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.
Exterior view of the Philip Dick clothing and shoe store in St. Peter on the southeast corner of the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Nassau street. Along Nassau street are signs for a blacksmith shop and the Western Union telegraph office.
Photo is unidentified; board walk is visible in front left of photo; unpaved streets; streetlight and power pole; list of stereographic views by photographer/publisher on verso.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog for various iron and wire products. Includes construction materials such as beams, brackets and columns, as well as decorative products including railings, fences, and benches.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
View of Nicollett Avenue. Note: did not locate a business called Hause and Davis Boots and Shoes in city directories 1885, 1890, 1895. A list of stereographic views by photographer/publisher is on verso.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Business district at the northwest corner of River and St. Paul Streets in Preston. The "A. L. Sleyster Photo Artist" studio is visible as well as signs for "Groceries," "Restaurant," and "Confectionery."
J.C. Oswald & Co., wholesale wines and liquors, was located at 17 Washington Ave N according to the city directory from 1880 to 1900; Nicollet House in background; great street view; streets are unpaved; list of stereographic views by photographer/publisher on verso
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
This photograph by Paul B. Gaylord from the 1880s or early 1890s looks to the south from Duluth's hillside to Rice's Point and shows the 1871 railroad roundhouse to the east of Garfield Avenue and the steeple of Second Presbyterian Church at 1515 West Superior Street.
Exterior of Fuller's Meat Market, with people and two horse-drawn buggies. Notes on back say, "Wesley Fuller (before 1899) Meat Market. Calves, hogs, small animals killed in small back building."
M. V. Rowley's blacksmith shop was located at 22-24 North Broadway. The interior of the shop is shown with a man shoeing a horse and featuring horse shoes hanging from the rafters, forges, tools, anvils and a stove.
A large stove dominates one wall of the Kennedy Saloon. Wooden chairs are placed on either side of the stove. On the opposite wall is the bar with Mr. Kennedy standing behind the counter. Other features include a large mirror over the bar and several spittoons on the floor. A man is sitting in one of the chairs by the stove reading a newspaper.
Street view; unpaved streets with horses and buggies; photographer probably Charles L. Jacoby from address; on backside is stamp from Siddall and Co. Art Book Store and Circulating Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Street scene in Belle Plaine with horses at a hitching post. The building on the north side was once the Chard Shoe Store and was torn down in 1901. The building on south side was Miss Mersen's candy and millenery shop.
Portrait of Sam Bowler who owned the State Bank and Lumberyard (until 1904 at which time he moved to Colorado) and. F. J. Whitlock sitting in the back of a wagon. A boxcar on train tracks is visible behind them and a dog is looking up at them.
Photograph of Halvor Aase pushing a wheelbarrow across a dirt road. The inscription on the box reads: " A. Q. Paulson, Sacred Heart Minn." In the photograph's background is a grain elevator and the two-story brick schoolhouse which stood on Second Avenue, near the corner of Maple Street. This schoolhouse was discontinued in 1901and was sold and converted into apartments. In 1905 the building was sold again and razed.
A feed barn, where people could take their horses to be fed. Several people on the picture posing for their picture with many buggies and horses waiting their turn.
Photograph showing the exterior of a large three-story frame structure with a one-story addition to house the steam engine plant. Mountain Lake Roller Mill, was a flour mill, built in the late 1870's by David Hiebert.
Exterior view of the business and industry office of Seth S. Johnson, possibly a buggy shop, later Wolff Department Store. In the year 2000 it became an antique store.
An interior view of Tilford Drug Store, which was on the corner of Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue. It later became Sigstad Variety Store. Pictured are: Will Sanger on the left and Fred Tilford on the right.
This is the interior of Theodore Knoll's bar in St. Peter, listed at 121 S. Third street in the 1899 city directory. Demos Young, Sever Sanderson, Louis Eckstrom, Louis Roberts, and Jesse Parsons are named on the reverse of the photo. An unidentified man is between Roberts and Parsons. Knoll is behind the bar.
This photo shows the shop of wagon master William Kohl in St. Peter. The photo shows the south side of the building on the northeast corner of the intersection of Broadway and Third street.