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Cabinet portrait of Thomas Lowry, c.1885. Photographer: Floyd’s Studio.
Portrait of Thomas Lowry, ca. 1900. Artist: Floyd W. Horton.
Ojibwe men loading logs at Ponemah Point, Red Lake Reservation, c.1940.
Map of the Red Lake Reservation in 1911, showing the 1907 mill site on Lower Red Lake. Creator: Albert Henderson, Office of Indian Affairs. Publisher: Department of the Interior.
Sawmill on the Red Lake Reservation, c.1945.
Hot pond and log storage for the new mill of Northern Lumber Company (Cloquet Lumber Company), c.1930.
William W. Eastman, c.1890, one of the primary people responsible for the tunnel project.
Reconstructing St. Anthony Falls, 1869. Oil painting, 1869. Painter: Peter Gui Clausen.
Clean-up crew after the tunnel break at Saint Anthony Falls, 1869. Photographer: Beal’s Art Gallery.