Northwest School of Agriculture library, 1933.

The NWSA swimming pool was sixty feet long and twenty-four feet wide, 1932. The water level on the springboard end was nine feet and the shallow end four-and-a-half feet.

Retta Bede with students during a home-cooking class, 1930s.

Three Ojibwe men with a translator. The Ojibwe leader Miskogwan (Red Feather) stands on the far right. Northwest School of Agriculture Dedication Day, October 5, 1920.

The flooded NWSA campus during the 1920s. Earlier, it had been known to locals as a good duck-hunting grounds.

Girls in uniform perform calisthenics during a physical education class on the second floor of Kiehle Hall, 1927. Classes also involved group games, folk dancing, and personal hygiene.

Toboggan slide built at the NSWA by students, December 13, 1916. Printed in the school’s 1916 yearbook.

Front cover of sheet music for the NWSA class of 1912’s “Song of Farwell,” written by N. E. Schwartz.

Students during a NWSA shop class, 1910. Boys learned blacksmithing, scale weighing, and welding skills in the class.

Teams of horses with equipment and drivers in front of a barn, 1910.