Topic: Sports and Recreation / Contributor: Blue Earth County Historical Society

1. Strand's Resort on the north shore of Lake Crystal, Maplewood Township, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1955?
Description:: Overall view of Strand's Resort on the North Shore of Lake Crystal. Postcard contains a message to Miss Eve Prieb of Minneapolis, postmarked Pelican Rapids, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

2. Strand's Resort, North Shore of Lake Crystal, Maplewood Township, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1955?
Description:: Strand's Resort, North Shore of Lake Crystal, with message to Mrs. Nora Johnston of Le Sueur, Minnesota, postmarked Pelican Rapids, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

3. Hubbard Milling Company parade float, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1949-06-08
Description:: View of a Hubbard Milling Company parade float.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

4. Elephants on North Front Street, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1940?
Description:: Elephants walking down North Front Street in Mankato.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

5. American Legion 40-8, Voiture Locale Number 281, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1940?
Description:: American Legion 40-8, Voiture Locale No. 281 with train engine-shaped vehicle and people in costume. The side of the engine is inscribed, "La Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux, Mankato, Minnesota."
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

6. Men after pheasant hunting trip, Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1939
Description:: Men after pheasant hunting, from left to right: Frank Gords, unknown man, Henry Schurckert, Brad Troost, Joe [unknown last name], Milton Barlow, Bill Blethen, George Schurckert, and Herman Miller.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

7. Standard Oil Tent, Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1936?
Description:: Sandon Family Orchestra (a.k.a. Minnesota River Bottom Hillbillies) musical group in Standard Oil tent, with saw, guitar, banjo, trumpet, saxophone, washboard, fiddle, jug, tires, and oil cans. "Standard Oil Tent--'Cash' Sandon and family traveled the county fair circuit for Standard Oil. This picture taken about 1936. Left to right: Son Tom, 'Cash' Sandon, daughter, Shirley, daughter, Virginia, son, Bob."
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

8. Sandon Family Orchestra (Minnesota River Bottom Hillbillies), Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1935
Description:: Sandon Family Orchestra (a.k.a. Minnesota River Bottom Hillbillies) musical group, with saxophones, guitar, washboard, jug, and other instruments. "Sandon Family Orchestra, 1935, Left to right: 'Cash' Sandon, Son, Tom, Daughters, Virginia and Shirley, Son, Bob."
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

9. Sandon Family Orchestra (Minnesota River Bottom Hillbillies), Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1935
Description:: Sandon Family Orchestra (a.k.a. Minnesota River Bottom Hillbillies) musical group, with saw, guitar, washboard, pitchfork, fiddle and jug. "Sandon family orchestra, county fair circuit. Left to right: son, Tom Sandon, 'Cash' Sandon, daughters, Shirley and Virginia, Son, Bob."
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

10. Sandon Family Orchestra (Minnesota River Bottom Hillbillies), Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1935
Description:: Minnesota River Bottom Hillbillies musical group, with two trumpets, washboard, bass drum, and banjo. Left to right: 'Cash' Sandon, Shirley, Tom, Virginia, Bob (Children).
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

11. 4-H Cambria Climbers, Cambria, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1932?
Description:: 4-H Club Cambria Climbers. Back of photo names 34 persons in the photo: Back row--Eldred Roberts, Mr. McMillen (co. agent), Edythe Evans, Mrs. Henry Bowen (helper), Marvin Evans, Earl Nokes, Russel Hughes, Edward Roberts, Edwin Jones, Ray Hewitt, Wallace Harris (Leader), Edwin Rawlands, Robert Hewitt, Lyle Roberts; middle row--Wayne Roberts, Edward Matthews, Oswald Harris, Harriet Pettis, Pearl Nakes, Dorothy Jarvis, Donald Matthews, Owen Hewitt, Ray ") Jarvis; Front row--Ralph Hood, Marcella Carlson, Mae, Laris Roberts, Doris Roberts, Marg. [Margaret Jenkins?], Victor Carlson, Lester Hewitt.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

12. Fourth of July parade float, Good Thunder, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1932
Description:: Float for the Good Thunder Fourth of July parade, with nine women and three men and sign reading "Sohre Bros."
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

13. Fourth of July Parade float, Good Thunder, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1932
Description:: Float for the Good Thunder Fourth of July parade, with ten people and a sign reading "Sohre Bros."
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

14. Water slide at Madison Lake, Madison Lake, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1930?
Description:: Large water slide at Madison Lake.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

15. Orvis Orioles Bus, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1930?
Description:: Bus with advertisement for the "Orvis Orioles" and "Orvis Ross' Orchestra" on its side. Various musical instruments are piled in front of the bus.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

16. "Bear in Mind" we are very much alive at Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1930?
Description:: View of South Front Street, Mankato, with superimposed American black bear and fashionably dress woman. The Saulpaugh Hotel is visible on the right.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

17. Four hunters, Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Creator:: Krause, Allen M.
Date Created:: 1930 - 1939
Description:: Four bird hunters, from left to right: Hank Dreher, George S. Otto, Sr., Fred Force, Sr., and George Pond.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

18. Downtown parade, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1930 - 1935
Description:: 302nd Regiment of the Minnesota National Guard marching in a parade in Mankato, Minnesota, in the early 1930s, with spectators at Steiner's Drugstore.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

19. Downtown parade, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1930 - 1935
Description:: Mankato Parade with military unit, automobiles, spectators, Steiner'[s Drugs, The Bee Hive, Diamond Hotel, and other businesses
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

20. South Side Auto Company Float, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1930
Description:: View of the South Side Auto Company parade float.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

21. City Meat Market Float, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1930
Description:: View of the City Meat Market Float.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

22. Mankato Hockey Team, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1927
Description:: View of nine hockey players on the ice with their sticks.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

23. Sibley Park Museum, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1925?
Description:: Exterior view of the Sibley Park Museum, with woman and child in front of the building.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

24. Judson D. Humiston residence, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1925?
Description:: Judson D. Humiston house with lawn tennis court and 14 people. Notes: "Humiston, Judson D. house, 804 S. Front St., Mankato, Photo found in The St. Paul Pioneer Press, 4/25/1925. Entered in photo contest by Alice Williams, Mkto. (won 1st place), Alice and Nell Williams in striped blouses under umbrella."
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

25. Downtown parade, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1925?
Description:: Mankato parade with riverboat float and spectators.
Contributing Institution:: Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

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