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1. A Word to the Members and Friends of the Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Committee, Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1866-05-24
Description:
An announcement of the Annual Election of Officers to the Young Men's Library Association, Winona Minnesota. Candidates endorsed by the special committee include Franklin Staples for president, Thomas Simpson for vice-president, E. A. Gerdtzen for secretary, John H. Andrews for treasurer, and C. N. Waterman, John Dobbs, D. A. Coe, M. G. Norton, and William Mitchell for directors.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Announcements

2. Alex McNie and Company receipt to Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Alex McNie and Company, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1874-01-01
Description:
A receipt issued by Alex McNie and Company, Books, Stationery, Paper Hangings, Shades, to the Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Receipts (financial records)

3. Map of Stearns County Minnesota

Creator:
Bracher, William
Date Created:
1880
Description:
Plat map of Stearns County, Minnesota showing land ownership throughout Stearns County townships.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Plats (maps)

4. Breitung Pit at Soudan Mine on the Vermillion Range, near Tower, Minnesota

Date Created:
1880 - 1884
Description:
Opened in 1882 by the Minnesota Mining Company, Breitung pit was part of the first iron ore mine on the Vermillion Range. Ore from this pit made up the first commercial shipment of Minnesota Iron Ore out of the Agate Bay ore docks, Two Harbors, Minnesota July 31, 1884.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Cabinet photographs

5. N.C. Nelson General Store, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1880 - 1886
Description:
The Nelson Store was located on First Avenue, where the present day American Legion now stands. The N.C. Nelson General Store was the first store in Agate Bay, Minnesota, now known as Two Harbors.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

6. Steamer "Ossifrage" loading at Weiland Dock, Beaver Bay, Minnesota

Date Created:
1880 - 1886
Description:
Image of people lined up on dock and outside deck of Ossifrage. Large dock owned by the Weiland Family, a prosperous family that owned and operated a lumber company out of Beaver Bay (1860-1883). Steam ships would tie up to the Weiland dock, bringing passengers and supplies to the town.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

7. Streetcar on Hennepin Avenue at Mississippi River, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1880 - 1888
Description:
Looking down on the west end of the Hennepin Avenue suspension bridge with horsecars on the bridge.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8. Either Hennepin Avenue or Washington Avenue downtown, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Nowack, Michael
Date Created:
1880 - 1889
Description:
Looking down at a crowded street from a tall building. Many horsecars are visible.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

9. Streetcar on Marquette Avenue at 4th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1880 - 1889
Description:
The Motor Line that connected Minneapolis with Lake Minnetonka is shown at Marquette Avenue and 4th Street.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

10. Streetcar on Washington Avenue at Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Nowack, Michael
Date Created:
1880 - 1889
Description:
Looking east on Washington Avenue from Hennepin Avenue. Many horsecars fill the street.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

11. Apple judging at the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1880 - 1900
Description:
A group of four early Minnesota State Horticultural Society members judging apples at the Minnesota State Fair.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

12. Leap Rock, Pipestone County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1880 - 1908
Description:
Man posed at Stone Face and Leap Rock.
Contributing Institution:
Pipestone County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Cabinet photographs

13. Three Maidens, Pipestone County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1880 - 1908
Description:
The Three Maidens facing southwest. Charles Gilmore, Wilbur Smith, Bob Shipley
Contributing Institution:
Pipestone County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

14. Winnewissa Falls, Pipestone County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1880 - 1908
Description:
View of Winnewissa Falls at low water.
Contributing Institution:
Pipestone County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Lumberjacks from a lumber camp, Kanabec County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1880 -1910
Description:
A photograph of eight Lumberjacks from a lumber camp including Nels Johnson, the camp operator on the right, the camp cook, Jonas Peter Nelson and his son Gene Nelson and Arthur Deunewith holding the horse.
Contributing Institution:
Kanabec County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. Sawmill with twenty lumberjacks in Mora, Minnesota

Date Created:
1880 -1910
Description:
A photograph of a Sawmill in Mora Minnesota with twenty lumberjacks and two horse teams.
Contributing Institution:
Kanabec County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. Unidentified Sawmill in Mora, Minnesota

Date Created:
1880 -1910
Description:
A photograph of an unidentified Sawmill in Mora Minnesota with seventeen lumberjacks and three horse teams.
Contributing Institution:
Kanabec County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. Minnesota Avenue, St. Peter, Minnesota

Date Created:
1883
Description:
A view to the south along Minnesota Avenue in St. Peter. A flag flies from the Nicollet Hotel at the intersection with Park Row at right. An encampment of G. A. R. veterans was being held in the city.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Construction of Ore Docks in Agate Bay, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1883 - 1884
Description:
Image taken from bay showing the wooden footings for the first ore dock in Agate Bay. Wooden planks are lined up along the bank, Agate Bay House is the large building in the center of the image. Construction of the ore docks began in 1883.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

20. Beginning construction of wood ore docks on Agate Bay, Lake Superior, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1883?
Description:
Beginning construction of the wood ore docks on Agate Bay, Lake Superior (00.840) in Two Harbors in 1883.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

21. Agate Bay House, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1884 - 1890
Description:
Image of a group of men standing outside of the Agate Bay House. Painted sign underneath the decorative peak on the covered porch. This was utilized as a boarding house for railroad workers. Also pictured is an intersection of a wooden sidewalk, one of the first built in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Managers are Brown, Butler, and Blake standing on the right side of the covered porch.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

22. 4th Avenue, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Creator:
Roleff, William F.
Date Created:
1885 - 1888
Description:
Image shows freshly cleared dirt road lined with clapboard sided single story structures. The Old Two Harbors courthouse is on the right side of the image.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

23. Ice Cutting at Agate Bay, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1885 - 1900
Description:
Ice harvesting at Agate Bay. Bays in Lake Superior regularly froze in the cold winter months. Jacob Rafin Senior is seated on the sled. Town of Two Harbors in the background.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

24. Threshing on an unidentified farm, Kanabec County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1885 - 1915
Description:
A photograph of a steam tractor, horses pulling a water wagon, several men, threshing machine, horse drawn buggy, team of horses pulling a grain wagon. Included in the photograph is Truman and Louis Erdahl on the water wagon.
Contributing Institution:
Kanabec County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

25. Trosky Bar, Trosky, Minnesota

Date Created:
1885 - 1915
Description:
Interior view of the counter of Ed Urbain's saloon in Trosky. Two bartenders, possibly Ed Urbain and C.J. Pieper, and three customers posing.
Contributing Institution:
Pipestone County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

26. Trosky Bar, Trosky, Minnesota

Date Created:
1885 - 1915
Description:
Exterior view of the Trosky Bar. Possibly Ed Urbain and C.J. Pieper on front steps. Five men posing on sidewalk.
Contributing Institution:
Pipestone County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

27. Streetcar on Selby Avenue at Summit Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1888
Description:
Looking east at an eastbound cable train starting to descend the Selby hill.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

28. Parade at First Avenue and Sixth Street, Two Harbors, Minnesota.

Date Created:
1888 - 1899
Description:
Parade near the Commercial Hotel (1887-1918) on corner. W.N. Newton residence behind the Hotel, Duluth and Iron Range office building in distance.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

29. Advertisement for Lake Harriet Pavilion, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1888-07
Description:
Card advertising 10 minute service to Lake Harriet and the Lake Harriet Pavilion.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Advertisements

30. Administration Building and B House at the St. Cloud Reformatory, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1889
Description:
Administrative Building and "B" House
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

31. Main Street facing southwest, New Prague, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890
Description:
Image is of Main Street facing southwest featuring the Rybak building and Dr and Mrs. M.E. Lorenz of Chicago, Illinois.
Contributing Institution:
New Prague Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

32. Main Central Powerhouse, 3rd Avenue North at 2nd Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1892
Description:
The Main Central Powerhouse.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

33. Steam Shovel at Oliver Mine on the Mesabi Range, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1892
Description:
Image of a steam powered shovel sitting on a railroad track. Land is barren, multiple tracks cross the landscape. Town of Virginia extends beyond the boundaries of the mine, separated by a fence. Note the rows of iron ore cars in the background. Oliver Mining Company owned this mine.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

34. Hennepin Avenue at Union Depot, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1894
Description:
Looking north on Hennepin Avenue from 1st Street toward Nicollet Island during a parade. The old Union Depot is at right.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

35. Printing Shop of Iron Port Newspaper, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1894
Description:
Image of a group of men and children standing on a wooden sidewalk outside of the Iron Port Printing Shop. Second floor contains apartments for the proprietor and his family. The Iron Port was the official paper of Two Harbors and Lake County. Founded by James Coggswell, the newspaper was first published July 11th, 1890.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

36. Residential district, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1895
Description:
Street scene taken from Old High School. Original Lake County courthouse and sheriffs residence can be seen on the right side of the image. Note the wooden sidewalks and wagon-rutted roads.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

37. Road construction on First Avenue, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1896
Description:
Road construction in First Avenue Business district. Note the surveyor in the right corner. People gather on the wood plank sidewalks to watch. Identified businesses include: L.A. Rose Store, Lee Kee Laundry, The Bodega, and Nordby Mercantile Company.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

38. Steam Shovel at Britton Pit on the Mesabi Range, near Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1898
Description:
Image of a group of workers standing on steam powered shovel 146 shoveling iron ore in open air pit.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

39. "Edna G." at dock, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1899
Description:
Duluth Missabe and Iron Range owned Edna G. Tugboat at dock (1896-1986) with Carlo passenger vessel. Note the eagle on top of the pilot house of the Edna G. Taken before the Tug was in service on the East Coast in World War One.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

40. Post Office clerk desks, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1899
Description:
Interior view of clerk windows. Man stands at Money order window while woman stands at the general delivery window. Boxes appear on either side of the general mail delivery window. Elizabeth Hangartner (Billingsley) clerk and postmaster W.B. Woodward.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

41. Post Office mail delivery room, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1899
Description:
Interior view of female and male postal clerk in mail room. Boxes with newspapers and letters surround the pair. One gas lamp hangs from the ceiling. Elizabeth Hangartner (Billingsley) clerk and postmaster W.B. Woodward.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

42. Danz Orchestra, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1903
Description:
The Frank Danz orchestra at the Como Park Pavilion.
Contributing Institution:
Performing Arts Archives, Manuscripts Division, University of Minnesota Libraries
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

43. Construction of Wooden Ore Dock at Agate Bay, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890-1899
Description:
Group of men pose for a photograph with shovels. They stand on the clay bottom of the bay, water held back by a berm. The first wooden ore docks were built at Agate Bay in 1884. The docks were upgraded to steel beginning in 1907.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

44. "Edna G." Tugboat at dock, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890-1899
Description:
Image shows the Edna G. Tugboat moored on the dock in Two Harbors, Minnesota. The iron ore dock in Agate Bay rises up behind the boat. Note the eagle atop the pilot house and two men seated on the deck. Footings for another dock appear in the foreground.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Cabinet photographs

45. "Ella G. Stone" pulling a Whaleback Boat near ore docks, Agate Bay, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890-1899
Description:
Image shows the Ella G. Stone, predecessor to the Edna G. tugboat pulling a whaleback vessel into the ore docks at Agate Bay. Note the hatches are open on the whaleback.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

46. Labor Day Parade near The Headlight Saloon, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Creator:
J.L. Snyder
Date Created:
1890-1899
Description:
Pairs of men march down the center of the street, rounding the corner with the "The Headlight" saloon at the intersection of Cedar Street and First Avenue. Each man is carrying an American Flag or small shovel. Eugene LaForce was the Proprieter of The Headlight.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

47. Tourists at Beaver River, Beaver Bay, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1890-1899
Description:
Image shows a group of tourists standing and sitting on rocks near falls at Beaver River. By 1858, Beaver Bay was the only regularly scheduled steamer stop between Duluth and Grand Marais.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Cabinet photographs

48. Men building the wood ore docks on Agate Bay, Lake Superior, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890?
Description:
Men building the wood ore docks on Agate Bay, Lake Superior (93.30.13) in Two Harbors, Minnesota in the mid-1890s.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

49. Portrait of Peter Lauritz Carlsen, San Francisco, California

Date Created:
1890?
Description:
Formal studio portrait of Peter Lauritz Carlsen. Carlsen was a leader of the Temperance movement in Illinois in the 1880s.
Contributing Institution:
Norwegian-American Historical Association
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Cabinet photographs

50. Streetcar on Greenbrier Street between Jenks Avenue and Case Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1891
Description:
Looking northwest at a southbound car on Greenbrier Street. The caption reads "1880, and this is last car on Greenbrier before the line was moved to Payne Avenue" The caption appears to be incorrect as the line stayed on Greenbrier. The car depicted wasn't delivered until 1884.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs
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