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.
Twelve women seated on stairs, noted as a hiker's club of Belle Plaine (Idenified in "people" back to front and left to right). All wear hats, one holds a dog.
Real photographic postcard of the Holmes Street bridge over the Minnesota River in Shakopee. Seen in the image is a boat landing with two boats docked there. Also visible in the background are the smoke stacks at Rahr Malting, Inc. Etched into the emulsion along the bottom edge of the image is "Bridge and Boat Landing/Shakopee, Minn./C-170." Card is unused. The bridge was constructed in 1923 and is no longer in use.
Outdoor photo of Petter Weldon pausing from plowing wheat field. Wears overalls and work shirt, broad brimmed hat; Stares at the camera with one hand on his hip the other on his plow handle. Plow is a steel of iron beamed mold board plow hitched to two horses facing away from camera. In center foreground is young girl with floppy hat and pony tail with back to the camera.
Postcard fragment showing the interior of saloon with two men leaning on bar and barkeeper behind a counter. The bartender is identified as Walter Kahle. The customers as Jack Krentz and Eddie Diers. Krentz wears suspenders and hat with brim, Diers is smoking a pipe, wearing cap, overcoat and overalls. The signs above the bar read: "Positively no credit" and "No minors allowed."
Albumen print of the Jacob Ries family. The image was taken outside the Ries home in Shakopee. Seen are the family members gathered together in front of the home's main entrance. Ries founded Jacob Ries Bottling Works, Inc. at Shakopee in 1872. In 1880, Ries tapped a spring that he named "Rock Spring" and he began bottling water and other beverages under the name "Rock Spring Beverages." He passed away in 1911 and his descendents continued to operate the bottling works. Eventually the family sold their "secret recipe" to the Pepsi Company.
Group Portrait outside front steps of Jordan Sulfur Springs. Three children, including one a carriage, 17 men in suits and ties, 20 women in dresses. The cook is third from right in first row. White writing reads "Jordan Sulfur Springs Sanitarium, Jordan Minn."
Knights of Columbus banquet in Shakopee. Seen in the interior of the banquet room with approximately 100 men and women seated at long tables for a meal. The guests are formally dressed and the room is decorated with American flags and Knights of Columbus pennants.
Studio portrait of Leo (facing left) and Christ (facing right) Albrecht, of Belle Plaine. Wearing matching suits with white shirts that have bow at the neck and large ruffle collars and cuffs. Black jackets. Taken at Pelton's Studio, Belle Plaine.
Interior view of Jake Mahowald's harness shop.Two men are shown in the photograph, Jake Mahowald, the shop's owner, who is standing in the background, and Mathias J. Vogel, a harness shop employee, who is standing in the foreground. In addition to harnesses, the shop also sold trunks.
Black and white postcard of main street looking north in Jordan, Minnesota. Cars parked on the side of street, the Mertz Tap Room, motel and restauraunt are visable on right and the Minnesota Café is on the left.
Man with gun, hunting cloths and dogs of the pointer variety. The man may be George Strunk, who is seen in another photo in this group with similar dogs.
View of an unidentified man with horse, children, and dogs. There is a railroad car on the other side of the fence. Man is possibly George Strunk, boy is possibly Joe Strunk.