Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the musical "The Red Shoes" (lyrics by Marsha Norman and Bob Merrill; music by Jule Styne) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1987. Costume designs for "The Red Shoes" include Snogg, Karen, Burgomaster, Jemmo, Nels, and Nice Old Lady.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the musical "Oklahoma!" (music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1978-1979. Costume designs for "Oklahoma!" include Laurey, Curley, Ike Skidmore, Aunt Eller, Ado Annie, Gertie, Andrew Carnes, Cord Elam, Slim, Will Parker, Ali Hakim, Dancers, and Chorus.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the play "Arms and the Man" (George Bernard Shaw, playwright) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1976-1977. Costume designs for "Arms and the Man" include Catherine, Raina, Bluntschli, Sergius, Petkoff, Louka, Petkoff, and Nicola.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the play "The Lion in Winter" (James Goldman, playwright) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1978-1979. Costume designs for "The Lion in the Winter" include King Philip, Prince Gregory, King Henry II, Prince John, Queen Eleanor, Princess Alais, and untitled characters.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the play "A Little Holy Water" (Ramon Delgado, playwright) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1976-1977. Costume designs for "A Little Holy Water" include Isobel, Meredez, Roberto, Ernesto, Graciela, Tony, Manuel, Consuelo, Felipe, and Roberto.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the play "Uncle Vanya" (Anton Chekhov, playwright) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1975-1976. Costume designs for "Uncle Vanya" include Voinitsky, Astroff, Sonia, Marina, Sonya, Elena, Maria, Telegin, and Serebriakoff.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the play "The Rivals" (Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1980-1981. Costume designs for "The Rivals" include Julia, Lydia Languish, Faulkland, Bob Acres, Thomas, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Bob Acres, Sir Anthony Absolute, Lucy, Fag, David, Mrs. Malaprop, and Captain Absolute.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the play "Amadeus" (Peter Shaffer, playwright) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1985-1986. Costume designs for "Amadeus" include Constance, Mozart, County Johann Killian Von Strack, Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Count Franz Orsini-Rosenberg, Salieri, Terese Salieri, Baron Gottfried Van Swieten, Ghostfather figure, Constanze Weber, Katherina, Venticelli I and II, Chapel Master Bonno, Salieri's valet and cook.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the musical "The Threepenny Opera" (Bertolt Brecht, dramatist and Kurt Weill, composer) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1986-1987. Costume designs for "The Threepenny Opera" include Becky Horn, Polly, Tiger Brown, Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, Rev. Kimball, Filch, MacHeath, Lucy Brown, Polly, Celia Peachum, Jenny, Wendy Greenley, Betty, Dolly, and the constables.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the musical "Godspell" (music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1986-1987. Costume designs for "Godspell" include Vicki Holets "Brenda", David Rummel "Mike", Julie Thompson "Andrea", Shelly Brunberg "Ginger", Robert Thompson "Pete", Mark Roske "John the Baptist/Judas", Patricia Prendergast "Judy", Sam McKie "Jesus", Chad Brueske "Jeff", Stephanie Rose "Josie", Robert Tousignant "Alfred", and Stuart Kenny "James Paul (J.P.)".
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the play "The School for Scandal" (Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1974-1975. Costume designs for "The School for Scandal" include Mrs. Candour, Trip, Snake, Gentleman, Sir Harry Bumper, Careless, Rowley, Joseph Surface, Sir Peter Teazle, Lady Sneerwell, Charles Surface, Lady Teazle, Moses, Maria, and Sir Oliver Surface.
Set of 12 architectural drawings showing both exterior and interior features of Lawrence Hall on the campus of the State Normal School at St. Cloud (St. Cloud State University) in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The drawings show the north, south, east and west elevations of the building, longitudinal and transverse sections, foundation, first, second, third floors, attic and roof, and detail of the front side of the building and its main entrance. Designed by state architect Clarence H. Johnston (1859-1936), Lawrence Hall, which was named for faculty member and acting president Isabel Lawrence, opened in the fall of 1905 as a women's dormitory. The building was extensively renovated in 2003. It replaced the first Lawrence Hall, which was built in 1885 and destroyed by fire in January 1905.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the play "Romeo and Juliet" (William Shakespeare, playwright) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1973-1974. Costume designs for "Romeo and Juliet" include Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio, Balthasar, Paris, Prince, Lord Montague, Lord Capulet, Lady Capulet, Juliette, Tybalt, Sampson, Nurse, and Friar Lawrence.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the play "Three Sisters" (Anton Chekhov, playwright) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1979-1980. Costume designs for "Three Sisters" include Natasha, Masha, Irina, Andrey, Olga, Kuligan, Anfisa, and Ferapont.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the play "Crimes of the Heart" (Beth Henley, playwright), performed at St. Cloud State University in 1988-1989. Costume designs for "Crimes of the Heart" include Babe, Chick, Doc, Barnette, Meg, and Lenny.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the musical "Carousel" (music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hammerstein) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1988-1989. Costume designs for "Carousel" include Mrs. Mullins, Carrie, Billy Bigelow, Netti, Julie Jordan, Jigger Graigin, Enoch Snow, Enoch Snow Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Bascombe, Louise, Snow Children, Bascombe child, Snow child, Star Keeper, Heavenly Friend, Beauty of Europe, Chorus, Ballerina, Sailor dancers, Fisherman, and Townsperson.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the play "Much Ado about Nothing" (William Shakespeare, playwright) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1982-1983. Costume designs for "Much Ado About Nothing" include Balthasar, Conrade, Benedick, Claudio, Hero, Leonato, Dogberry, Beatrice, Margaret, Ursala, Don John, Verges, The Watch, House servants, Sexton, Antonio, Leonato, Antonio, and Don Pedro.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the play "Ah, Wilderness!" (Eugene O'Neill, playwright) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1977-1978. Costume designs for "Ah, Wilderness!" include Belle, Arthur, Mildred, Sid, Nat, Wint, Richard, Nora, Muriel, Salesman, Mrs. Miller, Lilly, Bartender, McComber, and Tommy.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the play "The Good Woman of Setzuan" (Bertolt Brecht, playwright in collaboration with Margarete Steffin and Ruth Berlau) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1981-1982. Costume designs for "The Good Woman of Setzuan" include Old Woman, Mi Tzu Landlady, Shen Te, Shui Ta, Yang Sun, Carpenter, Mrs. Yang, Old Man, Mrs. Shin, Sister-in-Law, Nephew, Niece, Wong Water Seller, Brother, Husband, Grandfather, Wife, and Priest.
Group of hand-colored costume renderings for the play "The Mandragola" (Niccolo Machiavelli, playwright) performed at St. Cloud State University in 1981-1982. Costume designs for "The Mandragola" include Woman at the church, Zanni, Callimaco, Lucretia, Sostrata, Nicia, Ligurio, Siro, Callimaco, and Brother Timothy.
The National Youth Administration (NYA) program, which was part of the New Deal programs in the 1930s, focused on providing work and education for people between the ages of 16 and 25. This volume focuses on the NYA resident camp in Shakopee, Minnesota, as well as NYA construction projects around the state, including building roadside rest areas with stone walls, barbeques, fire pits, and picnic tables in Stillwater, Glenwood, and Winona; retaining walls and stairways in Lester Park in Duluth; a historic roadside marker for Highway 10 outside of St. Cloud; log cabins in Lake Bemidji State Park and in Chisholm; and buildings in Alexandria including Noonan Park, Glenwood, Minneapolis, St. Paul and a proposed field house in St. Cloud that would become Brainard Hall at St. Cloud State University. Other locations included are Pine Lake near Aitken, Lion's Spring near Eveleth, garage in Cromwell, caddy house at University golf course in Minneapolis, Brighton Beach Municipal Tourist Park in Duluth, town hall in Outing, stone bath house in Gilbert, trout pool dam in Cannon Falls, and an aquarium at Tamarac Refuge near Detroit Lakes. Volume 1 of 2.
The National Youth Administration (NYA) program, which was part of the New Deal programs in the 1930s, focused on providing work and education for people between the ages of 16 and 25. This volume focuses on NYA efforts to improve the great outdoors of Minnesota as well as other work done by the NYA to educate and improve the health of its members. Images show men and women visiting with doctors and nurses, working in offices, gardens, and cemeteries, fixing engines, gardens, making clothing, repairing buildings, creating artwork, working with children, and other construction projects. Identified locations include a community center in St. Cloud, ski jumping slide in Glenwood, and Lester Park in Duluth. Volume 2 of 2.
Architectural blueprint for the 73 foot Express Boat "Excelsior" that was built and added to the Twin City Rapid Transit Company's Lake Minnetonka steamboat fleet in 1915. The vessel was decommissioned in 1926 and eventually scrapped.
Architectural blueprint for the tugboat "Hercules" that was built by the Twin City Rapid Transit Company in 1917. The vessel was scuttled to the bottom of Lake Minnetonka in 1926.
Architectural blueprint for the 73 foot Express Boat "Excelsior" that was built and added to the Twin City Rapid Transit Company's Lake Minnetonka steamboat fleet in 1915. The vessel was decommissioned in 1926 and eventually scrapped.
Architectural blueprint for the proposed but never-built 100 foot Express Boat that would have been part of the Twin City Rapid Transit Company's steamboat fleet on Lake Minnetonka.
Three part set of architectural blueprints for the six original, 70 foot Express Boats built by the Twin City Rapid Transit Company in 1906. Designed by Wayzata boat builder Royal C. Moore, these boats were in service on Lake Minnetonka until 1926. Three of these boats (Como, Minnehaha, and White Bear) were scuttled to the bottom of Lake Minnetonka in 1926, while two others (Harriet and Stillwater) were scrapped. The "Hopkins" was sold and used as an excursion vessel until it was scuttled in 1949. The "Minnehaha" was raised in 1980, restored 1990-1996, and returned to passenger service May 25, 1996.
Minnesotan Andrew Lindgren, who graduated from St. Cloud State in 1901 and in 1908, created a photograph album with images that he took ca. 1906-1909. The majority of the photographs were taken of the St. Cloud State campus, the immediate area around campus, and central Minnesota. The album also includes photographs from other cities in Minnesota, including the Twin Cities, Silver Creek, Watab, Stillwater, Buffalo, Monticello, Spicer, and Verndale. The album also has photos Lindgren took of Salt Lake City, Portland (Oregon), Annapolis (Maryland), Cripple Creek (Colorado), Seattle, Denver, New Orleans, New York City, Cape Cod, and Hawaii, as well as from British Columbia and Novia Scotia in Canada and Panama.