This photograph shows the Nicollet County Bank, on the northwest corner of the intersection of South Minnesota Avenue and Nassau Street in St. Peter. Also shown are the St. Peter Tribune and I. O. O. F. buildings.
Outside view of Central Market in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). The market was built by E.F. Harris and Hannk Smith in the early 1890s. The man standing on the left is Joe Ebert from St. Paul, Minnesota.
Downtown Duluth from fourth avenue west looking east; Phoenix building under construction at fourth avenue west; first street; First and American National Bank; Washington school at Lake and second street was razed in 1890;
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Exterior view of the H. L. Greaves & Company building located at 325 Division Street in Northfield. Signs in the windows advertise "Books" and "Drugs."
Holmes Street in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). Businesses included in image is from left to right, Catholic Church, Minnesota Hotel, Golden Rule, Record, and the Courthouse.
Outside front view of Saloon owned by Joe Machener across from the Lakes Hotel on Washington Avenue in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926).
The Aftenro Society was organized in 1908 by a group of Norwegian women to raise money for the construction of a good Christian old people's home. Their first building was opened in 1921 with 30 residents and was named for the Norwegian word meaning �Evening�s Rest� (Aftenro). The Aftenro home presently continues its function as a home for the aged, in its location at 1423 North Nineteenth Avenue East. In this view of the new building, the entire front grounds area is a vegetable garden.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Pioneer Store with the Bank to the right on the site of the Graystone Hotel and west of the Teague Drug Store on Pioneer Street in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926).
W.H. McCart, "The Tall Drayman," unloading lumber for Reid and Wackman in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). The weight of this load was 9400 pounds.
Exterior view of the Wilkinson building, located on the south side of 3rd Street from Bush. Also pictured is a team of horses in front of the Dow and Howe storefront.
Outside front view of the Wilson House on East Main Street in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). Eri "Peg" Jordan is beside the door. The building to the left was the Union House owned by Eri Jordan.
The Merritt Block or Merritt building was built by the Leonidas and Alfred Merritt brothers at First Street between St. Paul and Brook in Oneota. It was destroyed by a fire in about 1898.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of Harrison Avenue (now Johnson Avenue) in Fosston, Minnesota, shows businesses, a church steeple and an advertisement on the side of a building for Peter M. Mark, Druggist.
Fitzsimmons-Derrig Company was the business of Charles Fitzsimmons and Andrew A. Warfield. The wholesale fruit business began in 1890 as George W. Martin and Co. with Charles Fitzsimmons as an employee. In 1891 it was Martin, Fitzsimmons and Warfield. In 1892-1893 Fitzsimmons and Warfield, located at 126 West Michigan Street the address of this image. Later Fitzsimmons Derrig and Palmer. Some of the names on the wagons indicate prior partnerships as the company's ownership evolved.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of Pearl Street (Center Street) with several men in front of the Land Office. Webster Hotel is on the right. South of hotel is the Isreal Sjoberg home. The Swedish Lutheran Church, located west of the Sjober house, was one of the first churches in Roseau.
Torrey building entrance at third avenue west and Superior street; brownstone by Traphagen and Fitzpatrick built in 1892; stone carving; Hotel St. Louis; business signs; Miller's Cafeteria; Carnegie Coal Dock and Fuel Company;
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Began in 1890 as George W. Martin and Company followed in 1891 as Martin, Fitzsimmons and Warfield. Fitzsimmons - Derrig Company seems to date from 1894.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Street scene, looking southwest from the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Court Street. Image includes two men standing outside business and a man standing along side delivery carriage.
Storefronts include: A. C. Daley shoes, Jacob Frey Meat Market, George Cowing Hardware and Thomas Agern saloon. Image includes groups of men and children, a bicycle and carriage.
Ice covered remains of burned Schiller Hubbard Company wholesale and retail tobacco cigar store at 404 west Superior street; Fargusson building; signs for where all building tenants moved to; Schiller to 132 west Michigan street; G. E. Lovett; Northwestern Fuel; G. R. Kimball; Swordling and Hickox; see also 724.2 and 735.2
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Chappell and Doughtery grocery. The dray team at the left belonged to C. H. Newton who is on the dray. Mr. Daugherty is in the left entrance and Mr. Chappell is in the right with C. W. McKay the Northern Pacific agent further to the right.
A photograph showing the exterior of the Cottonwood County Bank, built in 1895. A man and a child stand in front of the bank. An outside stairway is on the right side of the photograph and leads up to an apartment.
132 West Michigan Street, Cudahy Packing Company building designed by Oliver Green Traphagen, 126 West Michigan Street Thompson Fruits, wholesale, horses and wagons, dray, awnings, workers, Patton and White that became Glass Block
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Two-story wooden business building located on Broadway Avenue in Slayton. The storeo n the right features a sign that reads: "Walter A. Wood Harvesting Machines."
This photograph shows the aftermath of a lumber yard fire in St. Peter. Grace street is at right. Identified structures include Old Main, the city water standpipe, the Konsbruck Hotel, Feldman's tin shop, the high school, and the Central Hotel.
Hitching posts line the street in front of a row of businesses in Dover, Minn. The businesses on the west side of Main Street are: Cady's Hardware (brick building with outside stairway), established by Clarence and Walter Cady in 1891; L. A. Groby (grocery); Post Office; Robinson's Meat Market; Modern Woodmen Hall.
Phoenix Hotel and Restaurant (later became the Colonial Hotel) in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). This building is an A. Skeoch, Jr. property. There is a railroad coal dock at the left and a stand pipe and hose on the west side of the street for filling the street sprinkler.
Point of Rocks, a rock outcrop, is at Fourteenth Avenue West and Superior street. This rock formation between Eighth Avenue West and Fourteenth Avenue West is the tip of the point of rocks that is a barrier marking the division between east and west end of downtown Duluth.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Superior street east from seventh avenue west; building materials; small businesses in foreground; Union Depot and train sheds; Lyceum Theater; Spalding Hotel; Minnesota Point and businesses J B Sutphin Cold Storage
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Superior street upper side buildings fifth avenue west intersection; Traphagen's Lyceum theater; Crown restaurant; Tom Madden; horse pulling sleigh of cut wood
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Exterior view of the Sinclair Brothers and Brown Store located at North Avenue and Second Street in Fairmont. Fur coats are on display outside of the store. Left to right: A. Taylor, Alfred Sinclair, Joe Rose, Brown, unknown, unknown, unknown, S. L. Tonne. The top floor was Albion Hall. It was erected by Percy Wollaston, first occupied by Wollaston and Sons.
Amo Township stores started in 1896 with a creamery, a blackshop, a store attached to a home which was shipped out from the cities and hauled out from Windom, and a post office.
A view looking northeast from Second Street and about Ninth Avenue West that shows the Northern Pacific railway freight house on the far right to the Seventh Avenue West incline railway elevated above Second Street on the far left. Minnesota Point stretches to the right prior to the aerial bridge that will be built in 1904-1905.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
New Market, MN, street scene showing three buildings with men, women, and children standing on the boardwalk in front of the buildings and peering out from the windows.
View of Main Street in Roseau. The C. A. Pearson Drug Store is located on the west side of the Main Street. Confectionery stores (selling cigars, etc.) were located on both sides of the street. Ole A. Holm's photography studio was located on the west side of Main Street. A beer parlor was located on the east side of Main Street.
May be a parade of merchants; spectators; 409 to 431 addresses of west Superior street looking west Mesaba block; Lyceum; Hotel Brunswick; Jay W. Anderson saloon; streetcar; horse drawn horse; horse drawn wagons
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Third Street looking toward Lake Bemidji in 1898. On the left is a shoe store, Schroeder Brothers Feed and Seed, and Naylor and Young furniture. On the right is a furniture store, Hotel Northern, and Bank of Bemidji. (description from, "The Bemidji Area Looking Back" Pediment Publishing, 2004).
Superior street from Lake avenue looking east; Traphagen's Silberstein and Bondy; Fred Scott and Co druggist; Freimuth department store under construction
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Images shows several businesses including: John F. Nagle's grocery on corner; No. 2 is Jacob Niebels Gun Store; No. 3 is the Allen and Cutler block at 211-213 Lincoln Avenue West. People and a horse and buggy are also present.
Looking west on Main Street New Prague in 1900 with horse and wagons, children, telephone poles, electric lighting. Businesses included: 1. J.B. Maertz, 2. Joseph Topka general merchandise, 3. Rybak Brothers General Store, 4. Meskan Harness Shop, 5. J. Vritis general store and undertaker. Street divides Le Sueur and Scott counties. Intersection of Main Street and First Avenue SE.