Elevator and Lake Superior & Mississippi Depot, Stillwater, MN. Elevator was erected in 1870 and has a capacity of 38,000 bushels. Lake Superior & Mississippi Division of the Northern Pacific Railroad was completed to Stillwater in 1871.
Stereoview of farmers with wagons drawn by teams of horses and oxen piled with bags of wheat wait to unload at Bruns' and Finkle's Elevator A on Front Street (Center Avenue) and 6th Street in Moorhead. The view is to the southeast from Front and 5th Street. Cord wood is visible stacked up at left and on flat cars on the Northern Pacific Railway tracks in distance at right. Farmers at the elevator can be seen manually dumping bags of wheat into hoppers on the north side of the elevator. A cloud of steam blows out of a pipe above the powerhouse on the right end of the elevator. Houses in south Moorhead are visible in distance beyond the elevator.
Stereographic photographer, E. D. Mayo, worked for Barnett and Record Co., a construction company that built grain elevators; red tile was a common construction material for early elevators; photos shows detail on the construction of the elevator.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Aerial view with unidentified men walking on top of structure overlooking possibly Minneapolis; first reinforced concrete elevator was the single silo Peavey-Haglin in St. Louis Park. A stereographic photographer E. D. Mayo worked for Barnett and Record Co which was a construction company that built grain elevators.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Elevator is identified as the Electric Steel Elevator. Two of this company's elevators were constructed in 1901 for the American Bridge Company and 1903 for the Minneapolis Steel and Machine Company. Note: the photograph misidentified the location in St. Paul and St. Anthony Park.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Interior view of a flour mill in Minneapolis or Duluth. Image probably by stereographic photographer, E. D. Mayo, who worked for Barnett and Record Company, a construction company that built grain elevators.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Interior view of a flour mill in Minneapolis. Image probably by stereographic photographer, E. D. Mayo, who worked for Barnett and Record Company, a construction company that built grain elevators.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Interior view of a flour mill in Minneapolis. Image probably by stereographic photographer, E. D. Mayo, who worked for Barnett and Record Company, a construction company that built grain elevators.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library