The Narrows bridge spans the channel connecting the Upper Lake with Lower Lake Minnetonka. The north side of the channel is in the town of Orono, and its south side is in Tonka Bay.
The Puritan docks at Excelsior Landing in front of The Blue Line, with the White House Hotel on the hill behind the caf??. The message on back in Norwegian lists meal for $2.00 and is postmarked 1910.
This express steamboat "White Bear" has just passed under the new steel bridge at the Narrows. Its advertising sign says it is an express for Zumbra; this channel connects the Upper Lake to the Lower Lake of Lake Minnetonka; the bridge connects Orono and Tonka Bay, postmarked 1916.
Tipi-Wakan Christian Club's three-story gambrel-roofed building has two-story columns at its entrance, with a screened porch on the first floor, and decks on the second and third floors. The building was originally built by the Great Northern Railroad and managed by James and Amanda Woolnough as the Maple Heights Inn. In the 1920s it was sold, renamed Tipi-Waken, and used as a Christian-affiliated clubhouse offering meeting space and retreat opportunities. The building was razed in 1964.
This long three-story wooden building in its shaded setting provides a porch along its entire first floor, and a tower that climbs to four stories giving additional views of Lake Minnetonka. This postcard was printed as an advertisement. The message announces that fancy balls, dancing parties, musicales and concerts, banquets, conventions, yacht races, and rowing regattas are of frequent occurrence at Tonka Bay, and it is only two miles from Big Island with its 65-acre park .
Nicollet Station trainmen posed at 31st Street and Nicollet Avenue with Nicollet Ball Park behind them in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Possible identities include: 840 Isaac G. Lunde 1911-1916; 873 Andrew E. Stark 1913-1918; 609 Oliver E. Anderson 1912-1917; 792 Chester Plympton 1916-1917; 948 Charles A. Carr 1915-1916; 722 Tony Gulcynski 1914-1917; 918 Nels K. Nelson 1912-1919; 906 James C. Lang 1913-1916; 897 Roy Anderson 1914-1915; 698 Arthur E. Rundquist 1913-1918; 874 Emil Johnson 1913-1916, 650 William G. Thomas 1912-1915; 650 Elmer N. Dobson 1915-1933686 A. Ivar Djerf 1914-1917; 783 Peter N. Peterson 1911-1945.
Trainmen posed on the steps of Nicollet Station in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Possible identities include: 745 Herbert J. Soley 1913-1917; 696 Arthur Runquist 1914-1916; 730 Carl A. Olson 1912-1918; 672 Olaf E. Lindeberg 1911-1947; 932 Adolph J. Murck 1914-1917; 749 Alvin A. Neumann 1913-1917; 758 Anthony A. Chaska 1913-1917; 860 Robert A. Bragg 1913-1933; 885 Nels Nelson 1913-1916.
Group photo of trainmen on the steps of Lake Street Station. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Possible identities include: 1490 Karl Hovlan hired 1914; 2654 Charles J. Beckstrom 1910-1947; 1783 Samson Jordal hired 1912; 1847 Peter J. Lovegren hired 1914; 1897 William Pearson hired 1914; 2243 Conrad Severson 1911-1917.
Trainmen posed with streetcar at East Side Station. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Possible identities include: 416 Ray J. Denlo 1914-1915; 174 Peter A. Paulsen 1911-1918; 406 Adolph A. Wog 1910-1919; 457 Frank H. Kurth 1915-1918; 271 Andrew E. Anderson 1915-1917.
Trainmen posed inside streetcar at Nicollet Station. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Possible identities include: 840 Isaac G. Lunde 1911-1916; 873 Andrew E. Stark 1915-1917.