Mystery Photo #93: A Hard Day

A potential lead on determining if the location is Duluth or Minneapolis: 

Comparing the mystery photo in this post with a mystery photo from a previous post shows there were two different wishing wells. It's possible either location had two wishing wells, but it's more likely one of the wishing wells was in Duluth and one was in Minneapolis.

Thanks to Gina Temple-Rhodes for the tip on that.

There is also this well photo, but it, like the others, lists both Duluth and MSP on the back.

And this lovely lady was visiting the OTHER well, somewhere. But no one seems to have mailed the darn cards!

Gina also found that the photographer at the Penny Arcade in Duluth was Thomas Furniss, who later moved into the realm of moving pictures and was manager of Duluth's Rex Theatre, later the Garrick, which was probably the first theater in town to show the new "photo plays" in about 1914. 

He also got into trouble for anti-union practices and the Labor World publication was mad at him in 1916. He died in 1924, so probably didn't see the rise of "talkies."

Another Penny Arcade / Post Card Shop shot from a well, this time with a phone number on the back -- Melrose 3720 -- which was a legit number in Duluth circa the early 1900s.