Real photographic postcard of downtown Shakopee. The image shows the intersection of First Avenue and Lewis Street. Also visible in the image are Jacob Ries Bottling Works, Inc. and St. Mark's Catholic Church. Printed along the bottom edge of the image is "Shakopee, Minn." The card is unused.
Black and white photograph mounted on paste board. Exterior view of the Southworth home, an L-shaped house with decorative molding at windows, porch, and roof-line. Eli Southworth, his wife, and their son (Walter) and daughter (perhaps Virginia, later Mrs. Harold Hoard) at fence. House located between Holmes and Lewis. Eli Southworth was a local lawyer.
Exterior view of the Faribault house. Circular garden enclosure containing cut tree stump is near the front door. Unidentified people are sitting on a bench under the trees to the right of the house.
Exterior view of the Frank Nicolin mansion on Main Street in Jordan. Queen Anne-style architecture with a tower rising from second story and carrying beyond third story and roof. Windmill to right of house. Bride and groom are posed on front steps for informal portrait. Several other people are surroundg the front of the house.
Black and White photograph. Front of two story clapboard house - curtains in upper window directly over front door. To the left is a flower garden and small bush (approximately 6' tall), built back a bit and on the left is a screen door. Reverse has a handwritten text: black ink "from Annie Vogt Laabs who got it from Mayme Kahler (after she was dead)", faded back ink "The Henry and Elizabeth Kahle home. Mrs., Dr., Olson. Taken by Dr. C. J. Olsen, Belle Plaine, Minnesota", blue ink "A129 100% prage 277". Black ink "1946"- crossed out, above written in blue ink is "1942". Upper right corner pencil "038, 038". Henry Kahle Home demolished in the 1960s. Henry Kahle and Elizabeth Kahle.
Exterior view of the Schilz house, built in Minnesota territorial days (1860) has since been remolded. Present location (as of 2003) is 205 East Main Street. Front has open porch with four support posts - embellishments on upper end of posts. Tall tree on left edge of frame.
The lower edge of the photo is printed in block letters "Light Plant and Depot, Belle Plaine Minn. Photo by Westman and Noromar." The reverse of the photograph is stamped with "Photo by Fred J. Heiland, 128 So. Market Street, Belle Plaine, Minn. 56011." Handwritten inscription reads: "First light plant in Belle P. was run by steam. First engineer was Big Frad Schultz."