The Ed and Bertha Dahl home in Nora Township. Exterior view, probably from a silo, of the recently completed "four-square" home. Ed Dahl was a prolific builder of homes, barns and commercial buildings in Pope County and the surrounding region.
View of the garden, carriage house, and house built in 1905 at 2307 East Superior Street of First National Bank president and local philanthropist A. L. Ordean who died in 1928 at 72.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Originally this house was built in Ash Lake Township. In 1889, it was moved to Shaokatan Township. Six children were raised in this house. Every one is lined up outside the house with many of the other farm buildings in the background.
In 1900, the Duluth Benedictine sisters purchased the first 80 acres of what would be their Kenwood campus. This parcel had been used as a farm for a number of years, and the sisters continued to farm the location with hired laborers. Mrs. Beyenka, wife of the farm overseer, feeds the chickens here. The white structure is a house for the farm laborers built in 1902, and later moved up the hill to become the College post office.
Located on the edge of Windom, the Corliss Mead Dairy farm had a large barn, silo and other outbuildings. In the background you can see the Windom Elevator.
Edward H. Beise farmstead with two adults and four children. Note on photo says,"Farmstead of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Beise just outside of the village of Mapleton in 1897. Trees are all planted by Mr. Biese--over 100 evergreen trees alone. August 1897."
Ernie Swanson and his horse-drawn wagon from the Swanson Dairy Farm on Silver Lake Road in New Brighton delivering milk on his northeast Minneapolis route.
Portrait of Jens Hans and his family. The family are grouped together in the foreground, with some of their personal items incluidng an Edison phonograph. The house and the barns are also visible.
Threshing grain required many people and lots of work. One man is pitching bundles into the threshing machine while the other is watching the steam engine.
Three teams of horses hitched up with a single horse on the right taken in front of the barn owned by the Nordby family. Small boy in front with the three horses is R.C. Nordby (Rienhart).
Panoramic view of a country area scene. The left area of the photograph depicts an unpaved roadway with cattle grazing. A headframe and mine dump are in the background of the photograph. The right area of the photograph depicts railroad tracks. The background of the right area of the photograph depicts a headframe and housing area. A mine dump is in the background.
Photo of farmland. You can see animals in the distance. Images in this collection were found in the attic of an old farm house in Kandiyohi County formerly owned by George Kallevig. Whether these negatives are from the Kallevig family or not is unknown.
Panoramic view of country scene consisting of one large two story house and a smaller two story house, one small shed and a root cellar. Possible farmland or garden in the center background and small pond or lake on right area of the photograph.
Panoramic view of country scene consisting of one large two story house and a smaller two story house, one small shed and a root cellar. Possible farmland or garden in the center background and small pond or lake on right area of the photograph.
Men are posed on farm equipment and also standing by bicycles. A team of horses is in the background. A tractor, with a saw blade mounted on the front, is pulling another piece of farm equipment.
The typical farm had a house, barn, and several other buildings for chickens, hogs and grain storage. Several horses and cows are also seen as well as rows of corn starting to grow in the field.
Panoramic view of farming homestead scene. The left area of the photograph depicts several farm buildings, the middle area depicts four haystacks and the right area depicts several more farm buildings.
Panoramic view of unknown farmstead in summer or fall season. Photograph depicts several farm animals and several farm buildings including a farm house.
Panoramic view of farmstead in summer or fall season. Panning photograph left to right depicts an outbuilding, two one-story houses, a 1920s style vehicle is parked by a one-story house, a large barn and a large coral. The background depicts two one-level buildings on the far right of the photograph.
Panoramic view of an unknown farmstead in winter. From left to right the image depicts: a large two-story house, several small buildings, a power pole, a bus vehicle with a logo "Carson Lake," three horses, and a large barn with silo.
Two hitches of horses doing field work on the D. M. Holland farm four miles north east of Worthington in the south east quarter section 26 of Elk Township. On the far right of the photograph is the bridge over Elk Creek. The farm site is in the background with three men, two dogs and eight horses and mules by the farm implements.
Five men have been busy loading a straw bundle wagon and are taking a break. The straw bundles will be later threshed in a threshing machine. The men are sitting on and around the large steam engine. One man is sitting on the large wheel used by the belt to power the threshing machine.
Flax bales in the field with some loaded on trucks. A group of 2 to 3 men sit and have their lunch in the shade of a truck loaded with flax. A car with doors open sits in the field to the left of the lunch group.
Frank and Mary Connelly Vegetable and Fruit stand, Highway 13 and 12th Avenue, Burnsville Minnesota. The family farm was homesteaded by his great grandparents James and Mary Connelly in the 1850s.
Exterior view of the George Murray home in Rolling Green Township, Martin County on the north shore of Pierce Lake. The picture includes Richard Murray with the team, Kate Murray by the gate, Gladys Murray and mother by gate. George Murray and James Lampert are to the north with the mules and mowing machine but are less visible.
A team of three horses is pulling a binder to cut the grain and puts it in individual bundles. A man is riding the open binder The second man is gathering the bundles and placing them in shocks to be later thrashed.