Spectators watch the Fourth of July celebration from the street and from the balcony on the Central Fire Station. Rochester Fire Department motorized equipment is displayed along with horse drawn fire equipment. By 1918, the fire department had become completely mechanized. This was the last public showing of the fire horses. The Tollefson Furniture and Undertaking store is visible on the right.
Laundry supplies and wicker baskets are arranged around the interior of the Rochester Steam Laundry. The business was located at 107 South Main (First Avenue SW).
Several people are working at looms inside the Rochester Rug Factory. Different types of looms and other rug making equipment are arranged around the room. A stove is located in the center of the space.
Hauling tile from Bingham Lake Tile Factory. Right to left on engine: N. P. Minio, Frank Minio, Lewis Minion. Hauling 10 wagons of tile with a stem engine to the Minion farm in Delton Township.
View of the interior of a mercantile store. Candy sites on the counter. Cigars and cigarettes are in the glass cases. Three people stand behind the counter.
Interior view of the J. C. Phifer Store. The Phifer Store burned in the Donnelly fire in 1916. Photograph was loaned for copying by Edna Mae Busch, and the original donated by her son Rick after her death.
La Grand Hotel located on Block 12 of the original town on the northeast corner, Pacific Avenue. Built in 1900 as the Teepee-Tonka, a hotel and business block, and renamed the La Grand Hotel in 1910. Ref: The Morris Sun, 26 Apr 1900, 3 May 1900; The Morris Tribune, 5 May 1900.
Bird's eye view of the E. J. Jones Lumber Company taken from the P. V. grain elevator at Seventh Street. Winter scene with La Grand Hotel in background. E.G.N. sidetrack.
View is to the west on Main Ave from 4th Street South. Visible are businesses, mostly saloons, lining the north side of Main Avenue including the Gold Mine Jug House on extreme right. In the distance stands the Main Ave bridge to Fargo, North Dakota. On the corner at left is the Kassenborg Block.
The view is to the west on Front Street (Center Avenue) from 8th Street North. On the corner at right stands the Comstock Hotel, across Front Street stands Briggs Floral Company. In the distance on Front Street is a Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway streetcar.
View is to the south along 1st Street North from 2nd Avenue North. Visible are the tracks of the Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway. Thomas Erdel's Rathskeller Saloon at left, the House of Lords Saloons just beyond, John Haas' Midway Saloon at the far end of the block and Sam Diemert's Saloon on the right.