, Alfred Wilson, Martin Jergenson, Victor Wilson, Lawrence Brandt; Back row, left to right: L.O. Hanson, Ole Awsumb, Alec Hanson, Carl Anderson, M.B. Strand
Larry Buhler wearing a University on Minnesota letter sweater. He played football for the Univeristy of Minnesota and then went on to play for the Green Bay Packers.
Formal portrait of leaders in the Norwegian Temperance Movement. Top row, left to right: F.L. Tronsdal, unidentified, Alfred Gabrielsen, Theodore Reimestad, unidentified. Middle row: Waldemar Ager, B.B. Haugan, T.K. Thorvildson, Ole Br. Olsen, Gustav Eide. Bottom row: Andrew Wold and Inga Moen.
Leonard Levy, better known as "Butch", was a football and wrestling standout at the University of Minnesota. He served in the Navy during World War II, and afterwards played football for the Los Angeles Rams. His athletic versatility enabled him to wrestle professionally during the off-season. When his athletic career ended, he went on to be a successful insurance agent and securities salesman.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Mailman Johannes Johnson was appointed July 1912 and retired November 1936. He is photographed in an unidentified photographer's studio in Duluth with a winter scene backdrop.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Mailman Louis Christiansen was appointed August 1902 and retired June 1932 and was the president of the State Letter Carriers Association in 1920. He is standing in an unidentified photographer's studio.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Schools in St. Cloud (1869-1909). Not to be surpassed by the neighboring new Holy Angels Parish in St. Cloud, which had established a high school in 1902, St. Mary's also conducted a high school from 1907 to 1914. With Sisters Meinrad Winter and Magna Werth as its first teachers, the school opened with seven pupils; only one student, Lillian Bastien, persevered to graduation (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives).
Music was always an important part of church life among the Norwegian-American Lutherans. Pictured here is the 1905(?) Glee Club of Luther Seminary. Many of these men went on to hold positions of prominence in the church. Seated, left to right: Thaddaeus Franke Gullixson (1882-1969) served as president of Luther Theological Seminary, 1930-1954, and as president of the American Lutheran Conference, 1944-1955; Johan Carl Keyser Preus (1881- ); Nils Martin Ylvisaker (1882- ); Henry Ingrebritsen (1876- ); Axel Bergh (1873- ). Standing, left to right: Sigurd Christian Ylvisaker (1884-1959) served as president of Bethany College, Mankato, MN 1930-1950; Nils Stockfleth Magelssen (1880- ); Professor John Dahle (1853-1930) was an accomplished composer and arranger of hymns and choral music and served as one of the editors of the Lutheran Hymnary (1913), which was one of the first English-language hymnals used by Norwegian-American Lutherans; Hartwick Carinius Smeby (1879-1945); Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt (1882- ); Back of photograph reads: Luther Seminary Glee Club, Norw. Synod R62A.
Studio portrait of the 1913 football team. Team captain Meredith Griffith holds a football marked, "MHS - 13." Back row: Harry Freeberg, Clarence Pond, Engrel Nelson, Prof. Carl W. Smith, Clifford Peterson, Prof. Vernon A. Looper, Reed Rose, Guy Cahoon, F. O'Brien. Middle Row: Percy Hall, C. Keesey, Jay Hodson, Captain Meredith Griffith, Oscar Wendlandt, Vincent Keesey, Willard Wigley. Front Row: Gust (?) Widell, Dan Lloyd.
Studio portrait of a group of students. Front, left to right: Harry D. Horton, Ruth Drake, Alice V. Robbins, Emma Firestone, Paul Callaghan. Middle: Myrtle E. Holmes, Royal C. Burnett, William S. Lindsley, Edyth Thompson. Back: Otto A. Drews, Nellie L. Tyler, Lottie Roberts, William J. Janssen
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Class of 1901, Mankato State Normal School: Lottie Nott, Fannie Jacobs, Gertrude Keeley, Nellie Coughlin, Benj N. Zeiske, Emma Thornquest, Mamie Ericson, Anna Jerdee, Ella Billington, Bonnie Andrews, Irene Newton, Cathrine Byrue, Bertha Sandstrom, Florence Pond, Loiuse Braafladt, H.I. Pettis, Lillie Stohl, Margaret Davis, Ruth Jones, Dorathea Schneider, Rose Foley, Bernita Booth, Leo Carney, Bertha Paine, Hattie Gilmore, Jessie Woodbury, Minnie Nelson, Lena Rinkel, C. Rosenmeier, Mabel Sherin, Gertrude Sherman, Florence Odjard, Alberta Ackerman, Lucy Gainer, Nellie Sheldon, Margeurite Madden, Katherine O'Grady, Lillian Paff, Isabella Boyd, Ella McCarthy, Adelia Monson, Ida Geske, Didrick Oleson, Florence Pierce, Edith M. Pinney, Frances Hammer, Bertha Bradley, Montie Sutton, Mary Griffiths, Minnie S. Leavitt, Grace Hurd, Guy Robinson, Edith Phelps, Marie Schrepel, Laura Torston, Hilda Hammer, Edward Gugisberg, Rose Sahr, Sigurd Pederson, Winifred Lawrence, Eugene W. Bohannon, George E. Partridge, Defransa ASwann, President C.H. Cooper, Harreit McCarthy, Francis Hill, Henry Detamore, Ethel Jones, Pearl Murphy, Rances McBride, Harriette Marlowe Webb, Emma Scheiderich, Grace B. Clork, Alice V. Robbins, Jessie Spencer, Ida Mabel Basterdes, Martha V. Collins, Helen Ronald, Frances Cook, Eva Boegen, Lotta Larson, Della Grill Hattie Austin, Frederick Lyle Searing, Kate H. Sparrow, Ulysses O. Cox, Achsa Parker, Helen M. Philips, Dora Schram, Edith Hoagland, Lina Hensel, Helen Upham, Ida Stevenson, Louise Meile, Carolyn M. Robbins, Minnie Sweetland Parry, Charles F. Koehler, Fred L. Holtz, Charles E. Olson, Ressa Paschke, Nora Howat, J.K. Parker, Eliza Tenney, Anna Attenburg, Alice Williams, Cora A.N. Carney, Edith Horr, Caroline Christman Minnie Crist, Josephine Woolson, Mary Forsberg, Mamie Smith, Ella Lowe, Francis Wills, Harriet Weir, Lillian Smith, Emma Griffin, Elizabeth Stevens, Auguste McGonagle, Frances Powell, Laura Baumhoefeuer, Gertrude Yates, Ida H. Braadladt, Cleora Ramsdell, Herman Froehlich.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Group photograph of the Alpha Delta Society at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Julia Rognlie is picture in the third row from the bottom, second from the right.
Studio protrait of the Thief River Falls City Council. Standing: G. Halverson, M.V. Evenson. Sitting: T.P. Hamre, Ed Evenson, Olaf Ramstad, W.W. Prichard, Milton Forder, Lars Backe'
Group photograph of the Hancock Orchestra members with their instruments. Back row, left to right: Kip Parks, Frank Wilcox, Lew Wheeler, August Erickson. Second row, left to right: K. C. Helgerson, I. T. Tollofson, W. Muir. Front row, left to right: Mabel Helgerson, H. A. Chase (conductor).
Portrait photograph showing members of the Minneapolis Workmen's Circle. Workman's Circle members were non-religious, politically active Jews, many of whom were Socialists. They espoused a classless society, favored the use of Yiddish for cultural expression, and created a variety of services for members, including medical and insurance benefits.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Portrait photograph of members of the Workmen's Circle, which was created in the late 1800s by Jewish immigrants as a mutual aid society. The Circle was secular, practical and leftist, and many members were involved in support for Palestine.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Portrait photograph of some men affiliated with Central Community House. Central Community House and its West Side counterpart, Neighborhood House, were created to assist immigrants newly arrived to the community. Although the settlement house roots were in the Jewish community, the curriculum and activities offered emphasized Americanization and secularization. The group of young Jewish men in the photo may be members of Coming Men of America, a fraternal order with Masonic roots who met at the House.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Group portrait of Men's Glee Club in tuxedos. First row: Charles M. Wenzel, Class of 1918; Thomas A. Rother, 1917; Professor J.P. Hall; Vergil Guthrie, 1916; Homer D. Lindgren, 1917; Curtis Henry, 1918; George A. McLeod, 1918. Second row: Daniel Thomassian; Richard R.H. Bennett, 1918; Ernest C. Daley, 1918; Arthur C. Johnson, 1917; David N. Ling, 1916; Lauron H. Lovelace, 1918; Irving H. Williams, 1916; Neal D. Crawford, 1917. Third row: Paul B. Bremicker, 1915; Thomas L. Laird, 1917; William M. Stonsch, 1916; Wallace S. Hall; Arthur B. Hood, 1916; John L. Ferry, 1918.
Portrait photograph showing men associated with the Mercury Athletic Club. The Mercury Club was founded in 1930 as the Wells Mercurys, a boy's and girl's athletic club affiliated with the North Side Well Settlement House.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Portrait photograph of the Mercury basketball team in uniform. The Mercurys were the city and state basketball champs in the settlement house league in 1923. Max Winter is in the back row on the far left.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Student officers in military uniform are assembled for a portrait. In the front row, from left to right, are unknown, Herman von Hippel, Superintendent James N. Tate, Toivo Lindholm, Frank Niklaus, and Karl Niklaus. In the back row, from left to right, are Gerhard Klein, two unknowns, Guy Tilleskjor, unknown, Ferdinand Liepold, and Paul Senkbeil.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Portrait photograph of the Minneapolis, Mars basketball team with Max Winter as coach. Max Winter coached a variety of Minnesota sports teams, and later in his career co-owned the Minnesota Vikings and the Minneapolis Lakers. Winter was born in Austria: his family immigrated in 1913 and settled on the North Side of Minneapolis. Winter is on the left in the back row.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Portrait photograph of the North High men's basketball team. North High had a large Jewish population from the turn of the century through the early 1960s.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Photograph showing the young men of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah Bar Mitzvah class. Bar Mitzvahs celebrate the coming of age at 13 of Jewish boys. At this age, young men become obligated to observe scripture. They may also lead prayer services and count towards a minyan. No service is required: however, it is customary to mark the occasion with a service and celebration. In the 20th century, young women were also welcomed into the adult community with a bat mitzvah. Both bar and bat mitzvahs participate in several years of Hebrew and religious study before the public occasion.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
A portrait photograph of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah football team. When plans for the new Talmud Torah building were being formulated in the mid 1910s, there was a groundswell of support for a facility that would include not only classrooms, but social and recreational space for young people in the community. There was a plea for funding for a Talmud Torah gymnasium. Public pressure resulted in several community organizations pledging to fund activities for teenaged boys and girls. The sports programs were overseen by a new administrative unit, the Talmud Torah Social Service department.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
A portrait photograph of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah football team. The Talmud Torah attempted to engage young people not only through studies, but through social activities including sports. This stems in part from the early affiliation of the school with the Jewish Family Welfare Association.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Confirmed students and a Catholic priest are assembled for a portrait. In the front row, from left to right, are Ida King Swee, Mary Hoff, Father Slevin, Ada Fallow, and Emil Rishavy. In the back row, from left to right, are unknown, John Rishavy, unknown, and Anthony (Tony) Garbarino.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Confirmed students and a Lutheran pastor are assembled for a portrait. A paper attached to the back of the photo reads: "In remembrance of day of Confirmation" and "Charles Arthur Arneson, born June 17, 1906 and confirmed May 17, 1922 in Ephphatha Lutheran Church for the Deaf." The man sitting in the middle of the front row is Pastor Henry O. Bjorlie. The student standing in the back row on the right end is Charles Arthur Arneson.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
To celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. Will Teed have a mock wedding. Left to right: A. Annes, Minister; Henry Hanson; Will Teed, Groom; Jennie Teed, Bride; Pete Neufeld; Mrs. Nick Jeffrey; and Helen Warren.
Group portrait of the Modern Woomen of American Camp, Number 3184. The Modern Woodmen of America is a fraternal benefit society founded in 1883. This photograph may be related to 77.27 collection.
A photograph taken by Paulsen Studio of the 1934 Mora High School band in concert. The photograph includes Sando; Archie Powers; Jensen; Cecelia Gene; Roger Andrews; Alvin Mattews; Werner Mattews; Elmer Watter; C. M. Elzca (director); Doroth Soderstrom; Howard Peterson; Bruce Buck; Ralph Fairbanks; Muriel Randall; Charlotte Peterson; Water Johnsn; Myron Stolle; Alma Moe; Collis Williams; Irving Ahlquist' Duane Jenney; Maxine Andrews; Mary Jane Peterson; Geneva Rostberg; Carl Dixon; Barbara Hall; Hubert Olson; Dowthea Holland; Rosalie Richardson; Malba Klapmeier; Lawrence Peterson; Willard Richardson; Keith Andrews; Pat Malcolm; Willard Bancroft; Guman Beckstrom; Emma gene; Gerhardt Klatt; Thea Horne.
A cropped photograph of the 1930 Mora Hgh School Band, with "orchestra 1930" written at the top. The photograph includes fifty nine students including Dorthy Alquist; Marim E.; Lucille Richardson; Rasslie Richardson; Willard Richardson; Margart Anderson; Karen H.; Dorthy Hanson; Gladys Zetterberg; Karen Karen; Rose Mich; Roberta H.;Paul B.; and C. M. Elzia directing, with the remaining students unidentified.
A photograph of the 1930 Mora Hgh School Band, with fifty nine students including Dorthy Alquist; Marim E.; Lucille Richardson; Rasslie Richardson; Willard Richardson; Margart Anderson; Karen H.; Dorthy Hanson; Gladys Zetterberg; Karen Karen; Rose Mich; Roberta H.;Paul B.; and C. M. Elzia directing, with the remaining students unidentified.