View is to the northeast from the Moorhead end of the Main Avenue bridge over the Red River. Visible are numerous businesses, mostly saloons, some decorated with flags and bunting, lining the north side of Main Avenue including the Inter-State Saloon, A. J. Rustad's Saloon and the Workingman's Home Hotel. A pile of bridge plank sits on the north side of Main Avenue at left; men and horse-drawn wagons stand on the bridge and street. A clock hangs in the middle of a billboard for General Arthur Cigars at extreme left, reading 9:52 and around the clock are the words "U. S. Observatory Time Hourly By W. U. Tel. Co."
View is to the northeast from the west side of 4th Street North just south of Front Street (Center Avenue). Visible are businesses along the north side of Front Street and the east side of 4th Street North including Ed Smith's Saloon and Palace Clothiers, both in the Gletne Block on the corner, Jacob Kiefer's saloon and Wholesale Liquor business and the Clay County Land Company on Front Street; in the distance at left is visible the domed steeple of Street Joseph's Catholic Church on 4th Street North.
View to the northeast from the south side of Main just west of 6th Street. Businesses visible include Moorhead Oil Company and Lamb Coal Company. On the roof of Lamb Coal Company is painted the company motto, "Why Freeze When Lamb Has Coal?" A horse-drawn wagon at extreme left is marked "U. S. Mail."
View is to the northwest corner of Front Street (Center Avenue) and 4th Street North. Across the intersection stands Houglum Furniture Company, visible to right is The Family Store (men and boys' clothing), A. C. Lochrem's Crystal Restaurant and the Lyceum Theater.
View to the northwest from the south side of Main Avenue just east of 4th Street. Autos=mobiles are parked on streets, rectangular cedar block paving, a traffic sign standing in middle of intersection reads "go to the right." Peter Meehan's Tourist Canteen stands across intersection on corner.
The view is to the southeast from the north side of Front Street (now Center Avenue) just west of 4th Street North. Workers are paving Front Street with cut cedar logs which were placed on end over a fir plank base. On the corner, across the intersection, stands Ole E. Flaten's Photo Gallery. On top of the pole at the corner, a telephone lineman strings wire. Two unidentified young African American men stand in the middle of the intersection.
View is to the southeast from the northeast corner of 2nd Avenue North and 1st Street.Thomas Erdel's Rathskeller Over the Rhine Saloon, recently constructed, stands on the corner across the intersection. Erdel's House is visible through the trees at left.
View to the southeast from the northwest corner of Front (Center Ave) and 4th Street North. On corner across the intersection is Ole E. Flaten's photo studio and to the left is the Moorhead City Hall.
Louis Ford and Sophie Goslin are married by Moorhead Municipal Court Justice Peter Odegaard on the corner of Front Street (Center Avenue) and 4th Street North in Moorhead on September 21, 1898. The view is to the northwest from the top of Ole E. Flaten's photo studio on the southeast corner of Front and 4th streets. Among the spectators are Moorhead Mayor Arthur G. Lewis, in the white pants behind and to the left of Odegaard, members of a uniformed band and several people with bicycles. The wedding was part of a Fall Harvest Festival and decorations include an archway above the intersection made of wheat topped with an American flag. Jack o' lanterns, bunting and decorated animal pens are visible on 4th Street.
View looking east from Fourth Avenue West and Superior Street. The corner is occupied by the Providence office building followed by the Medical Arts, the Torrey, and the Lonsdale on the far corner. Across the avenue is the tallest downtown building the Alworth.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
This postcard shows businesses on the east side of the 200 block of South Minnesota Avenue in St. Peter. The Amundson store at left is at the intersection at Park Row.
Marshall-Wells Hardware merchandise is loaded and ready for delivery to various railroad lines for transport. The first horse-drawn sleigh will take the orders packed into it to the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha depot. The truck behind the sleigh is destined for the Soo Line depot. The next in line will be shipped on the Great Northern railway and the one after that will go to the Northern Pacific. The Union Depot served seven railroads including the GN and NP. It still stands as the St. Louis County Heritage and Arts Center. All of the other depots are gone. The Marshall-Wells Company started in 1886 as Chapin and Wells Company a wholesale hardware business. Albert Morley Marshall, son of Seth, bought controlling interest in 1893 and changed the name to Marshall-Wells Company. The company grew to include 14 wholesale offices throughout the northwestern U.S. and Canada. In 1955 Ambrook Industries Inc. of New York bought controlling interest. Kelley-How-Thomson and Marshall-Wells merged January 1, 1958. Kelley-How-Thomson had been a subsidiary of Marshall-Wells since 1955 when Ambrook bought Marshall-Wells and reorganized. The Coast-to-Coast Stores bought the Duluth division of Marshall-Wells-Kelley-How-Thomson Company in 1958, which ended the Duluth firm's operation. Also in the image are the People's Hotel 246 Lake Avenue South, and the Lyceum Theater billboard.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections