Portrait of the Reverend Jabez Brooks, Hamline University president, 1854-1857 and 1861-1869. Prior to coming to Hamline, he was principal of a seminary in Watertown, Wisconsin, and a professor of Greek and mathematics at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. After leaving Hamline, he became a member of the faculty at the newly opened University of Minnesota.
View of some of the early buildings on the Carleton College campus, including Pancake Hall and Lord House, Northfield, Minnesota. Pancake Hall was a Carleton College residence.
Exterior view of Hamline University which was constructed in Red Wing in 1855-56 and later moved to St. Paul in the 1860s. The courthouse shown behind it was built in 1858-59.
Charles H. Berry, Resident Director of the Winona Normal School from 1885-1888. He was also a charter member of the Winona Society of Arts, Sciences, and Letters which raised funds for the Winona Normal School.
Contributing Institution:
Winona State University, Darrell W. Krueger Library
Roswell H. Kinney was the first superintendent of the Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, and served during 1863-1866. He was present when the school opened on September 9, 1863. The school's name changed from "Minnesota Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb" to "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind" during his administration.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students and staff are standing in front of the first school building that was used as a temporary home for the Minnesota Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb. One of the school's founders, Judge Rodney A. Mott, rented Major Fowler's store on what is now the corner of Division and Central Avenue in Faribault, and the school opened in this temporary home on September 9, 1863. This building was used during 1863-1868, and the school's name changed to "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind" during this time.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students and staff are standing in front of the first school building that was used as a temporary home for the Minnesota Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb. One of the school's founders, Judge Rodney A. Mott, rented Major Fowler's store on what is now the corner of Division and Central Avenue in Faribault, and the school opened in this temporary home on September 9, 1863. This building was used during 1863-1868, and the school's name changed to "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind" during this time.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Exterior view of Stearns House with men and women standing on the balcony and in front of the building. The Stearns House, a former hotel purchased by the state, served as a St. Cloud State's first and only building when the school was established in 1869.
Portrait of Alice Eddy Edwards, wife of the Reverend Elijah Evan Edwards and sister of the Reverend Thomas M. Eddy. Elijah E. Edwards was chaplain of the 7th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry during the latter part of the Civil War. Alice died in 1896.
Dr. Jonathan Lovejoy Noyes was the second superintendent of the Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, and served during 1866-1896. His signature is printed as "J.L. Noyes" in cursive script below the picture. The school's name changed from "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind" to "Minnesota Institute for Defectives (Deaf, Blind, and Feeble-Minded)" during his administration.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
This photograph shows the first high school in St. Peter, which was located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Fifth and Grace streets. The front of the school faced Fifth street. It was constructed in the early 1870s.
The three members of Carleton's original class of 1874, including Carleton's eventual first graduates, J. J. Dow and Myra Brown. Pictured are: Bayard T. Holmes, Myra A. Brown, and James J. Dow.
Exterior view of St. Joseph Catholic school and convent, located on the corner North Park and Fifth Streets. The first Catholic church in Red Wing stood where the school appears in this photograph.
George Wing was a teacher at the Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind during 1872-1885. He developed Wing's Symbols, a system of symbols used for written language instruction at the school until 1976. The symbols followed the rules of grammar, and served to represent the functions of sentence parts. The portrait was part of a formal presentation to the school. The attached label reads: "George Wing, Inventor of 'Wing's Symbols', Teacher in this School, 1872-1885."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Detroit Primary School in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). Written on the back is "Primary School, north side, Teacher Angie Brigam, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota".