Lumberjacks stand in the snow outside the buildings that made up their camp. On the back of this card is a note from one man to a woman named Belle in DeSota, Kansas telling her that he might be coming to see her next week.
Winton's first lumber mill. It started as the Knox Lumber Company but was renamed after its sale. Like Swallow and Hopkins, it, too, closed in the 1920s.
This was Ely's second modern hospital, the first being the Tanner Hospital. The Shipman Hospital was torn down in 1958 to make room for the "new" Ely Clinic.
This Greek Revival-style building became the permanent home of the American Fraternal Union in 1933. Founded and incorporated on July 18, 1898, the offices were in two previous locations before this building was constructed. The office closed in 2012 and the home office was moved to St. Paul, Minnesota.
The Swallow and Hopkins Lumber Mill was the second largest mill in Winton. It opened in 1899 as the Fall Lake Lumber Company and continued operations until shortly after World War One.
The Pioneer Mine was the largest and longest lasting of the five Ely mines. It closed on April Fool's Day 1967. It had two operating shaft structures with the "A" shaft still in existance as part of the Pioneer Mine Heritage complex.
Game wardens were important men in the backwoods of Minnesota. Noted above most was the Native American warden, John or Jack Linklater. Another of lasting fame was William Hanson.
Rail service reached Winton in 1902 when the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad extended service to Fall Lake and Winton. Sixty years later the station was still open two hours each day as the train still thundered through.
A group of men standing outside the Ely train depot. They include left to right: George Moonan, John Pluth, Vern McCarthy, Frank Schuyeiger, Archie Bonnier and Ernest Hanson.
Section Thirty is an unincorporated community located in Fall Lake Township, four miles east of Ely. Among this group at Section 30 are, Top, Mr. and Mrs. Albin Sundholm and daughters; Center in dark coat, Mrs. Oppel; Upper right, Mr. and Mrs. Thaisen and her sons Carl and Albert Ramquist.