Randolph Probstfield and his wife, Catherine Sidonia Probstfield, 1861. Probstfield family photographs (Box 3), Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, Moorhead.
Randolph M. Probstfield is commonly considered Clay County’s first European settler-colonist. A farmer in the Red River Valley, he was a local leader in politics, education, and agricultural development from his arrival in Minnesota in 1859 until his death in 1911.
St. Paul Customs House, ca. 1870s. Photograph by William Henry Illingworth. This was the only St. Paul federal courthouse during Rensselaer Nelson's time on the bench.
Drawing of the St. Paul Customs House, site of the federal district court, 1876. This was the only St. Paul federal courthouse during Rensselaer Nelson’s time on the bench.
A demonstrator walks out of the bursar’s office in Morrill Hall during a student protest on the University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis campus. Photograph by Ted Hammond of the Minnesota Daily, January 15, 1969.