Women incarcerated at the Minnesota Reformatory for Women, Shakopee, cultivate a field ca. 1920.

Women incarcerated at the Minnesota Reformatory for Women, Shakopee, pose by a cornfield, ca. 1920.

Mrs. Frank Ochocki and five of her children working in their garden, Hendricks, Minnesota. Undated but ca. 1930s. Immigration History Research Center Archives Photograph Collection, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Kempfer Farm exhibit created for the Minnesota State Fair, 1920. From the Kempfer Collection, Otter Tail County Historical Society Archives, Fergus Falls.

The Otter Tail County Holstein Breeders Association banquet at the Grand Hotel in Fergus Falls, 1915. The hotel was flattened by a cyclone in 1919. Otter Tail County Historical Society, Fergus Falls.

Victory-garden poster made during World War II. Minnesotans during both world wars were encouraged to plant backyard vegetable gardens so that farm crops could be used to feed more service members.

Participants in an agricultural pageant in Anoka County, Minnesota in 1916.

Exterior side view of the Thorstein Veblen home, Nerstrand, Minnesota, ca. 2011.

Barberry eradication crew, ca. 1930s.The Barberry Eradication Program took advantage of government work relief programs during the era of the Great Depression.

School children in Dakota County, Minnesota, ca. 1930s, learning about barberry eradication