J.C. Oswald & Co., wholesale wines and liquors, was located at 17 Washington Ave N according to the city directory from 1880 to 1900; Nicollet House in background; great street view; streets are unpaved; list of stereographic views by photographer/publisher on verso
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
View of Nicollett Avenue. Note: did not locate a business called Hause and Davis Boots and Shoes in city directories 1885, 1890, 1895. A list of stereographic views by photographer/publisher is on verso.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Street view; unpaved streets with horses and buggies; photographer probably Charles L. Jacoby from address; on backside is stamp from Siddall and Co. Art Book Store and Circulating Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Stereoscope view of Lincoln Avenue looking west from Cascade Street. Image includes view of dirt road lined with early businesses including the Fergus Falls Daily Journal office and Cataract Hotel. Image also includes covered wagons and carriages.
Stereoview of the Lamb Brothers' Brickyard east of Moorhead. View shows rows of hundreds of green bricks drying in sun, workmen dismantling low walls of drying bricks called hacks and loading them on wheel barrows for transport to kiln. Workers building kiln in distance; stacks of cord wood in distance for firing kiln, a worker with a rake-like tool spattering or smoothing green bricks drying in sun; brick molds piled at lower right. Grade of St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway visible in distance.
Landscape view of mill and area; photos probably by stereographic photographer, E. D. Mayo, who worked for Barnett and Record Company (a construction company that built grain elevators). The view includes river, river bank, and neighboring buildings from southeast looking north from east side of river.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Stereoscope view of Lincoln Avenue. Image contains view of the Fergus Falls Meat Market and G. O. Dahl's Hardware Store, dirt street and horses, a wagon and a man standing on boardwalk.
This photograph by Paul B. Gaylord from the 1880s or early 1890s looks to the south from Duluth's hillside to Rice's Point and shows the 1871 railroad roundhouse to the east of Garfield Avenue and the steeple of Second Presbyterian Church at 1515 West Superior Street.
Landscape view; address given for photographer is Merchant Block, 22 Washington Avenue, Minneapolis; building may be the Cataract House Hotel on Sixth Ave South; verso of card is advertising for a number of Minneapolis businesses
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Landscape view; address given for photographer is Merchant Block, 22 Washington Avenue, Minneapolis; building is identified as the Pence Opera House located at Hennepin Ave and 2nd Street; verso of card is advertising for a number of Minneapolis businesses.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
This photograph by Paul B. Gaylord shows the Merchant's Hotel, 202-204 West Superior Street in Duluth after a fire on February 28, 1884. The hotel was designed by architect George Wirth and built in 1882.