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This is a photo of EMC church and Krueger Machine Shop on Main Street in Steinbach. There are number of vehicles on the road.

This is a photo of (left to right): Steinbach School on Reimer Ave., K. R. Toews residence and livery barn on Main Street. There is a board walk in front of the buildings . There is a wagon between the residence and the barn and another one beside the barn.

This is a photo of Loewen Funeral Home in Steinbach. It is a one-storey white building with a gable roof.

This is a photo of a man standing on the front porch of a building that may be a store. There are bare trees and snow on the ground.

This is a photo of the old C. T. Loewen residence being removed to make room for a new one.There is one man standing on the back of a steam tractor that is hitched to the house. There are four other men in the photo. To the right is the Jacob S. Friesen place where the printery was located in the front room.

This is a photo of the two-storey building that housed the post office and a book store. There are a woman and a man standing in the doorway of the book store. On the left there is another building with a wagon beside it. There is a boardwalk for pedestrians.

This is a photo of seven men, wearing hats and overcoats, standing on the sidewalk in front of Rieger Tailor.

This is a photo of the Steinbach Bakery.

This is a photo of seven of Steinbach's businessmen in a car bulling a wagon loaded with goods. One of the men is J. R. Friesen. They are on the street in front of Friesen's Ford dealership.

This is a photo of Steinbach in the winter as seen from an elevated point.
Photo description by Veleda Unger and Ralph Friesen follows:
An unusual perspective on Steinbach, circa 1942. At the upper left corner is the public school, and the long building below it, dark at the back and white at the front, is the H. W. Reimer warehouse and store. The adjacent long two-storey building was likely the location of P. T. Barkman’s Massey-Harris dealership, subsequently the implement dealership of Tom Wiebe and Ben D. Penner. At the centre top of the picture, the large house is that of car dealer J. E. Regehr. The white-fronted store across Main Street from the Regehr house, with an illegible sign, could be the new Robinson Store (or A. K. Buss Shoe Repair) with Central Store just to the left. The street in the foreground is Mill Street, while the street running upwards from between the two white houses is Lumber Avenue. The slanted roof building to the right was a part of Steinbach Lumber Yards; the low flat-roofed building below is the Steinbach Light and Power Company. The white house on the northeast corner of Mill and Lumber (later the location of the Emmanuel Mission Church), once the residence of lawyer N. S. Campbell and family, belonged to sisters Marnie and Ida Steel. The larger house across from it was lumber yard owner M. M. Penner’s. The low house with the cottage roof on the right was the residence of P. P. Funk. This photo was in all likelihood taken from the Shur-Gain Feed Mill on Mill Street about halfway between Lumber and Barkman Avenue, owned by Frank Reimer, GMOL #333188.
“The mix of houses, business premises and service buildings is very much that of a growing town — as Steinbach was while the internal combustion engine was transforming the townscape and life.” (John Warkentin)