Dave Carson's Drug Store and Post Office building was moved downtown at Washington Avenue and Front Street. The photograph's caption reads, "Harry L. Johnston using 24 horses to move the Dave Carson Drug Store Detroit Lakes about 1905."
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."
Draft horse with a large fibroma tumor between its front legs. The horse was part of a continuing education clinic for veterinarians held at the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota in 1934..
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.
Erastus Church with a vegetable wagon and a white horse. Erastus Church was a colorful Worthington character who peddled vegetables, picked up junk and distinguished himself by having a street named in his honor, because he lived on that street. The photograph is dated September 26, 1900. Poster in the window promotes the candidacy of William McKinley over William Jennings Bryan. It proclaims: "McKinley was right in 1896." Note: This information taken from a newspaper article with same picture, in the Worthington Centennial July 22, 1972. We think it is a Buchan photo but don't know for sure.
Two adults and two children in a horse-drawn buggy with two horses. Note on the back says "Chicken coops." On the fornt of the image a hand-drawn arrow points to coops.
A feed barn, where people could take their horses to be fed. Several people on the picture posing for their picture with many buggies and horses waiting their turn.
Audrey, Trip and Gus DeMann in horse-drawn carriage, with Chip DeMann on horse behind them and unidentified woman standing in front on the grass at the 125th anniversary of Holy Cross Church.