Aerial view of Prairie Home Cemetery

Aerial view of Prairie Home Cemetery

Aerial view of Prairie Home Cemetery in Moorhead with Concordia College in the background. Photograph by David Anderson, ca. 1939. David Anderson Photograph Collection, North Dakota State University Archives, Fargo.

Prairie Home Cemetery, Moorhead

Prairie Home Cemetery, founded in 1875, is the oldest cemetery in Moorhead. Many of the city's settler colonists, such as Randolph M. Probstfield and Solomon G. Comstock, are buried there. It inspired the name of Garrison Keillor’s famous National Public Radio (NPR) program A Prairie Home Companion.

Division of Southside Minneapolis by 35W

Map of the division of Southside Minneapolis by I-35W

Map created by A Public History of 35W showing the boundaries of the Old Southside of Minneapolis as defined by Dr. Ernest Lloyd in “How Routing an Interstate Highway through South Minneapolis Disrupted an African-American Neighborhood,” PhD dissertation, Hamline University, 2013.

 Sons of Italy Fourth of July float, Hibbing, 1930.

Sons of Italy Fourth of July float

Sons of Italy Fourth of July float, Hibbing, 1930.

Mining townsite one mile east of Biwabik (St. Louis County), 1892.

Mining townsite near Biwabik

Mining townsite one mile east of Biwabik (St. Louis County), 1892.

Participants in a Kiddies Parade, an annual event held during the summer in New Ulm, Minnesota. The children and parents make all of their own costumes and floats.

Participants in a Kiddies Parade ca. 1975

Participants in a Kiddies Parade, an annual event held during the summer in New Ulm, Minnesota. The children and parents make all of their own costumes and floats.

Osmund Osmundson grave marker, Valley Grove. Photo taken in 2019.

Osmund Osmundson grave marker

Osmund Osmundson grave marker, Valley Grove. Photo taken in 2019.

Osmund Osmundson, ca. 1910

Osmund Osmundson

Osmund Osmundson, ca. 1910

Veblen home, Nerstrand, Minnesota, ca. 1890.

Veblen family home

Veblen home, Nerstrand, Minnesota, ca. 1890.

Veblen barn, Nerstrand, Minnesota, ca. 1890.

Barn at Veblen Farmstead

Veblen barn, Nerstrand, Minnesota, ca. 1890.

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