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Aerial View of St. John's University
Real photo postcard, printed on AZO paper, is a black and white 1924 aerial view of St. John's University, looking west.
Watching the White Caps from the "Bridge of Sighs," St. John's Lake, Collegeville, Minn.
Picture postcard, 1910, is a tinted black-and-white photo of a group of young men leaning on the rail of a footbridge near Lake Sagatagan.
East and North Views of Main Building, St. John's University
Leather postcard with undivided back, postmarked 1907. Front is a line drawing of the Quadrangle at St. John's University.
Frater Dominis Hofmann, OSB, and students
Undated photo of Father Hofmann with students, posed in Saint John's photo studio
Shoe shop
Boys in the shoe shop. Half of each boy's day was devoted to academics, and half to apprenticing in "industrial" trades such as the tailor and shoe shop, gardening and farming, and cooking.
Saint John's Industrial School group photo, 1889-90.
Boys in uniform from Saint John’s Industrial School for Native Americans and Fathers Isidore Siegler, Benno Ferstl, and Roman Homar. The Indian Industrial School was established with the hope that the Chippewa Indian boys from White Earth, Minnesota…
1890 Indian Industrial School
Photo of three monks and boys posed in front of Old Stone House, home to the Saint John's Indian Industrial School.
Old Stone House
The Old Stone House, destroyed by a tornado in 1894, was home to the Indian Industrial School at Saint John's. The upper floors held dormitory rooms, and the lower level contained classroom space and workshops such as the tailor shop and shoe shop. …
Schools for the Chippewa Indians: conducted by the fathers and sisters of the Order of St. Benedict, at St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn., St. Benedict's Academy, St. Joseph, Minn., St. Benedict's Mission, White Earth, Minn.
A yearbook of sorts describing programs and students of the school. This version Saint John's only.