Photo Number 3212

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Feb 1955 A Pilot and a Stewardess?

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Photo Number 3183

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Moorhead Minnesota.

Two men working.  They are each holding a scythe that was most likely used to cut grass or grain in a field.  The vehicle is most likely a Pontiac from the late 1940's or early 1950's.
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Photo Number 3055

This is a photo from the local flea market.

The Drysdale Studio Fargo ND was the photographer.  He was in business there from 1905-1907.

Since this photo was at the train station I wonder what this fellows job was…did he shine shoes…or did he have some other job on the railroad?

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Photo Number 2950

This is an old photo from 1940.  It is an 8 X 10 inch photo that I purchased at the shop in Pequot Lakes Minnesota.

The J.R. Watkins Co   Photo Dept 1940

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Photo Number 2756

This is a snapshot from the antique shop at Verndale Minnesota.

A salesman’s car

 Rawleigh Products  is my best guess. A company that has sold home remedies since 1889.

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Photo Number 2584

This is a photo from the antique shop in Floodwood Minnesota.

This is a Portrait by Youngberg at Camera Art Studios in St Paul.  I found he was in business in 1918.

Sadly this photo does not have a name.

I hope she was a kind nurse.

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Photo Number 2473

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Laporte Minnesota.

A group of men posing with a tractor.  I believe it is a Blackhawk.  There is some kind of placque in the front. The pendants hanging from the ceiling may say Cockshutt a company from Brantford Ontario.

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Photo Number 2008

It is Labor Day.  Time to give working people a break, and recognize them for a job well done. This is a photo from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

 

Amelia Nelson (Molly)

Mrs. Jessie Waldron

August ?

Officers Kitchen 1918

I wonder if they got Labor Day off from work?

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Photo Number 1669

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Luckily we have the back of the Post Card which gives us names and a glimpse into their occupations.   Before looking do you care to guess? 

Arthur Anderson Out of Town Shipping Clerk

2 now have charge of the Fruit Department

Paul Stradley (Straelby??)  Head Salesman

Douglas Woodland  Fruit Decorator

Walter Matthews  Order Clerk

Taken just after we have cashed our checks which accounts for the smiles on each face.

This is an AZO postcard which usually dates from  1904 to 1918.

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Photo Number 1022

I have  a hodge- podge of photos for this week.  Odd ball photos in folders that I want to use up.  It must be the organizational side of me coming out.

So..lets guess where this lady is working at?

November 1953 Minneapolis Minnesota.

There are those old transom windows above the doors..we have the same transom windows in the historical museum..and that building was built in 1900. Note the old phone!

Some kind of an office.  The first photo must be in her office..and the second in another office.    Radiator heat..I can almost hear the fluid gurgling through to let off some heat. 

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Photo Number 962

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Erhard Minnesota.

Four men having lunch/coffee.  The fellow on the lefts has a hat that says Republic Paints and he proudly wears the coat and pants of a painter..perhaps the others are carpenters?

Art Amundson   Carlisle

Wood Farm House

Coffee time for: Anton A. Edwin R. Ernest A. Joel A.

(Shingling the round barn) 1950.

Many times family would help each other I wonder if Art Amundson has brothers named Anton, Ernest and Joel..or sons?
Carlisle is/was in Otter Tail County Minnesota…close to where the antique shop was.
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Update from Marilyn ( Granddaughter)
Anton Amundson was my grandfather and Ernest and Joel and Art Amundson were brothers like you found out. Edwin Ronningen was the brother of Emil's wife Marie like you mentioned and also the brother of Anna, my grandmother married to Anton Amundson. So Ernest, Art & Joel were double first cousins to my mother. The farm was originally settled by Amund Smikop Amundson and his wife Ronnaug. One of their daughters Ronnog (Rena) married Augustine Washington Wood and thus the farm became known as the Wood farm when they moved back to Rothsay and lived on the farm. Their son continued to live there and later it was owned by Ernest Amundson and then following his death by Joel Amundson. The farm is in Wilkin County near Rothsay, Minnesota. The house and the round barn are no longer on the property which is still in the family and now is owned by my cousin's son who has built a house there.

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Photo Number 881

This must be a foreign snapshot.  I purchased it at the antique shop in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

I named it foreign looking guy.  Was he an Archeologist?  Maybe.

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Photo Number 880

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Bemidji Minnesota.

At first I thought it was a soldier..then I thought it was a hunter.  Now I think it is a CCC worker.  Civilian Conservation Corps was part of the New Deal Program of Franklin D. Roosevelt, it was a relief program from 1933 to 1942 that got young unemployed, unmarried men to work. They planted trees, built roads and bridges and worked in State Parks.

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Photo Number 879

This is a snapshot from a garage sale.

A lady decorating a wedding cake in her home.  I enjoyed looking around in this photo.  I wonder if the tile was green or pink? Two nicely matched oak chairs are pushed up to the table.  This lady must prefer the cushioned plastic chair that came with the table.  Most likely this photo is from the 1950’s.

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Photo Number 878

This is a snapshot from the Antique Shop in Duluth Minnesota.

Someone is off to work.  He looks like a Train Conductor to me.  This snapshot was taken in September of 1955.

Note the lawn chair, they are now coming back in style.

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Photo Number 877

This is a photo from the Antique Shop in Park Rapids Minnesota.  It is now Called Linda’s Recycled or something like that.  A gal that I went to school from the first grade on all the way through high school graduation owns it.  She almost closed it last year..she re opened under a new name.





I wonder if Stamey (Stanley? ) (Stainly?) ever made the big time?  Can you help me decipher his name?
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Perhaps his name is Stanley Tasker

Photo Number 876

I guess I forgot to say yesterday that the focus this week is people at work.
I purchased this photo at the Antique Shop in Park Rapids Minnesota.

I have no idea what place of business this could be..however my readers may know?
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Update from Iggy:
The machine in the front center is a band saw. The cutting table is about the man's waist height). The belts brought power down to the various tools.. there is a row of indistint, possibly drill presses or other "shop tools" to the left. 

As to what they are "building/manufacturing) there is little sign of a product.

Photo Number 832

This is the last photo that was taken at East Glacier.  I was delighted to find all three of these photo at the first antique shop in Dorset Minnesota.

This is the staff from the hotel dining room at East Glacier.  Note the first gal in the front row on the left.  She has on a pair of the slippers that the waitresses favored.  The gal next to her has a pair of oxfords on.  Apparently there was quite an uproar among the waitresses when the Hotels policy dictated more sensible shoes.  This photo may have been taken later than the previous photos..perhaps in the late 1930’s.

The dining room featured hostesses in native and oriental garb.  The waitresses Swiss costumes were worn until the late 1930’s.  One source says that the waitresses wore slippers but that was changed in 1937 to oxfords.

I have been in the Hotel at East Glacier, in the lobby and the gift shop, it was an awesome place even back in the 1970’s.  We hiked in this area and it is where I saw my first Glacier. I wish I had paid closer attention to the building, and I wish we had stopped for lunch in the dining room!

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Photo Number 809

This is a snapshot from an Antique Shop in Winnipeg Manitoba.

I think this may be a 1947 Ford Pickup.  On the door it says:

I.W. Smith

General Contractor

Lumber  Coal

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Photo Number 702

Another WW2 era photo.

Secretary

Dorothy Row Chicago Ill

Assistant Secretary

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These photos went Full Circle 131 on November 12 2015