A heard of cows are crowded in a small pen. Rail cars are behind the pen, and a man driving a horse drawn wagon is the foreground. Houses and leafless trees are in the background.
An unidentified man and Art Ward dressed in suits and top hats standing with mule in front of Elite Theater in Lanesboro. Pictured at right is Art Ward.
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1906?
Description:
Poster of a profile of the race horse, Dan Patch, featuring his 1906 world record for the fastest mile by a harness horse (1 minute and 55 seconds). International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, who bought race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business. Consequently, Dan Patch is featured on many International Stock Food Products. The horse and his owner had a close connection: Dan Patch died July 11, 1916; Savage died of a heart attack a few days later. Dan Patch became less significant as America embraced the automobile. Ironically, Savage started manufacturing the Dan Patch automobile in 1911.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1902?
Description:
Poster featuring Dazzle Patch and his rider. Dazzle Patch was the son of Dan Patch. International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage. Savage bought record breaking harness race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business. Dan Patch set the world record for the fastest mile (1 minute, 55 seconds) by a harness horse in 1906. Consequently, Dan Patch is featured on many International Stock Food Products. The horse and his owner had a close connection: Dan Patch died July 11, 1916; Savage died of a heart attack a few days later. Dan Patch became less significant as America embraced the automobile. Ironically, Savage started manufacturing the Dan Patch automobile in 1911.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1905
Description:
Poster advertising Dan Patch in a horse race at the West Chicago Driving Club in Chicago, Illinois, on Saturday, September 30, 1905. International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, who bought race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business. Consequently, Dan Patch is featured on many International Stock Food Products. The horse and his owner had a close connection: Dan Patch died July 11, 1916; Savage died of a heart attack a few days later. Dan Patch became less significant as America embraced the automobile. Ironically, Savage started manufacturing the Dan Patch automobile in 1911.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Dr. Ralph Farnsworth, professor at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine in St. Paul, examines a giraffe at the Como Park Zoo in St. Paul.
Bison bones were unearthed from a boggy area near a creek at Hansen Park in New Brighton by three boys, Steven Sullivan, Joe McHale, and Joe Evangelist. A neighbor, who was a geologist, identified the bones as from a bison, which lived sometime after the last glacier melted in the area some ten thousand years ago.
Man, boy and women of S. W. Russell family in horse drawn carriage; stone water fountain or horse trough; lap blankets; in park; Bridgeman and Russell were partners in the dairy business
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Undue influences by the railroad and sanitation problems forced the operation to close in 1901. After the packing industry left the New Brighton area, the pens were used for many years for feeding and watering livestock before they were shipped to Chicago, Illinois, or Sioux City, Iowa. Sheep pens are shown in this photo.
Demonstration of an injection technique to anesthetize a cow for surgery at the Division of Veterinary Medicine in the College of Agriculture, University of Minnesota. The University provided ongoing training to Minnesota veterinarians in a series of "short courses" during the first half of the twentieth century. This photo was taken at a short course on surgery in 1931.
H.G. Laveral (right) and unidentified herdsman dipping a pig in lime and sulphur solution to control mange at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul campus. The poster in the background, produced by the University of Minnesota Extension Service, shows a hog louse and a hog mange mite.
Dog being spayed observed by a group of veterinarians and two boys. This photograph documents the University's Short Course for veterinarians, a form of continuing education that was available to all Minnesota veterinarians.
Draft horse with a large fibroma tumor between its front legs. The horse was part of a continuing education clinic for veterinarians held at the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota in 1934..
Dr. Al Leman with piglets. Leman was an extension veterinarian at the University of Minnesota. In 1974, he helped to organize a conference for Minnesota pig farmers. Leman left the University of Minnesota in 1986. The University has continued to sponsor the conference, and named it in honor of Dr. Leman in 1992.
Portrait of Dr. Maloney standing in the middle of the gravel road some 200 yards from the "Giraffe" water tower. He is wearing a suit and top hat with a chain watch in his pocket. His St. Bernard-type dog is standing at his side.
Exterior view of F. J. Schwarz Blacksmith & Wagonmaker shop.Sitting on tire setting wheel: top is Otto Miller, boy is Cleland Taylor, Left is George Oxeder, right is Ed Hacklander.
With gun: George E. Maughan; in back seat of buggy: Robert Colyer, Mrs. W.L. Colyer; in front seat of buggy: Mrs. George E. Maughan, daughters Louise and Kathryn. Photograph possibly donated by J. George Maughan.
Hen coop of Dr. George Davis, Macalester Professor, near corner of what is now Summit Avenue and Macalester Avenue, St. Paul. Contributed by Richard Uriah Jones, Macalester College Class of 1901, and Macalester Head of Chemistry Department 1903-1941, and Dean of the College, 1917-1936.
Hog restrained for a medical procedure. This photograph documents the University's Short Course for veterinarians, a form of continuing education that was available to all Minnesota veterinarians.
Horse being prepared for surgery. The abdomen is noticeably distended, surgery could be for a case of colic. The veterinarian adminstering the anesthetic is Dr. Clifford Fitch. This photograph documents the University's Short Course for veterinarians, a form of continuing education that was available to all Minnesota veterinarians.
Lucille Bishop holding horse Genevieve at the St. Paul Campus. The horse was part of a brucellosis research project. Behind Bishop is the east side of the University's Dairy Barn building.
View of an unidentified man with horse, children, and dogs. There is a railroad car on the other side of the fence. Man is possibly George Strunk, boy is possibly Joe Strunk.
Exterior view of McCadden's Livery, owned by F. L. McCadden and located at 307 North Park Street in Fairmont. McCadden's residence was located at 318 North Park Street in Fairmont.
Moose grazing in shallow water, presumably in northern Minnesota. Photo is marked on reverse: "Blindness due to eye worm." Minnesota's moose were suffering from a mysterious, deadly malady in the 1930s. University of Minnesota veterinary researchers worked to find the cause.