Congregation standing in front of church; address of Jacoby's Artistic studio listed as 252 Nicollet Ave; donor identified church as First Free Baptist Church which was erected in 1871 and taken down 1891; it was located on Washington Ave near 1st Ave. N (not located on 1887 city atlas); cannot verify that any churches listed on verso of card were the church on the stereographic card.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
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
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
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
Stereoscope view of Lincoln Avenue looking west from Cascade Street. Image includes view of dirt road lined with early businesses including the Fergus Falls Daily Journal office and Cataract Hotel. Image also includes covered wagons and carriages.
Judge William McCluer's Residence, SW Corner of North Third and Mulberry Street. Before he became a judge, McCluer, an attorney, was mayor of Stillwater in 1876.
Image identified as Lakewood Cemetery but bridge and water site unknown, two men are standing facing a small body of water and in background a very well constructed stone arched bridge with people and horse and carriage crossing over it, summer photo plants are in foliage.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
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.
Landscape view of mill and area; photos probably by stereographic photographer, E. D. Mayo, who worked for Barnett and Record Company (a construction company that built grain elevators). The view includes river, river bank, and neighboring buildings from southeast looking north from east side of river.
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.