Gratia Countryman became the director of the Minneapolis library system in 1904. Hear what she has to say about her work in this video.

In the late nineteenth century, Maria Louise Sanford was a star of the regional lecture circuit and one of the most charismatic professors at the University of Minnesota. She was also one of the only female professors—and some of her colleagues had it out for her. Britt Aamodt reports in this MN90 segment.

Rand House at Hamline University’s Department of Medicine, 1890s. From the Medical Dial 1, no. 9 (August 1899).

Ginwaajiwanaang (Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung), The Place of the Long Rapids, also called Long Sault Rapids, in Franz Jevne State Park. Photo by Marjorie Savage, 2021. Used with the permission of Marjorie Savage.

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.

Schoolchildren of St. John Cantius School in Wilno, Minnesota, 1930s. Immigration History Research Center Archives Photograph Collection, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Students of St. Stanislaus School with their teacher, ca. 1900. Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Ruth Myers, ca. 1987. From the newsletter of the Minnesota Library Association (October 1987), page 1.

Hyman Berman, age ninety, at his Minneapolis home (2540 Seabury Avenue, Minneapolis), weeks before his death. Photograph by Terry Gydesen, October 2015. CC BY-SA 3.0