Photographer Paul Benjamin Gaylord took the earliest images of Duluth including this view showing trees cut and rudimentary housing and dock construction.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Red Cliff lumber company sawmill was located at 512 39th Avenue West from 1902-1913. A rollway is an artificially inclined surface used by lumberjacks to slide logs into a waterway for transport.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Judge Elbert H. Gary, lawyer and president of the Federal Steel Company founded in 1898, and his colleagues after an annual meeting of Minnesota Iron Company held in Duluth, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The McDougall-Duluth shipyards occupied abut 50 acres at St. Louis riverfront near Spring street and Penton boulevard where it employed 3,500 men in 1919-1922.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Red Cliff lumber company sawmill was located at 512 39th Avenue West from 1902-1913. A rollway is an artificially inclined surface used by lumberjacks to slide logs into a waterway for transport.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Duluth and Iron Range (D & IR) railway locomotive number 60 and a workman are photographed because the No. 60 was the first class "J" 4-8-0 type to haul heavy tonnage.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Consolidated Elevator Company built elevators B, C, D 1884 with a 1.2 million bushel capacity, and G from 1878-1945 in the Duluth harbor parallel to downtown Duluth and perpendicular to Rice's Point.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections