Panoramic view of E. W. Coons Company trucks and drivers (16 in all) lined up on left to center portion of photograph. Center and right of photograph depict Duluth, Mesabi and Northern box cars (two each) and Duluth, Mesabi and Northern ore cars (two each) on tracks behind the "Coons" building. 1920s era 4 door car parked by "Coons" building.
A heard of cows are crowded in a small pen. Rail cars are behind the pen, and a man driving a horse drawn wagon is the foreground. Houses and leafless trees are in the background.
Dated the fourth day of March in 1871, this bond was issued by the Borough of Saint Peter in order to raise money to finance the construction of the Winona & Saint Peter Railroad. The value of the bond at maturity was five hundreds dollars. The railroad crossed the Minnesota River and entered Nicollet County near the site of the St. Peter State Hospital in May of 1871. The railroad eventually extended through St. Peter, Traverse, Oshawa, Nicollet, and Courtland in Nicollet County before it crossed the Minnesota River into Brown County.
Following a fatal automobile accident at the Milwaukee Railroad crossing in Peterson, company officials engaged Mr. Bue to take photographs of this scene facing west on Mill Street toward Haslerud Bluff. Stone building at right is Quickstad's Wagon Shop. The barn at left was owned by the Frickson family. The house at left was the home and photo studio of C. R. Moen. The house at right was the Stedge family dwelling.
Following a fatal automobile accident at the Milwaukee Railroad crossing in Peterson, company officials engaged Mr. Bue to take photographs of this scene facing north where the train killed a Woxland boy. The dark, large building at left was the Ensberg French Burr Mill factory. The house next door was the home of Ole Olness. The barn in front of Solberg Bluff was built in 1855 by P. P. Haslerud, founder of Peterson.
Interview with Alfred Erickson. He gives brief personal and family histories, including that he worked 42 years for the Northern Pacific railroad. This interview is part of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Crow Wing County during the years 1936-1939. This outreach effort sought to record personal accounts of the lives of early Crow Wing County pioneers and settlers.
View from top of Bruns' and Finkle's Elevator A, Front Street (Center Avenue) and 6th Street. View looks west down Northern Pacific Railway tracks to Fargo, Dakota Territory in distance; view shows south side of Moorhead including Moorhead Manufacturing Flour Mill in distance at left, the NP passenger depot at right, a ditch known as Mud Creek running along south side of NP tracks to Red River, wooden bridges crossing Mud Creek on 4th and 5th Streets and an outhouse perched on south edge of Mud Creek.
Stereoview of the first St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway train to arrive at Moorhead in late 1880. Locomotive number 34 pulling coal tender and three cars in snow. Men stand leaning out of cab, behind cab and alongside locomotive.
Stereoview of a man in suit and fur hat at right directs workers loading bags of wheat from wagons into St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway boxcars in Moorhead.
Stereoview of St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway workers shown laying track east of Moorhead in October 1880. Two crews hold and prepare to lay rails on ties at left while horse-drawn car behind carries rails and materials.
D. M. & N. Number 505 pulling a loaded ore train over the scale in Proctor. Viewed from the St Louis River Road bridge. Used on page 100 of F. A. King's "The Missabe Road."
Four images of Baudette and surrounding area: the Clementson Rapids where the Rapid River flows into the Rainy River; rock formations at the Clementson Rapids; men in canoes along the shore of the Baudette River, 1908; the Canadian National Railway (CNR) yard at Baudette.
Roster photograph of a clean D.M. & I.R. steam locomotive 500. This is a Baldwin 2-10-2, Santa Fe type. The large Proctor, Minnesota coal dock is in the background.
D.M. & I.R. steam locomotive 236 on the bridge crossing over the Lakefront Line between Two Harbors and Duluth. The train is departing Two Harbors with empty ore cars.
Panoramic postcard, capturing the opening day of February 16, 1915 in Winstead, Minnesota. There is snow and a large crowd of observers. Caption reads, "Arrival of the Luce Line 'Special' Winstead, Minnesota Feb. 16, 1915 with Col. Luce and party to attend banquet celebrating the opening of the Line to Traffic."
View of Oliver Iron Mining Company Canisteo District mining activity near Trout lake at Coleraine. OIM's original experimental washing plant to right of center.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Landscape view; view of the bridge taken before railroad ties were laid; steel frame bridge; bridge could be the Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge or Short Line Bridge (this is penciled in on back).
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
D.M. & I.R. two car passenger train with steam locomotive 402 parked by the Duluth Union Depot. This train is headed for Two Harbors and the eastern Iron Range.
Roster photograph of D.M. & I.R. Business car "Northland" at Duluth, Minnesota. Viewed from the front end, coupled. Enger tower is in the far background.
A D.M. & I.R. train loaded with limestone departing Missabe Jct in Duluth headed for Proctor. Diesel locomotives 134, 144 & 143 pulling about 40 cars. I-35 is in the background.
A D.M. & I.R. empty pellet train returning from Duluth to Proctor on the curve at Spirit Mountain, Minnesota. Pulled by diesel locomotives #191, 171 & 184.