Aerial view of Main Street facing northeast. Photograph taken from Schumachers. Businesses identified include Hadac Market in the red building and City Club Bar.
Aerial view looking north. North south road in photograph is Columbus Avenue. In the center of photo is Saint Wenceslaus School and Saint Wenceslaus Church. On the lower right side is the eighth hole of the New Prague Golf Course. Written on the back of photograph is 'Chuck from Sharkey's plane.'
Image shows an aerial view of city of New Prague facing northwest. On the upper left of the image is the New Prague Mill, the center of the photograph shows the mill pond, and on the lower right is Saint Wenceslaus church.
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 shows view from International Milling Company facing east. On the left is the mill pond. The Farmers Lumber Company and Westerman Lumber Company is located in front of the mill pond.
Opened in 1882 by the Minnesota Mining Company, Breitung pit was part of the first iron ore mine on the Vermillion Range. Ore from this pit made up the first commercial shipment of Minnesota Iron Ore out of the Agate Bay ore docks, Two Harbors, Minnesota July 31, 1884.
This image shows the business district in St. Peter in 1926. The Mason Bros. building is located at 326 South Minnesota Avenue. Note the streetlights in the middle of the avenue and the old cars parked along the curbs and between the streetlights.
This image shows a view of the St. Peter business district, looking to the south along Minnesota Avenue from Park Row. The J. C. Penney Co. store is among the many businesses shown. This postcard negative, marked 408, has been converted to a digital positive image.
This image shows a view of the St. Peter business district in 1965, looking to the south from a location at the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Broadway. This postcard negative, marked 615, has been converted to a digital positive image.
This image shows a view of the St. Peter business district in 1965, looking to the north from a location at the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Mulberry Street. This postcard negative, marked 605, has been converted to a digital positive image.
This image shows a view of the St. Peter business district in 1958, looking to the north from a location at the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Myrtle Street. This postcard negative, marked 1518, has been converted to a digital positive image.
This image shows a view of the St. Peter business district in 1956, looking to the north from a location in front of the Nicollet County Courthouse, near the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Myrtle Street. This postcard negative, marked 516, has been converted to a digital positive image.
This image shows a view of the St. Peter business district in 1951, looking to the north from a location at the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Grace Street. This postcard negative, marked 521A, has been converted to a digital positive image.
This image shows a view of the St. Peter business district in 1951, looking to the south from a location at the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Park Row. This postcard negative, marked 501A, has been converted to a digital positive image.
This image shows a view of the St. Peter business district in 1953, looking to the south from a location near the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Broadway. This postcard negative, marked 513, has been converted to a digital positive image.
View looking east of Cold Spring Granite Company's first steel plant building being erected just south of old main plant buildings. John Alexander and young son, Jack, are pictured left center.
Image taken from bay showing the wooden footings for the first ore dock in Agate Bay. Wooden planks are lined up along the bank, Agate Bay House is the large building in the center of the image. Construction of the ore docks began in 1883.
Pete Kraemer operating one of the electric furnaces at the Cold Spring Granite company. The furnaces were used to make steel shot for use in gang saws and the polishing line. Cold Spring Granite was the only granite company to produce its own shot.
Image shows the Ella G. Stone, predecessor to the Edna G. tugboat pulling a whaleback vessel into the ore docks at Agate Bay. Note the hatches are open on the whaleback.
Image shows Farm Machinery Day on Main Street in front of F.J. Maertz Block Buildings. Businesses identified are Pany Bowling Alley, Pany Saloon,F.J. Maetz and F.Renner General Store. Farm machinery was unloaded from trains to be viewed by the rural community.
Image of a group of men posing for a photograph next to a hoist and derrick system. Man standing on deck tips a steel bucket into a large pile of iron ore. Identified as hoist at Shaft Number 3 at the Cincinnati Mine, first hoist on the Mesabi Range. Mine was owned by the Standard Ore Company of Duluth. Photograph shows the first bucked of ore hoisted from the site.
Hand polishers with pneumatic hand held polishing machines polishing stone in the main Cold Spring Granite Company plant. Three polishers are identified as: Erling Anderson (tall man in front looking sideways), Joe Fink (far right, wearing dark, dirty work clothes) and Carl Norlin (to Fink's right and wearing cleaner clothes).
Herman Nierenhausen holds a bull set while Leonard Deters is in the process of hitting it with a sledgehammer to "strike" a granite slab at Cold Spring Granite Company.
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.
Set of 3 delivery wagons loading in front of J. Schriener and Company General Store (1888-1919). Called the Big Store as all merchandise was purchased in carload lots. Operated by John Schreiner and E.H. Schreiner. The business later evolved into Schreiner Brothers and Molton.
This image shows a view of the St. Peter Business District, looking to the south from the old Ludcke Theater and Opera House, which is visible on the far right. Also visible is the Nicollet Hotel at the end of the same block. Seitzer Ford is next to the hotel. This postcard negative, marked 409, has been converted to a digital positive image.
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.
Image shows the south side of Main Street in New Prague. Businesses identified are: the Prague Theatre, Jeff's Clothing, Remes Drug, and Anthony's Department Store.
Image shows Main Street looking east. Water tower is in backround. The Power plant in the background was razed in 2013. In front of power plant is Rech & Yackley Monument Works.
Image shows Main Street businesses including: Pioneer Saloon, Catholic Workman, Bevcomm, and Marquardt Jewelers. The image is taken from Central Avenue.
Image shows Main Street view facing west. Businesses identified on the right side are: Simmer Furniture and William Dvorak Red Owl Agency. Business identified on the left side of thestreet is the Bisek Grocery Sotre and a drugstore.
Image shows Main Street view facing west. On the right side of the street is the Star Cafe and New Prague Cleaners. On the left side of the street is the New Prague Post Office and the Schanus Cafe.
Inside of the Diamond Pink quarry with quarrymen preparing to hook a slab for removal by derrick. The quarry was located between Waite Park and Rockville, Minnesota.
A view to the south along Minnesota Avenue in St. Peter. A flag flies from the Nicollet Hotel at the intersection with Park Row at right. An encampment of G. A. R. veterans was being held in the city.
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.
This image shows a view of the buildings along the west side of South Minnesota Avenue in St. Peter, beginning with the Nicollet Hotel at the Park Row intersection. Next is the Seitzer Ford automobile dealership. Fourth from the left is the old Ludcke Theater and Opera House. This postcard negative, marked 418, has been converted to a digital positive image.
Interior view of the Holland post office. Man behind the counter identified as Frank Judevine. Shows mailbox cubbies, a mail order window and cards for purchase under glass counter.
Interior view of the Holland post office, behind counter. Two men at sorting counter. Man standing identified as Frank Judevine. Two calendars on wall, either April or May, 1913.
Image of a group of men and children standing on a wooden sidewalk outside of the Iron Port Printing Shop. Second floor contains apartments for the proprietor and his family. The Iron Port was the official paper of Two Harbors and Lake County. Founded by James Coggswell, the newspaper was first published July 11th, 1890.
Interior view of Schreiner Brothers & Moulton Company (1888-1923) interior view. Image of three men standing near a china display. An array of gas light fixtures hang from the ceiling of the store. A piano is covered in the foreground. Wooden railings frame an opening in the floor that looks down on the first level of the store. Store proprietors were E.H. Schreiner and W.N Moulton.
Interior view of Schreiner Brothers & Moulton Company (1888-1923). Image of seven men and four women standing around display cases full of merchandise. Handkerchiefs and other accessories are displayed in glass cases while skirts, scarves, and textiles are displayed along the walls and wooden shelving units holding boxed goods. Gas lights hang from the ceiling, lighting the room. Store proprietors were E.H. Schreiner and W.N Moulton.
Saw 14, side rubbing and polishing machine invented by Patrick Alexander in use in the Cold Spring Granite Company plant and operated by Gilbert Guggenberger.
Image of a steam powered shovel sitting on a railroad track. Land is barren, multiple tracks cross the landscape. Town of Virginia extends beyond the boundaries of the mine, separated by a fence. Note the rows of iron ore cars in the background. Oliver Mining Company owned this mine.