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1. Works Progress Administration employees building sidewalks, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1938
Description:
WPA building sidewalks; photo taken at the corner of present day Wisconsin St. and First Ave. West in Grand Marais, MN. Men are leveling cement. Notice the posters on pole are for Elmer Benson, would-be 24th Minnesota state governor, and a dance at the Edgewater Inn in Tofte, MN.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

2. Works Progress Administration workers, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1933 - 1942
Description:
WPA workers in Grand Marais, MN, working on a playground at the school. Image shows five men with wheelbarrows and shovels.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

3. Gunflint Camp, north of Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1940
Description:
Winter scene at Gunflint Camp north of Grand Marais, MN, shows barracks and headquarters
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

4. Barracks at the Gunflint Civilian Conservation Corps camp in winter, north of Grand Marais, Minnsota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1940
Description:
Barracks at the Gunflint CCC camp in winter, north of Grand Marais.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

5. Hospital at the Gunflint Civilian Conservation Corps Camp, north of Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1940
Description:
Exterior view of the hospital at the Gunflint CCC Camp north of Grand Marais.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

6. Works Progress Administration workers, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1933 - 1942
Description:
WPA workers in Grand Marais working on a street light. The WPA worked on important infastructure projects in Grand Marais including the public sewage plant.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

7. Root River Power and Light Company, Lanesboro, Minnesota

Creator:
Bue, Mathias O., 1889-1969
Date Created:
1915
Description:
A group of workers and drillers inside tunnel of Root River Power and Light Company's Brightsdale Electric generating plant three miles north of Lanesboro; tunnel was dynamited through a quarter mile of solid rock primarily by a crew of 300 Bulgarians who specialized in that task and lived in bunkhouses on site.
Contributing Institution:
Fillmore County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

8. Franklin Club of Newspaper Editors, Lanesboro, Minnesota

Creator:
Bue, Mathias O., 1889-1969
Date Created:
1918-09-20
Description:
Members of the Franklin Club of Newspaper Editors assembled outside the storefront of Levang's Weekly at Lanesboro, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Fillmore County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

9. Road construction crew, Lanesboro, Minnesota

Creator:
Bue, Mathias O., 1889-1969
Date Created:
1920 - 1930
Description:
An oiling crew of nine men surfacing a local road with several pieces of equipment and vehicles.
Contributing Institution:
Fillmore County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

10. Road construction, Lanesboro, Minnesota

Creator:
Bue, Mathias O., 1889-1969
Date Created:
1912?
Description:
Workers building a road on the side of a bluff near Lanesboro with the use of horse power.
Contributing Institution:
Fillmore County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

11. Civilian Conservation Corp Company 751 tent city, Lanesboro, Minnesota

Creator:
Bue, Mathias O., 1889-1969
Date Created:
1934
Description:
Civilian Conservation Corp. enrollees outside the tent city housing Company 751 CCC Camp, one mile south of Lanesboro.
Contributing Institution:
Fillmore County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

12. Bird's-eye view of Civilian Conservation Corp. Company 751 tent city, Lanesboro, Minnesota

Creator:
Bue, Mathias O., 1889-1969
Date Created:
1934
Description:
Bird's-eye view of Civilian Conservation Corp. tent city and barracks housing Company 751 CCC Camp one mile south of Lanesboro.
Contributing Institution:
Fillmore County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

13. WPA workers constructing steps, Lanesboro, Minnesota

Creator:
Bue, Mathias O., 1889-1969
Date Created:
1934-02-03
Description:
Crew of Works Progress Administration workers constructing steps to the Lanesboro school from downtown.
Contributing Institution:
Fillmore County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

14. Works Progress Administration workers building sidewalks, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1933 - 1942
Description:
WPA workers building sidewalks in front of the Grand Marais Ice Cream Store with the Grand Marais State Bank shown in the background. Highway 61 is visible coming into Grand Marais, MN. Workers are pushing wheelbarrows and line today's Wisconsin Street.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

15. Works Progress Administration working on sidewalks, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1936
Description:
WPA working on sidewalks in Grand Marais, MN, on North Broadway Street. Men shown from left to right are Lyle Roberts, John Lief, Ole Kreutzer, Jens Erickson, Henry Lindskog, Clarence Thompson.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

16. Works Progress Administration workers building the break wall at the harbor, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Creator:
Humphrey, Milford J., 1909-1996
Date Created:
1937
Description:
WPA workers building the break wall at Grand Marais harbor. Men shown filling structure with rocks. Notice fish houses lining the Grand Marais harbor.
Contributing Institution:
Cook County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

17. Six men and five boys with tools in front of fence, Springfield, Minnesota

Creator:
Gmeiner, John Reverand, 1847-1913
Date Created:
1902 - 1910
Description:
Six men and five boys wearing hats and holding tools in front of picket fence.
Contributing Institution:
St. Raphael Catholic Church
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

18. Mining Operations in Saint Louis County, Minnesota

Creator:
Aubin, Polydore (Paul) N., 1884-1972
Date Created:
1915 - 1925
Description:
Panoramic view depicting three men and several vehicles, with one truck dumping onto elevated pile. The photograph depicts the possible site preparation for road, railroad, or mine waste or overburden stockpile. Location of this event is unknown but is highly likely in St. Louis County in Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Hibbing Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

19. OSHA Training at Oliver Club, Hibbing, Minnesota

Creator:
Aubin, Polydore (Paul) N., 1884-1972
Date Created:
1920 - 1930
Description:
Panoramic view of a photograph that depicts Occupational Safety and Health Training participants at the Oliver Club in South Hibbing, Minnesota. Many of the miners who participated are bandaged in mock accident injuries for the training. Photograph is viewed on the side of the Oliver Club Building in South Hibbing, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Hibbing Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

20. OSHA Training at Oliver Club, Hibbing, Minnesota

Creator:
Aubin, Polydore (Paul) N., 1884-1972
Date Created:
1920 - 1930
Description:
Panoramic view of Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) Training participants at the Oliver Club in South Hibbing, Minnesota. Many of the miners who participated are bandaged in mock accident injuries for the training. Photograph is viewed on the side of the Oliver Club Building in South Hibbing, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Hibbing Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

21. Splitting fire wood, Blue Mounds Township, Minnesota

Creator:
Swenson, Clarence
Date Created:
1915-02-20
Description:
Two men cutting fire wood on a winter day.
Contributing Institution:
Pope County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

22. Loading logs, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota

Creator:
Gjelhaug, J. A.
Date Created:
1900 - 1920
Description:
Lumberjacks with canthooks and a team of horses working with piled logs in the woods.
Contributing Institution:
Lake of the Woods County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

23. Dredge crew, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota

Creator:
Gjelhaug, J. A.
Date Created:
1912 - 1918
Description:
Dredge crew and cook by the cook shack with dredge in background.
Contributing Institution:
Lake of the Woods County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)
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