View is to the southeast from the Moorhead side of the Red River from just north of present Center Avenue Bridge. Low water level in river, there is a mud bar visible in the middle of the channel in the foreground. On the extreme left the Alsop Line's grain elevator is just visible, a barge is tied up next to it. Two other barges and the Alsop Line's steamboat "Pluck" are tied up to the Moorhead bank in the distance. Also visible is the Northern Pacific Railway bridge, the Moorhead Manufacturing Company Flour Mill and the Main Avenue bridge at extreme right.
Landscape view; Stone Arch Bridge over the Mississippi River was completed in 1883; Exposition Building completed in 1886; Spillway of St Anthony Falls.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
View is to the north from the Moorhead end of the Northern Pacific Railway Bridge. At right can be seen the Alsop Brothers' Line grain elevator; a mechanism lifts bulk wheat from one of two barges tied up below the elevator while the Alsops' steamboat "Pluck" floats alongside. In the distance the Grandin Line's steamboat "J. L. Grandin" and another barge are tied up below the Grandin Line's Elevator A on the Fargo, Dakota Territory bank. Beyond stands the North Bridge. In the foreground is a toboggan slide built the previous winter. In the distance at extreme right is Moorhead's Point neighborhood and beyond stands Fargo's Union Elevator.