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1. Bird's eye view, Worthington, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1899-09-18
Description:: Scene looking north from the courthouse. Someone wrote on front of the photo and on the back: "1. Methodist Church, corner of 4th Ave. & 9th St. 2. M. P. Mann house 3. M. L. Miller house built in 1893."
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

2. Building of the Thompson Hotel, Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Buchan, Edward F., 1858-1941
Date Created:: 1912
Description:: Workmen with horse and wagons building the Thompson Hotel on 10th Street in Worthington, Minnesota, in 1912.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

3. Construction of the city's first water tower, Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Buchan, Edward F., 1858-1941
Date Created:: 1894?
Description:: Construction of the city's first water tower in 1894. The water tower was located between Tenth Street and Eleventh Street.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

4. Downtown after a blizzard, Worthington, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1905?
Description:: Tenth Street in Worthington after a snowstorm with the Main Street full of snow drifts. Worthington National Bank is in the photograph.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

5. Dr. J. S. Thomson office, Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Buchan, Edward F., 1858-1941
Date Created:: 1900?
Description:: Interior view of Dr. J. S. Thomson's home office. The sign above the door indicates his office hours.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

6. Erastus Church in front of Post Office and State Bank, Worthington, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1900-09-26
Description:: 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.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

7. Erastus Church with his mule and wagon, Worthington, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: Erastus a.k.a. Rastus Church with his wagon and mule from which he sold vegetables around Worthington, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

8. Fourth Avenue looking north, Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Buchan, Edward F., 1858-1941
Date Created:: 1892?
Description:: Fourth Avenue looking north east from the top of the water tower. Visible is the Worthington Minnesota "new" Castle School and the ""old"" Octagonal School, Dayton House, 4th Ave. Buchan photo, written in ink on front ""August 1892""
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Cabinet photographs

9. George Dayton House, Worthington, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: The house is located at 1311 Fourth Avenue in Worthington. The house was built in 1900 for George Dayton.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

10. Hastings House, Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Buchan, Edward F., 1858-1941
Date Created:: 1890?
Description:: Exterior view of the Hasting House located on Fifth Avenue and 14th Street and Humistion Avenue. A cat out by the boardwalk with two women by the house, one holding a bicycle.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

11. H. M. Palm and Son Furniture Store, Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Buchan, Edward F., 1858-1941
Date Created:: 1901-02-25
Description:: H.M. Palm and Son Furniture and Undertaking store located on 10th Street in Worthington. Photograph was taken on February 25, 1901.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

12. Kiwanis Club baseball team, Worthington, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1930?
Description:: Team photograph of a Worthington Kiwanis sponsored baseball team.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

13. Locomotive Engine Number 1, Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Buchan, Edward F., 1858-1941
Date Created:: 1900-07-25
Description:: Train engine number 1 of the Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Omaha Railroad . Guy Otis an engineer from Bigelow is one of the men in the photograph.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

14. Mann's Point on Lake Okabena, Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Buchan, Edward F., 1858-1941
Date Created:: 1890?
Description:: View looking west towards Lake Okabena and Mann's Point from the court house tower.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

15. Okabena Flour Mill, Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Buchan, Edward F., 1858-1941
Date Created:: 1895-10-14
Description:: The Okabena Flour Mill in Worthington, Minnesota in 1895. George Dayton had an interest in this flour mill.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Cabinet photographs

16. Panorama view looking east, Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Buchan, Edward F., 1858-1941
Date Created:: 1890?
Description:: Panoramic photograph showing Fourth Avenue looking east from the top of the water tower. You can see the Dayton House, Castle and Octagonal School buildings.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Panoramas

17. Railroad depot, Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Blume, Henry J., 1870-1945
Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: The depot in Worthington, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

18. Smallwood family home at 1543 Okabena Street, Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Buchan, Edward F., 1858-1941
Date Created:: 1895-08-23
Description:: The Smallwood family in the front yard of their house at 1543 Okabena Street on the corner of Grand Avenue in Worthington, Minnesota. Charlie, his wife Florence and Anna Larson on the steps. Jet Smallwood on a bicycle, Mary Smallwood (Cashels ) holding a pony hooked to a buggy. Another pony grazing in the front yard, dog on the steps. Charlie's full name was Charles Joseph James Smallwood (C.J.) (1858/61-1908) his wife was Florence Clark Moulton Smallwood (1859-1921), son Justin Thomas (J. T.) Smallwood, M.D. (1882/84-1933) aka Jet; daughter Mary (Mame or Mamie) Emmaline Smallwood Cashel (1888-1931).
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

19. Tenth Street, Worthington, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1886
Description:: Worthington, Minnesota, 10th Street in 1886. Photograph taken from the Courthouse tower looking south towards the railroad andFirst Avenue.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

20. Train at the depot, Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Blume, Henry J., 1870-1945
Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: A train sitting along beside the depot in Worthington, Minnesota. Grain elevator visible in the background.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

21. Train engine in the switching yard, Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Blume, Henry J., 1870-1945
Date Created:: 1910?
Description:: Two work men standing along beside their train engine in the switching yard in Worthington, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

22. Train wreck on the Omaha Line, near Worthington, Minnesota

Creator:: Blume, Henry J., 1870-1945
Date Created:: 1914-02-09
Description:: Train wreck on the Omaha railroad line south of Worthington, Minnesota. The train derailed on February 9, 1914. 1455
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

23. White Eagle Service Station, Worthington, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1930?
Description:: The White Eagle service station in Worthington, Minnesota, on Second Avenue and Ninth Street. John Kingery attendant and T.P. Baker agent.
Contributing Institution:: Nobles County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

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