Aerial view looking north. North south road in photograph is Columbus Avenue. In the center of photo is Saint Wenceslaus School and Saint Wenceslaus Church. On the lower right side is the eighth hole of the New Prague Golf Course. Written on the back of photograph is 'Chuck from Sharkey's plane.'
Image shows Farm Machinery Day on Main Street in front of F.J. Maertz Block Buildings. Businesses identified are Pany Bowling Alley, Pany Saloon,F.J. Maetz and F.Renner General Store. Farm machinery was unloaded from trains to be viewed by the rural community.
Image shows an aerial view of city of New Prague facing northwest. On the upper left of the image is the New Prague Mill, the center of the photograph shows the mill pond, and on the lower right is Saint Wenceslaus church.
Image shows Main Street view facing west. On the right side of the street is the Star Cafe and New Prague Cleaners. On the left side of the street is the New Prague Post Office and the Schanus Cafe.
Image shows Main Street looking east. Water tower is in backround. The Power plant in the background was razed in 2013. In front of power plant is Rech & Yackley Monument Works.
Street scene shows a packed dirt road lined with sidewalks. Several multi-story houses line the road. Two harbors courthouse on the right. Two Churches on the left. Identified as 4th Avenue, Two Harbors.
Street scene taken from Old High School. Original Lake County courthouse and sheriffs residence can be seen on the right side of the image. Note the wooden sidewalks and wagon-rutted roads.
A photograph taken on Main Street in Mora Minnesota looking North. There is a gas station, Farm Lands, store, Drug store, cars parked along the street and a few people off to the right hand side.
Black and white photograph of an Ogilvie, Minnesota street in 1947. Ogilvie is located in Kanabec County. There are cars parked down the street, the Benson Carlson Company appliance store, the hardware store, and the Ogilvie grocery store are also in view.�
A photograph taken on Main Street in Mora Minnesota looking North. There is a gas station, Farm Lands, store, Drug store, cars parked along the street and a few people off to the right hand side.
A photograph looking South on Main Street, Mora Minnesota. There are cars, people crossing the street and businesses like the hardware store, a food store, a furniture store and a radio store that are identifiable from signs on the businesses.
Looking south on West Broadway Avenue from 42nd Avenue North. The Robin Theater and the Robbinsdale water tower on the right. There are to city buses in the foreground. The Fawcett Building is on the left.
Parking lot in front of Alfred Parkers home on West Broadway. The son of a Methodist Clergyman, Alfred Parker was born in Maine in 1824. He served in the Mexican War and went to the California gold fields in the rush of 1849. In the early 1850s he came back east by rail and then up the Mississippi by steamboat to St. Paul. In 1854, Parker homesteaded a farm near what is now 42nd and Perry. In 1855 Parker married his neighbor's daughter, Elizabeth Malbon. Her father built the couple a fine house at 4109 Lakeland. A couple years later he built another house on an adjoining lot. The Parker house was used as a stopover by travelers and teamsters hauling on the Bottineau Road. Both houses, in the heart of the business district, were torn down in the 1970s.
Charles O. Wallace, John Zenzen, Adrian Matson in front of the Robbinsdale City Hall. Wallace was Robbinsdale's first city clerk. He held office from 1938 until 1945. He served as Mayor from 1947 through 1954 and again from 1967 to 1972.