Group of soldiers , National Guard Farewell celebration. August 22nd, 1917. Sign on vehicle reads "Robbinsdale to Berlin." This photograph was taken with a pinhole camera.
Man fishing, boy wading into Crystal Lake with a net. The name Clara L. Nash appears in faded pencil on the back of the photo. The Nash Family operated the Crystal Bath House on Crystal Lake in Robbinsdale.
The Robbinsdale City Band marching down West Broadway in the 1938 Goodwill Days Parade. The photo was taken from the roof of the Wilson Realty Co. Building.
Blacksmith shop, built by Haakon Christensen on the southeast corner of West Broadway and 42nd Avenue North. Haakon and his son, George are pisctured. A Norweian immigrant, Christensen was actively engaged as a blacksmith for over fifty years. He shod horses, repaired farm implements and became the anchor at one end of the Robbinsdale's downtown business district. Christensen was active in civic affairs. He died in 1945 at the age of 85.
This house at 44th and West Broadway was a rental property owned by Andrew B. Robbins. Pictured out front are from left to right, Alfred Parker, Mrs. Raliegh Parker, Fred Baker Jr. Bakers's Aunt Mrs Guptel and Mrs. Christensen, the blacksmith's wife. The house was struck by kightening and burned to the ground in 1902.