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1. Oasis Drive-In with employees, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
Oasis Drive-In with employees. Note on back of photo reads, "people identified in Ken Berg's [Mankato Free Press] column of 12/15/1975."
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

2. Neighborhoods of Duluth: West Duluth, Zoo, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1939?
Description:
West Duluth; Duluth Zoo grounds at Seventy-second Avenue west; ponds; bridge; elephant house and elephant named Bessie
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

3. Neighborhoods of Duluth: West Duluth, overall view of the Zoo, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
West Duluth; Zoo; Kingsbury creek; stone wall; stone bridge; house; railroad tracks; main zoo building; fence; trees; grounds; swans in pond; Grand Avenue
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

4. Neighborhoods of Duluth: West Duluth, murals at the Zoo, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
West Duluth; Duluth Zoo murals; interior of main zoo building; most of the buildings were constructed in 1927 including the primate house, aviary, and pheasant house; mural leaf forms; radiators; people; gumball machines; light fixtures suspended from ceiling; murals are by Arne Edgar Nybak; Minnesota Art Project Work Projects Administration; WPA
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

5. Neighborhoods of Duluth: West Duluth, Bakery, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
West Duluth Bakery; Fifty-seventh and Grand Avenue Wadena Street; employees; workers; Gilbert Johnson
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

6. Neighborhoods of Duluth: Central Hillside, Washington Junior High School, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1939?
Description:
Central Hillside; Washington Junior High School was built in 1911; 305 Lake Avenue North; brick building; trees; cars; bushes; street lights; houses; fence
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

7. Neighborhoods of Duluth: Central Hillside, Civic Center, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
Central Hillside; view of Duluth with Civic Center; Fifth Avenue West and First Street; City Hall at right, St. Louis County Courthouse in center, Federal Building at left, Duluth Fire Department behind and between the Federal building and courthouse; incline in visible in distance; school; buildings; houses; Munger Terrace is up the hill at far right; line of cars are parked up Fourth Avenue West; streets; sidewalks
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8. Musical trio, with violin, piano and saw, Webster Township, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
Musical family fun, Melford Docken with violin, Elna Halverson Hansen on Piano, and Melford's friend with a musical saw.
Contributing Institution:
Trondhjem Community Preservation Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

9. Municipal Power Plant, Worthington, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
This is the Worthington municipal power plant building that sat on the corner of 3rd Avenue on 8th Street. The image is of the east side of the building looking west toward the lake.
Contributing Institution:
Nobles County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

10. Methodist Episcopal Church, Spring Valley, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
A postcard showing the front, exterior of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Spring Valley. In the spring of 1876 a church lot was purchased at the cost of $250. Plans and detailed specifications were procured from Saratoga, N.Y. for a Gothic Victorian brick church with stone trimming, basement and corner tower; size 39 by 60 feet with addition in the rear for choir and pastor's study. Work was begun in August 1876. It was thought best to finish the basement, and prepare it for use, and accordingly it was opened for Devine worship on December 24, 1876. Pledges for the work secured that day amounted to $2780. During the following summer the spire was completed, and in October a Troy bell weighing 1,200 lbs. and costing $380 was hung in the tower. The audience room of the church was not completed until August 1978 and the services moved from the basement to the upper room. The church had a set of 13 Italian windows.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

11. Lyric Theater, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1939?
Description:
The Lyric Theater at 213-217 West Superior Street is also known as the New Lyric. It had a seating capacity of 1,025. It offered vaudeville followed by first run motion pictures, amateur shows every Saturday evening. It was razed in the mid-1970s for a hotel and restaurant. The location is still referred to as the Lyric block.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

12. Greyhound bus depot, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
The new Northland Greyhound depot at 1st Avenue North and 7th Street, with Greyhound and Twin City Motor Bus buses.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

13. Grady and Hughes Funeral Home, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1939?
Description:
In this house at 600 East Second Street, Eugene C. Grady and Matthew T. Hughes offered mortuary services from 1926. In 1887 Henry and Alameda Bell commissioned Oliver Traphagen to design this Queen Anne style house in the Ashtabula Heights neighborhood. When his bank failed in 1893, the Bells moved to California.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

14. George Myrum inside the Myrum Memorial Fieldhouse, St. Peter, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
This photograph shows the interior of the Myrum Memorial Fieldhouse on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter. Superimposed onto the photograph is an image of George Myrum, after whom the building was named. It was demolished in 1984.
Contributing Institution:
Nicollet County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Duluth incline base station, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
This is the Superior Street base station of the incline, which was located in the vacant right of way of 7th Avenue West.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. Crosley Avenue shuttle streetcar, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
A shuttle streetcar ran from 52nd Avenue East and Crosley Avenue to a connection with the 45th Avenue East and Superior Street, where it connected with the bus to downtown. This is 45th & Superior, with the motorman waiting for the connecting bus.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. Clipping Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
The Clipping Department in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. Clipping Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
The Clipping Department in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from Skyline Parkway, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1939?
Description:
This view from the crest of the hillside of Duluth shows a vessel steaming toward the aerial bridge. A prominent sign is visible on the bayside of Minnesota Point advertising Marine Iron and Shipbuilding. That business was located for years at the foot of Eleventh Avenue West and bayfront. The first ship launched in the Twin Ports for service in World War II was at the Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Co., April 23, 1941. A Duluth newspaper on July 1, 1966 ,reported that the former Marshall-Wells Building on Lake Avenue South has been purchased by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Co. and Modern Constructors Inc. The assessors office lists the value of the property at $736,000.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

20. Number 2572, Application for Permit for Repairs of Frame Building, Submitted December 23, 1939, Stillwater, Minnesota

Creator:
Office of the Building Official, City of Stillwater, Minnesota
Date Created:
1939-12-39
Description:
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: Building number 822, West side, South Second Street, Lot 14 and 15, Block 3 of Churchill, Nelson and Slaughter's. Owner: Selma V. Holcombe, Builder: E. H. Bieging. Permit granted December 23, 1939.
Contributing Institution:
Stillwater Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Building permits

21. The Spotlight, Volume 6, Number 7, Thomson High School, Esko, Minnesota

Creator:
Thomson Township High School
Date Created:
1939-12-22
Description:
Christmas programs were highlighted, including the PTA's program, the junior high program, and the grade school's Christmas operetta. The industrial training department made ornaments to be sold, with the proceeds turned over to the Finnish Relief. Fred Hendrickson had two more hours of flying lessons before he could fly solo. Special Christmas greetings were extended to students Helmi Kivisto and Walter Johnson. Superintendent A. L. Winterquist wrote about Christmas, and how this particular Christmas the world was suffering from war, hatred, jealousy, and fear. The Industrial Arts Department had a page with their news items. Both the shop classes and the home economics classes made Christmas gifts. The junior high organized a Junior Red Cross unit in each homeroom and worked on filling Christmas baskets. GAA news was given as well as Boy Scout news. In 4-H news items, it was noted that the 4-H Club decided to sell bars at the FFA basketball game and donate the proceeds to the Finnish Relief. The club voted to send records of their meetings to the Duluth News Tribune and Herald. The Esko FFA chapter edited the third volume of the District FFA Newsletter, with typing and mimeographing done by the commercial classes at Esko. Three FFA boys and their instructor, Mr. Fischer, went to Cook, Minnesota to purchase 200 pounds of seed for the FFA farm practice program from the Arrowhead Seed Growers Association. The Esko FFA basketball team beat the Aurora Black Hawks in a benefit game at the Lincoln gymnasium, with the proceeds from the game given to the Finnish Red cross. The Thomson Township Tommies beat the Wrenshall Wrens in basketball, and remained undefeated in the Polar Bear League.
Contributing Institution:
Esko Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

22. Vets Call, December 20, 1939

Creator:
Civilian Conservation Corps, U.S., Company 2713, Minnesota
Date Created:
1939-12-20
Description:
Newsletter of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Mille Lacs Lake, Garrison, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

23. Vets Voice, December 18, 1939

Creator:
Civilian Conservation Corps, U.S., Company 1774-V, Bayport, Minnesota
Date Created:
1939-12-18
Description:
Newsletter of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Bayport, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

24. Deer Lake Echo, December 15, 1939

Creator:
Civilian Conservation Corps, U.S., Company 1722, Effie, Minnesota
Date Created:
1939-12-15
Description:
Newsletter of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Effie, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

25. The Spotlight, Volume 6, Number 6, Thomson High School, Esko, Minnesota

Creator:
Thomson Township High School
Date Created:
1939-12-08
Description:
Many grade school pupils were hard at work on an operetta. The annual staff for the Lincoln Log yearbook was named. A mass meeting of all people interested in contributing for the fund to aid Finland was held at Washington School, with money given to the Red Cross. An article about the Russian Bear growling at peace loving Finland was included. X-Ray reports on students were ready for parents and students to view. Students were urged to fight tuberculosis by buying Christmas Seals. Superintendent A. L. Winterquist wrote about the health of the students and staff. In FFA news, Esko was sixth in the chapter conducting contest held in Virginia. The Annual Farmers' Club Goodwill Banquet was held. Part-time classes at night met to study shop work and agricultural topics. In basketball the Thomson Tommies beat Grand Mariais and Alborn. A professional Chinese basketball team, called the Hong Wah Kues, beat the FFA basketball team. The local FFA basketball team had a busy season lined up.
Contributing Institution:
Esko Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters
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