Exterior view of the American House. This was built as a hotel, but never housed any guests. It became one of the first buildings on the Carleton College campus.
Northwest corner of Lake avenue and Superior street shoe and boot store of G. Poirier; workers; street; boardwalk; aprons; signs like boots; adjacent businesses
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
A handwritten manuscript written by Richard Coxe (1817-1898) chronicling the journey of Edward and Mary Coxe, parents of Richard Coxe and Robert Coxe, from Waterford, Ireland, first to Boston, Massachusetts, and then New York, New York, where Edward died. Mary remarried and died shortly thereafter leaving her sons in the care of her new husband. The manuscript depicts the conditions and circumstances that separated the brothers, Robert and Richard, until their reunion as adults and ultimately brought Richard north to White Bear, Minnesota, where he died in 1898. The manuscript was written circa 1880.
Dirt street with businesses, horses and buggy, and people. Sign outside of building says, "Eating House and Saloon." Note on back of photo says, "Cambria--South side Main St. Building on far left was a hotel--which was burned." Second note says,""Doubt this is Cambria. Town not formed until railroad went through in 1880s."