A gas-powered tractor pulls a train of grain wagons up Polson's Main Street, heading to the waterfront freight docks on Flathead Lake. There the wheat would be shipped by lake steamer to Somers to be loaded onto freight cars on the Great Northern Railroad spur line and shipped to market.
Creator
Thiri, Al
Genre
photographs
Type
Image;StillImage
Date Original
1911
Subject
Flathead County (Mont.); Polson (Mont.); Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.); Flathead Lake (Mont.); Wheat trade; Lake steamers
Rights Management
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Contributors
Fugleberg, Paul
Contributing Institution
North Lake County Public Library, Polson, Montana
Geographic Coverage
Western Montana
Digital Format
image/tiff
Digitization Specifications
Scanned on an Epson Perfection V500 PHOTO scanner at 400 dpi, 24-bit color
Polson Area Historical Photographs - The Paul Fugleberg Collection
