Three baggage carts loaded with kegs and cases of beer stand on the Northern Pacific Railway's freight depot platform destined for Moorhead saloons. More beer stands stacked on the platform. A team of horses stands in the foreground at right. Bbeyond can be seen a Northern Pacific Railway locomotive, coal tender and baggage car.
View is to the northeast from the top of the Moorhead Manufacturing Company Flour Mill on the south side of Main Avenue and 3rd Street South. Visible are numerous businesses, mostly saloons, lining the north side of Main Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets South. Downtown Moorhead is visible in the distance; in the foreground at right can be seen the Peter Heinrich Bottling Works with an ad for Joseph Schlitz Beer painted on its side.
View is to the northwest from the east side of 4th Street South just north of Main Avenue. Spectators line the streets watching a parade celebrating Fargo, North Dakota's recovery from a devastating June 7, 1893 fire, Members of the Hoo Hoos, a fraternal group made up of individuals in the forest products industry, march down 4th Street dressed in white hoods and long black robes decorated with pictures of black cats on their chests. Behind them follows a horse-drawn pyramid shaped float and a marching band.
View is to the northeast from the west side of 4th Street North just south of Front Street (Center Avenue). Visible are businesses along the north side of Front Street and the east side of 4th Stret North including S. A. Lochen's Clothing Store on Front and Ole A. Flaten's photo gallery and I. O Hanson's Tailor shop at right on 4th Street. Horse-drawn wagons line the north side of Front Street and a lone figure crosses Front in the foreground.
View is to the northwest on 4th Street South from about 7th Avenue. In the foreground Adolph Bowman and Molly Otto sit in a row boat on a flooded coulee. Beyond a man sits on the railing of a flooded bridge which normally crosses the coulee. In the middle distance beyond the row boat stands the Ole M. Martinson house, now home to the Rourke Art Gallery 523 4th Street South.
View is to the southwest from Main Avenue and 3rd Street South. Scene shows the flooded Woodlawn Park neighborhood. In the foreground is the Dudrey Brothers' Cooperage with the black smoke chimney. The Moorhead Municipal Water and Light plant smokestack is in the far distance. A small house in the foreground at right is cabled to a tree to keep it from washing away.
A woman and three small children sit in a row boat tied up to a picket fence on a flooded Moorhead street, probably in the Woodlawn Park neighborhood. Fooded homes line the far side of the street.
View is to the west from 4th Street South toward the Ole M. Martinson House, home to the Rourke Art Gallery at 523 South 4th Street. Visitors sit in three row boats and stand on the sidewalk on 4th Street.
View is to the north from the Moorhead Manufacturing Company's Flour Mill on the Moorhead side of the river just south of the Main Ave bridge. The Main Ave bridge is visible in the foreground as is the Northern Pacific Railway Bridge weighed down with locomotives and box cars to keep the bridge from washing away. In the distance at left can be seen steam tractors parked on the North Bridge weighing it down. These tactics worked as no bridges were lost during the flood.
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.