Governor’s reception room

Governor’s reception room

The governor’s reception room inside the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. Photograph by Wayne Hsieh, July 22, 2017. CC BY-NC 2.0

Governor’s residence, 1006 Summit Avenue

Governor’s residence, 1006 Summit Avenue

Governor's residence, 1006 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, 1965. Photo by the St. Paul Dispatch.

Gown made from a wedding sari worn by Neena Gada

This dress was originally a sari worn by Neena Gada during her wedding in India in 1967. In 1971, after she had moved to Minnesota, she converted it into a gown and wore it to formal events.

Gown with bustle and train

Gown with bustle and train

Two- toned blue and teal taffeta bustled and trained silk gown attributed to Mary G. Worley, a dressmaker in St. Paul, Minnesota, ca. 1875.

Gown worn by Thersea Ericksen

Gown worn by Thersea Ericksen

Pink and white piña cloth gown with black velvet collar made in the Philippines by Lang Lee. The own was worn by Red Cross nurse Theresa Ericksen of Minnesota at a reception for William Taft, the first governor of the Philippines, 1901.

Black and white photograph of Martin Carlsted turning the handle of a manual corn grader to grade and separate different sizes and shapes of kernels, c.1910.

Grading Kernels of Seed

Martin Carlsted turning the handle of a manual corn grader to grade and separate different sizes and shapes of kernels, c.1910.

Graduates of Oregon State Agricultural College

Graduates of Oregon State Agricultural College

Graduates of Oregon State Agricultural College, 1930. Ruth Nomura is third from the right. P025:0596 of Oregon State University Historical Photographs, 1868-1980, Historical Images of Oregon State University, OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Black and white photograph of the Graham Hall basketball squad, ca.1908.

Graham Hall basketball squad

The Graham Hall basketball squad, ca.1908. Image is from the Graham Hall annual catalog, 1909–1910.

Graham Hall campus, ca. 1909.

Graham Hall campus

These three residential buildings comprised the campus of Graham Hall from 1902–1915. They were located on First Avenue in Minneapolis, just south of downtown, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets. Image is from the Graham Hall annual catalog, 1909–1910.

Color image of a Graham Hall report card, 1908.

Graham Hall report card

A Graham Hall report card, 1908. Josephine Harper, who went on to study at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, achieved mostly “excellent” scores and one “very good” score. Image is from the Margaret and Stanley Harper papers, 1804–1988; Manuscript Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

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