Exterior view of the Central Fire Station building. Note matched teams of horses hitched to the horse-drawn fire equipment and are standing in the two main doors as well as on the street, individual fire fighters are posed in front of the station.
View of the four hitch tanker wagon used for kerosene delivery with two men on it. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Delivering to surrounding town by Mr. Henry Boyer and Ed Jenkins of Round Lake, Round Lake School house in background."
The Dray man delivered freight from the railroad depot to homes and businesses. Here the dray man is sitting in his wagon. The wagon is being pulled by a team of two horses and it looks like there is a bag of seed in the back of the wagon. Here people are looking at the damage of stripped trees, building debris, and leaning telephone poles.
Exterior view of the Edmonds-Londergan Company building in Big Stone County. The Edmonds-Londergan company sold lumber, grain, coal, stock and machinery. Two men are seated in a horse-drawn buggy in front of the building.
This postcard shows a team of horses hauling loose hay, two men on top pitching the hay, and a woman watching them. The card has written on it in the lower left, "In the Good Old Summer time." The back of the postcard shows that it is number 492 of a series entitled, "Vacation Series Postcards." It was sent to Mrs. A.L. Winterquist from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
St. Peter resident Harry Hedberg is shown on a horse-drawn wagon next to a hitching post in this old photograph. The photograph was taken on October 8, 1899 according to a note on the reverse.
Business district at the NW corner of River and St. Paul Streets, Preston, Business district located east of the Fillmore County courthouse on St. Anthony Street, Preston, Minnesota. Buildings shown include Preston Times newspaper office, Fillmore County Bank and the Park Hotel.