Bill's Popcorn Wagon in St. Peter also sold roasted peanuts, candy, and cigarettes, based on a close inspection of this photograph. It was operated by Bill Krisatis.
Exterior view of the Central Fire Station building. Note matched teams of horses hitched to the horse-drawn fire equipment and are standing in the two main doors as well as on the street, individual fire fighters are posed in front of the station.
A heard of cows are crowded in a small pen. Rail cars are behind the pen, and a man driving a horse drawn wagon is the foreground. Houses and leafless trees are in the background.
View of the four hitch tanker wagon used for kerosene delivery with two men on it. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Delivering to surrounding town by Mr. Henry Boyer and Ed Jenkins of Round Lake, Round Lake School house in background."
The Dray man delivered freight from the railroad depot to homes and businesses. Here the dray man is sitting in his wagon. The wagon is being pulled by a team of two horses and it looks like there is a bag of seed in the back of the wagon. Here people are looking at the damage of stripped trees, building debris, and leaning telephone poles.
Duluth Billboard Posting horse drawn wagon driver; two men pasting billboards on second avenue west below first street; the building in background is the Howe Building at 226-232 West First Street, built in 1891 which housed the Kitchi Gammi Club until about 1913; the small store on which the advertisement is being placed was replaced by construction of the Wolvin Building built in 1902-1903
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Exterior view of the Edmonds-Londergan Company building in Big Stone County. The Edmonds-Londergan company sold lumber, grain, coal, stock and machinery. Two men are seated in a horse-drawn buggy in front of the building.
The family is taking a break in the field with their dog and puppies, as well as a small wagon and buggy. The woman holding the puppies is "Liisa of Kalajoki." In his "History of the Thomson Farming Area," written in Finnish in 1935, John A. Mattinen wrote that the Fred Johnson farm was also known as Liisa of Kalajoki's farm and that Liisa (who died in 1924) was Fred's mother.
Exterior view of the G. W. Steinke wagon shop in St. Peter. It was located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Broadway.
T. J. Johnson farm at haying season with crew posed for photograph. One hay wagon is being pulled by two white horses. The second hay wagon is hitched to what may be a Huber tractor. Hooked to the back of this wagon is a hay loader. A side delivery rake is being pulled by two black horses.
This postcard shows a team of horses hauling loose hay, two men on top pitching the hay, and a woman watching them. The card has written on it in the lower left, "In the Good Old Summer time." The back of the postcard shows that it is number 492 of a series entitled, "Vacation Series Postcards." It was sent to Mrs. A.L. Winterquist from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
St. Peter resident Harry Hedberg is shown on a horse-drawn wagon next to a hitching post in this old photograph. The photograph was taken on October 8, 1899 according to a note on the reverse.
Inga Smestad Wagon Shop in Windom with several wheels propped up in front of the wagon shop next to two men that work there. Two wagons waiting to be worked on are visible.