Aerial photograph of downtown St. Cloud, Minnesota. The new Post Office and railroad overpass are pictured in the lower left corner. East St. Cloud can be seen across the river in the distance. Also has view of full downtown St. Cloud from the northwest looking southeast with the Mississippi river and East St. Cloud in the background.
View looking east of Cold Spring Granite Company's first steel plant building being erected just south of old main plant buildings. John Alexander and young son, Jack, are pictured left center.
Pete Kraemer operating one of the electric furnaces at the Cold Spring Granite company. The furnaces were used to make steel shot for use in gang saws and the polishing line. Cold Spring Granite was the only granite company to produce its own shot.
Handwritten in black ink. Mr. Smith comments about every day life as a teenager growing up in St. Cloud and attending Technical High School. Mr. Smith wrote portions of this journal from April 6, 1917, to April 15, 1917, from November 28, 1918 to December 3, 1918, and from February 12, 1919, to July 31, 1919. This is a bound leather, hard cover diary.
Handwritten in blue pen, a diary of a St. Cloud Technical High School senior recalling his daily experiences while attending school classes and extracurrcular activities. Attached to the pages of this book are photographs, letters, tickets, newspaper clippings and ribbons that relate to his school life.
Mr. Smith writes about his impressions of his close friends. He also talks about attending the circus and a musical concert. School remains the focus of his writing. Two photos of friends are interspersed with a musical composition penned by the diarist which is located in the back of the diary.
Mr. Smith comments about his adventures while staying at his family's cottage on Grand lake and his impressions about his first month and half as a senior at Tech High.