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Tents erected for victims of the fire in Hinckley, 1894.
Burying ninety victims in one trench following the Hinckley fire, September, 1894.
A search party finds the remains of an entire family in the ruins of the Hinckley fire, 1894.
People gather at Skunk Lake after the Hinckley Fire, which occurred on September 1, 1894. Photograph Collection, Hinckley Fire Museum, Hinckley.
The Hinckley fire house, firemen, and Waterous steam fire engine, before September 1, 1894. The steam fire engine was manufactured in South St. Paul.
Oxen pulling a sled of white pine logs near Hinckley in Pine County, 1885.
View of the Hinckley main street the morning after the fire, 1894.
Thorstein Veblen in 1880, about the time he graduated from Carleton College. He was twenty-three years of age.
Thomas and Kari Veblen in Nerstrand, ca. 1870.
Aerial view of the Coal Creek Station, 2019.