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Ruth Nomura

Ruth Nomura, graduate of Oregon State University, 1930. Photo from the private collection of Judy Nomura Murakami; used with the permission of Judy Nomura Murakami.

Tanbara, Ruth Nomura (1907–2008)

In August of 1942, Ruth Tanbara and her husband, Earl, were the first Japanese Americans to resettle in St. Paul as a result of President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. They assisted the St. Paul Resettlement Committee during World War II and remained in the city after the war’s end, becoming life-long community leaders in St. Paul.

Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh

Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh, second wife of Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. Photograph by Mareau, ca. 1920.

Mary Ann Elizabeth Probstfield

Mary Ann Elizabeth Probstfield, daughter of Randolph and Catherine Sidonia Probstfield, ca. 1880s. Probstfield family photographs (Box 3), Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, Moorhead.

Gown worn by Thersea Ericksen

Pink and white piña cloth gown with black velvet collar made in the Philippines by Lang Lee. The own was worn by Red Cross nurse Theresa Ericksen of Minnesota at a reception for William Taft, the first governor of the Philippines, 1901.

Minnesota Cadet Nurse Corps marching into Northrup Auditorium

Seven hundred nurse cadets from Minneapolis and St. Paul enter Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota for their induction ceremony, 1944. From the Katharine Densford Heritage Collection, Weaver-Densford Hall, University of Minnesota. Used with the permission of the University of the Minnesota School of Nursing.

Nursing project at University Hospital

A nurse participating in a nursing project at University Hospital (University of Minnesota) serves food to a patient, ca. 1937.

Katharine Densford

Katharine Densford, ca. 1970s. From the Katharine Densford Heritage Collection, Weaver-Densford Hall, University of Minnesota. Used with the permission of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing.

Densford, Katharine J. (1890–1978)

Katharine Densford was a pragmatic leader of American nursing as it gained political and academic recognition in the 1940s and 50s. She is remembered as a stateswoman whose leadership of Minnesota’s flagship school of nursing at the University of Minnesota provided the model for nursing education throughout the state and nation.

Kate Wulf and Jeri Rasmussen

Kate Wulf (center) and Jeri Rasmussen (right) at the 1982 DFL convention, Duluth. From box 1, folder 1 (Photographs: Annual meetings, 1974, 1981–1983) of the DFL Feminist Caucus papers, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul. Photograph by Kathy H. Drazen.

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