Washburn Crosby Flour Mills

Washburn Crosby Flour Mills

Washburn Crosby Flour Mills, Minneapolis, ca. 1890.

One-sheet poster advertising the Washburn Mills in Minneapolis, 1889.

Washburn Mill Company advertisement

One-sheet poster advertising the Washburn Mills in Minneapolis. It highlights the importance of mechanization, local wheat and water power, and global ambition to the firm. Included in the 1889 carnival edition of the St. Paul Dispatch.

Washburn Mill Company poster

Washburn Mill Company poster

Washburn Mill Company poster, created by the St. Paul Dispatch, 1889.

Colorized Washburn-Crosby Flour Mills advertisement for Gold Medal Flour, Threshing Scene, unknown location.

Washburn-Crosby Flour Mills advertisement for Gold Medal Flour, Threshing Scene

Washburn-Crosby Flour Mills advertisement for Gold Medal Flour, Threshing Scene, c.1900.

Washing tubs, boards, and dolly pins at Historic Fort Snelling

Washing tubs, boards, and dolly pins at Historic Fort Snelling

Washing tubs, boards, and dolly pins used by interpreters at Historic Fort Snelling to teach visitors about the fort’s laundresses. Photo by Bobbie Scott, 2012.

Black and white photograph of the Washington Avenue viaduct, Milwaukee Road depot, Minneapolis. Photograph by Joe E. B. Elliott, ca. 1970.

Washington Avenue viaduct, Milwaukee Road depot

Washington Avenue viaduct, Milwaukee Road depot, Minneapolis. Photograph by Joe E. B. Elliott, ca. 1970.

Washington County Soldier's Monument.

Washington County Soldier's Monument.

Soldier's Monument unveiled by Bloomer in 1917, located on the grounds of the Washington County Courthouse, Stillwater, Minnesota. Photograph by Peter DeCarlo, 2009.

Painting of Washington Prairie Parsonage

Washington Prairie Parsonage (Herbjorn Gausta)

: “Washington Prairie Parsonage.” Oil-on-canvas painting by Herbjorn Gausta, c. 1880–1889. Used with the permission of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, Decorah, Iowa.
Source: Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum

A pocket watch taken from the hand of a victim of the Great Hinckley Fire of 1894. The watch has a silver alloy case and a white porcelain face. Manufactured in 1884 by the Elgin National Watch Company of Elgin, Illinois.

Watch belonging to a victim of the Hinckley fire

A pocket watch taken from the hand of a victim of the Great Hinckley Fire of 1894. The watch has a silver alloy case and a white porcelain face. Manufactured in 1884 by the Elgin National Watch Company of Elgin, Illinois.

Watchtower on Artists’ Point

Watchtower on Artists’ Point

Watchtower on Artists’ Point with Coast Guard crewmen, ca. 1929‒1945.

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