This set of slides was used in the Faust Theater in New Richland, Minnesota, as part of the entertainment from 1914 through the 1940s. The slide show includes images of local businesses, children, and advertising, as well as national advertising. About 600 glass slides were found many years after the theater was closed. Of those, approximately half were obliterated. Many of the glass slides show water damage sustained during their years stored in the rear of Faust Theater. Of those that survived the years, fewer than 300 were in good enough condition to identify the subject matter, and those that were are included in this collection. Together they give a portrait of New Richland and the surrounding area and a sense of what it was like to go to a movie in the first half of the Twentieth Century.
Duluth's first air-mail service was celebrated with a band and dignitaries. The plane landed in the bay at the Duluth Boat Club on Minnesota Point. The mail was escorted on city streets to the post office.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Duluth's first air-mail service was celebrated with a band and dignitaries. The plane landed in the bay at the Duluth Boat Club on Minnesota Point. The sign says "Duluth's First Air Mail."
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Duluth's first air-mail service mail was delivered by the amphibian Sikorsky plane. A smaller MISSABE plane was featured. The plane landed in the bay at the Duluth Boat Club on Minnesota Point.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Operators at the New Sweden Telephone Exchange used this switchboard while they served their customers. The exchange was located in New Sweden, Minnesota.
Outside front view of The Detroit Record in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). The old courthouse can be seen to the right.
This black and white aerial photograph is centered over the Bartholomew House at 6901 Lyndale Avenue, which is now the site of the Richfield History Center. The image also shows a large portion of Wood Lake.
This black-and-white aerial photograph, roll 3A, photo number 39, shows a square area of Richfield and the northern portion of Bloomington, Minnesota. The area is approximately bounded by Minnesota Highway 62, 12th Avenue South, West 84th Street, and Penn Avenue.
This image is made up of multiple aerial photographs that were aligned and hand mounted on a wooden board. The area is approximately bounded by Minnesota Highway 62, Interstate 494, and Minnesota Highway 100. It includes the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Richfield, and the eastern portion of Edina.