View of the west channel of the Mississippi River near the upper end of Boom Island where the channel has been filled in. A person is standing next to an old boom pier where the river once went.
View of the west bank of Mississippi River and the St. Anthony Falls Milling District. The Stone Arch Bridge is visible, but the M.E. Trestle has been removed.
Failure at the lower dam shortly after its completion, shows a section that was washed out. A train is running along the bank of the Mississippi River.
Failure at the lower dam shortly after its completion, shows a section that was washed out; also shows the Minneapolis Western Railroad Bridge and the west bank of the Mississippi River.
Failure at the lower dam shortly after its completion, shows a section that was washed out; also shows the Tenth Avenue Bridge and the east bank of the Mississippi River.
Looking across the washout at the waste way area toward the east bank; shows the Pillsbury A Mill, Phoenix Mill and other buildings on the east bank of the Mississippi River.
View of the Mississippi River with an island and buildings on the riverbank. The photographic print was created from an 1851 daguerreotype by Joel Whitney.
Looking over some railroad tracks across the upper St. Anthony Falls toward the east bank of the Mississippi River; the Pillsbury A Mill is in the background.
Fill in the east channel of the Mississippi River just below the Central Avenue Bridge; the dotted line shows the face of a stone wall built on the bank years before.
Overhead view of the Mississippi River, showing railroad tracks, an island, and boaters. Contributed by Richard Uriah Jones, Macalester College Class of 1901, and Macalester Head of Chemistry Department 1903-1941, and Dean of the College, 1917-1936.
View of the Stone Arch Bridge that shows sandbars in the Mississippi River near the mouth of the General Electric tailrace. The Tenth Avenue Bridge is in the distance.
St. Anthony Falls with smoke coming from industrial smokestacks in background (Flour Mills). Contributed by Richard Uriah Jones, Macalester College Class of 1901, and Macalester Head of Chemistry Department 1903-1941, and Dean of the College, 1917-1936.
Large slabs of broken rock at St. Anthony, 1897. Contributed by Richard Uriah Jones, Macalester College Class of 1901, and Macalester Head of Chemistry Department 1903-1941, and Dean of the College, 1917-1936.
View of the original channel between the upper end of Nicollet Island and the lower end of Boom Island before the Wisconsin Central Railway Company filled in the river. Shows a temporary bridge and workmen guiding logs from a lumber yard.