Stereoview of farmers with wagons drawn by teams of horses and oxen piled with bags of wheat wait to unload at Bruns' and Finkle's Elevator A on Front Street (Center Avenue) and 6th Street in Moorhead. The view is to the southeast from Front and 5th Street. Cord wood is visible stacked up at left and on flat cars on the Northern Pacific Railway tracks in distance at right. Farmers at the elevator can be seen manually dumping bags of wheat into hoppers on the north side of the elevator. A cloud of steam blows out of a pipe above the powerhouse on the right end of the elevator. Houses in south Moorhead are visible in distance beyond the elevator.
The presence of Peavey elevators in the Duluth harbor dates back to 1900. In 1930, F.H. Peavey expands the Peavey Duluth terminal with concrete silos. In 1999, the Seaway Port Authority lets contract for razing of Occident and Peavey elevators. Garfield Avenue is the main street that runs the length of Rice's Point. It is the street in the lower left corner of this photograph. Houses and businesses on Garfield are parallel to the rail yards of the Northern Pacific; Great Northern; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha. Garfield Avenue takes you to the Interstate Bridge.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Stereographic photographer, E. D. Mayo, worked for Barnett and Record Co., a construction company that built grain elevators; red tile was a common construction material for early elevators; photos shows detail on the construction of the elevator.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Aerial view with unidentified men walking on top of structure overlooking possibly Minneapolis; first reinforced concrete elevator was the single silo Peavey-Haglin in St. Louis Park. A stereographic photographer E. D. Mayo worked for Barnett and Record Co which was a construction company that built grain elevators.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Interior view of a flour mill in Minneapolis or Duluth. Image probably by stereographic photographer, E. D. Mayo, who worked for Barnett and Record Company, a construction company that built grain elevators.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Interior view of a flour mill in Minneapolis. Image probably by stereographic photographer, E. D. Mayo, who worked for Barnett and Record Company, a construction company that built grain elevators.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Interior view of a flour mill in Minneapolis. Image probably by stereographic photographer, E. D. Mayo, who worked for Barnett and Record Company, a construction company that built grain elevators.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Elevator and Lake Superior & Mississippi Depot, Stillwater, MN. Elevator was erected in 1870 and has a capacity of 38,000 bushels. Lake Superior & Mississippi Division of the Northern Pacific Railroad was completed to Stillwater in 1871.