Portrait of four boys posing as a kind of musical act. Roman Schmitt, at left, dressed in dark cap and sweater vest with bowtie and white trousers, holding a harmonica in one hand and a baton in the other, possibly acting as director. Other three boys dressed identically in dark caps, light sweater vests with dark stripes, bowties and white slacks, each holding a harmonica.
Black and white photograph of a parade going past Ries Bottling Works at Holmes and Third Streets in Shakopee, 1945. Ries Bottling Works was established in 1872 and torn down in 1978. The photo shows the American Legion marching past. Little boy is saluting the marching soldiers which are carrying flags.
Parade on South Front Street with a horse cart and marching band. Note on back of photo says, "Patterson Mercantile, 216 S. Front, G. B. Owen Piano, 220 S. Front."
The families gathered for this picture included the Rosenthals (back row), Marcuses (middle, seated) and Eisenbergs (front). Harry Brand is standing with his foot on the chair. German Jews arrived in Minneapolis in the 1860s, followed by a large influx of Eastern European Jews in the 1880s. The South Side neighborhood around Franklin and 15th Avenues was home to Romanians and Russians.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
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.