View of Minnehaha Falls, two persons in what appears to be Native American dress are standing separately by the falls; image is invoking the "Song of Hiawatha" poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; trees and plants are quite bare of leaves.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Stereoscope view of George B. Wright's central dam, saw mill on right, "Bee Hive" factory on left. View from south side of the river at Mill street before the Mill Street bridge was constructed.
Falls of St. Anthony with people sitting on a rock slab; may be looking towards village of St. Anthony; Whitney's Gallery is located in St. Paul, distributed by Martin's Art Gallery also in St. Paul
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Logs were shipped by rail from northern Minnesota to Stillwater and made into rafts. They were then floated down the St. Croix and Mississippi Rivers. The rafts usually consisted of 8 to 10 strings of logs fastened side by side, each string measuring 16 across and about 400 feet long. Some of these enormous rafts stretched 4 or 5 acres in size.
Lumber was rafted downstream from Stillwater. Boards were arranged in cribs or heavy crates, each 16 feet wide and 32 feet long. A lumber raft might contain as many as 200 cribs.