Ten past BPWC presidents pose for a group photograph, 1961. From left to right: Gudvieg Norseth, Clara Berg, Belva Saugstad, Helen Espe, Clara Caouette, Frances Engebretson, Mae Rideout, Ruth Christenson, Ida Twedten, and Betty Ohman.
BPWC’s original charter members at the club’s fortieth anniversary celebration, 1961. Pictured (left to right) are Anna Brustad, Pauline Lohn, Mae Rideout, Ida Twedten, Sue Monroe, and Dr. Blanche Sharp.
Crookston’s Business and Professional Women’s club (BPWC), started in 1921, was more politically active in the 1960s and 1970s than in its early years. BPWC members made sure to cast their votes for causes important to women, including equal pay for equal work and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
Inside the Como Shops complex of the Northern Pacific Railway, located just south of Como Park in the St. Paul Midway, 1948. A railroad crane is parked next to the powerhouse building. Photographed by the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press.
Solomon Comstock and other Moorhead residents, ca. 1889. Photograph by O. E. Flaten. Used with the permission of the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County.
Solomon Comstock, James H. Sharp, and S. G. Roberts, 1880. Photograph by O. E. Flaten. Used with the permission of the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County.