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1. Oasis Drive-In with employees, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
Oasis Drive-In with employees. Note on back of photo reads, "people identified in Ken Berg's [Mankato Free Press] column of 12/15/1975."
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

2. Neighborhoods of Duluth: West Duluth, Bakery, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
West Duluth Bakery; Fifty-seventh and Grand Avenue Wadena Street; employees; workers; Gilbert Johnson
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

3. Municipal Power Plant, Worthington, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
This is the Worthington municipal power plant building that sat on the corner of 3rd Avenue on 8th Street. The image is of the east side of the building looking west toward the lake.
Contributing Institution:
Nobles County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

4. Lyric Theater, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1939?
Description:
The Lyric Theater at 213-217 West Superior Street is also known as the New Lyric. It had a seating capacity of 1,025. It offered vaudeville followed by first run motion pictures, amateur shows every Saturday evening. It was razed in the mid-1970s for a hotel and restaurant. The location is still referred to as the Lyric block.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

5. Grady and Hughes Funeral Home, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1939?
Description:
In this house at 600 East Second Street, Eugene C. Grady and Matthew T. Hughes offered mortuary services from 1926. In 1887 Henry and Alameda Bell commissioned Oliver Traphagen to design this Queen Anne style house in the Ashtabula Heights neighborhood. When his bank failed in 1893, the Bells moved to California.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

6. Duluth Steam Plant Construction, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1939-09-27
Description:
The Duluth Steam Plant was built in 1939.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

7. O. A. Carlson Grocer, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939-06-22
Description:
A grocery store at Eighteenth Avenue West and Superior Street.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8. Soudan Mine drill shop workers, Soudan, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939-02-01
Description:
Drill Shop interior at Soudan Mine where men are working, with 4 J-5 semi-auto Jackbit Grinders.
Contributing Institution:
Soudan Underground Mine State Park
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

9. Soudan Mine drill shop worker hardening bits in the furnace, Soudan, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939-02-01
Description:
Drill Shop interior at Soudan Mine. Harold E. Morcom working at the Tate-Jones furnace.
Contributing Institution:
Soudan Underground Mine State Park
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

10. Soudan Mine, close up of drill shop workers sharpening bits, Soudan, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939-02-01
Description:
Drill Shop interior at Soudan Mine where Harold E. Morcom, Frank L. Tekautz, and Louis J. Zuponsich are working with 4 J-5 semi-auto Jackbit Grinders.
Contributing Institution:
Soudan Underground Mine State Park
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

11. George Farrell's John Deere Dealership, Prior Lake, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939 - 1940
Description:
Front exterior of George Farrell's John Deere dealership located on Dakota Street in Prior Lake, MN. The building later went on to become Del Busse's garage, a sign company, and the Prior Lake Library.
Contributing Institution:
Scott County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

12. Women and men standing in front of Watkins Company Administration Building, Winona, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939
Description:
Exterior view of the Watkins Administration Building. A group of women and men stand in front of the building. This building was designed by George W. Maher.
Contributing Institution:
Winona County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

13. Princeton Power Plant, Princeton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939
Description:
The Princeton Power Plant supplies power to the Princeton area and is located on First Street.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

14. Howard Lumber Wagon, Robbinsdale, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939
Description:
Tom Howard and Howard Lumber teamster, Pete Kimball on 42nd Avenue North in a horse drawn lumber wagon.
Contributing Institution:
Robbinsdale Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Duluth Steam Plant Construction, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1939
Description:
There is still a bit of scaffolding at the top of the smoke stack of the Duluth Steam Plant.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. Duluth Steam Plant Construction, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1939
Description:
The Duluth Steam Plant was built in 1939.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. Downtown, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1939
Description:
Radio Grill is at 403 West Superior Street and First Federal Savings and Loan is at 3 North Fourth Avenue West.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. Calvin Olson's Meat Truck, Princeton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939
Description:
Calvin Olson's meat truck was driven by Clarence Aufderhar twice a week for the Mille Lacs Lake route. The cooling system was an ice tank and rock salt.
Contributing Institution:
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Swenson Confectionary Shop, St. Peter, Minnesota

Date Created:
1938?
Description:
The Swenson Confectionary Shop in St. Peter was located at 204 South Minnesota Avenue. The three people shown in this interior photograph are probably the owners, Carl, Frank, and Gus Swenson.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

20. Plato Garage, Plato, Minnesota

Date Created:
1938?
Description:
Exterior view of the Plato Garage.
Contributing Institution:
McLeod County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

21. Hand striking granite slab at Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Creator:
Ryan, George Miles, 1911-1991
Date Created:
1938?
Description:
Herman Nierenhausen holds a bull set while Leonard Deters is in the process of hitting it with a sledgehammer to "strike" a granite slab at Cold Spring Granite Company.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

22. Duluth Civic Center, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1938?
Description:
The St. Louis County courthouse, the federal building, and Duluth's city hall face each other at Fifth Avenue West and First Street.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

23. Downtown, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Russ, A.
Date Created:
1938?
Description:
Aerial view of the Duluth civic center. Fifth Avenue West leads up to the St. Louis County Courthouse. The Duluth City Hall is on the right and the Federal Building is on the left.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Aerial photographs

24. Aerial view of Cold Spring Granite Company main plant, Stearns County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1938?
Description:
Aerial view looking northeast of Cold Spring Granite Company main plant production site located in Cold Spring, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

25. Gartner Store, Preston, Minnesota

Creator:
Bue, Mathias O., 1889-1969
Date Created:
1938-08-12
Description:
The interior of the Gartner store with two employees standing behind the meat counter. Various product advertisements displayed on the walls.
Contributing Institution:
Fillmore County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)
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