Originally this house was built in Ash Lake Township. In 1889, it was moved to Shaokatan Township. Six children were raised in this house. Every one is lined up outside the house with many of the other farm buildings in the background.
This is a photograph of the farm home of Charles Gustafson, which he purchased in 1899 from John Kajander. Charles Gustafson sold the farm to Charles Kinnunen in 1925, and two years later he sold it to Victor Maki, who turned it into the Cloverhill Dairy.
Dredging machine tipped on side. The "X" on the photograph indicates Joe Hilla. Photograph was loaned for copying by Edna Mae Busch, and the original donated by her son Rick after her death.
Dredging machines. Check mark on photograph indicates Tony Lies. Photograph was loaned for copying by Edna Mae Busch, and the original donated by her son Rick after her death.
Shown here is early resident and artist, Edgar F. Olson, and an unnamed man, pitching loose hay in the field. Edgar F. Olson, the son of Nels O. Olson, was born on the Nels O. Olson farm on July 25, 1896, and died as a life-long bachelor on August 18, 1974.
Men are posed on farm equipment and also standing by bicycles. A team of horses is in the background. A tractor, with a saw blade mounted on the front, is pulling another piece of farm equipment.
The typical farm had a house, barn, and several other buildings for chickens, hogs and grain storage. Several horses and cows are also seen as well as rows of corn starting to grow in the field.
A team of three horses is pulling a binder to cut the grain and puts it in individual bundles. A man is riding the open binder The second man is gathering the bundles and placing them in shocks to be later thrashed.
The John Kangas log house shown here was built by Hanse Annala about 1898. There are a rake and several scythes hanging on the wall, with a washtub used for doing laundry on the far left of the photo. Originally the house had a birch bark roof. It was donated to the Finnish American Memorial Foundation of Esko - now the Esko Historical Society - and land was obtained for its current placement as a building of the museum in 1965. The back of the postcard has handwriting saying, "built by Hansi Annala John Kangas home about 1898 Birch Bark Roof."
Postcard depicting the Minnesota State Fair's Newspaper Building at night. Portions of the building are tinted pink and blue to highlight its lights. Reverse has a message written in Dutch, which was sent to "Miss H. v. d. Molen" in Bussum, Netherlands.
Hunter's Park; Hartley Field; lettuce crop; Duluth property of Canadian born Gilford Graham Hartley (1853-1922); agriculture was only one of many Hartley interests; the Allendale Farm at Woodland in Duluth began in 1890 with 80 acres and in twenty years was about 800 acres; this 80 acre piece was cleared and drained to raise head lettuce, spinach and celery; in 1911 Hartley reaped more than $9,000 profit from four acres of lettuce; Hartley Road was developed in 1913 linking the land to Woodland Avenue and Arrowhead Road; the land pictured is part of the hundreds of acres comprising Hartley Field or Hartley Park where a nature center was constructed in 2002; the Hartley Park was conceived in 1941
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections