Photographer Paul Benjamin Gaylord took the earliest images of Duluth including this view showing trees cut and rudimentary housing and dock construction.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Pendleton Block lower side between first and second avenue west; people; Thomas Dowse Real Estate and Insurance; Superior street; boardwalk; J. C. Merritt dentist
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Sawyer and Davis building wholesale grocers third avenue west and Superior street; barrels and boxes; driver, horses and loaded wagon; two men; African American child
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Northwest corner of Lake avenue and Superior street shoe and boot store of G. Poirier; workers; street; boardwalk; aprons; signs like boots; adjacent businesses
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of Duluth hillside from Superior street approaching third avenue west; Duluth Carriage Works; church behind Carriage Works is original First Methodist third avenue west and second street erected 1870
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
New York Boot and Shoe Store and identified workers; aprons; boots hanging by laces in front of door; awning; open window with women and girl; boy; boardwalk
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Horse drawn wagons in front of Oppel building at 119-121 east Superior street; Wirth and Traphagen building built in 1889 by C. H. Oppel grocer; people in windows; women and children; workers; signs; razed in 1987
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The Model Restaurant business and workers and little girl; identified workers; 20 west Superior street; was the John Gilbert restaurant in 1886 for three years and sold it; child is his daughter; signs in window for ice cream; food in window; children
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
J. Adam Bede's Paragrapher newspaper building at west Superior street and Garfield avenue; identified men; Getty and Helm Real Estate; Helm Addition; boys; snow; tailor; livery next door
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of waterfront and harbor from hillside and fourth street looking northeast; Minnesota Point; canal; wooden piers; slips; C W Murray 714 west Superior street; Duluth Boat Club; Kelley Island Lime; coal dock
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Superior street looking east from fifth avenue west; fa?ºade Farguson building; grand opera; sign Gormany photographs and portraits; horse drawn wagons double streetcar tracks
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Exterior view of the Pioneer Hotel building. A group of men and women stand in front of the building along with two horse-drawn wagons. The Pioneer Hotel was built by Robert Whiteside in 1887.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Superior street looking east from fourth avenue west; Grand Opera Bay View Hotel First and Amer National bank; horse drawn streetcars horse drawn wagons
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Kugler's Drug Store; windows; people; 127 east Superior street; ice cream; crushed fruit; soda; Edward Grochau in doorway; 1960s site of Sears and Roebuck
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Duluth harbor from Duluth Boat House; W C Sargent dock; Northern Pacific dock at foot of fifth avenue west; barges Tom Adams and Romania; schooner; sailboats; Minnesota Point
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Lake avenue businesses; Scott and Holston Lumber company; A. Booth Packing Company office at 434 and 436 Lake avenue south; wagon with barrels Emerson Hovland and Messinger Commission Merchants; mail steamer H. R. Dixon
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections