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Lake Minnetonka Image Collection

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• Card, Cabinet
• P-LM1
• Lake View of Upper Lake Minnetonka—Narrows
• Men and women boarding two row boats. View of Upper Lake Minnetonka, the Narrows.... View Full Record
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• Card, Cabinet
• P-LM2
• Lake Scene Goose Island
• Goose Island. The Edmund G.E. Reel house on Wild Goose Island.The house (island?) was bought from Major Harlow who had purchased an option on the island from the Great Northern Railroad.... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• P-LM3
• Lake
  Lake Scene of Crane Island
• People sitting on shore looking out at Crane Island. Crane Island is located in the Upper Lake near Smithtown Bay. The island was once home to Blue Heron Rockery, but early settlers mistakenly called the herons 'cranes' hence the name 'Crane Island'.... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• P-LM4
• Lake Scene
• A Lake Minnetonka inlet near Edgewood and Howard's Point.... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• P-LM5
• Lake Front Scene
• "Lake front at Dyckhonen"... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• P-LM6
• Lake Scene
• Birch Bluff, Minnetonka. A commerical picture "Seasons Ends" by Floyd W. Brown... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• P-LM7
• Casco Point
• View of the shore line on Upper Lake taken from the water of Casco Point. Coite, Ewing, Davidson Villas are listed on the back of picture. Casco Point is located between Spring Park Bay and Carman's Bay. It may have been named by a settler from Cas... View Full Record
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• Card, Cabinet
• SP-LM1
• Christmas Lake View
• Christmas Lake, Excelsior, Minn. The postage date on the back is May 11, 1945. Christmas Lake was named for Charles S. Christmas the first county surveyor of Hennepin County elected in 1852, who platted the original town site of Minneapolis for John... View Full Record
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• Card, Cabinet
• SP-NA1
• Narrows
• Bridge at narrows. Lake. MTK. This is a picture of the first Narrows bridge at the present location.... View Full Record
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• Card, Cabinet
• SP-NA2
• Narrows Lake Scene
• Narrows - Lake Minnetonka. Stated 1961 on back of postcard. There are at least 2 postcards of this. Narrows Channel looking towards Lafayette Bay.... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• SP-NA3
• Narrows
• Narrows. This picture is the other picture of a two picture set containing the previous picture of Crane Island. Hulls Narrows Channel separating Lower Lake Minnetonka from Upper Lake Minnetonka. It was often dredged for steamboat passage.... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• SP-NA4
• Crane Island
• Crane Island. Picture is part of a two picture sheet containing a picture of the Narrows. Hull's Narrows Channel separating Lower Lake Minnetonka from Upper Lake Minnetonka. It was often dredged for steamboat passage. Crane Island was misnamed for th... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• SP-NA5
• The Narrows Bridge
• Streetcar boat going under the Narrows bridge. This was the first Narrows bridge at the present location.... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• P-WZ1
• Lake Scene of Lake Minnetonka
• Wayzata Bay in foreground Grays Bay beyond isthmus looking northeast. This picture was taken before the Gray's Bay Dam was built. The boat 'Sue Gardner' is in the foreground. ... View Full Record