Jakob Henrik Gerhard Fjelde was a Norwegian-born American sculptor.
He is remembered as both a prolific portraitist and the creator of public monuments. One of his better known works is the one dedicated to the 1st Minnesota Infantry (1897) located at Gettysburg Battlefield where its 262 members suffered 215 casualties.
Ole Bull statue at Loring Park
Hiawatha and Minnehaha, 1912 statue at Minnehaha Park
1889 bronze sculpture of Minerva in Minneapolis Central Library atrium
Minnehaha Park is a city park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, and home to Minnehaha Falls and the lower reaches of Minnehaha Creek. Officially named Minnehaha Regional Park, it is part of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board system and lies within the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park Service. The park was designed by landscape architect Horace W.S. Cleveland in 1883 as part of the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway system, and was part of the popular steamboat Upper Mississippi River "Fashionable Tour" in the 1800s.
Minnehaha Falls, June 2017
Fort Snelling in 1844, by John Caspar Wild
"Minnehaha Falls", oil on canvas, date unknown; artist Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902), known for his landscapes of the Westward Expansion, was the foremost painter of these scenes during the 19th century
Minnehaha Falls ~ from 1878 Minnesota guide to summer resorts