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Sample plan of a stave church layout, similar to the Hopperstad. Typical elements of stave churches include a walkway (sval), nave (midtrom), chancel (kor), and apse (apsis). Image by Wikimedia Commons user Hȧkon Andreas Christie.
A steamboat at Shoreham dock on the Pelican River, c.1910.
Steamboat about to enter the lock at Bucks Mill on the Pelican River, c.1910.
Steamboat Landing and River, St. Paul, 1898. The old Union Depot is pictured in the left background.
A westbound steamboat on the Pelican River, about to descend to Lake Sallie via Dunton Locks, 1911.
Looking north at a staemboat on the Pelican River at Shoreham, with Lake Sallie in the distance, 1910
Colorized postcard photograph of a steamboat on the Red River near Moorhead, MN, in 1879.
Steamboats Itasca and War Eagle at the St. Paul levee, 1859.
Photo print of the steamboats Itasca and War Eagle at the St. Paul levee, 1859.
The steamer City of St. Louis on Lake Minnetonka, ca. 1885. Photo by William H. Jacoby.