Silas Carter discusses his background before coming to the area; his father's experience as a contractor in Princeton; his father's homestead on Mille Lacs; his early job in logging on the Rum River; how logs were marked; how logs were sorted; how dams helped in a log drive; the [Quayle?] brothers; his role helping find bodies and secure homes after the Hinckley fire; naming Isle; and carrying the mail from Mora to Isle. The recording is continued in bchs078b
Wellington Schroeder discusses where he was born and his childhood home; coming to Minnesota on a train and seeing the largest flour mill in the world; his father's farm at Sanford, Minnesota; hauling supplies for logging camps near Grand Rapids; helping unload the first steel rails of the Deer River logging railroad; how much different men in the logging camps made; being barn boss for the teamsters at a logging camp; the poor logging conditions in 1892-93; the financial constraints of logging companies; ice fishing on Maple Lake; starting a store in Bemidji; coming to Bemidji from Osakis; early businesses in Bemidji; hauling supplies for his store from Park Rapids; his custom-made wagon; making a killing on flour; hauling money for a bank; fixing the roads as he passed over them; his route into tow; following lumber teams to know where it was safe to drive; and buying and shipping blueberries. The interview continues in BCHS 084a.
Panoramic view of winter scene depicting a panoramic view of both North Hibbing and South Hibbing to include such landmark items as (left to right) the Lincoln School, St. Louis County Court House, Water tower, Episcopal Church, Mahoning-Hull Rust Mine and mining operations, Bennett Park, Brooklyn and Park Addition areas, Municipal Power plant, Hibbing High School, The Androy Hotel and the Hibbing General Hospital.
Panoramic view of many men, women and children who are gathered for a group photograph of their participation in the Old Settlers picnic at an unidentified park or lake in Hibbing, Minnesota. Caption on photograph reads: "Old Settlers Picnic - 1927".
Panoramic view of many men, women and children gathered for a group photograph of their participation in a picnic at an unidentified park or lake in Hibbing, Minnesota. Caption on photograph reads: "Oldsettler's - Picnic Aug-8-37 Hibbing Minn."
Panoramic view of many men and women posed in and around the front entrance of the Village Hall on Center Street in North Hibbing in Hibbing, Minnesota.
The presentation by Erwin Mittleholtz was recorded by an unknown recorder on an unrecorded date in an unrecorded location, probably at a meeting of the Beltrami County Historical Society. Mittleholtz presents highlights from a thesis about Grand Portage, Minnesota. He discusses Ojibwe people, missionaries, schoolteachers, and the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Fort William in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada. The presentation is continued from BCHS 044a. The second part of the recording is a group discussion and was conducted by Dr. Charles Vandersluis on an unrecorded date in an unrecorded location. The unidentified narrators discuss logging, lumber camps, and log drives in northern Minnesota in the early 1900s. They also discuss spearing fish, making tea from native plants, and experiencing discrimination against the French.
The presentation by Erwin Mittleholtz was recorded by an unknown recorder on an unrecorded date in an unrecorded location, probably to a meeting of the Beltrami County Historical Society. Erwin Mittleholtz presents highlights from thesis about Grand Portage, Minnesota. He discusses Ojibwe people, voyageurs, the fur trade, and Fort Charlotte. The presentation continues in BCHS 044b.
