University of Minnesota horticulturist Jane P. McKinnon received the Director's Award to Distinguished Faculty from Gerald Miller, assistand director for the Agricultural Ext6ension Service's agriculture program. McKinnon is well known throughout Minnesota for her work in Extension's Master Gardener program and in helping cities slow the spread of Dutch Elm disease and establishing mixed urban forests.
Peter Grills, Director of Minnesota Shade Trees Disease Control program, speaking at the 1977 convention of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society in Duluth.
Photo taken to commemorate Horticultural Awareness Week. Ruth Krognes, Bagley Club Vice Chairman and Gene Beltz Jr Farmers Independent are holding a vase of flowers.
A photograph of J.C Pope and Henry Rines standing in the back and George H. Newbert and Rolly Pope sitting on the bench. The bottom portion of the photograph is broken off.
Pierre Bottineau and G. A. Bracket chart the course westward for the Northern Pacific Railway in 1869. This photo also includes an Indian woman, two Indian men, and twenty-five railroad scouts. Photo of the expeditionary force was taken on the second day out.
Alex Moore, one of the great founding fathers of Sauk Centre, in 1885. He constructed the first dam in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, which was destroyed in the ice breakup of 1860 but soon rebuilt using the power for the saw and grist mill.