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Guide and Directory of Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota
Original 1884 title page, from a digitized archival copy.
H. W. Mowry, publisher
1884
A period guide and directory from the lake's nineteenth-century resort years. Its descriptions and names provide a contemporary record of residences, islands and places that later histories discuss in retrospect.
Useful for checking an old name against the language of its own time. A directory is still a snapshot, and historic spellings and promotional descriptions need to be read in context.