This steamboat seems to have stopped at a dock at the Narrows. This was the scene before the bridge was built across the Narrows. The north side of this channel is in the town of Orono, and the south side is in Tonka Bay. Printed message gives description of Lake Minnetonka, postmarked and dated 1918.
Bridge crossed the dry creek bed of Minnehaha Creek after a long dry spell. Writer watched for President Taft to cross the bridge in an auto during his visit to Minneapolis, but missed seeing him, dated November 12, 1909.
Henry Steinke in a horse-drawn sleigh near the Farmers Elevator that was located across the Minnesota River from St. Peter. Boxcars of the St. Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago and Omaha Railroad can be seen beside the elevator.