Exterior view of the Shumaker and Rietman Store. Al Shumaker is on the right. Shumaker and Rietman was a dry goods and grocery store. The reverse of the image is marked, "Shumaker and Woodley 1st permanent store in 1876 - burned - 1st new store - F. Shumaker 1879."
According to city directory St. James Hotel in 1882 was located at Washington Avenue and Second Avenue South; photo shows street car track and electric power pole, and unpaved streets.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
This postcard version of a photograph originally taken in 1877 shows the James Nutter blacksmith shop in St. Peter. The business was located on the southwest corner of the intersection of Front and Grace streets.
part of series of stereographic cards """"Minnesota and Northwestern Views;"""" view from west back looking east over the Mississippi River; river filled with floating logs, various mills are seen in the forefront and background; Mill exploded May 2, 1878; address of mill 7th Ave S Canal St
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
The Phoenix Hotel in Lanesboro was built at the cost of $50,000 in 1870. The hotel was four stories with saloon, baggage room, and railroad ticket office. The stone used for its construction was quarried from local bluffs. Its parlors and suites were expensively furnished. It was widely advertised as both a high class hotel for the traveling public, as well as a sanitarium. The hotel housed the Bank of Lanesboro, the businesses of Hanson & Davis, and Knudson & Hobart. Its landlords were Messrs. Chase and White. The building was destroyed by fire on May 5, 1885.
This plat book was drawn from actual surveys and county records and includes Olmsted County, the individual townships, cities, towns, a patron's directory and a table of distances for the county. Township maps show the property owners, location of roads, railroad tracks, schools, rivers, farm houses, cemeteries and mills.
Information pertaining to image is inconclusive; Washburn A Mill exploded in 1878. Men are standing in the rubble with commercial buildings in the background.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
A small group of people are standing in front of the Pierce House (built in 1877) with a carriage and team of horses in the street. The hotel was located at 215 South Main Street (now First Avenue SW). Over the years the name of the hotel changed several times: 1884 Commercial House, 1893 Grand Union Hotel, 1895 Rochester Hotel,1920 Olmsted Hospital, 1922 Rochester Hotel, 1923 Rochester's Nurses Home, 1928 Maxwell House (Hall) and 1968 Maxwell Guest House.
Dominate building identified as Boston Block building which was erected in 1881 on the northwest corner of Third Street and Hennepin Avenue. Streetcar tracks are visible in unpaved street. A list of stereographic views by photographer/publisher is on verso.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Map shows names of property owners surrounding Lake Minnetonka, naming Lake Minnetonka bays, communities and neighboring lakes. Color was added to designate townships. Sections are numbered. Map is bordered by advertising from local businesses. This map, matted and framed under ultraviolet-protecting glass, is dated 1879.
This contract, for a piece of land in Graham County, Kansas, is between Samuel Houghton Graves of Close Brothers & Company for William Austin, Edward Ford North and Robert Edward Bateman of England, and William W. Yocom of Benton County, Iowa. It is for the Southeast quarter of Section 27 Township9 South, of Range 25 West of the Sixth Principal Meridian. This is in Graham County, Kansas. The contract involves 160 acres for the sum of$1,120 and includes a detail of payment made between April 27, 1887, and cancelled for nonpayment August 1900. The Close Brothers & Company, composed of William Close, James Close, John Close, Frederick Close and S.H. Graves, organized in 1876 and located in Pipestone in 1883. They also operated under the business names Western Land Company and the South Minnesota Land Company.
This photograph shows the front of the Nutter and Heritage lumber and hardware store in St. Peter, which was located on the west side of the 400 block of South Minnesota Avenue. A plow and several men are shown in the photograph.
The Zumbro Flour Mill was owned by John M. Cole. This mechanical drawing provides a cross section of the mill and includes details on the water wheel, separator, cockle machine, bran duster, purifier, wheat bins, stock hopper, flour bins, grading wheels and receiving elevator and other machinery.
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
Stereoscope view of Lincoln Avenue. Image contains view of the Fergus Falls Meat Market and G. O. Dahl's Hardware Store, dirt street and horses, a wagon and a man standing on boardwalk.
This photograph shows the A. J. Lamberton store in St. Peter on the east side of the 200 block of South Minnesota Avenue. It was one of the businesses in the northern half of the block.
Men standing on pile of logs ("Eleven thousand and seventy-four feet of white oak") cut for St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway at Clough Brothers and Hartley Camp.
Downtown Shakopee is in background and; foreground is a banner suspended by wire or string that reads "Gen. G. W. Hancock for President," other writing is illegible. A gas(?) light post is in left corner across street is line of buildings with horses and wagons hitched our front. A clock hangs in front of one building and is almost legible--maybe two o'clock.
Black and white photograph of downtown Shakopee in 1880. Bulletin regarding upcoming presedential election (Gen W.S. Hancock) hanging across street, buildings visible in background. Sepia toned
Stereoview of workers constructing a loading dock and railroad spur line to Seymour Sabin Warehouse and agricultural equipment assembly plant at Steamboat Levee on Red River in Moorhead. The Red River and the Steamboat "J. L. Grandin" is visible in the distance at extreme left. Moorhead's Point neighborhood visible in distance at right; view is to the north from the Moorhead side of the Red River.
Stereoview of the Lamb Brothers' Brickyard east of Moorhead. View shows rows of hundreds of green bricks drying in sun, workmen dismantling low walls of drying bricks called hacks and loading them on wheel barrows for transport to kiln. Workers building kiln in distance; stacks of cord wood in distance for firing kiln, a worker with a rake-like tool spattering or smoothing green bricks drying in sun; brick molds piled at lower right. Grade of St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway visible in distance.
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.
The Beardsley Saloon was located at 214 South Broadway. James Beardsley (on right with mustache) is standing with an unidentified man behind the counter. The saloon had a stove in the center and pool tables located in the back.
This photograph shows a view of St. Peter, looking north along Third street from its intersection with Park Row. At right is Theodore Knoll's store, and at left is the St. Peter Marble Works. The spire of the Norwegian Lutheran Church is visible in the distance.