Illustrated trade catalog featuring tools, hardware, and supplies for wagons, carriages, and sleighs. Also includes horse shoes and decorative carriage trimmings.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog for various iron and wire products. Includes construction materials such as beams, brackets and columns, as well as decorative products including railings, fences, and benches.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Business trade card advertising several Minneapolis companies including Parker Bros. (druggists), William Leary Clothing Company, Millwood Company (wood and coal), E.A. Peterson Cash Stores (grocers), and the Independent Carriage Works.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
West Hotel dinner menu featuring blue point oysters, mock turtle a la Francaise, filet of beef a la Chartreuse, and soft shell crabs a la Creole. The West Hotel, designed by prominent architect LeRoy Buffington, occupied the corner of Fifth Street and Nicollet Avenue from 1884-1940. The Queen Anne-style building sported a Moorish-inspired dining room and boated the nation's largest hotel lobby.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Minneapolis Industrial Exposition: Souvenir and Illustrated Hand-Book
Date Created:
1886
Description:
Official catalog and visitors guide from the 1886 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition, which showcased art and music, agricultural and horticultural sciences, and local sellers and manufacturers. Includes many full page illustrations of churches and downtown buildings, and advertisements for local companies of all sorts.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Official catalog and visitors guide from the 1888 Third Annual Minneapolis Industrial Exposition, which showcased art and music, agricultural and horticultural sciences, and local sellers and manufacturers. Includes a brief history of the early state fairs of Minnesota with a condensed history of the founding of the Industrial Exposition. Also includes a summary of the growth of Minneapolis
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Official catalog and visitors guide from the 1889 Fourth Annual Minneapolis Industrial Exposition, which showcased art and music, agricultural and horticultural sciences, and local sellers and manufacturers. Includes committee members and local attractions.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Official catalog and visitors guide from the 1890 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition, which showcased art and music, agricultural and horticultural sciences, and local sellers and manufacturers. Includes committee members and local attractions.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Official catalog and visitors guide from the 1891 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition, which showcased art and music, agricultural and horticultural sciences, and local sellers and manufacturers. Includes committee members and exposition attractions.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog featuring steam heaters produced by the Richmond Stove Company, sold by Pond and Hasey Co., Heating Engineers. Includes facts about the apparatus and process, directions for use, and customer testimonials.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog featuring hot water heaters produced by the Richmond Stove Company, sold by Pond and Hasey Co., Heating Engineers. Includes facts about the apparatus and process, directions for use, and customer testimonials.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog of Link-Belt Machinery Company's cast metal link chains for sale by the Link Belt Supply Company of Minneapolis. Belts used for car hauls, elevators, conveyors, and other duties.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Official catalog and visitors guide from the 1893 eighth-annual Minneapolis Industrial Exposition, which showcased art and music, agricultural and horticultural sciences, and local sellers and manufacturers. Includes committee members and exposition attractions.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Independence Day menu from the Hotel Lafayette, 1893. Items on the menu include Russian caviar on toast, saddle of spring lamb in mint sauce, breast of woodcock, and broiled golden plover on toast. Railroad tycoon James J. Hill's Hotel Lafayette sat on the edge of Lake Minnetonka between Crystal and Holmes Bays from 1882 until it was destroyed by fire in 1897. The posh hotel boasted 300 rooms and five acres of floor space and was a favorite summer destination of wealthy Southerners, visitors from Europe, and even sitting president Chester Arthur. Guests were delivered almost to the front door of the hotel via Hill's railroad.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog featuring steam, hot water, and sectional heaters produced by the Richmond Stove Company, sold by Pond and Hasey Co., Heating and Ventilating Engineers. Includes facts about the apparatus and process, directions for use, and customer testimonials.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog highlighting Minnesota Sandstone (Kettle River Sandstone) and its uses for sills, steps, ashlar, paving, curbing, flagging, mill blocks, and bridge and building stone. Includes statements from men who used the sandstone for prominent Minneapolis buildings.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog with photographic views of Link-Belt machinery in operation. Descriptions of devices including boilers, pulleys, belts, bolts, scales, and other machine parts. Equipment used by mills, distilleries, tanners, and various manufacturers and warehouse companies.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog of boilers and heating components including steam gauges, hot water thermometers, radiator valves, heat generators and regulators, radiator shields, and more.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog from the W.S. Nott Company, manufacturers of leather belting and wholesale rubber goods. Catalog features machinery packings made of a variety of materials including rubber, asbestos, graphite, carbonite, cotton, and flax.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog from the W.S. Nott Company. Features leather belting products in addition to pulleys, hoses, gaskets, and packings produced and sold by the company.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated catalog of goods for sale at Leachman's Supply House. Includes bulk foods, clothing and accessories, lamps, dinner sets, photo albums, instruments, books, bibles, and more. Some text in Norwegian.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
The Hotel Nicollet's dinner menu and wine list from August 1, 1897 includes delicacies such as lobster a la Newburg, salmon cutlets, and boiled leg of southdown mutton. Guiness, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Anheuser Busch are among the familiar names that appear under the ""ales and porters"" heading. The hotel occupied the south side of Washington Avenue between Hennepin and Nicollet Avenues between 1858 and 1923. For decades it was considered the city's most prominent hotel and housed such notables as James Garfield, Teddy Roosevelt, and Oscar Wilde. It quickly established a reputation as the premier spot for fine dining and lavish banquets were often hosted in its large dining room.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog of the various Corliss Engines produced by the Twin City Iron Works. Also includes steam boilers, hot water heaters, and pumps and condensers.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog explaining the ten styles and types of Floral City Furnaces. Includes warm air and combination furnaces, and hot water and steam boilers.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog from the W.S. Nott Company. Features leather belting products in addition to pulleys, hoses, gaskets, packings, rubber mats, roofing, carts, and oiled clothes produced and sold by the company. Beginning includes testimonials from satisfied customers in Minneapolis and across the United States.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated catalog featuring descriptions and prices for clothing for men, women, and children. Includes suits, overcoats, vests, shirts, collars and cuffs, hosiery, fine furs, hats, shoes, and more.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog of seals, stencils, badges, and stamps. Includes police badges, dog tags, alphabet rubber stamp sets, stock stamps, self-inking stamps, and more.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Illustrated trade catalog of furniture hardware and supplies including casters, seats, upholstery needles and threads, brackets, knobs, keys, and more.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library