Williamson, Jane Smith (1803–1895)

Jane Williamson was a schoolteacher and anti-slavery activist in Ohio before she came to the Presbyterian Dakota Mission at Lac qui Parle in 1843. She spent the remaining fifty-two years of her life working with Dakota people.

Black and white photograph of Catheryne Gilman, 1945.

Catheryne Gilman

Catheryne Gilman, 1945.

Black and white portrait of Mary Gibbs, commissioner of Itasca State Park and the first woman in the U.S. to hold the position of park commissioner, 1903.

Mary Gibbs

Mary Gibbs, commissioner of Itasca State Park and the first woman in the U.S. to hold the position of park commissioner, 1903. Photographer unknown.

Carrie, Mary, and Laura Ingalls

Photograph of (left to right) Carrie, Mary, and Laura Ingalls taken c.1881. Image supplied by and used courtesy of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association, Mansfield, Missouri.

Black and white photograph of Clara H. Ueland, 1918.

Clara H. Ueland

Clara H. Ueland, 1918.

Black and white photograph of the University of Minnesota's women's suffrage club, 1913.

University of Minnesota's women's suffrage club

University of Minnesota's women's suffrage club, 1913.

Black and white photograph of Laura Ingalls Wilder, c.1894.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder, c.1894.

Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867–1957)

Laura Ingalls Wilder was sixty-five when she published Little House in the Big Woods, a novel for young readers inspired by her childhood in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Her book, and the others that followed, made her an icon of children's literature. The Little House series offered generations of children a glimpse into life on the nineteenth-century American prairie and immortalized a sod house on the banks of Minnesota's Plum Creek.

Black and white photograph of Katherine McCaffrey Donnelly, wife of Ignatius Donnelly, 1888.

Katherine McCaffrey Donnelly

Katherine McCaffrey Donnelly, wife of Ignatius Donnelly, 1888.

Elizabeth Ayer's gravestone

Elizabeth Ayer's gravestone at Oakland Cemetery in Little Falls, Minnesota. Elizabeth's son Lyman, his wife Laura Hill Ayer, and his daughter Agnes are buried nearby. Photograph by Linda Louise Bryan, c.2013.

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