Winter view of the remnants of the Whitney Brothers rock crushing business that stand in Lake Superior off the shore at Canal Park near the Aerial lift bridge. William A. Whitney and E. Harvey Whitney of Superior, Wisconsin, had a sand and gravel processing business. The largest concrete form was the dredging or crushing building. The structure was built in 1919. A tunnel ran from the building to Minnesota Point. There was a conveyor belt and railroad spur adjacent to the concrete building. Sand from the Apostle Islands and gravel from Grand Marais were carried to Duluth on a small vessel named LIMIT. There was also a tug the WILLIAM A. WHITNEY.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Oreck's ladies clothing store was established by the Oreckovsky family whose name was shortened to Oreck. Members of the family ran the business into the 1980s.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Bridgeman-Russell was founded in 1888, and incorporated in 1903 by Duluthian Henry Bridgeman. Newell Francis Russell was born on a farm near Rush City, Minnesota in 1869. There were a number of Bridgeman ice cream stores in Duluth. This building is at 16 West First Street.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Portrait of Vern Lang at work at the First National Bank in Shakopee. Lang worked as a cashier and he is sitting behind one of the bank's front cashier stands. The door to a vault is opened behind him and rows of safety deposit boxes are seen inside the vault.
Roy E. Halvorson grew dwarf spruce trees that he harvested, spray painted, and distributed green, white, and silver Christmas trees in the United States, Canada, Central and South America. The business ran from 1929 to 1975.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Roy E. Halvorson grew dwarf spruce trees that he harvested, spray painted, and distributed green, white, and silver Christmas trees in the United States, Canada, Central and South America. The business ran from 1929 to 1975.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Roy E. Halvorson grew dwarf spruce trees that he harvested, spray painted, and distributed green, white, and silver Christmas trees in the United States, Canada, Central and South America. The business ran from 1929 to 1975.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Roy E. Halvorson grew dwarf spruce trees that he harvested, spray painted, and distributed green, white, and silver Christmas trees in the United States, Canada, Central and South America. The business ran from 1929 to 1975.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Roy E. Halvorson grew dwarf spruce trees that he harvested, spray painted, and distributed green, white, and silver Christmas trees in the United States, Canada, Central and South America. The business ran from 1929 to 1975.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Roy E. Halvorson grew dwarf spruce trees that he harvested, spray painted, and distributed green, white, and silver Christmas trees in the United States, Canada, Central and South America. The business ran from 1929 to 1975.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Roy E. Halvorson grew dwarf spruce trees that he harvested, spray painted, and distributed green, white, and silver Christmas trees in the United States, Canada, Central and South America. The business ran from 1929 to 1975.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The American Exchange merged with First National Bank and was renamed First and American National Bank in 1929. You can see the bronze plaque with this name on the corner of the building. It became First American National Bank in 1958, First National in 1974 and Norwest in 1983. In 1998 Norwest merged with Wells Fargo and elected to take the more familiar name Wells Fargo.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Christmas lights in downtown Duluth on Superior Street looking east from Third Avenue West in 1957. The 1932 built, Art Deco style, Medical Arts building is at the far right. Odd, there is no snow.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Morgan Park; Open House; children; girls wearing saddle shoes; people; bus; advertisements on the bus Hi-lex Dry Bleach, Gold Bond Stamps; bus loading sign; tent; building; trees
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Four men stand in front of an automobile that is parked outside of Rudolph's Furniture Store. Rudolph's was a popular furniture store in downtown Duluth. Store owner Leonard Rudolph is second from left.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
The large building in the background is the St. Peter Feed Mill at 103 East Broadway in St. Peter, next to the bridge across the Minnesota River. Large mounds of snow along Broadway are visible in this winter view.
Vigorena feed display with bags of dog food stacked up along with chick starter. In the back row stands six men. Art Tibodeau is second from left and Roy Tibodeau is fourth from left.
Two cars parked in front of Dorotha's Cafe and three transport trucks getting gas at the Mileage Gas Station in Windom. Loaded on the trucks are new cars and pick-ups.
The Esko Co-Op Store, depicted in this photograph, was located at the intersection of Highway 61 and the Canosia Road. Note the cars parked around the store, from 1948 to 1955 models. The two men are not identified.
Dick Saber, inventory control manager, is describing the manufacture of Tonka Toys to a group of Mound School children who were touring the Tonka Toy factory in Mound, Minnesota. The truck bodies in the moving rack, as well as the truck body the tour guide is holding, are 1954 production parts
Inside of the Diamond Pink quarry with quarrymen preparing to hook a slab for removal by derrick. The quarry was located between Waite Park and Rockville, Minnesota.
Mikado Number 1303 stands on the turntable at Endion Roundhouse located along the shore of Lake Superior with Duluth and the aerial bridge in the background.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Northland Foods manufactured and distributed Jeno Paulucci's Chun King brand oriental food. Luigino "Jeno" Francisco Paulucci was born July 7, 1918 to Ettore and Michelina Buratti Paulucci in northern Minnesota. Jeno was the founder of Chun King in 1946. Manufacturing was done at 525 Lake Avenue South beginning in 1954. In 1966 he sold the Chun King Corporation to the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for $63 million. Jeno's Incorporated transferred its operations to Wellston, Ohio late in 1981, and its headquarters to Sanford, Florida in 1983.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections