Interior view of Jake Mahowald's harness shop.Two men are shown in the photograph, Jake Mahowald, the shop's owner, who is standing in the background, and Mathias J. Vogel, a harness shop employee, who is standing in the foreground. In addition to harnesses, the shop also sold trunks.
The structure of the main open hearth furnace building at Minnesota Steel Co. in Duluth appears mostly complete. Large flues for construction of the blast furnace lie on the ground in the foreground. The auxiliary buildings are under construction.