Two children are sitting on piles of bricks at the rear of the destroyed Rochester Harvester Works building. Piles of lumber and bricks surround the children. The tornado struck Rochester in the early evening of Aug. 21, 1883.
The destroyed C. Smith's residence is shown with the roof on the ground. In front of the collapsed building in a pile of rubble is a boot and a stove. The tornado struck Rochester in the early evening of Aug. 21, 1883.
Cole's Mill , located in North Rochester, lost part of the roof and sections of the walls in the 1883 tornado. The tornado struck Rochester in the early evening of Aug. 21, 1883.
The destroyed Proud's residence is shown in this photo with the wagon wheels among the debris in the front. The tornado struck Rochester in the early evening of Aug. 21, 1883.
A man is leaning against a wall of the Weber's residence. Another wall lies flat on the ground and the roof is missing. The tornado struck Rochester in the early evening of Aug. 21, 1883.
This stereocard shows a view to the east from St. Peter during the flood on the Minnesota river in April of 1881. A portion of the bridge across the river at Broadway is visible in the foreground.
This stereocard shows a view to the west toward St. Peter during the flood on the Minnesota river in April of 1881. The bridge across the river at Broadway is at far right.
This stereo view of the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Bridge over the Minnesota River shows the St. Peter State Hospital in the distance. A building and large piles of wood are visible below the bridge.
hot air balloon on ground with a crowd of men gathered around it; photographer Farr is listed in city directory starting in 1880/81 at 428 Nicollet address by 1885/86 is listed at 609 Washington Ave S; list of stereographic views by photographer/publisher on verso
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Street scene; streets are unpaved; can identify the first suspension bridge in background; places of business include a building advertising furniture.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Aerial view looking from St. Anthony side of river; first suspension bridge; log jams; lumber stacked up on Nicollet Island, town of Minneapolis with mills, houses, businesses in background.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Washington Avenue looking south in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). Written on the back of the image is "Detroit Lakes, Minnesota-1873, Washington Avenue, looking south-westside, Dave Carson's Drug Store at extreme left, box car on N.P. Railroad Track".
Stereoview view from top of Moorhead Manufacturing Flour Mill, Main Avenue and Red River looking east between Main Avenue and 2nd Avenue South in October 1880. Buildings visible include the Moorhead school and First Presbyterian Church at right, Ole E. Flaten and Jacob Skrivseth's photo studio in foreground and Bruns' and Finkle's Elevator A at left; also visible are St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway workmen laying ties and rails down Main Avenue at left.
View from top of Bruns' and Finkle's Elevator A, Front Street (Center Avenue) and 6th Street. View looks west down Northern Pacific Railway tracks to Fargo, Dakota Territory in distance; view shows south side of Moorhead including Moorhead Manufacturing Flour Mill in distance at left, the NP passenger depot at right, a ditch known as Mud Creek running along south side of NP tracks to Red River, wooden bridges crossing Mud Creek on 4th and 5th Streets and an outhouse perched on south edge of Mud Creek.
Stereoview to the northwest from the top of Brun's and Finkle's Elevator A at Front Street and 6th Street North. View shows wood frame businesses along the north side of Front Street between 5th and 3rd Streets. City Park on the southwest corner of Front Street and 5th Street. Stacks of cord wood across 5th Street to the east. See also mhs06871.
Stereoview of row boats on the river while a group of men and boys sit in shade of large tree in foreground. View may be to the north across Red River from Moorhead bank below the home of Andrew Holes at 7th Street and 1st Avenue North.
Stereoview of a number of boys play in a water filled ditch on the north side of the Northern Pacific Railway tracks in Moorhead. The view is to the east from 6th Street. A boy in the foreground puts on his shoes; two men stand on the platform of the Northern Pacific freight depot in the distance; a snow bank is visible on the north side of a shed on the right; box cars stand on the Northern Pacific tracks at extreme right; visible at extreme left is the recently constructed three-story Jay Cooke House Hotel.
Stereoview to the north from the Moorhead side of the Red River near Woodlawn Park toward the Northern Pacific Railway bridge. Visible in the center distance; a man fishing with a stick stands on a log at right holding a stringer of fish, a rope stretches across the river from the lower left foreground to the Fargo, Dakota Territory bank at left. Cord wood cut upstream has drifted down into the rope. Workers on the far bank load wood onto a small ox-drawn railroad car on rails to be hauled up on the bank; stacks of wood are visible on the bank above.
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.
Stereoview of the first St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway train to arrive at Moorhead in late 1880. Locomotive number 34 pulling coal tender and three cars in snow. Men stand leaning out of cab, behind cab and alongside locomotive.
Stereoview of golf ball sized hailstones piled on the wooden sidewalk from storm of June 22, 1880 in Moorhead. The hailstorm broke nearly every north facing window in town including the skylight at Ole. E. Flaten's photo studio.
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.
Stereoview of a man in suit and fur hat at right directs workers loading bags of wheat from wagons into St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway boxcars in Moorhead.
Stereoview of people in boats, on bank and on bridge pose during Red River flood of 1881 or 1882. View is to the northwest from just south of Moorhead end of Northern Pacific Railway bridge to Fargo, Dakota Territory; visible in distance beyond bridge is stern of the U. S. government dredge the "Unser Fritz."
Stereoview of workers constructing a loading dock and railroad spur line to Seymour Sabin Warehouse and agricultural equipment assembly plant at Steamboat Levee on Red River in Moorhead. The Red River and the Steamboat "J. L. Grandin" is visible in the distance at extreme left. Moorhead's Point neighborhood visible in distance at right; view is to the north from the Moorhead side of the Red River.
Stereoview of the steamboat "J. L. Grandin" at Grandin Lines elevator in Fargo, Dakota Territory during the Red River flood of 1881 or 1882. View to northwest from Moorhead side of river.
Stereoview to west from the Moorhead side of the Red River at the Steamboat Levee. The Alsop Brothers' single decked sidewheel "Pluck" is tied up to opposite bank facing upstream. The railroad spur line and Alsop Line Warehouse is further up bank just beyond; also visible is Grandin Lines' grain elevator on Fargo bank at right.
Stereoview of St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway workers shown laying track east of Moorhead in October 1880. Two crews hold and prepare to lay rails on ties at left while horse-drawn car behind carries rails and materials.
Detroit Primary School in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). Written on the back is "Primary School, north side, Teacher Angie Brigam, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota".
This photograph by Paul B. Gaylord and Edward A. Thompson shows the Clark House, Duluth's second hotel, which opened in July of 1870 on the 100 block of West Superior Street; it was destroyed by fire on November 16, 1881.