View of seventh avenue west incline railway in Duluth bisecting the hillside; housing stock; businesses; signs; railroad cars; photo number 1987; Weather Bureau Building is next to the track at the top of the hill at 631 west seventh street built in 1904
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Whaleback "Thomas Wilson" at the foot of Seventh Avenue West in icy harbor with Seventh Avenue west incline in background, and incline pavilion. She sank 7 June 1902 just outside the Duluth harbor; smaller whaleback; tug
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Incline at sixty-first and Grand avenue West Duluth; Duluth Belt Line railway began in 1889 abandoned 1916; man in building; man and reclining dog outside; houses
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Words are reversed; whaleback "Christopher Columbus" leaving the Duluth canal; passengers; seventh avenue west incline; flipped image; only passenger whaleback built
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Whaleback "Frank Rockefeller" launch in shipyard; bystanders; one of the largest whalebacks 366 foot 2,759 ton steamer; worth more than $225,000;damaged November 2, 1905
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Three vessels Northern King North Wind whaleback barge 131 loading at Duluth ore docks; 300 foot steel freighter North Wind damaged July 27, 1907 at a dock; steel steamer Northern King banged the pier at Superior August 11, 1907;
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections