Scene looking north from the courthouse. Someone wrote on front of the photo and on the back: "1. Methodist Church, corner of 4th Ave. & 9th St. 2. M. P. Mann house 3. M. L. Miller house built in 1893."
Charley Cedarblade and his daughter Myrtle in a horse and buggy parked 3rd Avenue by the courthouse square. This was right in front of Buchan's Photograph Studio on 3rd Avenue, Worthington, Minnesota. Courthouse and 10th street are visible in the background.
Chautauqua Celebration in Chautauqua Park, Worthington, Minnesota. A row of tents with a family gathered in from of one, some sitting in a hammock tied between two trees.
Children playing on a bench in the park with A.T. Latta Dry Goods painted on it. Small dog and tents also in the photograph. Photograph was taken during a Chautauqua celebration.
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota, with a large crowd lining up by the dining hall. Tents and flags all around the park.
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota, with a group of children playing with tents and Okabena Lake shore in the background. 1447
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota, with tents and the pavilion in the background. Lake Okabena also in the background. 1437
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota, with a group of children playing with tents and Okabena Lake shore in the background.
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota, with a group of people sitting in chairs and on the ground between rows of tents. 511
Tent set up in Chautauqua Park Worthington, Minnesota, with Go To A.T. Latta for Dry Goods. On back Chautauqua grounds on Lake Okabena, Worthington, Minn. - Boy buying taffy is my cousin Lyle Buchan. Little boy is Chester B. His mother Aunt Bella with knob on top. About 1905
Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota. A row of tents with a family gathered in from of one, having a picnic. Some of the people are: Anna Hedberg, Loren Clark, Nancy Clark, Mrs. Webster and Belle Webster.
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota, with a large crowd lining up out side the pavilion. Dining hall in the background. 1425
C. L. Colman Lumber Company building on 10th Street and Second Avenue Worthington, Minnesota. Worthington Transfer Company was located in the same building.
Street scene with a boardwalk and bandstand. This is the courthouse square in Worthington with the original wood courthouse visible in the background behind the bandstand. This is the intersection of 10th Street and 3rd Avenue looking west toward the lake.
View of the four hitch tanker wagon used for kerosene delivery with two men on it. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Delivering to surrounding town by Mr. Henry Boyer and Ed Jenkins of Round Lake, Round Lake School house in background."
The first water and electric plant in Worthington was located on the shores of Lake Okabena. A typewritten sticker on the back of the photograph reads: "Worthington, Minnesota First Water and Electric Plant. (Mrs. Anna Cory) Water system installed in 1891 Electric plant installed in 1895 First lights December 10. First patronage 300 lights."
Nobles County egg show, 1926. Photograph taken inside of the Armory building in Worthington, Minnesota, St. John Seed Company had a display, Worthington Creamer and Produce Company had a display. Large display of chickens and eggs. E.O. Olson got the Silver Cup.
Mrs. Jonas (Elizabeth) Moberg's funeral in 1908. The house was located west of Lake Bella. View includes the horse drawn hearse and mourners including: Rubin Nystrom, Linden Moberg, Oliver Thompson, August Anderson, John Blixt, Hans Nystrom, Edwin Moberg, Mrs. Nels (Hilda) Moberg, Kristine Moberg, Nels Mobery, and baby Mildred Moberg.
Erastus Church with a vegetable wagon and a white horse. Erastus Church was a colorful Worthington character who peddled vegetables, picked up junk and distinguished himself by having a street named in his honor, because he lived on that street. The photograph is dated September 26, 1900. Poster in the window promotes the candidacy of William McKinley over William Jennings Bryan. It proclaims: "McKinley was right in 1896." Note: This information taken from a newspaper article with same picture, in the Worthington Centennial July 22, 1972. We think it is a Buchan photo but don't know for sure.
Exterior of the P. Geyermann and Son dry good store in Brewster, Minnesota. Standing on the boardwalk in front of the store are Edward, Peter Sr. and Rudolph Geyermann
Two hitches of horses doing field work on the D. M. Holland farm four miles north east of Worthington in the south east quarter section 26 of Elk Township. On the far right of the photograph is the bridge over Elk Creek. The farm site is in the background with three men, two dogs and eight horses and mules by the farm implements.
First automobile in Nobles County was the chain driven two cylinder chugger in this photograph. It was built by Peter Spartz of Wilmont in 1900. Seated in the car, left to right are: John, Henry, Peter and William Spartz.
Mrs. A.T. Latta, driving a 1917 Buick, gaily festooned was awarded the first prize in the fourth of July parade. They are just passing Richardson's Ice Cream Store at Fourth Avenue and 10th Street. Beside her is Mrs. Dunham with her Robbie in the sailors suit. Others dressed for the occasion are Dono Becker, Miriam Latta Schwieder, Ardith Latta Nelson and Francelia Latta Pinsonault.
Flood waters over flowing Lake Okabena at Lake Street and 2nd Avenue in Worthington. Railroad tracks are getting washed away. Mann House visible across the lake.
Fourth Avenue looking north east from the top of the water tower. Visible is the Worthington Minnesota "new" Castle School and the ""old"" Octagonal School, Dayton House, 4th Ave. Buchan photo, written in ink on front ""August 1892""
The G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Hall on 10th Street Worthington, Minnesota. Dr. J. R. Conway had a dentist office in the building. George W. Wilson, Attorney and the Minnesota Loan and Investment Company in the building to the right. To the left is the ElectroMedical Institute.
Store front of the George M. Plumb Grocery Store on 10th Street in Worthington, Minnesota. Photograph is dated 1874. Dan Shell is walking in front of the store on the board walk.
Exterior view of the Hasting House located on Fifth Avenue and 14th Street and Humistion Avenue. A cat out by the boardwalk with two women by the house, one holding a bicycle.
Henry H. Read and a unknown man with stringers of fish taken from Summit Lake in Nobles County. Henry H. Read, the original owner of a part of the village site of Reading in Nobles County for whom the village was named.
Henry H. Read and a unknown man with stringers of fish taken from Summit Lake in Nobles County. Henry H. Read, the original owner of a part of the village site of Reading in Nobles County for whom the village was named.
Group photograph of the 1905 Worthington, Minnesota, High School football team taken on the steps of the Castle School. Top row left to right: 1. Outhwaite, Kumbler 2. Lloyd Patterson, 3. Ivan Pettit, 4. Supt. Edwards, 5. Coach Chas Haggard, second row 6. Art Newman, 7. Sterling Lawton, 8. John Ramage, 9. Dwight Ludlow, Third row 10. Harry Bloom, 11. Ray Wolven, 12. Will Loveless, 13. James Sowels, Front row, 14. Floyd Voak, 15. Orrie Oberman, 16. Oakley Tripp, 17. Eddie Pannell, 18. Harry Gray, 19. Edward Lawton
A group photograph taken at H. J. Ludlow Golden Wedding celebration of 1923. Some people in the photograph include: Beckley, Mann, Moore, Bedford, Loveless, Buchan, Bingham, Shell, Hurd, Crever, Torrance, Twitchel, Clark, Matteson.
Interior of the Hubbard Horstman Store in Bigelow, Minnesota, around the turn of the century. Henry Horstman, Mr. M.J. Hubbard and Bessie Hubaard who married Albert Kepha later are in the photograph.
Packing of the ice harvested from Lake Okabena into train cars. Photograph is taken looking north east towards Worthington, Minnesota. You can see the Nobles County Courthouse in the background.
Ice storm damage including ice covered trees and wires. Five men in the photograph serving the ice covered trees. 1896 ice storm damage in Worthington, Minnesota.
Ice storm damage including ice covered trees and wires. House, yard and out buildings. Street lighting hanging overhead. We believe it is from Worthington, Minnesota.
Winter scene looking south towards Okabena Lake from the top of the courthouse. On back of the photograph: "Foreground - Top of Jail, Across street - Tom Palmer home (later owned by French family)."
View of Okabena Lake with a sail boat of the beach and the Idle Wild Pavilion. On the front of the photograph written in blue ink: "Idlewild Pavilion - Front of 3rd Ave. before Rock Island Tracks were laid before 1900." At the top of the photograph is written, "1899" in blue ink.