Location: City of Ortonville / Contributor: Big Stone County Historical Society Museum

1. Shumaker & Rietmann Store, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1876
Description:: Exterior view of the Shumaker and Rietman Store. Al Shumaker is on the right. Shumaker and Rietman was a dry goods and grocery store. The reverse of the image is marked, "Shumaker and Woodley 1st permanent store in 1876 - burned - 1st new store - F. Shumaker 1879."
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

2. City views, Ortonville, Minnesota

Creator:: Reed, Roland
Date Created:: 1880 - 1889
Description:: Various views of Ortonville in the 1880s.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

3. Ortonville Coronet Band, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1884 - 1885
Description:: Group portrait of the Coronet Band. Band members from left to right: Henry Romander, Irving O. Bron, Henry Godrey, Ernie Davis, Ralph Godfrey, August Carlson, Willet Hyde, Will Bron, Hoard Hancock and Carl Bron.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

4. Early city view, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1885-1890
Description:: View of Main Street in Ortonville.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

5. Orton House became the Orton Hotel, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1885?
Description:: Exterior view of the Orton House Hotel.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

6. Ortonville School and pupils, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1886
Description:: Large group of students posed on the school steps.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

7. City's first Fire Hall, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1887?
Description:: Exterior view of Ortonville's first fire hall.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

8. Earliest Main Street, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1887?
Description:: View of Main Street in Ortonville.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

9. Big Stone Lake, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1890?
Description:: View of Big Stone Lake shoreline, boathouse and boats moored on the pier and pulled up on the beach.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

10. Nielson Drug on Main Street, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1904?
Description:: Exterior view of the Nielson Drugstone.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

11. Thirteen Bands in Ortonville, Minnesota

Creator:: Reed, Roland
Date Created:: 1905-06-24
Description:: View of thirteen marching bands lined up on the Ortonville Main Street.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

12. Bank of Ortonville (Orton Building), Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1907?
Description:: View of exterior of the Bank of Ortonville.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

13. Bank of Ortonville, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1907?
Description:: Exterior view of the Bank of Ortonville.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

14. Bird's eye view, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1908 - 1940
Description:: Hand-colored postcard of Ortonville, view includes the Catholic Church.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

15. Granger College, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1910
Description:: Exterior view of Granger College.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

16. Minstrel Show, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1910 - 1920
Description:: Theater performance and fundraiser and Minstel Show.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

17. Wedding interior with altar, Ortonville, Minnesota

Creator:: Fischer, Jerome A.
Date Created:: 1910 - 1926
Description:: Interior view of a home set up for a wedding.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Studio portraits

18. Barge unloading grain at dock, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: Barge unloading grain at a dock in Ortonville.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

19. Ortonville Band, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1912 - 1921
Description:: Ortonville Band musicians standing outside with their instruments.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

20. Chautauqua Park on Big Stone Lake, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1912?
Description:: View of Chautauqua Park from Big Stone Lake.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Panoramas

21. Scene of Ortonville from South Dakota side of lake, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1913
Description:: Panoramic view of Ortonville, Minnesota from the South Dakota side of Big Stone Lake.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Panoramas

22. View from Big Stone City, South Dakota towards Ortonville, Minnesota

Creator:: Guthyl, Ralph
Date Created:: 1913
Description:: Circuit print view photographed from Big Stone City, South Dakota looking to Ortonville.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Panoramas

23. Pioneer Meat Market decorated for Christmas, Ortonville, Minnesota

Creator:: Vikre, Peter
Date Created:: 1914
Description:: Interior view of the Pioneer Meat Market decorated for Christmas. George C. Shumaker was the proprietor. The image caption reads: "Auntie and Uncle decorated his picture."
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

24. Portrat of Lynn Wheeler, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1914 - 1918
Description:: Studio portrait of Lynn Wheeler, a Natvy sailor duirng World War I.
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Studio portraits

25. Ortonville High School Football Team 1915, Ortonville, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1915
Description:: Photographic postcard of the Ortonville Football team. Players from left to right: Earl Godfrey, Orrie Mundweiler, Joe Petrick, Francis Beck, Marvel Beck, Bill Mc Lane, Geo Von Eschen, Arthur Wheeler, CS Hahn, Coach Leonard Von Eschen, Irving Koepke, Coach, Hugh Amodt, Harry Geier, Carl Hasslen
Contributing Institution:: Big Stone County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

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