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
Portrait of first President for Mankato State Normal School. Edward Searing (1835-1898) served from 1880-1898. Three individuals served as Principal of the Mankato Normal School prior to Searing. Searing was the first to serve as President.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Portrait of first President for Mankato State Normal School. Searing (1835-1898) served from 1880-1898. Three individuals served as head of the Mankato Normal School prior to Searing. They served as Principal. Searing was the first to serve as President.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
1890 Graduates of Sauk Centre High School. Graduates listed are Henry Capser, Bird Ship, John Boobar, Edith Law, Mame Toby, Belle Bruce, and Sid Betman.
Four teachers who are also alumni of the Minnesota Institute for Defectives (Deaf, Blind and Feeble-Minded) pose for a portrait. From left to right, they are John Doheny (who attended during 1885-1894), Louis Albert Roth (who attended during 1881-1891 and was a housefather during 1899-1902 and a graphics arts instructor during 1902-1937), Mr. Byrne, and George A. Harmon (who attended during 1863-1870 and was a coopering instructor during 1886-1889).
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Judge Rodney A. Mott served as the Secretary of the Board of Directors during 1863-1902. Judge Mott's handwriting on the photo reads: "First appointed March 4th 1863" and "R. A. Mott Sect'y Dec. 25th 1890." The school's name changed three times during his time of service, from "Minnesota Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb" to "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind," and then to "Minnesota Institute for Defectives (Deaf, Blind and Feeble-Minded)," and then to "Minnesota School for the Deaf."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
A group photograph of the Mountain Lake faculty, Lehrer Corps. Pictured are: Professor I. I. Bargen, Rev. J. J. Balzer, Mary A. Jahnke, E. Annie Perkeness, Bella Dredge
Louis C. Tuck (1851-1949) was a graduate of the American School for the Deaf in Connecticut where he studied under Laurent Clerc, and a graduate of National Deaf-Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet College) in 1870. He was a teacher and librarian at the Minnesota School for the Deaf during 1882-1922, and served as librarian until 1933.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students are assembled with teacher Ruth Buxton for a portrait. Ruth Buxton served at the school during 1892-1893. From back to front, left to right, the students are fingerspelling "I-L-O-V-E-M-I-S-S-B-U-X-T-O-N" for the sentence "I love Miss Buxton."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Studio portrait of George Kleeberger wearing a suit and sitting with his family. George Kleeberger served as president of the Third Normal School at St. Cloud from 1895 to 1901.
Portrait of Helen Sutherland, Hamline University graduate (Class of 1863). She served as the university's preceptress from 1865 to 1867 and taught mathematics and English.
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
Raymond P. Kaighn, Class of 1898. He was Hamline University's first physical education director and Hamline's coach for the first intercollegiate basketball game ever played, which was against the Minnesota School of Agriculture in 1895. He also played on the first basketball team under the direction of James Naismith at the international YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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
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
William Grace, Michael Healy, and James Byrnes appearing in the College of St. Thomas theatrical production of "Handy Andy." Negative Number: C82-150-214.
Students from the Class of 1903 and staff are assembled for a portrait. In the front row, from left to right, are Mary E. Nelson, Ida C. Carlson, Superintendent James N. Tate, Jenny Mortenson, Minnie Hauberg, and Mabel A. Newton. In the middle row, from left to right, are Dean E. Tomlinson, Oscar W. Johnson, Dr. James L. Smith, Mr. White, Albin J. Highberg, and John H. McFarlane. In the back row, from left to right, are Emil Hruska, Harrison A. Pettit, and Fred G. McNabb.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
The graduating class of Barnum School; seated left to right; Clara Hecker, Mr. Brophy, principal, Louise Kreiger, Loraine Balton; standing left to right; Pearl Skelton, Mayme Lee, Luella Goodell, Ray Addington, Minnie Siemer, Hannah Johnson.
Group portrait of the Parthenon Society, with an animal skin rug in the foreground. Robert Wallace (son of President James Wallace and brother of DeWitt Wallace) is third from right in the middle row.
A portrait of Henry O'Keefe in his letter sweater. O'Keefe was a member of the 1905 College of St. Thomas basketball team, winners of the City League trophy.
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.
Front row, left to right: Amanda Edmunds, Hanna Regina Berg, Sena Olena Berg, Agnes Kane. Second row, left to right: Katherine Guter, Minnie Hanson, Catherine Shields, George Seybold, Nellie Kling, Fannie Fowler, Louis Schumann, Elfreda Borrill. Third row, left to right: Frances Atwood, Goldie Cale, Fredrica Siverts, Odelia Loeffler, Sheridan Flaherty, Helen McElroy, Regina Stenger, Annie Murphy, Marie Ackerman. Back row, left to right: Philip Stone, Douglas Bailey, Ruth Roberts
Studio portrait of Bertinius K. Savre, 1873-1960. Savre taught at the Glenwood Academy and Luther College, was editor of the Glenwood Herald, served over 30 years on the Glenwood High School Board of EduCation, served 10 years as president of the Pope County Historical Society among many other community boosting activities.
Portrait of the Reverend Samuel Fletcher Kerfoot, Hamline University president, 1912-1927. A 1889 Hamline graduate, he was a minister in the Methodist church and president of Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, South Dakota, before becoming Hamline's president.