Stereoview view from top of Moorhead Manufacturing Flour Mill, Main Avenue and Red River looking east between Main Avenue and 2nd Avenue South in October 1880. Buildings visible include the Moorhead school and First Presbyterian Church at right, Ole E. Flaten and Jacob Skrivseth's photo studio in foreground and Bruns' and Finkle's Elevator A at left; also visible are St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway workmen laying ties and rails down Main Avenue at left.
View from top of Bruns' and Finkle's Elevator A, Front Street (Center Avenue) and 6th Street. View looks west down Northern Pacific Railway tracks to Fargo, Dakota Territory in distance; view shows south side of Moorhead including Moorhead Manufacturing Flour Mill in distance at left, the NP passenger depot at right, a ditch known as Mud Creek running along south side of NP tracks to Red River, wooden bridges crossing Mud Creek on 4th and 5th Streets and an outhouse perched on south edge of Mud Creek.
Stereoview to the northwest from the top of Brun's and Finkle's Elevator A at Front Street and 6th Street North. View shows wood frame businesses along the north side of Front Street between 5th and 3rd Streets. City Park on the southwest corner of Front Street and 5th Street. Stacks of cord wood across 5th Street to the east. See also mhs06871.
View is to the northwest from the top of Bruns' and Finkle's Elevator A at Front (Center Ave) and 6th Street North. Visible are businesses along the north side of Front Street between 4th and 5th Streets North incluiding Moorhead City Hall and Fire Station. In the foreground at left is Moorhead's Point neighborhood in distance at right and Fargo, Dakota Territory in the distance at left. This is the same scene as the one photographed Ole E. Flaten in 1879. See mhs06865.
View is to the northeast from the top of the Moorhead Manufacturing Company Flour Mill on the south side of Main Avenue and 3rd Street South. Visible are numerous businesses, mostly saloons, lining the north side of Main Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets South. Downtown Moorhead is visible in the distance; in the foreground at right can be seen the Peter Heinrich Bottling Works with an ad for Joseph Schlitz Beer painted on its side.
View is to the east from the top of Fargo Roller Mill in Fargo, North Dakota across the Red River toward Moorhead just north of the North Bridge linking Moorhead's 2nd Avenue North with Fargo's Northern Pacific Avenue. Part of the Fargo Roller Mill is visible in the foreground. Much of Moorhead is visible in the distance, including a number of businesses, mostly saloons, at the Moorhead end of the bridge. These include Billy Diemert's Place, just north of the bridge, and John Haas' Midway saloon just to the south. The bridge is undergoing major repairs, the deck is seen removed at right. On the Fargo side of the bridge, at right is visible a small building with a sign reading "John R. Jardine, Bridge Works."
View is to the east from the west side of 6th Street South just south of Main Avenue. The recently constructed Moorhead Public Library stands on the corner across the intersection. Also visible are adjacent houses on 6th Street South at right and businesses on Main Avenue to left.
View is to the northwest from the south side of Front Street (Center Avenue) just east of 8th Street North. The Columbia Hotel stands on the corner across the intersection. Front Street is torn up for construction of the Courthouse line of the Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway. Two young girls and two men stand on the street in front of the Hotel. Two flag-like signs stuck into the ground on either side of 8th Street read "Gas for Cooking, for Lighting, for Heating."
View is to the northwest from the Northern Pacific Railway tracks and 8th Street North in Moorhead. Visible is the three-story Comstock Hotel on Front (Center Avenue) and 8th Streets and Stodder Park at left.
View is to the northwest from Front Street (Center Avenue) and 9th Street. The Grand Pacific Hotel stands across the intersection. At extreme right is visible the platform for the Great Northern Railway, the Hotel also served as the GNR passenger depot.
View is to the northeast from the south side of Front Street (Center Avenue) just west of 10th Street South showing the west and south sides of the recently completed Moorhead Storage and Transfer Company building. On the west wall are signs for the businesses located in the building including Leo H. Wright potato buying brokerage, Northrup King & Company Wholesale Seed and Klenk's Modern Printery. The scene shows snow on the ground, an automobile and a truck backed up to a loading dock on the south side.
View to the southeast from the northwest corner of Front (Center Ave) and 4th Street North. On corner across the intersection is Ole E. Flaten's photo studio and to the left is the Moorhead City Hall.