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Booklet - History Mail Booklet

"History in the Mail": Hutchinson, Minnesota, postcard book produced by Julie M. Jensen for the McLeod County Historical Society, Hutchinson. Contains copies of 118 postcards of Hutchinson from the collection of the McLeod County Museum. Divided into sections: Businesses, Churches, Landmarks Lost, People, Celebrations, Crow River, Library Square, Schools and Street Scenes, The booklet begins with a brief history of postcards.

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Booklet - Hutchinson, Minnesota, History in the Mail-Post Card

"History in the Mail": Hutchinson, Minnesota, postcard book produced by Julie M. Jensen for the McLeod County Historical Society, Hutchinson. Contains copies of 118 postcards of Hutchinson from the collection of the McLeod County Museum. Divided into sections: Businesses, Churches, Landmarks Lost, People, Celebrations, Crow River, Library Square, Schools and Street Scenes, The booklet begins with a brief history of postcards.

Record Type: Archive

Print, Photographic - Clown Robert "Bob" Stearns on stilts,1950s

Black & white photograph of Robert "Bob" Stearns dressed as a clown and walking on stilts in a Hutchinson Water Carnival parade on Main Street in front of the Stearns Lumber Company building in the 1950s. Bob Stearns was the father of donor James Stearns. James thought his mother Rosella might be the woman facing right in the group on the right. Stearns Lumber Company was at 216 Main St South until it became Stearnswood and moved to 3rd Ave ...

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Print, Photographic - Hutchinson Main Street, facing north

Sepia toned snapshot photograph of Main Street, Hutchinson MN, facing north c.1920. At left is the brick Stearns Lumber (1902 building). Next to it on the SW corner of Main Street and 2nd Avenue is the wood frame (14' x 16' ) original 1892 E. J. Stearns building. The Stearns buildings were torn down in 1960 to be replaced by Lloyd's Red Owl, Penney's, Hutch Drugs, and F. W. Woolworth. Across the street on the NW corner of Main & 2nd Ave. is...

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Print, Photographic - Main Street, Hutchinson, 1955

Framed black & white photograph of Main Street in Hutchinson MN. Taken from 3rd Ave South looking north in 1955, Hutchinson's Centennial Year. Businesses seen on the left are the Cities Service Station, Stearns Lumber, Kuehl's Variety, Henke's Cafe, Braun's. Visible on the right is the Post Office, Laugeson Produce, Dairy Bar, Shell Station, Super Valu, Rex Theatre. The Maplewood Academy building with smokestack can be seen at center at the fa...

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