Andrew B. Robbins daughter, Amy Robbins Ware was accepted a a canteen worker with the American Red Cross in 1918. She set up and operated field hospitals at Saint Michiel and Argone, France.
Charles O. Wallace, John Zenzen, Adrian Matson in front of the Robbinsdale City Hall. Wallace was Robbinsdale's first city clerk. He held office from 1938 until 1945. He served as Mayor from 1947 through 1954 and again from 1967 to 1972.
The daughter of Robbinsdale's founder Andrew B. Robbins, Edith Robbins graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1894. She spent several years teaching grade school in Robbinsdale before becoming a high school teacher in Minneapolis. She married Thomas Lester Daniel in 1907. Edith Robbins Daniel served on the Robbinsdale School Board for 24 years.
Robbinsdale Schools Superintendent Ewin J. Cooper in his office at Robbinsdale High School 4139 Regent. Born in 1897, Cooper grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. He served as a pursuit pilot in World War I. His first teaching job was at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Cooper wwas hired asRobbinsdales's superintendent in 1930. He retired in 1965. Robbinsdale Cooper High School is named in his hoonor.
Group of soldiers , National Guard Farewell celebration. August 22nd, 1917. Sign on vehicle reads "Robbinsdale to Berlin." This photograph was taken with a pinhole camera.
Man fishing, boy wading into Crystal Lake with a net. The name Clara L. Nash appears in faded pencil on the back of the photo. The Nash Family operated the Crystal Bath House on Crystal Lake in Robbinsdale.
The Robbinsdale City Band marching down West Broadway in the 1938 Goodwill Days Parade. The photo was taken from the roof of the Wilson Realty Co. Building.
Blacksmith shop, built by Haakon Christensen on the southeast corner of West Broadway and 42nd Avenue North. Haakon and his son, George are pisctured. A Norweian immigrant, Christensen was actively engaged as a blacksmith for over fifty years. He shod horses, repaired farm implements and became the anchor at one end of the Robbinsdale's downtown business district. Christensen was active in civic affairs. He died in 1945 at the age of 85.
This house at 44th and West Broadway was a rental property owned by Andrew B. Robbins. Pictured out front are from left to right, Alfred Parker, Mrs. Raliegh Parker, Fred Baker Jr. Bakers's Aunt Mrs Guptel and Mrs. Christensen, the blacksmith's wife. The house was struck by kightening and burned to the ground in 1902.