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.
The Zumbro River, located near Zumbrota, Minnesota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
After several days of drenching rains along the Zumbro River basin, the river overflowed its banks in Rochester early on the morning of early on June 26, 1908. The river rose at a rapid rate (four feet in 20 minutes) and did extensive damage to the business and residential sections of the city. This photo was taken from the Third Street mill overlooking Mayo Park. The little round bandstand is visible in the trees in the center of the photo. The Center Street bridge is in the left rear.
The Zumbro Flour Mill was owned by John M. Cole. This mechanical drawing provides a cross section of the mill and includes details on the water wheel, separator, cockle machine, bran duster, purifier, wheat bins, stock hopper, flour bins, grading wheels and receiving elevator and other machinery.
Hilma Berglund printed this card in black ink on red paper, cut into a triangle, mounted onto slightly larger triangles of aqua and black paper, and trimmed with silver lurex thread. An envelope and letter match the aqua paper trimming the card. The card is 9 x 21 cm. There are two handwritten note on the letter.
Portraits of Pastor Theodore Fossum, confirmation class members, and an inset photograph of the Twenty-fifth Avenue West and Third Street church building's exterior and interior, are grouped in this photograph.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Exterior view of the Zion Lutheran Church, built circa 1897 and demolished circa 1924. Women sat on the left side and men on the right side. Lender was baptized in this church.
St. Paul's College in St. Paul Park, organized in 1889 offered both a preparatory and collegiate course. St. Paul's was organized and supported by the Northern German Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This conference included German Methodist congregation in Minnesota plus some in Wisconsin and North Dakota. The school operated until 1917, closing under financial difficulties and the stress of being a German-speaking institution during World War I. Supporters were encouraged to shift allegiance to Hamline University.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
Photograph showing the front exterior of Zion Evangelical Church. The brick and stucco building had two entrances and a square steeple. This church was dedicated November 27, 1921. This is the third building of this congregation and cost $24,000.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
The Zinsmaster Baking Company began in Duluth in 1913 as the Zinsmaster-Smith Bread Company, Harry W. Zinsmaster and R. F. Smith partners. The small local enterprise grew to one of national importance. Principal company staff retired in 1977 and 1978, and Zinsmaster was acquired by Metz Baking Company in January 1978.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey; State of Minnesota, Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Commission
Date Created:
1951
Description:
Zim quadrangle topographic map (N4715-W9230/7.5) featuring handwritten notations by Ray Segar in red ink regarding logging railroad lines in Clinton Township.
Photograph of Zig Zag Tennis Club at the M. G. Norton Home. Standing left to right: Benton Hatcher, Maude Laird, Bud Whipple, and Helen Horton. Seated left to right: Beulah Norton, Neville Staughton, Margaret Lamberton, Bert Norton, John Blunt, Gertrude Keeler, Mame Whipple and Mathew Norton.
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
Zenith Furnace Company opened in 1902. This complex eventually included a blast furnace, a coal dock, and sixty-five coke ovens located on eighty acres of land along St. Louis Bay. The company produced pig iron, was active in the wholesale coal trade, and sold by-products such as ammonia gas, coal gas, and coal tar. Later purchased by Interlake Iron Corporation, the facility served as the northernmost merchant of pig iron plant in the United States until it closed permanently in 1962.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
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
Photographer Frederick Johnson copied an old print of the 1887-1889 baseball club members Hector McDougall, William McGowan, Frank Nathan, George Hughes, William Hall, Archie McDougall, Frank Druke, Dan McDougall, Fack Nett, Charles Mallinson, Frank Hall, and Ed Connelly.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Signpost reading "Pike's Monument" with trees in the background. The monument is located near Little Falls, Minnesota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
This was once the home of the Zachris Peter Hedberg family in St. Peter. The house is located on the southwest corner of the intersection of Fourth and Walnut Streets, facing Fourth Street. Zachris is sitting in a chair on the lawn, below his wife, Johanna, and his daughter, Hilda. Son Harry is in the corner tower, and Johanna's parents, Fajer and Hanna Knutson, are sitting on a bench on the lawn.
Student representatives from each Minneapolis High School aid in setting up the exhibit "Youth Goes to War" in the Young People's Room of Minneapolis Public Library's Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Promotional video created to give prospective students and often their parents a view regarding St. Cloud State's academic programs, student activities, faculty, and facilities.
Promotional video created to give prospective students and often their parents a view regarding St. Cloud State's academic programs, student activities, faculty, and facilities.
Guide for prospective students of the Federal School of Commercial Designing. Guide includes reasons to join, courses of study, faculty, methods of training, and samples of work.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Black and white photograph of young women wearing jackets and hats of band members with their instruments. A related photo shows the male band members with the young women on a wagon (see 1999.053.0101)
Four young women sit at a picnic table and snap beans. "Hachsharah" means "training" or "preparation" in Hebrew. Hachsharah were training farms for Jews who wished to settle in Palestine and become citizens. Harchsharah farms were located throughout Eastern Europe and the United States, funded by a variety of Zionist groups. The hachsharah farm in Anoka was supported by Habonim, an international Zionist youth organization.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
The Sunshine Club of Virginia was a young women's service and social club. The club's Americanized name suggests the second generation's disposition to claim their American identity: first generation organization names would have likely been rendered in Hebrew.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Exterior view of the Oliver Faribault house in the background. Young woman with walking stick sitting on the lawn next to a small child in a rocking chair, holding a walking stick. This image is a reprint from Patricia Cates.
Family picture taken outside with the farmhouse in the background. People in photo appear to be looking at another photographer and include Hulda Lewis, Minnie Ahern, Roy and Earl Okerman (Minnie's sons), August Youngren, Henry Lewis, Hulda Youngren, Hannah Youngren, and Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Youngren.
Mode of transportation to the main road. View of the Youngren farm wagon being pulled by horses. Ernest Youngren driving his sister and family from home to the main road.
"Young people from high schools all over the city meet to look over school annuals and papers, read from the book collection especially selected for teen-agers and talk over school events in the Young People's Room at the Main Minneapolis Public Library."
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Attendees of the Young People's Alliance, District Convention at the Sleepy Eye Evangelical Church pose in front of the church on the lawn. This movement won approval of the General Conference in 1891. It was the organization which had been designed to bring unification among the young people of the Church, as well as to consolidate the numerous Jugend-Bunds (Youth Leagues) which had formed in Evangelical Association congregations throughout the country. As a youth society, its purpose was the promotion of intellectual, religious, and social culture and to train young people in Christian living and for service in the Church. It served to fill the gap between the Sunday School and the Church.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
Unidentified young people at coal trestle. Three images on one backing, possibly an album page. Cf. Morris Junior Comet, 1910, for partial identification.
An unidentified group of couples and their dog in a decorated log cabin with insignia and oars linked to the Duluth Yacht Club which was organized in 1890, incorporated 1905, declined, and was absorbed in 1909 by the Duluth Boat Club.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Council Camp provided a summer retreat for Jewish teens. It was administered by the Emanuel Cohen Center. Seated at front is Rhoda (Green) Lewin and behind her, Louis Kahn.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Theater program for a performance at the Bijou Opera House. Program includes advertisements for dozens of local businesses in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library