Log cabin with window to right of center door and fence in front. It was built in 1878 by Pat Conlan who was an early homesteader in Cottonwood County.
Jens Forseth is with the oxen. Dorothy Kirkvold Forseth is in the buggy. Mr. and Mrs. Peder Bogen are standing with their children by the wagon. Jay Bogen and Ina Bogen Trulock. All are standing in front of the Peder Bogen home.
Photograph of the governor signing the Dutch Elm Disease bill in 1977 with the Shade Tree Advisory Committee. Gov Rudy Perpich in the center, Glenn Roy at right, 4th from right is Ken Simons, seated left, Don Willekie.
Photograph of members Men's Garden Club of Minneapolis. Back row L-R, Eldred Hunt, Cortis Rice, Joe Witmer, G. Victor Lowrie, Archie Flack. Front row unidentified.
Photograph of a plaque awarded to R. S. Mackintosh by the Minnesota State Horticultural Society in appreciation for over 50 years of service to the organization.
This photograph of Matt Kkonu, his wife Laura, and their children in 1907 was taken in front of their farm house with the barn and other buildings in the background. The farm was located on the Erickson Road, bordering on the Midway River. The two oldest children in the family are in the picture, and are Sanni Konu, the oldest one in the family, and then Ida, the second oldest.
A. G. Ruggles, Minnesota State Entomologist and Professor of Entomology at the University of Minnesota 1918-1943, with Plum curculio (snout beetle), most severe plum pest.
Group of potato buyers in Anoka County in 1905. Left to right: Charles Galup, Charles Larkin, George Porter, Fred Larkin, George Morrill, James Mahaney, Albert Pratt, Mascot George Ehlen.
Photograph of President Cortis Rice, Jr greeting Dr. S. L. Ensweller at the Minnesota State Horticultural Society annual banquet and garden forum at Mount Olivet Church, Minneapolis, October 12-13, 1956.
Proclamation of Horticulture Awareness Week in May of 1982. Seated is Gov Al Quie and unknown man. Standing L-R, Lee Hallgren (President), Elsie Wieser, Thor Aamodt, Fred Glasoe, Glenn Ray (Executive Secretary).
Proclamation of Horticulture Awareness Week inJune of 1983. Seated is Gov Rudy Perpich . Standing L-R, Fred Glasoe, Charlie King, Lee Shannon, Glenn Ray (Exec Secretary), Lee Hallgren (President), Bob Churilla, Ray Swanson.
Riding plow with team and rider. Draped over the horses is a large banner advertising William Weibeler's general store in Belle Plaine. The banner reads: "Go To Wm. Weibeler/Dealer in Dry Goods, Clothing/Shoes, Groceries, Etc./Belle Plaine, Minn." A corn field is visible in the background.
Pictured from left to right are Robert and Carol Dvorak, Beatrice Slavicek, and an unknown woman sitting on a bench at the Slavicek family farm in Jordan, MN.
Robert Slavicek (right) and unknown man sitting on a log pile. Logs are resting on a sleigh hitched to a team of horses at the Slavicek family farm in Jordan, MN.
Science Specialist Judy Klatt with students in courtyard of Maxfield Elementary School, St Paul. Studentts are examining a Spirea japonica Little Princess shrub.
Selner homestead in Section 30 of Erie Township in Becker County, Minnesota. Sophie Selner and Andy Winkler are playing peek-a-boo under the Bimler Brothers machine.
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.
Image is of a 110 Case pulling 16 plows in 1910 on Wettles Brothers' farm on the Third Shell Prairie, north of Ponsford, Minnesota, Section 16 , Pine Point Township, Becker County.
Emil Sota is the driver of the steam powered tractor, Albert Olson is his engineer, and also present in the photo are Henry Juntunen from Cloquet, Jalmer Juntunen, Ed Juntunen of Meadowbrook Dairy, Joseph Juntunen, and Selma (Juntunen) Dickinson who probably worked in the office there.
Fat stock show at the Nobles County Fair Grounds in Worthington Minnesota. Entries are lined up on the race track in front of the judging booth. Line of horses and cattle. Date written on back of the photograph indicates it was taken in 1909.
Group Photograph of members of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society at a summer meeting and dinner in Drill Hall at University of Minnesota, St. Paul Campus in 1899. Mr. Cody is standing at the rear of the photo.
A man has gotten off from the steam engine and is smoking a cigarette for a break. The dog is sitting with his tongue hanging out. This is part of a threshing crew.
Depicted here is haying on the Edgar F. Olson (previously Nels O. Olson) farm, as the team of horses is hauling the loose hay to the barn. Way in the back of the photo is a hay rake.
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.
Exterior photograph of the Farm House, purchased by the University of Minnesota in 1882 to serve as the new site for the School of Agriculture and Experiment Station. This became the St. Paul campus of the University.
This shows the Thomson Road just south of present day Interstate 35, lined with fence posts and stones removed from the field. There is a small shed in the background, and piles of stones and branches. This was located near the John Fredrickson's farm - formerly known as John Alatalo. John Alatalo homesteaded this farm in 1873, one year after he came to America from Finland. He died in 1876, and his was the first death among the early settlers in the area. John Alatalo's brother, Peter, took over the operation of the farm after John's death. In 1935 the owner of the farm was Peter Fredrickson Jr., who was born on the farm on March 2, 1889.
Steam engine pulling threshing machine in Elk Township, Nobles County Minnesota. The four men in the photograph are: Logan Fallett on the tractor, Clifford Fallett, William Fallett with arm extended and W. A. Fallett their father.