View is to the west from the Moorhead side of the Red River. About 16 children stand on Moorhead bank at left and wade in the river. Tree foliage indicates this was a summer rain flood.
Front Street, Mankato, Minnesota, with snow, street car, horse and cart, people, and businesses, including The Mankato Music and Stationery Company, Ideal Restaurant, and Bee Hive.
The Carleton College weather diaries were created during the period of 1909-05-31 to 1910-10-22. Using a hand-crafted weather logbook with 12-day entries, Carleton students, faculty, and staff recorded temperature, weather condition, precipitation for the station located at Carleton's Goodsell Observatory.
View is to the northwest from the Moorhead bank of the Red River from about the present Center Avenue Bridge. The water level is extremely low; a man is seen standing on the exposed river bottom in mid stream. The river bottom is littered with junk and mussel shells. A cow stands on the Fargo, North Dakota bank of the river, visible in the distance is the North Bridge.