Topic: Agriculture / Contributor: Stevens County Historical Society

Date Created:: 1905-04-04
Description:: Albert Borth (5th from left, arms crossed) Threshing rig engine burned straw. 1921 Albert Borth - father of Mrs. Art (Lena) Asmus Asmus family came from Lester Prairie to Chokio 1896 Borth family came from Arlington, Minnesota to Chokio about 1900.
Contributing Institution:: Stevens County Museum and Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1913-12
Description:: The Alfalfa Arch was constructed across Atlantic Avenue in honor of the Corn and Alfalfa Exposition held in Morris on December 10-12, 1913. The Expo was dedicated to the promotion of corn and alfalfa growing as well as the general virtues of diversified farming.
Contributing Institution:: Stevens County Museum and Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1913
Description:: Corn and Alfalfa Exposition in Morris. View of Atlantic Avenue at night with decorations and lights.
Contributing Institution:: Stevens County Museum and Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Creator:: Voss, C. L.
Date Created:: 1913-12-01
Description:: Corn and Alfalfa Exposition, view of Atlantic Avenue with Alfalfa Arch and automobiles. Atlantic Avenue, Morris, lined with automobiles during the Corn and Alfalfa Exposition in December 1913; the Alfalfa Arch spans Atlantic Avenue in the background.
Contributing Institution:: Stevens County Museum and Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1913-12
Description:: View of a giant corn shock at intersection of Sixth Street and Atlantic Avenue.
Contributing Institution:: Stevens County Museum and Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1910 - 1919
Description:: Dredging machine tipped on side. The "X" on the photograph indicates Joe Hilla. Photograph was loaned for copying by Edna Mae Busch, and the original donated by her son Rick after her death.
Contributing Institution:: Stevens County Museum and Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Creator:: Lies, Tony
Date Created:: 1910 - 1919
Description:: Dredging machines. Check mark on photograph indicates Tony Lies. Photograph was loaned for copying by Edna Mae Busch, and the original donated by her son Rick after her death.
Contributing Institution:: Stevens County Museum and Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1907?
Description:: Note on the back by J. George Maughan reads, "Five of six elevators in Chokio when Ditch went thru town 1907-?"
Contributing Institution:: Stevens County Museum and Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1908?
Description:: The Farmers Elevator was operated by Thomas Schmid [Schmidt?] and L. J. I. Flynn? and was owned by S. Stewart of Morris.
Contributing Institution:: Stevens County Museum and Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1920 - 1929
Description:: Frank Schott drilling grain with a team of three horses and an ox
Contributing Institution:: Stevens County Museum and Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1900 - 1909
Description:: Stacking hay with an overshot hay stacker on the Fred Tomlin farm.
Contributing Institution:: Stevens County Museum and Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1902
Description:: View of a homestead with cattle, haystacks, and farm implements, near Holloway, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Stevens County Museum and Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Panoramas