Map of Swiss cantons with Graubunden highlighted

Map of the cantons of Switzerland

Map of the cantons of Switzerland with Graubünden highlighted in orange. Posted by Wikimedia Commons used Spacebirdy on August 15, 2005. GNU 1.2.

Map of languages spoken in Graubunden, Switzerland

Map of the languages spoken in Graubünden

Map of the languages spoken in the Swiss canton Graubünden, 2000. Posted by Wikimedia Commons users Marco Zanoli, June 18, 2006. Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0.

Photograph of highway waymarker for Badus Colony

Badus Colony historical marker

Badus Colony historical marker, Lake County, ten miles north of Madison, South Dakota, on US Highway 81. Photographed on February 11, 2007.

Photograph of John E. Simonett

John E. Simonett

Minnesota Supreme Court Associate Justice John E. Simonett, ca. 1990–1995. From the portrait collection of the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Photograph of farmers and threshing machine, ca. 1900

Threshing near Le Center

Threshing near Le Center (Le Sueur County), ca. 1900. The colony of St. Henry, located west of Le Center in Le Sueur County, was the center of farming development by Romansh immigrants to Minnesota.

Portraits of members of the Simonet and Wolf families

Members of the Simonet and Wolf families

Members of the Simonet and Wolf families. From the Scheller family papers; used with the permission of Therese Scheller.

Photograph of Joseph Wolf Brewing Company

Joseph Wolf Brewing Company

Joseph Wolf Brewing Company, ca. 1914. Photograph by John Runk. The Joseph Wolf Brewing Company was the largest brewery outside of the Twin Cities. It closed in 1925, a casualty of Prohibition. The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

Photograph of Stillwater, circa 1885

Stillwater

Stillwater, Minnesota. Photograph by James Sinclair, ca. 1885.

Photograph of Simonet Furniture Store

Simonet Furniture Store

The Simonet Furniture Store, Nelson and South Main Streets, Stillwater, ca. 1880. Founded in 1867 by Sebastian Simonet, a master carpenter and Romansh immigrant, ca. 1880. Photograph by John Runk.

Photograph of the DeGonda Family

DeGonda Family

The DeGonda family in Le Sueur County, ca. 1916. In 1866, Mary Muggli DeGonda and her five surviving children emigrated from Graubünden to Minnesota. This photograph shows the siblings about fifty years later. Pictured are (left to right, back row): Gion Rest (John) DeGonda; Giachen Antoni (Jacob) DeGonda; and (left to right, front row): Onna Maria Turte (Mary Dorothy) DeGonda Freiberg; Rosa Martina (Rose) DeGonda Simonett; and Maria Aloisa (Louisa) DeGonda Joerg. From the Richard C. DeGonda family papers; used with the permission of Richard C. DeGonda.

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