Black and white photograph of four men with a car. The reverse identifies, "Gov. Eberhar[d]t - Minnesota; Gov. Vessy - So. Dakota; Mr. Boughrer - City Edition Mpls Tribune; You know the other mutt." Eberhart was Minnesota Governor 1909-1915.
This photograph shows several Nicollet County women in an early automobile. They include Mrs. Harry Moore, Florence Moore, Dora Brown, and Emily Brown.
Man standing beside a Hubbard Milling Company panel truck. Truck window says: Hubbard's, fine foods in five pound packs, Quality, Flavor, Economy. Painted above windshield: Mother Hubbard Flour. Note on photo says,""One of the Hubbard's panel truck sales fleet in 1930's. Hubbard Milling Company launched intensive sales efforts on Mother Hubbard Flour and the Thrifty Five cereal line in the 1930's and sent out a group of salesmen in panel trucks like the one pictured here. The trucks were painted at the Eben[h]oh Body Shops in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota."
H. S. Sackett driving a Hubbard Milling Company panel truck. Notes on photo say, "Ebenhoh Body Shops, Sleepy Eye, H. S. Sackett at the wheel. The trucks were painted at the Ebenoh Body Shop in Sleepy Eye. One of the artist-painters, H. S. Sackett, is pictured at the wheel."
Jet Plaza, Burnsville's first shopping center opened in 1963 and was located on County Road 5 and Burnsville Parkway, Burnsville, Minnesota. Unique to the center was the all- gas plant, which supplied both electricity and heat to the entire center. The center, which had been renamed Valley Ridge was torn down in 2011.
John Sota, pictured here, was one of the first owners of an automobile in the Township of Thomson. Here he is shown with his Overland, as well as his mother in the white blouse to the far left, Mrs. Erick (Sofia) Sunnarborg in the middle of the photo, with John himself at the wheel of his vehicle. The same year Robert Carlton purchased a Model T Ford, in 1913. Sota's given surname was Rautio, but he acquired the name Sota while he was serving in the military. Sota in Finnish means "war."