Oscar Erickson and Lloyd Johnson stand with furniture, lamps, refrigerators and pictures. Lloyd Johnson was also hired as the mortician in the same building. Today this building is home to The Local, a restaurant.
A man has gotten off from the steam engine and is smoking a cigarette for a break. The dog is sitting with his tongue hanging out. This is part of a threshing crew.
J. Hanson and Mrs. Reverend M.B. Lokkesmoe are posing for a picture in front of a sod house. J. Hanson is dressed up as a trapper. They have been in a parade celebrating the 50th year celebration of the settling of the Hendricks area.
This house was built on the north side of Lake Shaokatan in 1878. It still stands, and was remodeled some time later. It was the home of Andrew Crain which was occupied later by his son and family and then later by a grandson and family, Dick Crain. This picture is of the P.K. Petersen family who lived there for a couple of years about 1895.
The creamery as it looked new. The entrance on the left was the receiving station. The building exists today minus the receiving station. It is being converted to a microbrewery.
Tron Midtaune's home built in 1882. They lived in this for nine years. Six children born in this time. Andrew Hexum standing near the corner. Mrs. Jens Ramlo (Christine Midtaune) and Caroline Midtaune at the door. Tron Midtaune is near the door.
Jens Forseth is with the oxen. Dorothy Kirkvold Forseth is in the buggy. Mr. and Mrs. Peder Bogen are standing with their children by the wagon. Jay Bogen and Ina Bogen Trulock. All are standing in front of the Peder Bogen home.
Sidewalks continue across the street while the sidewalks themselves are well above the street. This era was a mixture, the automobile along with the horse and wagon.
Pictured is the interior of the Lakeview Hotel which stood where the Legion Hall stands now on Lincoln Street. Also pictured is Mr. Henry Dickinson who managed the hotel in the early 1900s. It is said that in 1908 the Dickinson's served a three course Easter dinner for $0.35.
On the left is Ed Goodoien and on the right is clerk Pete Shelstad. An early general store. It stood on the corner of Main and Lincoln Street in Hendricks, Minnesota. Display cases and shelves are filled with merchandise on both sides of the center aisle.
Interior view of a barbershop in Hendricks. On the right wall is a cabinet. Each patron had their own shaving mugs stored here. Alfred Arnold is the barber. Also pictured are Larry Hanson, Bill Fredricks and an unidentified fourth person. This barbershop was torn down many years ago.
The Henry Kurth Jr. home was used as the first post office for the New Grove Community. Several children are lined up with warm coats, chairs, and doll buggies. Some of the boys have caps and suspenders and the girls are all in long dresses.
Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Johnson are proudly displaying a spinning wheel, and an end table. The fireplace behind them was made from an assortment of rocks and stones, they collected on some of their travels.
The Dray man delivered freight from the railroad depot to homes and businesses. Here the dray man is sitting in his wagon. The wagon is being pulled by a team of two horses and it looks like there is a bag of seed in the back of the wagon. Here people are looking at the damage of stripped trees, building debris, and leaning telephone poles.
Sivert Olson, the first manager of the elevator, is ready to unload a wagon of grain pulled by a team of horses. On the side track are three railroad cars waiting to be used.