View of a horse pulling cart (on tracks) piled with wood; worker is riding on the cart; descriptive information written in six languages; copyright 1906 Underwood and Underwood U-35249.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
The W H Dodge Lumber Yard was located at 24 South Main (now 1st Avenue SW) in Rochester. The business, originally known as W H Dodge, General Dealer in Lumber, was started in 1869 by W H Dodge. His son, Elam, joined the firm in 1907 and the name was changed to Dodge Lumber and Fuel.
The W. H. Dodge lumber yard was located at 3rd and Main Street. This exterior view shows the front entrance. The business was started in 1869 by W. H. Dodge. His son, Elam Dodge, joined the firm in 1907 and the name was changed to Dodge Lumber and Fuel.
Located in Burlington Township, the Frazee Sawmill is shown with stacked lumber in lumber yard. Caption reads "Frazee sawmill - capacity 1,000,000 ft. every 24 hours."
A photograph of the G.E Williams Lumber Companies parade float for the 4th of July Parade in 1903 sitting in front of their store located at the corner of N.W Railroad street and Union street.
A group of men are posed by a caravan of loaded wagons in front of the Hayes Lucas Lumber Company in Stewartville. The wagons are loaded with cement, blocks and building materials for the Urban barn and are being pulled by a tractor. Otto Urban is on the wagon behind the tractor. Frank Urban is on the tractor.
Two story wooden building next to a post office and general store in an unnamed town. A small crowd of people stands on the porch of the building. According to the 1907 "The Book of Minnesotans: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of the State of Minnesota," John P. Hedberg was born in Sweden on May 3, 1853 and came to America in 1869. He opened a lumber business in 1882 in Brandon, Minnesota under the title of of "J. P. Hedberg & Co." and in 1887 moved to Kensington where he engaged in "lumber, hardware and furniture business."
Street scene in Ogema, Minnesota. Business included in the scene is Kolb Bohmer Lumber Company, a restaurant, a grocery store and the Livery Feed and Sales Stable. On the back is a note to Mrs. D.S. Lewis in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926).
Receipt made out to Fred Tews for payment on account of $25.00. Laird Nord Yards was a retail lumber dealer in Stewartville, MN. The business was established in 1855 and incorporated in 1900.
Exterior view of the Lampert Lumber Company's buildings in St. Peter. The building in the foreground was on the southeast corner of the intersection of Third and Grace Streets, facing Grace.
Many New Brighton men found employment by hiring out as loggers at Lawrence Schmalzbauer's logging and sawmill plant at Kingsdale, Minnesota. A team of horses pulls logs while workers stand behind. Kingsdale is located near the Minnesota-Wisconsin border, near Danbury, Wisconsin.