Battery B of Minneapolis, First Battalion of Artillery, fires into Lake Pepin while at Camp Lakeview, the Minnesota National Guard’s summer training camp near Lake City in 1907. The artillery usually trained elsewhere in the summer due to Camp Lakeview’s small size. Photo by B. R. Suyer.
Some of the men from Battery D, 151st Field Artillery, pose with their M1897 75mm field gun at Camp Ripley, July 1939. Each battery had four guns. Used with the permission of the Minnesota Military Museum, Camp Ripley.
Members of Company A, Sixteenth Battalion of the Minnesota Home Guard, ca.1918. Standing at right is Captain Clarence Wigington, who petitioned the governor to allow the formation of an African American unit. To his left is Lieutenant Homer Goins. Seated (L to R) are Dr. George Berry and Sergeant William Griffin. The remaining pictured are unidentified.
Members of Independent Blessings, the first chartered limited literary society on campus. The group became the Iota Beta sorority by 1922, which became in active in 1968. It was reactivated briefly from 1980 to 1988.
Members of the 6888th Battalion eat from mess kits at their Women’s Army Corps (WAC) quarters in England. Pictured are Tec. 5 Mary E. Walker; Private Erman Trude Finch; Corporal Callie K. Smith; Tec. 4 Evelyn Martin; Private Virginia Blake; and Private Gladys S. Carte. Photograph by Pfc. George Holt, February 15, 1945. NAID 175539135, local ID 111-SC-200790.
Members of the 6888th Battalion, assisted by French civilians, sort mail at the 17th Base Post Office in Paris. Photograph by Crabtree, November 7, 1945. NAID 175539203, local ID 111-SC-426441.