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First State Capitol, Tenth and Wabasha, St. Paul, 1875, showing the 1873 addition. From, Harper's Monthly, October 1875, p. 629.
First Stickney Store, facing east, ca. 1922.
A street scene of First Street South in Minneapolis, where the First Street Red Light District was. Photograph by C. J. Hibbard, ca. 1895.
View of the Hennepin Bridge from Nicollet Island, c.1868.
The first suspension bridge in Minneapolis (Hennepin Avenue Bridge), looking toward Nicollet Island, c.1860.
The Hennepin Suspension Bridge, c.1869. Photograph by Beal's Gallery.
Ground-level view of the Hennepin Bridge, c.1865.
The Hennepin Suspension Bridge photographed by Beal's Gallery, ca. 1868.
First Train of Taconite to Silver Bay, Minnesota, 1955. The first train of taconite from Reserve Mining Company’s Peter Mitchell Pit was shipped to the concentration facilities in Silver Bay in 1955.
First train of taconite to Silver Bay, Reserve Mining Company, 1955.