Display of the T.H. Lewis Collection of artifacts. These were artifacts taken from Native American burial mounds in the Mississippi River basin, and put on display for a short time at Macalester College. Macalester founder and first President Edward D. Neill was one of the first excavators of the mounds at Burial Mounds Park in St. Paul, Minnesota, and described some of the objects in this collection.
Interier view of chemistry laboratory, with benches and rows of glass bottles. Possibly the first chemistry laboratory on Macalester's campus, in Moss Hall, an early fire-proof building on campus erected specifically for chemistry.
Stereoview of band and two men carrying large flags lead a parade celebrating Sytende Mai or Norwegian Constitution Day on May 17, 1880. The view is northwest on 4th Street from the Main Avenue. Behind the flags and band are members of Moorhead's Advance Lodge of the IOOF (International Order of Odd Fellows) wearing vests adorned with six stars. Also present are members of the Fargo, Dakota Territory fire department.
View is to the north on the Red River from the Moorhead bank near Woodlawn Park. The South (Main Avenue) bridge is visible in the distance. A man is fishing seated in a boat tied to the riverbank.
Interior of an unidentified Moorhead saloon. Two a bartender in front of a mirrored back bar; at left stands a man wearing a bowler hat; a cash register sits on the back bar. Stacked beer kegs are visible reflected in the mirror.
About twenty men stand on the sidewalk in front of Fred Ambs' saloon on Front Street (Center Avenue) between 4th and 5th Streets North; the view is to the northeast from the top of Ole E. Flaten's photo studio on the corner of Front and 4th Streets; one man leans in the doorway holding a broom.
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 is to the northeast of Front Street (Center Avenue) just west of 5th Street North. Businesses visible include American State Bank acrossthe intersection and Kieffer Chevrolet.
View is to the northeast of Front Street (Center Avenue) between 4th and 5th Streets. On the sidewalk on the south side of Front Street is a boy in a wagon and two girls eating ice cream; above them is a sign for J. J. Le Vitre's Harley Davidson Motorcycle Shop. Other businesses include C. I. Evanson's Grocery and Melberg's Department store in the distance across Front Street.
View is to the northeastof Front Street (Center Ave.) between 5th and 6th Streets. Businesses visible include Duncan MacNab's Pharmacy in the three-story Masonic Block across Front Street and Moorhead National Bank across 6th Street.
View to the northeast from the south side of Front Street (Center Ave.) just west of 4th Street North. A Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway streetcar marked "State Teachers' College" is heading east on Front Street away from the camera. Businesses include the Minnesota Army Store and Palace Clothier's across Front Street and J. J. Le Vitre's Motorcycle Shop, Ole E. Flaten's photo gallery and M. Evanson's Tailor Shop.
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.
Moorhead Foundry, Car & Agricultural Works was built on Moorhead's east side in 1882 to manufacture railroad cars and parts, threshing machines and other iron products. It was never a success and investors sold it to a St. Cloud wagon maker. It became Anderson and Sons, builders of harrows, farm wagons and bobsleds. It closed in 1892.
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 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.
View is to the northwest from the top of Bruns' and Finkle's Elevator A at Front (Center Ave) and 6th Street North. Visible are businesses along the north side of Front Street between 4th and 5th Streets North incluiding Moorhead City Hall and Fire Station. In the foreground at left is Moorhead's Point neighborhood in distance at right and Fargo, Dakota Territory in the distance at left. This is the same scene as the one photographed Ole E. Flaten in 1879. See mhs06865.
The view is to the south from the Moorhead side of the Red River looking toward the Northern Pacific Railway bridge; The steamboat Pluck is tied up on the Fargo, Dakota Territory side of the Red River; two barges heavily loaded with agricultural equipment and shingles are tied alongside, one is named Winnipeg; a flatboat partially loaded with lumber is along the Moorhead bank in the foreground. In the distance on the Fargo bank workmen load lumber from railroad cars onto flatboats. Beyond, a temporary wagon bridge spans the river beneath the Northern Pacific railroad bridge. Beyond the railroad bridge is the Moorhead Manufacturing Company Flour Mill, at extreme right is partially visible the Alsop Line's Warehouse.
Fargo Moorhead Electric Street Railway streetcar number 5 turns off Front Street (Center Avenue) onto 4th Street North in downtown Moorhead. The view is to the northeast of Front Street just east of 4th Street. Visible beyond the streetcar is Pederson Brothers' Mercantile Company wholesale liquor distributing business and, in the distance at right, I. C. Week's grocery store.
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.
Parade for unidentified circus turns off Front Street (Center Avenue) onto 4th Street North in downtown Moorhead. 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. Spectators watch from the sidewalks as a gilded wagon pulled by 24 horses carrying a uniformed band goes around the corner while a second decorated wagon follows behind. Visible across the intersection is Pederson Brothers' Mercantile Company building, undergoing remodeling and, at left, the Moorhead Daily News Publishing Company building.
Moorhead's municipally owned Artesian water wells, Numbers 1, 2, and 3 located on 11th Street and 1st Avenue North. Homes located on 12th Street North are visible at right. View is to the north.
View is to north from the Moorhead side of the Red River showing the wreckage after a steam tractor, separator, water tank and a team of horses fell through Main Avenue bridge on April 15, 1902. Two men were injured and the horses were killed.
View is to the west from the Moorhead side of the Red River. About 16 children stand on Moorhead bank at left and wade in the river. Tree foliage indicates this was a summer rain flood.
View is to the northwest from the Northern Pacific Railway tracks and 8th Street North in Moorhead. Visible is the three-story Comstock Hotel on Front (Center Avenue) and 8th Streets and Stodder Park at left.
View is to the southeast from west side of 7th Street South just north of 2nd Avenue South showing the recently completed Trinity Lutheran Church on southeast corner. Adjacent houses on 2nd Avenue South and 7th Street South are also visible.
View is to the southeast from the Moorhead side of the Red River from just north of present Center Avenue Bridge. Low water level in river, there is a mud bar visible in the middle of the channel in the foreground. On the extreme left the Alsop Line's grain elevator is just visible, a barge is tied up next to it. Two other barges and the Alsop Line's steamboat "Pluck" are tied up to the Moorhead bank in the distance. Also visible is the Northern Pacific Railway bridge, the Moorhead Manufacturing Company Flour Mill and the Main Avenue bridge at extreme right.
View is to the northwest from the Moorhead bank of the Red River from about the present Center Avenue Bridge. The water level is extremely low; a man is seen standing on the exposed river bottom in mid stream. The river bottom is littered with junk and mussel shells. A cow stands on the Fargo, North Dakota bank of the river, visible in the distance is the North Bridge.
View is to the east from the Fargo, North Dakota side of the Red River, just north of the Fargo end of the North Bridge. Crossing the bridge from Moorhead to Fargo is the Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway's streetcar number 3, which connected 1st Avenue North in Moorhead with Northern Pacific Ave in Fargo, North Dakota. Also visible in the foreground below the bridge are pilings designed to protect the bridge footing from ice breaking up in the spring. Also visible in the distance are a number of Moorhead businesses, primarily saloons.
View is to the east from the top of Fargo Roller Mill in Fargo, North Dakota across the Red River toward Moorhead just north of the North Bridge linking Moorhead's 2nd Avenue North with Fargo's Northern Pacific Avenue. Part of the Fargo Roller Mill is visible in the foreground. Much of Moorhead is visible in the distance, including a number of businesses, mostly saloons, at the Moorhead end of the bridge. These include Billy Diemert's Place, just north of the bridge, and John Haas' Midway saloon just to the south. The bridge is undergoing major repairs, the deck is seen removed at right. On the Fargo side of the bridge, at right is visible a small building with a sign reading "John R. Jardine, Bridge Works."
View is to the southwest from the north side of 1st Avenue North just east of 1st Street North. The Diemert & Murphy Family Liquor Store stands on the corner across the intersection. A sign to the left reads "No Dumping." To the right is seen John Haas' Midway Saloon and, at extreme right, a blurred image of Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway streetcar crossing onto the North Bridge over the Red River to Fargo, North Dakota.
View is to the northwest from the south side of Front Street (Center Avenue) just east of 8th Street North. The Columbia Hotel stands on the corner across the intersection. Front Street is torn up for construction of the Courthouse line of the Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway. Two young girls and two men stand on the street in front of the Hotel. Two flag-like signs stuck into the ground on either side of 8th Street read "Gas for Cooking, for Lighting, for Heating."
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 is to the southwest from the north side of Main Avenue just east of 6th Street South. The recently completed Moorhead Post Office and Federal Building stands on the corner across the intersection.
View is to the east from the west side of 6th Street South just south of Main Avenue. The recently constructed Moorhead Public Library stands on the corner across the intersection. Also visible are adjacent houses on 6th Street South at right and businesses on Main Avenue to left.