Upper view of Rapidan Dam at Rapidan, Minnesota, on the Blue Earth River. Note to Miss Louisa Bartels of Chicago, Illinois; postmarked Good Thunder, Minnesota
Rapidan Dam near Mankato, Minnesota, Height, 66 feet, Cost $500,000; Consumers Power Co., owners; with message from Jennie R. T. to Mrs. I. Jenkins, Janesville, Minnesota
Street scene in Ogema, Minnesota. Business included in the scene is Kolb Bohmer Lumber Company, a restaurant, a grocery store and the Livery Feed and Sales Stable. On the back is a note to Mrs. D.S. Lewis in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926).
Empress Theater, M. Bolin Millinery, St. Paul Cafe restaurant at 12 and 14 East Superior Street, the lower side, in downtown Duluth. The millinery shop is in the Brown Brothers Block. The Empress burned on May 3, 1915.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Street scene with businesses and power lines, State Bank and furniture store, with message from Myrtle to Mr. Carl Jorgenson, Glendive, Montana, postmarked Mapleton.
Exterior view of the Berry & Toombs Furniture and Undertaking building on the corner of Franklin Street and Green Street (First Avenue SE) Glenwood was built by Joseph H. Furtney (1854-1935) in 1911. Herman Berry and Winfield Toombs are seated in the delivery wagon pulled by Berry's horse, Bess.
The 302 East First Street Auditorium building is operated as a roller skating rink. When the season opened in 1911, the opening night revenue was for the benefit of the Duluth Children's Home Society. The rink was managed by the L. Hammel Company. Hammel started as a livery or wagon supply business. This was the Shrine Auditorium in the 1920s. The building was a Dodge and Plymouth automobile business for Agen Motors in 1937.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections