This drawing identifies wind forces and their effects on the physical structure. Notes are included on this drawing for example: "Stresses in lower sections of tension diagonals equal or smaller than top sections, but same riveting to be used in detail." The drawing includes a key for live load, dead load, impact, wind at 150 pounds per linear foot, wind stress due to traveler, equivalent to live load. The drawing shows top and bottom laterals. Total weight of the carrier and car is given as 240,000 pounds. The scale is given as 20 feet equaling one inch. Drawing H5421, Sheet 3.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Detailed drawing of four parts of the Aerial Bridge. The end view is a drawing of a tower; part side elevation is of half of the Aerial Bridge with the suspended car transfer. The third drawing is called Section A-A and depicts a tower without the cross structures drawn in. The last drawing is called Section B-B, which is a top down view of one of the towers resting on its footings. All of these drawings have dimensions. The part side elevation includes a very small drawing of the side of the gondola car. The end view includes the phrase "car approaches built by city." The finials are shown on three of the four drawings. Drawing H5421, Sheet 2.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Real photographic postcard of downtown Shakopee. The image shows the intersection of First Avenue and Lewis Street. Also visible in the image are Jacob Ries Bottling Works, Inc. and St. Mark's Catholic Church. Printed along the bottom edge of the image is "Shakopee, Minn." The card is unused.
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.
Interior of the Minneapolis Young Men's Christian Association Central Branch at 10th Street and Mary Place, showing a dormitory room with a bed, dresser, and rocking chair. Young Men from the rural areas, out of town or from foreign countries always found a welcome smile and a clean place to sleep at the YMCA.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives
Benjamin F. Mackall stands in front of his house at the intersection of Kennedy (Second Avenue) and Second Street. His friends are unidentified. The people are grouped in front of the screened porch where a hammock hangs.
View is to the northeast from the top of the Moorhead Manufacturing Company Flour Mill on the south side of Main Avenue and 3rd Street South. Visible are numerous businesses, mostly saloons, lining the north side of Main Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets South. Downtown Moorhead is visible in the distance; in the foreground at right can be seen the Peter Heinrich Bottling Works with an ad for Joseph Schlitz Beer painted on its side.
View is to the east from the top of Fargo Roller Mill in Fargo, North Dakota across the Red River toward Moorhead just north of the North Bridge linking Moorhead's 2nd Avenue North with Fargo's Northern Pacific Avenue. Part of the Fargo Roller Mill is visible in the foreground. Much of Moorhead is visible in the distance, including a number of businesses, mostly saloons, at the Moorhead end of the bridge. These include Billy Diemert's Place, just north of the bridge, and John Haas' Midway saloon just to the south. The bridge is undergoing major repairs, the deck is seen removed at right. On the Fargo side of the bridge, at right is visible a small building with a sign reading "John R. Jardine, Bridge Works."