Board of Park Commissioners (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1901
Description:
This view of the lake in Loring Park is found in the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Minneapolis, after page 8.
View of Okabena Lake with a sail boat of the beach and the Idle Wild Pavilion. On the front of the photograph written in blue ink: "Idlewild Pavilion - Front of 3rd Ave. before Rock Island Tracks were laid before 1900." At the top of the photograph is written, "1899" in blue ink.
A man standing on the shore of Okabena Lake in Worthington, Minnesota. In the background is the smoke stack for the power plant. On back of the photograph someone wrote: "Okabena Lake Shore before Rock Island tracks were laid. The Idle Wild Pavilion Sept. 13, 1899"
View of Bde Maka Ska on June 5, 1927 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bde Maka Ska is Dakota for "White Earth Lake," and was previously known as "Lake Calhoun."
Mrs. Libbie Bruff Forbes, wife of Charles Forbes, Macalester College Professor of Natural Science. Caption reads: "Shadow Falls. Mrs. Forbes and baby Esther."
Dean Parkway next to Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bde Maka Ska is Dakota for "White Earth Lake," and was previously known as "Lake Calhoun."