This young man is holding a box camera, sitting on a fallen tree. Perhaps he arrived across the reedy bay by the canoe that is drawn upon the shore. Message says friends waved their kerchiefs as the train passed by.
This is a view from Wayzata of Breezy Point on Lake Minnetonka, from Edward A. Bromley Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a reprint of a much earlier photo (circa 1860 - 1870).
An Independence Day celebration in Baudette. A large crowd on a dock watches a man walking on a log suspended over the Rainy River. There are several boats on the river.
View of Hotel Del Otero from Lake Minnetonka shows the bathhouse and casino on the shoreline with boats pulled up on the beach, G.F. Hopkins and Company, Proprietors, postmarked 1906.
Color added to this view of Swift Point in Cottagewood (Deephaven) from Katahdin Point. This could be the Lucian Swift home, owner or the old Minneapolis Journal.
"The Waterwitch" steamboat full of passengers in the Dunton Lock Pelican Valley Canal near Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). Ben People is the captain standing on the bow of the boat. The boat is on the Muskrat side of Dunton Locks which is between Lake Sallie and Muskrat Lake.
The Narrows bridge spans the channel connecting the Upper Lake with Lower Lake Minnetonka. The north side of the channel is in the town of Orono, and its south side is in Tonka Bay.
The Minnetonka which won the Duluth Cup Race on August 12th, making 30 miles per hour, was built by the Moore Boat Works in Wayzata, Minnetonka. It is powered by a 125 H.P. high speed Campbell motor, inset photo of motor.
View of Spring Park Bay from the porch of the Hotel Del Otero on Lake Minnetonka shows islands in the distance and boats moored near shore, hand colored work. The message includes a hand-drawn tent, postmarked 1906.
Postcard that reads ""Bathing beach and 'Shoot the Chutes' at Pleasant Point, Shoreham, gives a good view of the slide."" from Pleasant Point House, Shoreham, Minnesota.