Marshall-Wells Hardware merchandise is loaded and ready for delivery to various railroad lines for transport. The first horse-drawn sleigh will take the orders packed into it to the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha depot. The truck behind the sleigh is destined for the Soo Line depot. The next in line will be shipped on the Great Northern railway and the one after that will go to the Northern Pacific. The Union Depot served seven railroads including the GN and NP. It still stands as the St. Louis County Heritage and Arts Center. All of the other depots are gone. The Marshall-Wells Company started in 1886 as Chapin and Wells Company a wholesale hardware business. Albert Morley Marshall, son of Seth, bought controlling interest in 1893 and changed the name to Marshall-Wells Company. The company grew to include 14 wholesale offices throughout the northwestern U.S. and Canada. In 1955 Ambrook Industries Inc. of New York bought controlling interest. Kelley-How-Thomson and Marshall-Wells merged January 1, 1958. Kelley-How-Thomson had been a subsidiary of Marshall-Wells since 1955 when Ambrook bought Marshall-Wells and reorganized. The Coast-to-Coast Stores bought the Duluth division of Marshall-Wells-Kelley-How-Thomson Company in 1958, which ended the Duluth firm's operation. Also in the image are the People's Hotel 246 Lake Avenue South, and the Lyceum Theater billboard.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
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."
The photograph caption reads, "Asphult, 1889-1919." The church building was built in 1890 and vacated in 1965. In 1975 the building was moved to the Pennington County Historical Village in Thief River Falls, Minnesota.
Attendees are gathered in Minnehaha Park. The label on the photo reads: "De Le' Pee Picnic Minnehaha Falls Sept. 2, 1923." In the early 1920's, Catholic deaf people in the Twin Cities organized the De L'Epee Society. This organization was named after Abbe Charles de L'Epee, who was a pioneer in deaf education in France. The man holding a hat and standing third from the left end, is Wesley Lauritsen. The man standing on the right end is Anton Schroeder. The black man standing in back, to the left of center, is Clarence Monroe. The man sitting in the center of the second row, to the left of a woman with a hat in her lap, is Jay Cooke Howard. The second person sitting to the right of Jay Cooke Howard is Dr. James L. Smith. The man sitting on the ground in the first row, with a dog in front of him, is Victor R. Spence.
Panoramic view of men at a baseball game at St. John's University, standing on a baseball field, while people stand nearby to watch, trees in background.
This photograph of the bathing beach at Bde Maka Skain Minneapolis, Minnesota, is found in the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Minneapolis, after page 40. Bde Maka Ska is Dakota for "White Earth Lake," and was previously known as "Lake Calhoun."
A panorama photograph of the Bde Maka Ska bath house and bathing beach in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The photograph is found in the Thirty-third Annual Report of the Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Minneapolis, after page 98. Bde Maka Ska is Dakota for "White Earth Lake," and was previously known as "Lake Calhoun."
Bell Lumber and Pole Yards began business in 1919 treating telephone poles and lumber. The company hired many local men and is still in business today. In mid-1980s, after being declared a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Bell began the process of cleaning up the hazardous chemicals on its property, spending over $10 million to do so and also to rebuild the plant to treat poles and lumber using environmentally clean processes. This panorama view shows the pole treating plant and the large telephone poles treated in the process.
Bell Lumber and Pole Yards began business in 1919, treating telephone poles and lumber. The company hired many local men and is still in business today. In mid-1980s, after being declared a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Bell began the process of cleaning up the hazardous chemicals on its property, spending over $10 million to do so and also to rebuild the plant to treat poles and lumber using environmentally clean processes. This panorama photo shows the pole treating plant and the large telephone poles treated in the process.
Bell Lumber and Pole Yards began business in 1919, treating telephone poles and lumber. The company hired many local men and is still in business today. In mid-1980s, after being declared a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Bell began the process of cleaning up the hazardous chemicals on its property, spending over $10 million to do so and also to rebuild the plant to treat poles and lumber using environmentally clean processes. This panorama photo shows the pole treating plant and the large telephone poles treated in the process.
This panorama photograph is taken from the top of a grain elevator, looking north from near the intersection of First Street and Davis Avenue. The image shows railroad tracks, grain elevators, the water tower, the Fosston Woolen Mills, and the High Shool. The High School was built in 1905 and burned down in 1913. The image also shows residences and other buildings of the town of Fosston.
Hamline University's campus seen from the intersection of Snelling and Hewitt Avenues. The Carnegie Library and University Hall (also known as Old Main) are in the center.
Hamline University's campus from the south. Large building at far left is the first Hancock School. Toward the center of the photograph from left are the Carnegie Library, University Hall (also known as Old Main), Science Hall with the heating plant just in front of it, and Goheen Hall (formerly known as Ladies Hall), with the first gymnasium to the front and right of it.
Panoramic view of Lawrence Hall, Old Main Building, and the Model School in winter, sidewalk leading to one of the buildings, trees and road in foreground.
Panoramic view of Lawrence Hall, Old Main Building, and the Model School in winter, sidewalk leading to one of the buildings, trees and road in foreground.
Panoramic view of Lawrence Hall, Old Main Building, and the Model School in winter, sidewalk leading to one of the buildings, trees and road in foreground.
Panoramic view of Lawrence Hall, Old Main Building, and the Model School in winter, sidewalk leading to one of the buildings, trees and road in foreground.
Taken from across the lake and above the railroad tracks, this wide-angle photograph shows Chisago Lake, Center City, Chisago Lake Church, and the surrounding countryside.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees and cooks posed before mess hall and log buildings in winter.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees, cooks, and camp dog posed before plank buildings in winter.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees, cooks, and camp dogs posed before facilities and trees in winter.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees posed before buildings with blankets hanging on a line in summer.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring portrait of enrollees posing in camp area with health care facilities, labor housing, clotheslines, dirt roads, cart, and paths, in spring.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees with the camp dog, cooks, and instrument posed before facilities in winter.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees and camp dog posed before plank buildings in winter.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees and camp dog posed before camp headquarters and building with ""Lake Sullivan"" sign, in summer.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees and cooks posed before facilities, electric lines and covered truck in spring.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees, cooks, and camp dog posed before facilities, water tower, and trees in summer.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring camp log buildings, barrels, snow sleds, folding chairs, electric lines and enrollee in winter.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of cooks and enrollees, one with an ax, with the camp dog posed before facilities in winter.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees, cooks, and camp dog posed before log buildings in winter.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph featuring some men in camp with facilities, plank buildings, tents, wagons, barrels, car and trucks in winter.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees and cooks posed before buildings and tents in winter.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees, cooks, and camp dogs posed before facilities and musical instrument in winter.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph featuring enrollees, log buildings, mess hall, theater, recreation area, car and roads in summer.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees and cooks posed before log buildings and mess hall in winter.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees and cooks posed before log buildings in winter. Enrollees identified by 1933 - 1940 company roster: Army Personal: William W. Wipf Commanding officer; Lieut. E. B. Badger; Lieut. A. R. Morley; E. Q. Anderson Education Adviser; Raymond Mondor Senior Leader; Elmer H. Butcher Subaltern; Richard W. Honke Camp Physician; C. A. Carlson Chaplain; Rev. Harold R. Bradley Protestant Minister; Rev. Michael F. Popesh Catholic Minister; Forestry Personal: Ralph Snyder Camp Super.; A. B. Jamieson Super; E. N. Bjorgan Tech. Forester; G. W. Plant Tech. Forester; Emil Kukachka Junior Forester; J. W. Sullivan Engineer; Albert J. Griffith Engineering Aide; E. Elsner Foreman; O. E. Sundberg Foreman; W. O. Braun Foreman; M. F. Swart Foreman; Sam Zimmerman Junior Foreman; Jerome Volsted Junior Foreman; Walter J. Barthiaume Junior Foreman;Joseph E. Fjelde Squad Foreman; Horace Cann Senior Foreman; Carl Hauer Mechanic; Enrollees: Akin, Charles; Blaksly, William; Bondason, Dick; Claney, Olifford; Day, Charles; DeMaster, Tony; Demmick, Kenneth; Hamiel, Willard; Haniel, Edward; Johnson, Owen; Jones, Russell; Kramer, Louis; Lantz, Eilmur; Looky, Robert; Love, Charles; MacDonald, Jack; Maraur, Frank; Harz, Stanley; K Knight, Robert; McLaughlin, Edward; Miles, Joseph; Miller, Robert; Mondor, Raymond; O?Neal, James; Peterson, Norman; Pieper, Harold; Piersch, Clayton; Roberts, Louis; Roettger, August; Roettger, Harold; Rustad, Norman; Sanderson, Warren; Wagner, Donald.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees, medical personnel posed before camp bell and log buildings in spring. Photograph includes the following identified enrollees: 4th Row from Bottom: Snell, Bill; Maki, Eugene. Other enrollees identified by 1933 - 1940 company roster: Army Personal: William W. Wipf Commanding officer; Lieut. E. B. Badger; Lieut. A. R. Morley; E. Q. Anderson Education Adviser; Raymond Mondor Senior Leader; Elmer H. Butcher Subaltern; Richard W. Honke Camp Physician; C. A. Carlson Chaplain; Rev. Harold R. Bradley Protestant Minister; Rev. Michael F. Popesh Catholic Minister. Forestry Personal: Ralph Snyder Camp Super.; A. B. Jamieson Super; E. N. Bjorgan Tech. Forester; G. W. Plant Tech. Forester; Emil Kukachka Junior Forester; J. W. Sullivan Engineer; Albert J. Griffith Engineering Aide; E. Elsner Foreman; O. E. Sundberg Foreman; W. O. Braun Foreman; M. F. Swart Foreman; Sam Zimmerman Junior Foreman; Jerome Volsted Junior Foreman; Walter J. Barthiaume, Junior Foreman; Joseph E. Fjelde Squad Foreman; Horace Cann Senior Foreman; Carl Hauer Mechanic. Enrollees: Akin, Charles; Blaksly, William; Bondason, Dick; Claney, Olifford; Day, Charles; DeMaster, Tony; Demmick, Kenneth; Hamiel, Willard; Haniel, Edward; Johnson, Owen; Jones, Russell; Kramer, Louis; Lantz, Eilmur; Looky, Robert; Love, Charles; MacDonald, Jack; Maraur, Frank; Harz, Stanley; KcKnight, Robert; McLaughlin, Edward; Miles, Joseph; Miller, Robert; Mondor, Raymond; O?Neal, James; Peterson, Norman; Pieper, Harold; Piersch, Clayton; Roberts, Louis; Roettger, August; Roettger, Harold; Rustad, Norman; Sanderson, Warren; Wagner, Donald.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees and cooks posed before health care facilities in summer.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees and ethnic group posed before log buildings in winter. Captain G. R. Eggleston, Commanding Officer.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees posed before Health Care facilities, buildings, gasoline pump, truck and car in summer.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees, cooks, and camp dog posed before facilities and trees in winter.
Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees, cooks, and camp dog posed before log building in spring.