Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minnesota. Sanborn Map Company, June 1922.

Nymore Bridge, ca. 1930

Nymore Bridge ca. 1916‒1925. Used with the permission of Beltrami County Historical Society.

Great Northern Railways Veterans’ Association badge, ca. 1913–1916.

Great Northern Railway Veterans’ Association pin, ca. 1913–1940.

Great Northern Railway Veterans’ Association pin, ca. 1913–1940.

Officers of the Veterans’ Association of the Great Northern Railway in 1913. Association of the Great Northern Railway, 1908‒1914 (Minnesota: The Association, [1914?]).

James J. Hill, Mary T. Hill, James J. Hill II (Jerome), Cortland Hill, and members of the Great Northern Railway Veterans’ Association with seventy-five roses presented to Hill in Glacier Park, Montana, on May 29, 1913--his seventy-fifth birthday. William John McMillan Sr, president of the association, is at the left, holding his hat. From the Louis W. Hill papers, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

James J. Hill's seventy-fifth-birthday, Glacier Park, Montana, 1913. The dinner was attended by members of the Great Northern Railway Veterans Association. From the Louis W. Hill papers, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society. Photograph by Brown Photography Studio.