Panoramic photograph of Minnesota Odd Fellows Home at Northfield, Minnesota. Three-story brick building at left is labeled Old Folks Home and multi-story brick building at right in a Dutch style is labeled Children's Home. Both were built about 1900.
Photograph of young boys and girls seated around a table in the Protestant Orphan Asylum, 670 Marshall Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota. Many children are holding toys, dolls or books.
A typical Norwegian temperance district convention held in northwestern Wisconsin in the 1920s. Delegates from local socieities and people of the area would meet to hear speakers, music, and fellowship.
Studio portrait of Rev. Olaf Refsdal and family of Chetek, Wisconsin. Refsdal was an author and poet in the Norwegian language and a leader in promoting temperance among Norwegians.
Members are gathered in front of Noyes Hall at the Minnesota School for the Deaf. The 11th Convention of the Minnesota Association of the Deaf was held in Faribault during June 13-16, 1911. The man standing in the center of the front row, to the right of two little children, is President Anton Schroeder. The man standing in the front row on the right end is Dr. James L. Smith. To the left of Anton Schroeder is an unknown woman, an unknown man holding a hat, and then Louis Albert Roth standing behind that unknown man.
Social events in the 1910s included parties and picnics. A wagonload of friends and relatives leaving Columbia Heights for a picnic at the residence of Hubert and Jennie Langner, located at Rice Creek near Long Lake in the old Irondale area.
Photograph of three young boys and a girl standing next to a Christmas tree, which is just visible. From the Protestant Orphan Asylum, 670 Marshall Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Photograph of young children posed with Easter baskets, rabbits and Easter lilies inside the Protestant Orphan Asylum, located at 670 Marshall Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota.
A view showing the front exterior of the building which housed the Saint Paul Hebrew Institute, and the Jewish Shelter Home. The Hebrew Institute was on the second floor, and served children of Orthodox families affiliated with several St. Paul Orthodox synagogues. The Jewish Shelter Home on the first floor functioned as a way house for indigent and transient Jews, thus fulfilling an important mitzvah to care for the traveler and the homeless.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Poale Zion was a Zionist-Socialist-Laborite group founded in Russia. The St. Paul chapter in the picture is promoting "Tag Day" a fundraising activity supporting Jewish emigration to Palestine. A close look at the photo shows coin collection cans, called "pushkes" and paper tags with Mogen Davids (Star of Davids) in several of the young women's hands.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Duluth Children's Home building at 504 North 15th avenue east and children on the sidewalk. The Children's Home Society was a privately endowed institution which derived part of its income from the annual Charity Ball.
It was founded in 1888 by Sarah Burger Stearns, but its beginnings date to 1883 and its first rooms in a small needlecraft shop operated by Mrs. Fogelson. She cared for 3 or 4 children. By 1886 the number of children had grown, and a group of interested women collected money to purchase a double house between 16th and 17th avenues east. In 1904 on June 3 and 4, it opened with 47 children being cared for at 15th Avenue East and Fifth street.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Exterior view of the Northfield Fire Department with firefighters and a fire truck. At left is chief Ross Phillips with his daughter, Margaret Phillips Starks, 2.5 years old.
Morgan Park; all four Nenovan Club Buildings; housing for single men; the farthest building is the three-story Nenovan boarding house; constructed by the George Lounsberry Company for a total of $20,000; separated from the residential area by a transverse alley and a fence; initially housed 74 clerical and technical workers most unmarried; later, the smallest (eight rooms) was for female employees; 15131
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections