Dick Saber, inventory control manager, is describing the manufacture of Tonka Toys to a group of Mound School children who were touring the Tonka Toy factory in Mound, Minnesota. The truck bodies in the moving rack, as well as the truck body the tour guide is holding, are 1954 production parts
Aerial view looking north. North south road in photograph is Columbus Avenue. In the center of photo is Saint Wenceslaus School and Saint Wenceslaus Church. On the lower right side is the eighth hole of the New Prague Golf Course. Written on the back of photograph is 'Chuck from Sharkey's plane.'
Image shows Farm Machinery Day on Main Street in front of F.J. Maertz Block Buildings. Businesses identified are Pany Bowling Alley, Pany Saloon,F.J. Maetz and F.Renner General Store. Farm machinery was unloaded from trains to be viewed by the rural community.
Image shows view from International Milling Company facing east. On the left is the mill pond. The Farmers Lumber Company and Westerman Lumber Company is located in front of the mill pond.
Image shows an aerial view of city of New Prague facing northwest. On the upper left of the image is the New Prague Mill, the center of the photograph shows the mill pond, and on the lower right is Saint Wenceslaus church.
Image shows Main Street view facing west. On the right side of the street is the Star Cafe and New Prague Cleaners. On the left side of the street is the New Prague Post Office and the Schanus Cafe.
Image shows Main Street looking east. Water tower is in backround. The Power plant in the background was razed in 2013. In front of power plant is Rech & Yackley Monument Works.
Alexander Probstfield sits at a roll top desk in Northern Potato Growers Sales Company located at 811 Center Ave. Moorhead, Minnesota. A large open safe and heat stove are also in the room. Alexander was the son of Randolph Probstfield, the first person of European descent to settle in Clay County.
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.
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.
Image of workers posing for a photograph on the loading docks at Agate Bay. Steam powered on dock with ore cars. Note the numbered loading docks and electric lights. The Two Harbors Lighthouse is in the background.
Interior view of the grocery counter at Scandinavian Cooperative Mercantile (1893-1957). Company stock certificates were held locally. At one time there were 325 stockholders.
Set of 3 delivery wagons loading in front of J. Schriener and Company General Store (1888-1919). Called the Big Store as all merchandise was purchased in carload lots. Operated by John Schreiner and E.H. Schreiner. The business later evolved into Schreiner Brothers and Molton.
Interior view of Floyd and Lloyd James inside of James Drug Store. The father and son pose for a staged photograph, mixing up pharmaceuticals in the back room of the drug store.
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.
Image showing a network of railroad tracks and barges used to construct the second docks in Agate Bay. Footings have already been set, completed wooden ore dock can be seen in the background. Ore dock six was the first steel iron ore dock on the great lakes. Built by the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railroad.
Interior view of the Millinery store owned and operated by Katherine Spaith. Pictured are Katherine Spaith and sister Julia O'Hearn. Spaith arrived in Two Harbors in 1890 and turned the old post office on Poplar Street into her millinery store. She also was the first woman in Lake County to take up her rights in homestead and timber lands.
Interior view shows four men posing in the Hansen and Schilberg Ice Cream Parlor. Note the extensive display of cigars, Soda Fountain, and Confectionary Counter.
Exterior view of Wilbur Peterson and Clarence Carlson at the corner of the Scandinavian Cooperative Store (1893-1957). Company stock certificates were held locally. At one time there were 325 stockholders.
Image of a group of men posing for a photograph next to a hoist and derrick system. Man standing on deck tips a steel bucket into a large pile of iron ore. Identified as hoist at Shaft Number 3 at the Cincinnati Mine, first hoist on the Mesabi Range. Mine was owned by the Standard Ore Company of Duluth. Photograph shows the first bucked of ore hoisted from the site.
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.
Miners are wearing helmet lanterns lit with a single candle. They pose outside of a hoist leading to an underground mine. Note the teenage boy holding jackhammer and young boy with two hammers in his hand.
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.
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.
Interior view of a large printing press, 3 workers work at a table assembling blocks for printer. Electric lights hang above the press, various broadsides displayed on the wall behind the workers.
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.
A photograph taken on Main Street in Mora Minnesota looking North. There is a gas station, Farm Lands, store, Drug store, cars parked along the street and a few people off to the right hand side.
Black and white photograph of an Ogilvie, Minnesota street in 1947. Ogilvie is located in Kanabec County. There are cars parked down the street, the Benson Carlson Company appliance store, the hardware store, and the Ogilvie grocery store are also in view.�
A photograph taken on Main Street in Mora Minnesota looking North. There is a gas station, Farm Lands, store, Drug store, cars parked along the street and a few people off to the right hand side.
A photograph looking South on Main Street, Mora Minnesota. There are cars, people crossing the street and businesses like the hardware store, a food store, a furniture store and a radio store that are identifiable from signs on the businesses.
A photograph of the Ann River Logging company with the largest load of logs hauled. Weighing 37,120 pounds with 56 logs. Three men and four horses hauling.
A photograph of the Mora Train Depot that is located at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Union Street. Built in 1934 and became the Vasaloppet Headquarters in the 1980s.
A photograph of a load of logs. Containing a total of 31,400 feet. 21 feet high with an estimated weight of sled chains, and logs is 5 tons. Being pulled by four horses.
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.