Third Street looking toward Lake Bemidji in 1898. On the left is a shoe store, Schroeder Brothers Feed and Seed, and Naylor and Young furniture. On the right is a furniture store, Hotel Northern, and Bank of Bemidji. (description from, "The Bemidji Area Looking Back" Pediment Publishing, 2004).
Early Barn Bluff businesses are shown. On the far left is the sawmill of Grannis, Daniels and Company. The Francis Ives building is in the center and the Metropolitan Hotel, which was later destroyed by a fire in 1869, is on the left.
Kellogg's Photograph Gallery is seen on the right. Skov Evens and Langseth building in the center was built by John Day in 1859 with a "good view of the river".
Exterior view of the Wilkinson building, located on the south side of 3rd Street from Bush. Also pictured is a team of horses in front of the Dow and Howe storefront.
Mallard, now a Minnesota ghost town, originally thrived during the logging boom of early Clearwater County. Photograph taken before 1909. By 1930, the town of Mallard had been abandoned.
Exterior view of the Sinclair Brothers and Brown Store located at North Avenue and Second Street in Fairmont. Fur coats are on display outside of the store. Left to right: A. Taylor, Alfred Sinclair, Joe Rose, Brown, unknown, unknown, unknown, S. L. Tonne. The top floor was Albion Hall. It was erected by Percy Wollaston, first occupied by Wollaston and Sons.