The Justice of the Peace docket is a handwritten record of civil and criminal cases heard by Justices of the Peace in Otsego, Minnesota from 1884 to 1921. These records include the names of plaintiffs and defendants, arresting constables, evidence presented, and judgments made. These details reflect local values, customs, and personalities. Included are Justices of the Peace: Z. L. Case, Charles Snow, A. W. Praught, A. Plaisance, Joseph McDonald, D. W. M Leod, and Edson Washburn, Jr. Also included are Constables A. J. Wood, L. B. Hamlet, Barnard Duffy, W. H. LaPlant, Theodore Aydt, Edmund Fisetle, and J. A. McEachern.
Tron Midtaune's home built in 1882. They lived in this for nine years. Six children born in this time. Andrew Hexum standing near the corner. Mrs. Jens Ramlo (Christine Midtaune) and Caroline Midtaune at the door. Tron Midtaune is near the door.
Charles Forbes was Professor Natural Sciences at Macalester College from 1885-1892. The photograph is of the interior of his house on Summit Avenue in St. Paul. He is seated in the chair by the fireplace. Two of his children are also in the photograph. The oil painting over the fireplace is of the schooner yacht "America", painted by Dr. Forbes.
Charles Forbes was Professor of Natural Sciences at Macalester College from 1885-1892. The photograph is of the interior of his house on Summit Avenue in St. Paul. His wife, "Libbie Bruff Forbes" is seated in the photograph.
Exterior view of original Old Main building at Macalester College with a young man in foreground. From the estate of William Porter Lee, Macalester class of 1889.
View is to the southeast from the Moorhead side of the Red River from just north of present Center Avenue Bridge. Low water level in river, there is a mud bar visible in the middle of the channel in the foreground. On the extreme left the Alsop Line's grain elevator is just visible, a barge is tied up next to it. Two other barges and the Alsop Line's steamboat "Pluck" are tied up to the Moorhead bank in the distance. Also visible is the Northern Pacific Railway bridge, the Moorhead Manufacturing Company Flour Mill and the Main Avenue bridge at extreme right.
View is to the northwest from Front Street (Center Avenue) and 9th Street. The Grand Pacific Hotel stands across the intersection. At extreme right is visible the platform for the Great Northern Railway, the Hotel also served as the GNR passenger depot.
Outside view of the Hotel Lewis owned by Mary Lewis in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). Two men, one woman and two children are standing on the porch and there is one adult standing on the upper porch of the hotel.
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.
First bridge over the Mississippi River that connected Anoka and Champlin, MN. The original bridge was constructed in 1884 and stood until 1929 when the current Anoka-Champlin bridge was completed.
Records of children admitted to the orphanage between May 1865 and November 1885. Entries are loosely chronological and include child's name and date of admission. Some entries include child's age and reason for admission. Separate entries give information on dismissal dates and reasons.
Portrait photograph of J. A. Kiester. Kiester was an early settler-lawyer, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives and Minnesota State Senate. He was also an Episcopalian, Freemason and Faribault County historian.
Photograph of the memorial bouquets and wreaths from Sam K. Halvorson's funeral. One wreath features a ribbon which reads, "Father." Bolow a photographic portrait of Halvorson is a bracket which reads, "At Rest."
Business district at the northwest corner of River and St. Paul Streets in Preston. The "A. L. Sleyster Photo Artist" studio is visible as well as signs for "Groceries," "Restaurant," and "Confectionery."
The Nelson Store was located on First Avenue, where the present day American Legion now stands. The N.C. Nelson General Store was the first store in Agate Bay, Minnesota, now known as Two Harbors.
Image of the tugboat, Ella G. Stone, anchored off of the rocky shoreline in Burlington Bay. The Ella G. Stone was the first Duluth and Iron Range Company Tug used to supply workers and materials to build railroads and ore docks in Two Harbors (1883-1896).
Image of people lined up on dock and outside deck of Ossifrage. Large dock owned by the Weiland Family, a prosperous family that owned and operated a lumber company out of Beaver Bay (1860-1883). Steam ships would tie up to the Weiland dock, bringing passengers and supplies to the town.
Ice harvesting at Agate Bay. Bays in Lake Superior regularly froze in the cold winter months. Jacob Rafin Senior is seated on the sled. Town of Two Harbors in the background.
Image of Dodge, a lumber or mining camp, set into a forested area. Note the stumps are waiting to be burned to level the land around the constructed buildings. May have been a lumber camp near Lake County, Minnesota.
Image shows freshly cleared dirt road lined with clapboard sided single story structures. The Old Two Harbors courthouse is on the right side of the image.
Image of a group of men standing outside of the Agate Bay House. Painted sign underneath the decorative peak on the covered porch. This was utilized as a boarding house for railroad workers. Also pictured is an intersection of a wooden sidewalk, one of the first built in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Managers are Brown, Butler, and Blake standing on the right side of the covered porch.
Image of a group of men posing for a photograph outside of a large wooden building. A few carry large packs, some carry snow shoes. May have been a lumber camp identified as Dodge Camp near Lake County, Minnesota.
This composite photograph shows the faculty and student body of Augsburg Seminary during one of the years in the 1880s. Note the fluted ""ruff"" collar that was typical for clergymen to wear in the Dano-Norwegian Lutheran church tradition.
A photograph of the Ann River Logging company with the largest load of logs hauled. Weighing 37,120 pounds with 56 logs. Three men and four horses hauling.
A photograph of six men on different machines. A water wagon, threshing machine, leaded bundle wagon, one empty bundle wagon and four teams of horse's.
A photograph of a steam tractor, horses pulling a water wagon, several men, threshing machine, horse drawn buggy, team of horses pulling a grain wagon. Included in the photograph is Truman and Louis Erdahl on the water wagon.
A photograph of eight Lumberjacks from a lumber camp including Nels Johnson, the camp operator on the right, the camp cook, Jonas Peter Nelson and his son Gene Nelson and Arthur Deunewith holding the horse.
A photographic glass plate of the L.E. Dennewith General Merchandise Store Front in Grass Lake Minnesota with six unidentified people in the front, two horse buggies off to the left hand side and six people directly in front of the store.