Swedish royalty poses in the Turnblad mansion during their visit. Bernhard LeVander is the president of the American Swedish Institute and brother of Governor Harold LeVander.
Cedric Adams on the left and Art Tibodeau on the right advertise Vigorena Feeds. The bag both are holding onto reads: Vigorena: The Feed You Need, Springfields Milling Corporation, Springfield, Minnesota.
Elmer Albinson was a director of the American Swedish Institute. Completed in 1908, the Swan J. Turnblad mansion was built in the French Chateauesque style. The house became the American Swedish Institute in 1929.
Ernest Levine lived on a farm west of St. Peter. His interest in farming was such that it was confidently prophesied that he would become a farmer. Here he is acting the part. He became, instead, a superintendent of schools.
Future Minnesota governor John A. Johnson, from St. Peter, and a number of his friends at Lake Emily east of St. Peter in 1900. Johnson is standing at the far left.
Real photographoc postcard of a group of women and children lawn of private residence. Bertha Strunk with medium size dog, woman in center next to her is Lizzie (Elizabeth) Ries. The three children are Howard, Don, and Hildegard Ries.
Harriet Coxe Fillebrown posed near the fireplace of the Fillebrown family's cottage at White Bear, Minnesota on the occasion of her 50th wedding anniversary with Jonas Walter Fillebrown in July of 1931. Harriet is wearing her wedding gown.
Helen Fillebrown with relatives and friends posed in front of the Fillebrown House in White Bear Lake.The Fillebrown House located at 4753 Lake Avenue, formerly 303 Lake Avenue. The property is on the National Register of Historic Places and is also known as the Red Chalet and the C. P. Noyes Cottage.
Members of the William E. Stork family pose in front of their home on Cleveland Avenue, built in 1903. Pictured left to right are: his son, Norman Clinton Stork; wife, Grace Craig Stork; daughter, Florence C. Stork; and William E. Stork.
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.
Label reads: "The Larson Family in 1909. Back row: Homer, Grace, Vivian, Phinney, Louise, Bessie, Lillian; the four in front: Mrs. [Johanna] Larson, Victor, Nora and Mr. [Ludgwig] Larson." Ludwig and Johanna Larson arrived in Fosston in about 1885. They were a prominent early Fosston family. Larson dealt in real estate, owned a general store, the Opera House and established the lumberyard, among other ventures. Their home was moved from its original location on the corner of First Street and Inderlee Avenue to Melland Park along Highway 2. Today the house serves as the home of the East Polk Heritage Center.
Lillian Turnblad, front row, second from left, poses with Laura Larson, top left, Elsa Meyer, Linnea Osman, and Frances Mattson, top right. Front row, left to right: Mathilda Meurling, Lillian Turnblad, Maria Hortelins, Karen Hartwig.
A man, possibly photographer Cook Ely, sitting in his room interior with furnishings, photographs, fireplace, rugs, and personal belongings including a G.A.R. item, IOOF items, fraternal photo, family photos, Christian Endeavor medallion, probably 1904, and possibly a link with First Presbyterian church.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Portrait of Maud Hart Lovelace's family, from left to right: Tom Hart, Helen Hart, Maud Hart, Stella Hart, and Mrs. C. H. Austin. Note reads, "Hart Family, in the High Street House of the B-T (Betsy-Tacy) stories. Actually on 5th St, Mankato. Helen (called Margaret in the Betsy-Tacy stories) later Mrs. Frank Fowler, on Mr. Hart's (Mr. Ray's) knee. M. H. L. (Betsy) reading a letter from Kathleen (Julia of the B-T series) then studying singing in Berlin--later Mrs. Frohman Foster, singing teacher, Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Hart (Betsy Ray's mother)" Mrs. C. H. Austin (Betsy's grandmother) visiting from California."
Portrait of Maud Van Cortlandt Taylor Hill, Louis W. Hill, Jr., Isabella Taylor, Cortlandt Mucaster Taylor, Walter Curzon Taylor, Maud Van Cortlandt Hill, and Maria Banks Taylor.
Portrait of Mrs. Nancy Faribault McClure Huggins in 1926 at the boulder that marks the site of the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851. Nancy married David Faribault there while the treaty negotiations were in progress.
Nils G. Sahlin, director of the American Swedish Institute, speaking in Scandia, Minnesota. Governor and Mrs. Youngdahl are on the platform behind Dr. Sahlin.
Portrait of Swedish American fiddler who plays Swedish music at the American Swedish Institute with the ASI Spelmanslag. He created that group in 1985 and was recognized as an NEA National Heritage Fellow in 1996.
A photograph of J.C Pope and Henry Rines standing in the back and George H. Newbert and Rolly Pope sitting on the bench. The bottom portion of the photograph is broken off.
Alex Moore, one of the great founding fathers of Sauk Centre, in 1885. He constructed the first dam in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, which was destroyed in the ice breakup of 1860 but soon rebuilt using the power for the saw and grist mill.
This photograph shows Anne Konsbruck of St. Peter and another young girl. The photograph appears to have been taken at the time of Ann's first communion.
Portrait of Captain Frank Magner from St. Peter. Magner served in St.Peter's Company K of the Second Infantry Regiment of the Minnesota National Guard, which was organized in 1908. [E1498 is cataloged as E6292]
Portrait of St. Peter resident Emma (Anderson) Lindberg wearing a hat and holding her daughter, Leone. Emma was married to E. Hilmer Lindberg. Leone married Harold Paul.
Forest L. Pinney, one of the early settlers of the state, came to Minnesota in 1856 and located himself at Monticello and Anoka where he worked as a surveyor.
Britta, Charles, Fredrick and Dwight Holcombe represent four generations of the family in Scandia, Minnesota. Charles was the Sheriff of Washington County 1879-1890.