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 large crowd lining up out side the pavilion. Dining hall in the background. 1425
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.
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.
The steam boat the Little Sioux at a dock on Okabena Lake in Worthington, Minnesota. The ship has a large U.S. flag on each end. Also a row boat with people in at the dock. The ship has was owned by Dr. Raymond Humiston. 1034
The Rose Cab Company, a line up of five taxi automobiles looks like they are ready for a parade. People in the photograph from left to right is Bill Rose (Cowboy), Fred Rose, Ernie Stiegelmeyer driver #250-662, Charles Dovey.
The Rose Cab Company, Worthington, Minnesota. Line up of five taxi automobiles in front of the Grand Theater on 10th Street. People in the photograph from left to right is Second driver - Vance Stove, Child - Mose Anderson, Thirdrd driver - Fred Rose, on sidewalk - Willie Baker, Fourth driver - Charles Dovey, Ernie Stegelmeyer.
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota. Rushmore Row is a line of tents where Rushmore, Minnesota, people were staying. The people in the photo are 1. Mrs. W.R. McChord 2. Mrs. Oscar Malmquist 3. Mr. Oscar Malmquist 4. Mr. W R. McChord
A crowd listens to former U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt give a speech from the rear of a train in Rushmore or Org in Nobles County, Minnesota. Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States and served from 1901 to 1909.
Train wreck on the Omaha railroad line south of Worthington, Minnesota. Two trains ran head on into each other on November 30, 1929. Photo labeled No. 1.
Image number 4. Train wreck on the Omaha railroad line south of Worthington, Minnesota. Two trains ran head on into each other on November 30, 1929. Photo labeled No. 4.
Image number 2. Train wreck on the Omaha railroad line south of Worthington, Minnesota. Two trains ran head on into each other on November 30, 1929. Photo labeled No. 2.
The World's Largest Egg Show. Nobles County Poultry Association, Worthington, Minnesota. January 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 1930. 1040 dozens of eggs on display.
Hardcover book containing maps of the villages, cities and townships of Nobles County; map of Minnesota and United States; History of Nobles County; and Historical Patrons Director. Nobles County Historical Society has a conplete index to names in the plat book and the pages those names appear on. Contact Nobles County Historical Society for information from this index.
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 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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
A photo of Lake Okabena taken in the 1890s with a horse and buggy in the foreground. Someone wrote "1910" on the front of the photograph, but this is not the correct date.
Train engine number 1 of the Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Omaha Railroad . Guy Otis an engineer from Bigelow is one of the men in the photograph.
Exterior view of the Mann Home in fall or winter, with no leaves on the trees. A group of people is posed on the porch and lawn, one woman has a bicycle. On back in ink: "Mrs. Coughray, The Mann Home which was last house in town, about where Heiberg's now live. James Mott."
A man standing on the shore of Okabena Lake in Worthington, Minnesota. In the background is the smoke stack for the power plant. On back of the photograph someone wrote: "Okabena Lake Shore before Rock Island tracks were laid. The Idle Wild Pavilion Sept. 13, 1899"