Abandoned brick house located at the site of the Yellow Medicine Agency. The Yellow Medicine Agency was destroyed during the Dakota Conflict of 1852, and the site is now part of Upper Sioux Agency State Park in Minnesota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Aftermath of the W.W. Eastman tunnel collapse that caused the loss of St. Anthony Falls to erosion. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Alexander Faribault's house at Faribault, Minnesota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
The American Flag and an unknown building at Fort Snelling in Minnesota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
View of Minnehaha Falls, two persons in what appears to be Native American dress are standing separately by the falls; image is invoking the "Song of Hiawatha" poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; trees and plants are quite bare of leaves.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Aquipaqueton Island, near Onamia, Minnesota, where Father Louis Hennepin was taken captive by local Dakota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Aquipaqueton Island, near Onamia, Minnesota, where Father Louis Hennepin was taken captive by local Dakota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Aquipaqueton Island, near Onamia, Minnesota, where Father Louis Hennepin was taken captive by local Dakota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Two unidentified men on Aquipaqueton Island, near Onamia, Minnesota. This is the site where Father Louis Hennepin was taken captive by local Dakota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
The Inspiration Point scenic lookout roadside retreat on highway 16 near Lanesboro, that was built by Civilian Conservation Corp. Company 751. The work was part of FDR's New Deal program.
A rock formation comprised of a small rock balancing upon a larger limestone rock outcropping. A young man rests atop the upper rock and gazes down from the bluff toward the village of Peterson.
A barn and surrounding land located at the Yellow Medicine Agency. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
Photograph of Bear Creek Valley, near Rollingstone. Train climbing the valley on left side of photo and farm in the valley and tresel to the right of the farm.
A bird's-eye view of the village of Peterson, Minnesota reproduced by Mathias Bue from an earlier photo taken in 1887 by T. L. Bersagel. Village buildings and houses are visible in background, with a farmstead and dirt road crossing the river at foreground.
A bird's-eye view of the village of Peterson with high school building seen at center. In foreground, the steel bridge built in 1898 spans the Root River.