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Date Created:: 1895-09-30
Description:: Construction to rebuild the apron; also includes the Exposition Building.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin History Museum
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1900?
Description:: Brickyard workers pose in front of a stack of bricks; bricks are stacked in this manner to allow the heat to dry them.
Contributing Institution:: Carlton County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1920 - 1930
Description:: The Wychwood Inn on Lake Minnetonka was a one-story building set on the shoreline.
Contributing Institution:: Lake Minnetonka Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: Exterior view of the Wysong Laundry Company building in Mankato.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1920?
Description:: Exterior view of the Wysong Laundry Company building in Mankato.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1898?
Description:: Exterior view of the Young Men's Investment Company Building after fire with rubble. The Pay home, Pay Livery and Brett's building are also visible.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1905?
Description:: This is the West Duluth plant of the Zenith Furnace Company. West Duluth is a neighborhood of Duluth. Captain August B. Wolvin bought the aging blast furnace at this Fifty-seventh Avenue West location, modernized it and organized Zenith Furnace to operate it. It produced pig iron. It was incorporated in 1902. The plant produced 175 tons of product in 24 hours. In one month in 1916, a record of 310 tons of pig iron was produced in 24 hours. The site covers 80 acres and includes a coal dock. Coal gas, ammonia, and coal tar are by-products. It employed 350 men with a payroll of $35,000 a month in 1916.
Contributing Institution:: University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1930?
Description:: View of blast furnaces at this pig iron manufacturing site at South Fifty-eighth Avenue West and the Northern Pacific Railway tracks.
Contributing Institution:: University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1899 - 1964
Description:: The Zenith Mine opened in 1892 and was in operation until it closed in 1964.
Contributing Institution:: Ely-Winton Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1900?
Description:: Zenith restaurant business and workers; identified workers; 529 west Superior street; manager Archie Gish in white; meals ten cents; signs in window for Forepaugh and Sells circus in July
Contributing Institution:: University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1898
Description:: Exterior view of the Zimmerman Hardware Store building in Mankato.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1940?
Description:: Exterior view of Zipper's Place, Standard Oil service station.
Contributing Institution:: McLeod County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1910 - 1920
Description:: Steamer is stopping for passengers at the dock in Zumbra Heights.
Contributing Institution:: Lake Minnetonka Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1917-06-12
Description:: Construction of the Lake Zumbro Hydroelectric Power Plant dam began in this area of the Zumbro River in 1917. The structure was designed by noted hydroelectric engineer, Hugh Lincoln Cooper. The dam, completed in 1919, is owned by Rochester Public Utilities.
Contributing Institution:: Olmsted County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

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