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Black and white photograph of a chess game at the Jewish Educational Center, Saint Paul c.1930.

Chess match at the Jewish Educational Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota

Photograph of a chess game at the Jewish Educational Center, Saint Paul c.1930. Children's and young people's programming was held at the J. E. C. Annex.

Jewish Community Center of St. Paul

In 1930, the Jewish Community Center of St. Paul (JCC)—originally called the Jewish Education Center (JEC)—began the work it continues in the twenty-first century: providing for the educational, social, cultural, and recreational lives of local Jewish youth and their families.

Hutchinson High School class of 1900 at Merrill House, Hutchinson

Hutchinson High School class at Harrington-Merrill House, Hutchinson, 1900.

Minnesota State Reform School inmate projects

Articles made by inmates of the Minnesota State Reform School. Photographed by T.W. Ingersoll, c.1875.

Minnesota State Reform School Grounds

Photograph of the grounds of the Minnesota State Reform School. Taken by T.W. Ingersoll, c.1875.

Minnesota State Reform School

Photograph of the front exterior of the Minnesota State Reform School. Taken by T.W. Ingersoll, c.1875.

State Reform School, St. Paul

Minnesota's first experiment in juvenile justice, the State Reform School, operated in St. Paul from 1868 to 1891. During that time, over 1250 inmates, almost all of them boys, were committed to the institution, mostly for petty crimes and "incorrigibility." The school moved to a new facility in Red Wing in 1891.