Eight page photograph album documenting the life of the Peck family of St. James, Minnesota. Images include portraits of the various Peck family members, as well as views of buildings in and around St. James. Buildings depicted include the St. James High School, the creamery and the Watonwan County Courthouse. There is an early image of the Mount Hope Cemetery. Also included are a number of images documenting the activities of the members of the local Grand Army of the Republic Post and Drum Corps.
Exterior view of the East Sveadahl Lutheran Church in the winter of about 1872. This church building blew down in a wind storm before the summer of 1879.
In the photograph starting on the North side and West end is the Loomis House with the picket fence in front; John Wold Store; Tollerson Millinery; saloon; old printing office; J.A. Gieriet; M. Olson; dwelling on the lot of Davis and Mullen.
The Jesse James - Younger gang fled from Northfield, Minnesota after a failed bank robbery. Young Sorbel recognized the gang as they passed his Hanska farm. Bob, Cole and Jim Younger would eventually surrender to this seven-man posse 8 miles west of Madelia on the banks of the Watonwan River. Charlie Pitts died in the shootout.
Left to Right: Bob Younger; Cole Younger; and Jim Younger; portraits of the three notorious Younger . The Younger Brothers were captured by a local posse on September 21, 1876, on the bank of the Watonwan River.
The tower which Mr. Joseph Flanders is building for the wind engine at his big well is nearing completion. It stands on a solid foundation and the super structure will be sixty-four feet high.
Pictured is the South Side School in St. James. Commander AK Peck, Drummer Ida Schutz, Caroline Schutz Zellers, Miss Lobben, Mod Rawland, Miss Treffery, Clara Schutz, Hilda Howe, Miss Kopp, Miss Olson, Ida Clemments, Kellie Mullen, Hattie Merigold, Jannie Johnson, Lottie Johnson, Mary Sneller and Mary Wakefield
An aerial view of St. James in 1897 from the standpipe. Note: a standpipe is a water source positioned at a Railroad station for the use of steam locomotives.
Exterior view of the City Hotel of St. James. This Building was rebuilt after a fire in 1903 and became a rooming house later that year. Some time after that it became Teeter's Flats, an apartment Building which was later destroyed in a controlled burn by firemen.