A man and kids on the porch of their newly constructed farm house. Piles of wood are in the yard and farm buildings are behind the house as well as a large red barn.
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.
Architectural drawing (ink on linen) showing the first (main) floor plan of the Union Depot, Duluth, Minnesota. Built in 1892, it is also known as the St. Louis County Heritage and Arts Center, home of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. Revised 11-7-1934 and 4-15-1966. Scale: 1/8 inch equals 1 foot.
The farm house of J. Alfred Kusicko was built after the 1918 Forest Fire, since his previous house burned in the fire. His name is listed as J. Alfred Kusicko as well as Alfred Kusicko, with his surname being spelled Kuusikko and Kuusiko also.
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
Henry Sunnarborg, at left, stands beside his first car, a Model-T Ford, along with Mrs. Elizabeth Mattinen, who is holding her granddaughter, Vera Mattinen Moll. Standing to the far right is Mrs. Mattinen's son, Emil Mattinen. The Mattinen farm was an 80-acre tract located on the easterly edge of Esko. The north 40 acres was bounded on the west by the Juntunen Road and on the south by Highway 61. The St. Matthew's Lutheran Church and the former Kinnunen Lumber Company (in 2011, the Moosebrew Internet Gallery and Cafe) are both located on what was once a part of the Mattinen farm. The property and two story log portion of the house were purchased in 1887 by Elizabeth and her husband, John Erick Mattinen, known as Erick, from Henry Sunnarborg. Erick Mattinen built the one story part of the house, which became the kitchen. Henry Sunnarborg was the foster father of noted Esko resident, Julia Sunnarborg. The house in the photo, which was dismantled in 1956, was located just west of St. Matthew's Church on the property now identified as 5 Elizabeth Avenue, Esko.
A crowd of men and children gather on the corner of main street in front of the First National Bank of Lanesboro to admire a group of calves being held in pens. Awning above the hardware store is visible at left. In the upper level of the bank building a sign for the office of Dr. Andreas Pederson Lommen, Lanesboro physician is seen in the window.
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