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Minnehaha Falls

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Description: Upper Mississippi. Minnehaha Falls, Minnesota.
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway by Upper Mississippi

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Description: Upper Mississippi, Minnesota, near Hastings. Engine and car of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway with men posing sitting on the cattle-catcher, l...
Book or Pamphlet

The Falls of St. Anthony

Date: 1884
Description: Illustration of the Falls of St. Anthony, as seen in The Indian Tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, arts, languag...
Postcard

Split Rock Lighthouse

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Description: View along rocky shoreline toward the lighthouse. Caption reads: "Split Rock Lighthouse on north shore of Lake Superior."
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Men Laying Rails at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face.
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St. Anthony's Falls

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Description: Elevated view of St. Anthony's Fall. Caption on back of stereograph reads, "St. Anthony's Falls, Minneapolis, Minn." There is a bridge in the foreground, a...
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Deer Creek

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Description: Elevated view of a farmer using a horse-drawn plow in a field near Deer Creek in Spring Valley, Minnesota. Tall rock formation can be seen on the edge of t...
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St. Louis River

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Description: Elevated view of the St. Louis River flowing through a rocky gorge, spanned by a bridge in thr foreground and flowing over a dam in the background.
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Barn Bluff

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Description: Stereograph of elevated view of Barn Bluff. The Mississippi River is in the far background.
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Excursion Boating

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Description: View toward the front of an excursion boat on the St. Croix River. The rocky shoreline is lined with pine trees.
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Thompson Dam

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Description: A downriver view of Great Northern Electric Company's Thompson Dam. In the foreground are rocky shallow falls.
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Steam Shovel

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Description: A 300 ton steam shovel scooping iron ore at the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, the world's largest open pit iron ore mine.
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View of the Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of a landscape from the bluffs along the Mississippi River, over Lake Pepin, looking toward Lake City.
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View of the Bluffs

Date: 1895
Description: Elevated view from bluffs, looking north-east toward Lake City, Minnesota and Lake Pepin of the Mississippi River.
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Lake Superior Palisades

Date: 1914
Description: Elevated view from the lake of the Lake Superior Palisades.
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Five Mile Rock

Date: 1914
Description: A view across the water towards Five Mile Rock, a large rock formation off the north shore of Lake Superior.
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Flute Reed River

Date: 1914
Description: The Flute Reed River at Chicago Bay. Chicago Bay, Minnesota, is now called Hovland.
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River Gorge

Date: 08 1915
Description: A view through a tree-lined gorge on the Vermillion River.
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The Channel

Date: 08 1915
Description: A dramatic view through the Narrows between Sand Point and Namakan Lakes.
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B Walks a Boom

Date: 08 1915
Description: B (William Norris) walking a boom in the water with Jack looking on from a canoe nearby. B is using a paddle to balance himself. This is in the Narrows bet...

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