Henrietta Howatt (1917-2003) discusses clamming on Lake Pepin, and the pearl button manufacturing business. At one time there were two factories in Lake City, Minnesota where buttons were cut from Lake Pepin shells.
Early Barn Bluff businesses are shown. On the far left is the sawmill of Grannis, Daniels and Company. The Francis Ives building is in the center and the Metropolitan Hotel, which was later destroyed by a fire in 1869, is on the left.
Seated from left to right are J.W. Hancock, John Hack, Sr., H.B. Wilson, David Hancock. Standing from left to right are D.C. Hill, Wm. B. Hancock, Nathan Sargent, S.S. Grannis, M.B. Lewis, J.W. Northrup.