This postcard shows a view of the Broadway Bridge across the Minnesota River at St. Peter. This swing bridge, used from 1887 to 1929, could be turned in order to allow the passage of riverboats.
This postcard mainly shows the vehicle bridge over Spring Lake, east of St. Peter. However, some of the piers of the railroad bridge beyond can also be seen. East is at left.
This image was made from a glass plate negative. It shows a view of the Broadway Bridge across the Minnesota River at St. Peter. This negative was used to produce postcards.
This is a view of the west end of the Broadway Bridge over the Minnesota River at St. Peter, along Highway 99. The bridge was completed about 1930. This postcard negative, marked 3709, has been converted to a digital positive image.
This photograph shows the Broadway Bridge over the Minnesota River at St. Peter in 1908, a year of extensive flooding along the river. The bridge was constructed in order to permit it to turn to allow the passage of riverboats. It spanned the river from about 1887 to about 1930. Notice the two grain elevators in the distance in Le Sueur County.
This image shows the Broadway Bridge over the Minnesota River at St. Peter. This postcard negative, marked 4199, has been converted to a digital positive image.
This postcard shows the Broadway bridge over the Minnesota river at St. Peter. In the foreground is the western end of the bridge. A portion of the bridge deck collapsed in 1929 as a truck was being driven across it, leading to the construction of a new bridge at the same site.
This postcard shows a view of the Broadway Bridge over the Minnesota River at St. Peter. The top portion of a grain elevator east of the river is visible.
This postcard shows a view of the Broadway Bridge over the Minnesota River at St. Peter. A grain elevator, the railroad depot, and a train pulled by a steam locomotive are visible in the distance.
This postcard shows a view of the Broadway Bridge over the Minnesota River. The photo was taken from a location on the west side of the river, north of the bridge, at the time of a flood.
This photograph shows people standing on the Broadway Bridge in St. Peter in April of 1897 at the time of a Minnesota River flood. Two grain elevators are visible to the east beyond the bridge.
This photograph shows the Broadway Bridge over the Minnesota River at St. Peter. The swing bridge, which was used from 1887 to 1929, is shown in the open position.
This postcard shows a view of the Broadway bridge over the Minnesota River in St. Peter. The building in the distance is on the east side of the river.
St. Peter's first high school is shown in the center of this photograph. The railroad bridge is the one that crossed the Minnesota River near the St. Peter State Hospital. The other bridge is the vehicular bridge across the river at Broadway. The building at the top and center is a bakery, but the other buildings have not been identified.
This image shows a view of the Minnesota River and a portion of the Broadway Bridge at St. Peter. This postcard negative, marked 3710, has been converted to a digital positive image.
Portrait of a woman in a hat and a long dress standing on a pedestrian bridge that crosses the railroad tracks on the grounds of the St. Peter State Hospital.
This postcard shows a view of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad bridge across the Minnesota River south of St. Peter. The railroad passed through the grounds of the St. Peter State Hospital.
This postcard shows a view of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad bridge across the Minnesota River at St. Peter. This steel bridge was located between Kasota and the St. Peter State Hospital.
A view of the first railroad bridge across the Minnesota River at St. Peter. It served the Winona and St. Peter Railroad. This wooden bridge was located between Kasota and the St. Peter State Hospital. The image is a reproduction made from an earlier photograph.
View of the Winona and St. Peter Railroad bridge over the Minnesota River at St. Peter. The St. Peter State Hospital was the first stop beyond the west side of the bridge.
A view of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad bridge across the Minnesota River near the St. Peter State Hospital. The swing bridge is shown in an open position, which would allow the passage of a riverboat.
This photograph shows the riverboat Henrietta at the Broadway Bridge in St. Peter in 1897. The swing bridge is shown in the open position in order to permit the passage of the riverboat. This was the last riverboat to reach St. Peter.
A view of the bridge across Spring Lake, east of St. Peter. This negative was used to produce postcards. This image was made from a glass plate negative.
Flood water from the Minnesota River invaded farm buildings in the area of Spring Lake east of St. Peter in this 1965 image. The view, taken from Highway 99, is toward the south.
View of the highway bridge and the railroad bridge that crossed Spring Lake east of St. Peter. The railroad bridge is in the foreground, and the highway bridge is in the distance to the north.
View of a steam locomotive crossing the railroad trestle across Spring Lake east of St. Peter in the Spring of 1903. The railroad was the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha.
The new bridge across the Minnesota River at Broadway in St. Peter is shown next to the old bridge, which was built about 1887. The old bridge partially collapsed in 1929, making the construction of a new bridge a necessity.