W.L.Carlyle and R.S.Mackintosh with First Prize watermelon at Minnesota State Fair in 1895. Both were associated with the University of Minnesota. Carlyle latermanaged the E.P. Ranch ion Alberta, Canada, and Mackintosh was associated with the Minnesota State Horticultural Society for many years.
This photograph shows Mr. Bean and a young boy on the Bean farm near the community of Nicollet in Nicollet County. Another man is visible driving the horse-drawn reaper.