Interview with Ann Johnson (Mrs. Harold F Johnson). Interview part 2 of 2. Ann was born August 30,1896 in Nelson, Minnesota. She recounts life in Nelson including working on a farm without electricity or running water. Ann also worked at the Dickinson Inn. She married Harold F. Johnosn on December 5, 1920.
Interview with Minnie Brakken (Mrs. Anton Brakken). Minnie was born in Carlos Township in 1901. Her parents were Ira Wheeler and Lena Engkvist Wheeler. She discusses life on a farm with 11 children, gardening, canning, and playing ball with her father. She also discusses the first Carlos, Minnesota Post Office of 1928 which was also the Brakken's family home.
Interview with Luella Fjoslien. Luella was born in 1900 in Fargo, North Dakota, and May Engen. May recounts memories of life on farm in LaGrande Township. Luella Fjoslien recounts the life of rural school teacher.
Frank and Mary Connelly Vegetable and Fruit stand, Highway 13 and 12th Avenue, Burnsville Minnesota. The family farm was homesteaded by his great grandparents James and Mary Connelly in the 1850s.
A farm building at the Walter and Rose Kennelly farm. This farm later belonged to Joe Kennelly. Located on Highway 13 in Burnsville, it stood 1905 - 1994.
Tractors (4), wagons (3), and elevators sit in a harvested field with the corn piles to the right. Paul Benson farm is located one mile south and one mile east of Storden. Hans William Hanson farmed the land and Ole Thompson shelled the corn.
Flax bales in the field with some loaded on trucks. A group of 2 to 3 men sit and have their lunch in the shade of a truck loaded with flax. A car with doors open sits in the field to the left of the lunch group.
Located on the edge of Windom, the Corliss Mead Dairy farm had a large barn, silo and other outbuildings. In the background you can see the Windom Elevator.
Seen from left to right are Arlyn Bohnsack, Vernon Ryan, LaVonne Bohnsack, Junette Bohnsack, Arthur Bohnsack, and Jeanne Bohnsack at the Bohnsack family farm in St. Patrick, MN.
A belt is running from the tractor to the threshing machine. Two men are on the stack of bundles pitching the bundles into the threshing machine. The threshing machine separates the grain from the straw. Along side it two horses are hooked up to a wagon. Two women came to bring lunch.
Panoramic view of a country area scene. The left area of the photograph depicts an unpaved roadway with cattle grazing. A headframe and mine dump are in the background of the photograph. The right area of the photograph depicts railroad tracks. The background of the right area of the photograph depicts a headframe and housing area. A mine dump is in the background.
Threshing grain required many people and lots of work. One man is pitching bundles into the threshing machine while the other is watching the steam engine.
The smaller wagon next to the tractor collects the grain after it is run through the threshing machine. The threshing machine separates the grain from the straw, much like today's combine.
Mode of transportation to the main road. View of the Youngren farm wagon being pulled by horses. Ernest Youngren driving his sister and family from home to the main road.
The Ed and Bertha Dahl home in Nora Township. Exterior view, probably from a silo, of the recently completed "four-square" home. Ed Dahl was a prolific builder of homes, barns and commercial buildings in Pope County and the surrounding region.
Panoramic view of farming homestead scene. The left area of the photograph depicts several farm buildings, the middle area depicts four haystacks and the right area depicts several more farm buildings.
After the removal of all the chaff from the fiber inside the straws of flax, the fiber was combed through nails on a board in order to divide the strips of fiber into single strands. This process was known as "hackling." The flax fiber was then passed through hot water so that it would break while being twisted in the final step of "hand spinning."
Sisters Albina and Pretrina Hoeft, who learned this craft as girls in Bavaria, are shown "scutching" the flax to get rid of the chaff that remained on the fine fiber inside the stem after pounding away the coarse straw.
From the fields, the harvested potatoes were taken to winter storage in a huge root cellar (60 feet in diameter) that had been constructed out of the sand pit dug on the campus at the time of building Sacred Heart Chapel in 1911 - 1914.
The Swanson Dairy Farm was located at 578 Silver Lake Road. The farm house, built in 1914, still stands. The farm not only produced milk, but sold it directly to the consumer through milk routes in northeast Minneapolis.
Panoramic view of an unknown farmstead in winter. From left to right the image depicts: a large two-story house, several small buildings, a power pole, a bus vehicle with a logo "Carson Lake," three horses, and a large barn with silo.
Panoramic view of spectators sitting on both sides of a large empty field in former "Swandale" area, with Swandale School at left, Hibbing, Minnesota. Possible airshow or aviation related as land became site of current Hibbing-Chisholm Airport.
Aerial view of the Marvin Dorn farm facing west. This farm is at the present day junction of Minnesota Highways 19 and 217. The farm yard is surrounded by trees to act as a windbreak and stop some blowing snow from entering the yard in the winter. Behind the house is the barn and silo and a field of shocked grain, ready for a thrashing crew.
Ten horses lined up in front of the barn at the Gust Youngren farm north of Windom. In the background is Harder Lake. A lone chicken in the foreground pecks at the ground.
Several man are working on this threshing crew. Even a young child is standing with a pitch fork in hand. As the day and work progressed, men would take off their coats and hang them on anything convenient.
Two men are top of the pile of grain bundles pitching them into the threshing machine. The steam engine is providing power to the threshing machine by the belt.
The threshing machine is powered by a belt coming from the steam engine. One man is tossing the shocks of grain into the threshing machine. The straw is blown into one pile while the grain is being collected in a wagon.
A man is standing on the back of the steam engine watching and operating the controls to make sure the steam pressure will be high enough to operate the threshing machine, but not so high as to blow up the boiler.
Panoramic view of unknown farmstead in summer or fall season. Photograph depicts several farm animals and several farm buildings including a farm house.
Panoramic view of country scene consisting of one large two story house and a smaller two story house, one small shed and a root cellar. Possible farmland or garden in the center background and small pond or lake on right area of the photograph.
Panoramic view of country scene consisting of one large two story house and a smaller two story house, one small shed and a root cellar. Possible farmland or garden in the center background and small pond or lake on right area of the photograph.
Panoramic view of farmstead in summer or fall season. Panning photograph left to right depicts an outbuilding, two one-story houses, a 1920s style vehicle is parked by a one-story house, a large barn and a large coral. The background depicts two one-level buildings on the far right of the photograph.
An old tree stump at the site of the Jewett murder scene in New Thunder, Minnesota, where the Jewett family was killed by Native Americans on May 2, 1865. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
The farmhouse belonging to the Sorbel family where the James-Younger Gang were fed. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Site of the Jewett murder scene in New Thunder, Minnesota, where the Jewett family was killed by Native Americans on May 2, 1865. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
A barn and surrounding land located at the Yellow Medicine Agency. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Ernie Swanson and his horse-drawn wagon from the Swanson Dairy Farm on Silver Lake Road in New Brighton delivering milk on his northeast Minneapolis route.
