Physical Format: Stereographs / Date Created: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1865">1865</span>

1. American Scenery; 874 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1865 - 1880
Description:: Nicollet is misspelled; unpaved street, power pole is visible; horse and wagon with driver and pedestrians are visible; from a series by Webster and Albee, Rochester, New York.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

2. American Views; New H Series; Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1860 - 1880
Description:: Nicollet Avenue is unpaved; buildings may include the G. F. Warner building on far right with mansard roof, and the Grand Opera House in center of block; on verso of card is written in pencil, BRK-484.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

3. Bridge Square

Date Created:: 1860 - 1870
Description:: Early street view of Bridge Square area (Hennepin, Nicollet, Washington Avenues); unpaved streets.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

4. Early town view, St. Peter, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1865 - 1885
Description:: This stereo photo shows an early view of St. Peter that includes the saw mill owned by Col. B. F. Pratt. The Minnesota river is in the foreground.
Contributing Institution:: Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

5. Edward D. Neill, founder and first President of Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1850 - 1890
Description:: Stereograph of Edward Duffield Neill, founder and first president of Macalester College, sitting in the parlor of his home on Summit Avenue.
Contributing Institution:: Macalester College
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

6. Fairy Falls, near Stillwater, Minnesota

Creator:: Sinclair, James
Date Created:: 1860 - 1890
Description:: Fairy Falls, north of downtown Stillwater near Highway 95.
Contributing Institution:: Stillwater Public Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

7. Falls of St. Anthony, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1860 - 1865
Description:: View across the falls towards the village of St. Anthony; in background are buildings including the Winslow House.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

8. Florence Mill on Second Street, Stillwater, Minnesota

Creator:: Sinclair, James
Date Created:: 1860 - 1890
Description:: Florence Mill on Second Street in Stillwater, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Stillwater Public Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

9. Fort Snelling, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1851 - 1870
Description:: litho print, may be hand-colored; view of Fort Snelling from the Mississippi River from opposite shore looking up towards the Round House and Barracks with ferryboat crossing the river; man standing in foreground on shore
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

10. Gems of Minnesota Scenery; Falls of St. Anthony, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1860 - 1865
Description:: Falls of St. Anthony with people sitting on a rock slab; may be looking towards village of St. Anthony; Whitney's Gallery is located in St. Paul, distributed by Martin's Art Gallery also in St. Paul
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

11. Glimpses of the Great West; No. 927: The Falls of St. Anthony, on the Mississippi River, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1860 - 1865
Description:: View of the Government Mills (sawmill) and falls; card has a postage stamp on verso.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

12. Holcomb Block, Stillwater, Minnesota

Creator:: Sinclair, James
Date Created:: 1860 - 1870
Description:: Holcomb Block, Chestnut and Main Streets, Stillwater, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Stillwater Public Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

13. Log Rafts on the St. Croix River, Stillwater, Minnesota

Creator:: Sinclair, James
Date Created:: 1860 - 1890
Description:: Logs were shipped by rail from northern Minnesota to Stillwater and made into rafts. They were then floated down the St. Croix and Mississippi Rivers. The rafts usually consisted of 8 to 10 strings of logs fastened side by side, each string measuring 16 across and about 400 feet long. Some of these enormous rafts stretched 4 or 5 acres in size.
Contributing Institution:: Stillwater Public Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

14. Looking north on Main Street, Stillwater, Minnesota

Creator:: Sinclair, James
Date Created:: 1860 - 1890
Description:: Looking north on Main Street from the top of the Main Street stairs.
Contributing Institution:: Stillwater Public Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

15. Lumber rafts on the St. Croix River, Stillwater, Minnesota

Creator:: Sinclair, James
Date Created:: 1860 - 1890
Description:: Lumber was rafted downstream from Stillwater. Boards were arranged in cribs or heavy crates, each 16 feet wide and 32 feet long. A lumber raft might contain as many as 200 cribs.
Contributing Institution:: Stillwater Public Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

16. McKusick Home, Stillwater, Minnesota

Creator:: Sinclair, James
Date Created:: 1860 - 1890
Description:: McKusick Home, corner of Second and Myrtle Street, Stillwater. The post office was erected in this location in 1905.
Contributing Institution:: Stillwater Public Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

17. Merchant Block, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:: Brown, William
Date Created:: 1860 - 1890
Description:: 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
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

18. Merchant Block, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:: Brown, William
Date Created:: 1860 - 1880
Description:: 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
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

19. Mills of Washington Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:: Brown, William
Date Created:: 1865 - 1875
Description:: Train cars and tracks, unpaved streets wooden framed buildings are all in view from this early aerial view of Minneapolis.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

20. Minne-ha-ha Laughing Water, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:: Zimmerman, Charles A.
Date Created:: 1860 - 1875
Description:: View of Minnehaha Creek. Charles A. Zimmerman's address is on Third Street in St Paul.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

21. Nicollet Island, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1860 - 1880
Description:: View of a house located on Nicollet Island in the Mississippi River.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

22. Photo identified as [Minneapolis] Sash and Door on the right and Minnesota Iron Works on the left; St Anthony Falls and debris in foreground, [Minneapolis, Minnesota]

Date Created:: 1860 - 1880
Description:: Landscape view; card gift from Scott McGinnis.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

23. Pineries of Minnesota (On the drive); Views of Minnesota and the Northwest [Minneapolis, Minnesota]

Creator:: Fearon, R. N.
Date Created:: 1865 - 1875
Description:: Pine logs cut to length lying in the forest.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

24. Presbyterian Church, Stillwater, Minnesota

Creator:: Sinclair, James
Date Created:: 1860 - 1890
Description:: Presbyterian Church on Third Street facing north.
Contributing Institution:: Stillwater Public Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

25. Rear of Pioneers Saw Mill at St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1850 - 1865
Description:: exterior view of mill and falls.
Contributing Institution:: Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Stereographs

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