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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 9m

Rufus L. Adair, Jr. (1945)
Source: Hennepin County Library

United States Army Captain Adair, from Atlanta, Georgia, sits at a desk in the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 39m

Mrs. George Ludcke (1937)
5321 Chowen Ave.
Source: Hennepin County Library

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 1h

Houses on Park Avenue (1990s; 2000s)
1601 Park Ave.; 1605 Park Ave.
Source: Hennepin County Library

1605 Park is the gray house center.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 1h

Dorothy Creighton (1935)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Dorothy Creighton is the new chairman of the house furnishings committee of the Minneapolis College Women's Club.

mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 11h

2-year-old Marilyn, walk up the front steps of the school.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 11h

Minneapolis Community Nursery Schools (1947)
418 Cedar Ave.
Source: Hennepin County Library

The nursery school and day care center at Pillsbury Settlement House is one of 7 Community Chest nursery schools in Minneapolis that start up this week. Mrs. Venetta Williams and her daughter, ...

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 11h

Arthur E. Anderson, 5th Ward Alderman Candidate
2610 Chicago Ave.
Source: Hennepin County Library.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 12h

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Members (1939)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Bas players rehearsing for the first concert of the season. L to R: F. S. Hughart, Kenneth L. Davenport

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 12h

Pat Taya Thai Restaurant (1994)
2627 Franklin Ave. E
Source: Hennepin County Library

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 13h

William T. Hartman (1939)
4416 46th Ave. S
Source: Hennepin County Library

President of the Northwest Coin Club

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 13h

Crowds in Front of Convention Center for Governor Olson's Funeral Procession (1936)
Source: Hennepin County Library.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 14h

Ernie Green (1933)
Source: Hennepin County Library.

Green is a football player at West High School.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 14h

House on 26th Street East (1980s)
2726 26th St. E
Source: Hennepin County Library

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 15h

Mrs. B. B. Magee (1936)
2618 52nd St. W
Source: Hennepin County Library

Mrs. Magee poses with her prized canary, Dodo, while he practices his footwork on a tiny ladder.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 15h

Matthew Bernatsky (1947)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Bernatsky is the restaurant manager at Schiek's Cafe at 115 4th St. S.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 16h

Helen Kvetentsky Receives Royal Diadem (1936)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Kvetentsky, Hopkins Raspberry Festival Queen, is crowned by Madden at the coronation ceremonies.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 16h

Mrs. Emma Ayers (1923)
3422 2nd Ave. S
Source: Hennepin County Library.

Mrs. Ayers is an active member of the Zuhrah Ladies Society

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 17h

Urban Fellenstein (1950)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Fellenstein is the Minneapolis Zone Manager for the Chevrolet Motor Division of the General Motors Corporation.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 17h

Bertha Erdmann, first Director of School of Nursing at University of Minnesota (1949)
Source: Hennepin County Library

She is shown in a nurses uniform and cap.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 18h

Thomas and Patrick Gallagher (1938)
4940 Logan Ave. (Gallagher)
Source: Hennepin County Library.

Thomas Gallagher, left, is shown with his father, Patrick, of Faribault, Minnesota.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 18h

Eddie Farrell (1930)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Farrell of Duluth wins the annual six mile swimming marathon in Lake Calhoun. He is shown touching the buoy secured to the officials' boat at the finish line first while onlookers watch from the beach.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 19h

Eighty-Sixth Birthday Quilting Party (1947)
4142 42nd Ave. S (Sorenson)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Christana Sorenson celebrates her 86th birthday by finishing her 200th quilt with the help of three daughters. L to R: Rudolph, Myrtle Sorenson, Christana Sorenson and Christensen.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 19h

admission fee was one pair of shoes.

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 19h

YMCA Sends Shoes to Germany (1947)
1942 Oliver Ave. N (Harrison)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Jimmy Harrison, age 11 and his father, R. B. Harrison, help fill a barrel with shoes, which will be sent to Germany. The shoes were collected at a father-son banquet at the Downtown YMCA, where the ...

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mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 20h

Checking Flight Permits at Wold-Chamberlain Field (1941)
Source: Hennepin County Library

United States Army Air Forces Sergeant Nolan examines Pilot Johnson's permit in front of his plane as Private Cline looks on at Wold-Chamberlain Field.

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