Topic: Business and Industry / Location: / Subject Headings: Dams

1. Edwin Clark's mill, buildings, and Sauk River dam, Melrose, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1870?
Description:: Edwin Clark's second mill, his store, house and dam on the Sauk River in Melrose, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Melrose Area Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Panoramas

2. Edwin Clark's flour mill, Melrose, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1872?
Description:: Edwin Clark's flour mill on Sauk River dam, Melrose, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Melrose Area Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

3. Sketch Showing Location Of The Damaged Portion Of Apron At St. Anthony Falls

Creator:: U.S. Engineer Office (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Date Created:: 1879-09
Description:: This drawing was done in the aftermath of October 5, 1869, Eastman Tunnel collapse. A tunnel connecting Nicollet and Hennepin islands collapsed on that day causing the need for considerable repair to be done to Hennepin Island and St. Anthony Falls. The repair work was finished in 1884, creating a protective apron over the falls.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Drawings (visual works)

4. Preliminary Sketch of Log Sluice at St. Anthony Falls

Creator:: U.S. Engineer Office (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Date Created:: 1879?
Description:: Drawing of a log sluice designed to safely transport logs down the river without damaging St. Anthony Falls.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Drawings (visual works)

5. Soundings Taken At St. Anthony Falls

Creator:: U.S. Engineer Office (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Date Created:: 1880
Description:: Drawing shows depth readings of the Mississippi River taken around St. Anthony Falls in 1880.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Drawings (visual works)

6. Plan of Canal in process of construction by the St. Anthony Water Power Co.

Creator:: U.S. Engineer Office (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Date Created:: 1880-02-19
Description:: Drawing of water power canal to go under Main Street S.E. in Minneapolis. The gateway and dimensions are included in the drawing. See also umn191809.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Drawings (visual works)

7. Tunnels In The Vicinity Of St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:: U.S. Engineer Office (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Date Created:: 1880?
Description:: Map shows tunnels between Hennepin Island, Nicollet Island and St. Anthony Falls.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Cartographic
Format:: Maps

8. Cross-Section of Canal in process of Construction by the St. Anthony Water Power Co.

Creator:: Norton, W. J.
Date Created:: 1881-02
Description:: This drawing shows the a cross section of a canal used to feed water through turbines to generate power. The tunnel was embedded in the limestone near St. Anthony Falls with a base of concrete and shell of masonry. See also umn191811.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Drawings (visual works)

9. Sketch Of Crib For St. Anthony Falls

Creator:: U.S. Engineer Office (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Date Created:: 1881-08
Description:: Sketch of crib used in support of the St. Anthony Falls apron in the wake of the Eastman Tunnel collapse of 1869.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Drawings (visual works)

10. Bulk Head for Tunnel at St. Anthony

Creator:: U.S. Engineer Office (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Date Created:: 1881?
Description:: Bulkhead designed to possibly divert water away from tunnel construction near St. Anthony Falls.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Drawings (visual works)

11. Sketch showing condition, on June 10, 1882, of bars deposited during the winter Of 1881-2 in the Mississippi river at Minneapolis, above log chute

Creator:: Bassett, J.B.
Date Created:: 1882-06
Description:: This drawing shows the condition of Minneapolis Mill Company's dam and mill pond in regards to the build-up of silt and debris from the previous winter near St. Anthony Falls.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Drawings (visual works)

12. Washburn A Mill, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1884?
Description:: The Washburn A Mill and other nearby buildings. Also shows the Minneapolis Western railroad trestle.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin History Museum
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

13. Canal platform and trestle, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:: Farr
Date Created:: 1885 - 1889
Description:: View of the canal platform and trestle; also includes a view of some of the mill buildings.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin History Museum
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

14. Canal platform and trestle, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1885?
Description:: A man walking down the canal platform and trestle near the Crown Mill.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin History Museum
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

15. Canal platform, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1885?
Description:: Man lifting a board of the canal platform and inspecting the area below.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin History Museum
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

16. Construction on the canal, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:: Spalt, Robert F.
Date Created:: 1885?
Description:: Construction on the canal. Shows the gatehouse, the Columbia Mill, and the Bassett Mill.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin History Museum
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Cabinet photographs

17. Construction on the canal, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:: Farr
Date Created:: 1885?
Description:: Construction on the canal near the gatehouse.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin History Museum
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

18. Construction on the canal, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:: Farr
Date Created:: 1885?
Description:: Construction on the canal near the gatehouse.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin History Museum
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

19. Construction on the canal, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:: Farr
Date Created:: 1885?
Description:: Construction on the canal; also shows the Minneapolis Mill office ad the Holly Mill.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin History Museum
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

20. Rebuilding of an iron post, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:: Farr
Date Created:: 1885?
Description:: Work crew rebuilding iron posts near the canal.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin History Museum
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

21. Sauk River dam, Melrose, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1885?
Description:: Sauk River Dam in Melrose, Minnesota, beside Edwin Clark's second mill.
Contributing Institution:: Melrose Area Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

22. Tailrace on the west side, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1888?
Description:: Tailrace near the Westside Mills, shows some of the area being rebuilt and part of the Stone Arch Bridge.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin History Museum
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

23. Mill and Dam, Oronoco, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1890 - 1899
Description:: The dam, mill and cooper shop are located at the joining of the South Middle Branch and the North Middle Branch of the Zumbro River. This was the second mill, built after the first mill was destroyed by a fire in 1879. The mill was built by A. D. Allis.
Contributing Institution:: Olmsted County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs