View of the garden, carriage house, and house built in 1905 at 2307 East Superior Street of First National Bank president and local philanthropist A. L. Ordean who died in 1928 at 72.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
A photograph of the first meeting for the Minnesota Potato Growers held in St. Paul Minnesota on August 10, 1919. The man marked with the red "x" is J. Oscar Serline of Kanabec County.
Harold Nelson, Member of the Minnesota Dahlia Society and superintendent of the flower division at the Minnesota State Fair admiring his dahlia display. He has been cultivating dahlias since 1931 and maintains that growing them is habit forming.
Hunter's Park; Hartley Field; lettuce crop; Duluth property of Canadian born Gilford Graham Hartley (1853-1922); agriculture was only one of many Hartley interests; the Allendale Farm at Woodland in Duluth began in 1890 with 80 acres and in twenty years was about 800 acres; this 80 acre piece was cleared and drained to raise head lettuce, spinach and celery; in 1911 Hartley reaped more than $9,000 profit from four acres of lettuce; Hartley Road was developed in 1913 linking the land to Woodland Avenue and Arrowhead Road; the land pictured is part of the hundreds of acres comprising Hartley Field or Hartley Park where a nature center was constructed in 2002; the Hartley Park was conceived in 1941
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Hunter's Park; Hartley Field; lettuce crop; women and men laborers wearing hats are weeding lettuce; Duluth property of Canadian born Gilford Graham Hartley (1853-1922); agriculture was only one of many Hartley interests; the Allendale Farm at Woodland in Duluth began in 1890 with 80 acres and in twenty years was about 800 acres; this 80 acre piece was cleared and drained to raise head lettuce, spinach and celery
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Hunter's Park; Hartley Field; lettuce crop; women and men laborers harvesting lettuce; baskets; wagon; Duluth property of Canadian born Gilford Graham Hartley (1853-1922); agriculture was only one of many Hartley interests; the Allendale Farm at Woodland in Duluth began in 1890 with 80 acres and in twenty years was about 800 acres; this 80 acre piece was cleared and drained to raise head lettuce, spinach and celery
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Hunter's Park; Hartley Field; lettuce crop; laborers loading baskets of lettuce onto wagon; men and boys; oxen; Duluth property of Canadian born Gilford Graham Hartley (1853-1922); agriculture was only one of many Hartley interests; the Allendale Farm at Woodland in Duluth began in 1890 with 80 acres and in twenty years was about 800 acres; this 80 acre piece was cleared and drained to raise head lettuce, spinach and celery
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; World War I; Victory Garden at Forty-sixth and Grand Avenue; numerous young people with gardening tools; no visible sign of plants yet; house with laundry on clothesline and hill in background
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
A photograph of a threshing machine with Russel Gilbertson, Clifford Hanson, Gordy Johnson, Jim Ernst, Henry Hamann, Clarence Tinker, Rufus Ponto, Ed Schults, and Leslie Olson.
Group of potato buyers in Anoka County in 1905. Left to right: Charles Galup, Charles Larkin, George Porter, Fred Larkin, George Morrill, James Mahaney, Albert Pratt, Mascot George Ehlen.
A threshing crew and their thresher at the Henry Meyer farm in Oshawa Township in Nicollet County. The names of the men appear on the reverse of the photo. Henry is shown with a pipe in the front row. Dewey and Bud Meyer are the children seated at right in the front row.