Interview with Mae Alberts, wife of L. J. Alberts. She relates that L. J. was a store owner and held the Ford Agency in Deerwood. He was also the State Superintendent of Roads. This interview is part of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Crow Wing County during the years 1936-1939. This outreach effort sought to record personal accounts of the lives of early Crow Wing County pioneers and settlers.
The Pizza Villa in St. Peter was once located at 301 South Minnesota Avenue. Nu Way Cleaners was located at 303 South Minnesota Avenue for many years. The Pizza Villa building is one of the oldest buildings in St. Peter. It has been the home of many different businesses over the years.
The Pizza Villa in St. Peter was once located at 301 South Minnesota Avenue. Nu Way Cleaners was located at 303 South Minnesota Avenue for many years. The Pizza Villa building is one of the oldest buildings in St. Peter. It has been the home of many different businesses over the years.
View of Atlantic Avenue, east side 7th and 6th Streets. Compare to 84.117.117 (copy negative number 0183). Power lines and an electric light fixture were removed from this image to make the colored postcard, 84.117.117. Also 2001.26.11 shot from opposite end of the street.
Black and white photograph of a grocerry store, probably in Shakopee. The sign on the building reads, "Groceries & Provisions." Writing on the reverse side indicates it might have been H.H. Strunk, but it does not correspond to other photographs of other properties owned by Strunk.
Photo of three unidentified people standing in a mercantile store. Peter Bonde was sheriff in Kandiyohi County from 1906-1927. He was known as the Prohibition Sheriff. Images in this collection were taken by Peter Bonde from 1890-1910.
10th Street and FourthAvenue in Worthington, Minnesota. Buildings, Hub Mercantile run by Gus Swanberg and Dave Anderson, E. L. Schwartz, Citizens Bank.
Henry Langlie poses in Lanesboro behind the cigar counter at Hank's Cafe featuring products from the General Cigar Company of St. Paul. At left of the counter is a cooler for Rushford Bottled Beverages.
The proprietor with a group of employees standing outside of the Culbertson electric shop with the store's late 1930's Chevrolet pickup parked at curb.
Interior shot of the Langlie Olson Fladager Company store in Lanesboro. Shelves of dry goods line the back wall. Toledo counter scale and meat wrapping paper rolls are visible.
Large crowd of people waiting outside the doors of Langlie Olson Fladager Company in Lanesboro on a cold winter day; the store was billed as Fillmore County's greatest general mercantile holds closing sale as it prepared to quit business.
A crowd gathers to watch the moving of Henry and Albert Langlie's Grocery and Confectionery store; building raised on beams and moved inch by inch with row of heavy screw jacks.
Harold H. Crawford designed this building for Mr. Berdie Reid, a local businessman, who leased the building to J. C. Penney. The architectural drawing shows elevations for the store.