Ringling Brothers Circus advertising billboard and advertisements for Dr. Pierce's medicines. Note on back of photo says, "100 block No. Front Street near present Salet's Mens store."
During her first year at the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe), Sister Laura Hesch was given a car, a 1936 Plymouth, for her mission work.
Before Sister Laura Hesch could establish a mission center on Mille Lacs Indian Reservation (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe), she taught Ojibwe children at their homes. Her motherly affection for children soon won their hearts.
Photograph showing the exterior of St. Agatha's Conservatory. The first location (1884-1886) of St. Agatha's Conservatory of Art and Music was in the Lick house, on 10th and Main streets. (It had belonged to Dr. William Lick, an eye doctor charged with the murder of his wife.) Classes of music and needlework were offered here. The house also served as a residence for about 20 Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet teaching in downtown Catholic grade schools.
St. Anthony Falls with smoke coming from industrial smokestacks in background (Flour Mills). 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.
Sister Ethelbert Krenik (1st row, 3rd from the left), second administrator (1929-1938) of the St. Cloud Hospital, attended the Northwest Hospitals Convention at Eli Lilly & Company.
The first location (1887-1890) of St. Mary's Hospital. Previously operated by the Sisters of Mercy, the hospital was in the former Murphy mansion, 2416 South Sixth Street. A new hospital, with later additions, was built at Riverside and 24th. The Sisters of St. Joseph owned and operated the hospital until 1991 when it was sold to the Fairview Health System.
Exterior view of St. Matthew's German Lutheran Church. The church has stained glass windows in front, with an entry door and steeple locating the middle of the building.
Clara Swanson recalls: This is one of the large bakery trucks and the small advertising trucks. The advertising truck would hand out small sample loaves of bread to children.
Three men on frozen Knife Lake. The men, identified as Lowell Alice, Dorothy's great-nephew on the far left and John Smargis. They are in the process of "putting up ice" for the summer months.
Overhead view of the Mississippi River, showing railroad tracks, an island, and boaters. 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.
View of derailed engine # 147 of the Minneapolis and Saint Louis Railway near Jordan. Engine laying on its side in ditch off the tracks, the debris in foreground include rails and pieces of metal. The rest of train appears to be on the tracks in the background. Writing on reverse side: "All three units down embankment Jordan 342."
Group portrait of two men looking off to the left and two women looking at the camera. A walkway, clothesline, and hammock are visible in the background.
James Murray and William McFadden behind a frozen-over Shadow Falls. 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.
Two men wearing winter gear on the frozen lake. One holding a shovel the other is operating a gas-powered ice saw in preparation for putting up ice for the summer. Written on the back, "Arvo I? Arvo K? Scoring ice- Feb 1954."