Topic: Agriculture / Subject Headings: Log Cabins - Minnesota Digital Library Search Results

Date Created:: 1860?
Description:: Men with a horse-drawn plow pose with women and children in front of a small log house. Justus was the first Swedish settler in Swede Lake.
Contributing Institution:: American Swedish Institute
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1922
Description:: Log house, barn combination with wooden gate and split rail fence. One of the earliest farms in Cottonwood County.
Contributing Institution:: Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1898 - 1930
Description:: The John Kangas log house shown here was built by Hanse Annala about 1898. There are a rake and several scythes hanging on the wall, with a washtub used for doing laundry on the far left of the photo. Originally the house had a birch bark roof. It was donated to the Finnish American Memorial Foundation of Esko - now the Esko Historical Society - and land was obtained for its current placement as a building of the museum in 1965. The back of the postcard has handwriting saying, "built by Hansi Annala John Kangas home about 1898 Birch Bark Roof."
Contributing Institution:: Esko Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1890?
Description:: Exterior view of a log home. The house was built by Anna's father Simon Palkie in 1873. Nels Olson was the first Swede in Thomson, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: American Swedish Institute
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1958
Description:: Log cabin with window to right of center door and fence in front. It was built in 1878 by Pat Conlan who was an early homesteader in Cottonwood County.
Contributing Institution:: Cottonwood County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Exterior view of a homestead cabin with Bill Rulien in Rapid River area in Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Homesteaders and families at their snow-covered community of cabins.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Homestead family posing in front of log cabin during the winter.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Homestead family posing in front of cabin in the Rapid River area, Lake of the Woods, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Mr. and Mrs. Sivert Hanson and Hussat in front of a log cabin.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Creator:: Bjornaas, Haakon, 1884-1949
Description:: Woman homesteader in front of a log cabin in northern Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

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