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.
Charles Fay going south on Front street in St. Peter in a horse-drawn wagon. The Standard Lumber Yard on the southwest corner of the intersection of Front street and Park Row is in the background.
A man holds the reins of a draft horse pulling a sledge through the snow. The sledge is loaded with a delivery box used to transport materials between library branches. Hennepin County Library started in 1922 as a horse-drawn "book wagon" to areas outside the core city of Minneapolis, and grew to incorporate many city and branch libraries as more residents moved to the suburbs.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library