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Carlos Avery Game Farm dedication event

Minnesota Federal Symphonic Band playing at the dedication of the Carlos Avery Game Refuge, 1938.

Carlos Avery Game Farm

In the mid-twentieth century, Anoka County's Carlos Avery Game Farm helped to build populations of dwindling game bird species, such as the bob white quail, chukar partridge, and ring-necked pheasant. A National Register-listed historic district since 1991, it is now part of the nearly 25,000-acre Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area (WMA) and has become a reserve for deer, waterfowl, and other woodland animals and birds.

Influenza masks and bag

American Red Cross influenza mask bundles and bag. One cloth bag that contains two bundles of gauze influenza masks. Masks were made by Saint Paul Red Cross volunteers at the request of the United States Army for use in Minnesota training camps and by civic leaders for use by the general population during the Spanish influenza pandemic, 1918–1919.

Troops training in Stillwater

World War I troops training in Stillwater, MN, 1917.

Fort Snelling Hospital

Fort Snelling Hospital, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, 1918.

Death certificate of Private Martin Tudahl

Death information for Private Martin Tudahl, a US Army soldier from Peterson, MN. Died at age twenty-six on October 7, 1918, in the US General Hospital, Fort Snelling, of influenza and bronchial pneumonia.

Influenza quarantine sign

Minnesota State Health Department, influenza quarantine sign, not dated. Minnesota Department of Health, Reports and Miscellaneous Records, 1872–2002. Posters, Circulars, and Reporting Forms, undated and 1890s‒1940s.

Peterson, Arthur O. “Colorado Pete” (1896‒1932)

Though his life was tragically short, Colorado Pete made his mark on the history of Clearwater County, Minnesota, through both his civic activities and his poetry.

151st Field Artillery departing for Camp McCoy

The 151st Field Artillery departs for Camp McCoy (now Fort McCoy), Wisconsin, for summer field training, June 1930. This was the last year the artillery had to go to Camp McCoy, which had the acreage needed for firing practice. Camp Ripley opened the following summer.

Fort Snelling-Mendota Bridge

The mile-long Fort Snelling-Mendota Bridge spanning the Minnesota River was dedicated to the 151st Field Artillery when it was completed in 1926—an illustration of the high esteem accorded the regiment.

Gale Family Library