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8151. Bird's eye view, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1884
Description:
View is to the northwest from the top of Bruns' and Finkle's Elevator A at Front (Center Ave) and 6th Street North. Visible are businesses along the north side of Front Street between 4th and 5th Streets North incluiding Moorhead City Hall and Fire Station. In the foreground at left is Moorhead's Point neighborhood in distance at right and Fargo, Dakota Territory in the distance at left. This is the same scene as the one photographed Ole E. Flaten in 1879. See mhs06865.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8152. Bird's eye view, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1895 - 1900
Description:
View is to the northeast from the top of the Moorhead Manufacturing Company Flour Mill on the south side of Main Avenue and 3rd Street South. Visible are numerous businesses, mostly saloons, lining the north side of Main Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets South. Downtown Moorhead is visible in the distance; in the foreground at right can be seen the Peter Heinrich Bottling Works with an ad for Joseph Schlitz Beer painted on its side.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8153. Bird's eye view of North Bridge, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1902-10
Description:
View is to the east from the top of Fargo Roller Mill in Fargo, North Dakota across the Red River toward Moorhead just north of the North Bridge linking Moorhead's 2nd Avenue North with Fargo's Northern Pacific Avenue. Part of the Fargo Roller Mill is visible in the foreground. Much of Moorhead is visible in the distance, including a number of businesses, mostly saloons, at the Moorhead end of the bridge. These include Billy Diemert's Place, just north of the bridge, and John Haas' Midway saloon just to the south. The bridge is undergoing major repairs, the deck is seen removed at right. On the Fargo side of the bridge, at right is visible a small building with a sign reading "John R. Jardine, Bridge Works."
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8154. Boating on Red River, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1879 - 1883
Description:
Stereoview of row boats on the river while a group of men and boys sit in shade of large tree in foreground. View may be to the north across Red River from Moorhead bank below the home of Andrew Holes at 7th Street and 1st Avenue North.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

8155. Boys playing in water filled ditch, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1881
Description:
Stereoview of a number of boys play in a water filled ditch on the north side of the Northern Pacific Railway tracks in Moorhead. The view is to the east from 6th Street. A boy in the foreground puts on his shoes; two men stand on the platform of the Northern Pacific freight depot in the distance; a snow bank is visible on the north side of a shed on the right; box cars stand on the Northern Pacific tracks at extreme right; visible at extreme left is the recently constructed three-story Jay Cooke House Hotel.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

8156. Carnegie Library, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1906
Description:
View is to the east from the west side of 6th Street South just south of Main Avenue. The recently constructed Moorhead Public Library stands on the corner across the intersection. Also visible are adjacent houses on 6th Street South at right and businesses on Main Avenue to left.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8157. Catching fish and cord wood on Red River, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1879 - 1882
Description:
Stereoview to the north from the Moorhead side of the Red River near Woodlawn Park toward the Northern Pacific Railway bridge. Visible in the center distance; a man fishing with a stick stands on a log at right holding a stringer of fish, a rope stretches across the river from the lower left foreground to the Fargo, Dakota Territory bank at left. Cord wood cut upstream has drifted down into the rope. Workers on the far bank load wood onto a small ox-drawn railroad car on rails to be hauled up on the bank; stacks of wood are visible on the bank above.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

8158. Children wade in Red River flood waters, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1900 - 1910
Description:
View is to the west from the Moorhead side of the Red River. About 16 children stand on Moorhead bank at left and wade in the river. Tree foliage indicates this was a summer rain flood.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8159. Circus parade on Front Street, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1903 - 1904
Description:
Parade for unidentified circus turns off Front Street (Center Avenue) onto 4th Street North in downtown Moorhead. The view is to the northwest from the top of Ole E. Flaten's photo studio on the southeast corner of Front and 4th Streets. Spectators watch from the sidewalks as a gilded wagon pulled by 24 horses carrying a uniformed band goes around the corner while a second decorated wagon follows behind. Visible across the intersection is Pederson Brothers' Mercantile Company building, undergoing remodeling and, at left, the Moorhead Daily News Publishing Company building.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8160. City Hall and Fire Station, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1920?
Description:
View is to the southwest from the north side of Front Street (Center Avenue) and 5th Street North.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8161. Columbia Hotel, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1905
Description:
View is to the northwest from the south side of Front Street (Center Avenue) just east of 8th Street North. The Columbia Hotel stands on the corner across the intersection. Front Street is torn up for construction of the Courthouse line of the Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway. Two young girls and two men stand on the street in front of the Hotel. Two flag-like signs stuck into the ground on either side of 8th Street read "Gas for Cooking, for Lighting, for Heating."
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8162. Comstock Hotel and Stodder Park, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1915?
Description:
View is to the northwest from the Northern Pacific Railway tracks and 8th Street North in Moorhead. Visible is the three-story Comstock Hotel on Front (Center Avenue) and 8th Streets and Stodder Park at left.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8163. Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1905?
Description:
The view is to the southwest from 7th Street and 8th Avenue South. Concordia College buildings shown include from left Academy Hall men's dormitory, Bishop Whipple Hall and the President's home. A house on 6th Street can be seen beyond and to the right of the President's house.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8164. Crowd at Old Main at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1910 - 1915
Description:
View is to the southeast showing the north and west sides of the Main Administration Building at Concordia College. A large formally dressed crowd poses in the foreground, in front are a number of uniformed band members.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8165. Crowd of men in front of Fred Ambs Saloon, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1900 - 1905
Description:
About twenty men stand on the sidewalk in front of Fred Ambs' saloon on Front Street (Center Avenue) between 4th and 5th Streets North; the view is to the northeast from the top of Ole E. Flaten's photo studio on the corner of Front and 4th Streets; one man leans in the doorway holding a broom.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8166. Diemert & Murphy Family Liquor Store, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1905
Description:
View is to the southwest from the north side of 1st Avenue North just east of 1st Street North. The Diemert & Murphy Family Liquor Store stands on the corner across the intersection. A sign to the left reads "No Dumping." To the right is seen John Haas' Midway Saloon and, at extreme right, a blurred image of Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway streetcar crossing onto the North Bridge over the Red River to Fargo, North Dakota.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8167. Fargo and Moorhead Street Railway streetcar, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1904 - 1905
Description:
Fargo Moorhead Electric Street Railway streetcar number 5 turns off Front Street (Center Avenue) onto 4th Street North in downtown Moorhead. The view is to the northeast of Front Street just east of 4th Street. Visible beyond the streetcar is Pederson Brothers' Mercantile Company wholesale liquor distributing business and, in the distance at right, I. C. Week's grocery store.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8168. Fargo Fire Festival Parade, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1897-06-07
Description:
View is to the northwest from the east side of 4th Street South just north of Main Avenue. Spectators line the streets watching a parade celebrating Fargo, North Dakota's recovery from a devastating June 7, 1893 fire, Members of the Hoo Hoos, a fraternal group made up of individuals in the forest products industry, march down 4th Street dressed in white hoods and long black robes decorated with pictures of black cats on their chests. Behind them follows a horse-drawn pyramid shaped float and a marching band.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8169. Farmers waiting to unload wheat at Bruns' and Finkle's Elevator A, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1879-10
Description:
Stereoview of farmers with wagons drawn by teams of horses and oxen piled with bags of wheat wait to unload at Bruns' and Finkle's Elevator A on Front Street (Center Avenue) and 6th Street in Moorhead. The view is to the southeast from Front and 5th Street. Cord wood is visible stacked up at left and on flat cars on the Northern Pacific Railway tracks in distance at right. Farmers at the elevator can be seen manually dumping bags of wheat into hoppers on the north side of the elevator. A cloud of steam blows out of a pipe above the powerhouse on the right end of the elevator. Houses in south Moorhead are visible in distance beyond the elevator.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

8170. Federal Building and Post Office, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1915
Description:
View is to the southwest from the north side of Main Avenue just east of 6th Street South. The recently completed Moorhead Post Office and Federal Building stands on the corner across the intersection.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8171. First St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway locomotive and train to reach Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1880
Description:
Stereoview of the first St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway train to arrive at Moorhead in late 1880. Locomotive number 34 pulling coal tender and three cars in snow. Men stand leaning out of cab, behind cab and alongside locomotive.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

8172. Front Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1923-08-01
Description:
View is to the northeastof Front Street (Center Ave.) between 5th and 6th Streets. Businesses visible include Duncan MacNab's Pharmacy in the three-story Masonic Block across Front Street and Moorhead National Bank across 6th Street.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8173. Front Street between Fourth and Fifth Streets, Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1923-07-23
Description:
View is to the northeast of Front Street (Center Avenue) between 4th and 5th Streets. On the sidewalk on the south side of Front Street is a boy in a wagon and two girls eating ice cream; above them is a sign for J. J. Le Vitre's Harley Davidson Motorcycle Shop. Other businesses include C. I. Evanson's Grocery and Melberg's Department store in the distance across Front Street.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8174. Front Street (Center Ave), Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1890 - 1895
Description:
View is to the northeast from the west side of 4th Street North just south of Front Street (Center Avenue). Visible are businesses along the north side of Front Street and the east side of 4th Stret North including S. A. Lochen's Clothing Store on Front and Ole A. Flaten's photo gallery and I. O Hanson's Tailor shop at right on 4th Street. Horse-drawn wagons line the north side of Front Street and a lone figure crosses Front in the foreground.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8175. Front Street (Center Ave), Moorhead, Minnesota

Creator:
Flaten, Ole E., 1854-1933
Date Created:
1915-10
Description:
The view is to the west on Front Street (Center Avenue) from 8th Street North. On the corner at right stands the Comstock Hotel, across Front Street stands Briggs Floral Company. In the distance on Front Street is a Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway streetcar.
Contributing Institution:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)
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