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1. Wagon boarding aerial bridge, Duluth, Minnesota
- Date Created:
- 1906?
- Description:
- Horse drawn loaded wagon boarding aerial bridge car; light house on south pier
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
2. View of aerial bridge under construction, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Hopkins, Albert F.
- Date Created:
- 1904?
- Description:
- View from about fifth street and second avenue east of aerial bridge under construction
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
3. Ice covered south pier, Duluth, Minnesota
- Date Created:
- 1904-12-31
- Description:
- View from lake toward aerial bridge incomplete with ice covered south pier; west hillside in background
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
4. Excursion vessel "Tionesta" under the Aerial Lift Bridge, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
- Date Created:
- 1920?
- Description:
- Great Lakes excursion Vessel "Tionesta" in canal beneath Aerial bridge leaving Duluth Superior harbor; piers; lights; Corps of Engineer building
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
5. Constructing foundation for aerial bridge, Duluth, Minnesota
- Date Created:
- 1903?
- Description:
- Clearing spot for foundation; four men using a sandsucker in aerial bridge construction
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
6. Aerial Lift Bridge: Workman and crane, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Moran, Kenneth J.
- Date Created:
- 1970?
- Description:
- The photographer described this image with the phrase Rusty Cargo Duluth.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
7. Aerial Lift Bridge: Winter Aerial View of Minnesota Point, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1976?
- Description:
- The Duluth harbor is frozen over and snow covered, but the lake is still open. It is very rare for Lake Superior to freeze fully. Which ever way the wind blows the lake ice shifts. Lake ice piles up on Minnesota Point or moves out into the lake or onto the northeast segments of shore. It changes every minute. This is a terrific view of the shape of Canal Park in the foreground and the Point as it extends toward Wisconsin. The U.S. Naval Reserve Training Center is at the corner of Thirteenth Street and Minnesota Avenue on the Point. Thirteenth is where the road, Minnesota Avenue, jogs to the right. The structure at the right is the Arena Auditorium (will be added to and renamed the DECC in 1987) and Pioneer Hall. The feature in the harbor off of Minnesota Point is the snow covered Hearding Island. The skywalk from downtown Duluth to the arena through Pioneer Hall is known as the "Northwest Passage."
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
8. Aerial Lift Bridge: Wide View of East End, Downtown, Canal Park, and Duluth Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1953?
- Description:
- The businesses and housing of the East End are visible in this wide view facing west. Superior Street, East First Street and East Second Street run diagonally from left to right in the lower half of the image.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
9. Aerial Lift Bridge: Wide View of East End, Downtown, and Duluth Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1953?
- Description:
- The businesses and housing of the East End are visible in this wide view facing west. Superior Street, East First Street and East Second Street run diagonally from left to right in the lower right quadrant of the image. In the distance beyond the Lift Bridge is Rice's point.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
10. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Superior Street Downtown, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
- Date Created:
- 1930?
- Description:
- This is the lower side of Superior street between Third Avenue West on the left and approaching Fourth Avenue West on the right. The buildings left to right are Lonsdale at 300, Alworth at 306-308, Siewart's 310, Irving Moore Memorial 312, Torrey 314-316, St. Louis Hotel 318. If we could see a little further toward Fourth the Providence building would be near the corner. The St. Louis hotel was razed and the Medical Arts building constructed in its place in 1932.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
11. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Speedboat in the Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1950?
- Description:
- The Duluth Yacht Club provided Scenic Rides. The Duluth Yacht Basin on the bayside of Park Point or Minnesota Point, near Tenth Avenue, was originally owned by Julius Barnes. It was subsequently owned by A. B. Hargrave. Hargrave sold it to the Lakehead Boat Basin, Incorporated in May 1959. The formal, brief, Duluth Yacht Club organized in 1890 and incorporated in 1905. It was distinct from the Duluth Boat Club but was absorbed by the Boat Club in 1909. The Lakehead investors were making improvements in 1959 and developed two areas. One was for outboard runabouts the other for cruiser operations. The Lakehead company would sell new and used yachts and boats.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
12. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of pleasure craft in the harbor, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1967?
- Description:
- This view shows light the industrial Canal Park area at the left as you approach the Aerial Bridge and the 1966 completed Duluth Arena Auditorium at the center with its expansive parking lot. Sailboats and small pleasure craft are in the harbor. Fifth Avenue West overpass is at the far right. Note that Canal Park was not a tourist destination until the 1980s. It was zoned as a light industrial site for decades.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
13. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Minnesota Slip, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1959?
- Description:
- Minnesota Slip (water), on some 1920s maps called Lake Avenue Slip, is bounded by the Northern Pacific Railway Dock No. 6, and the businesses and warehouses on the harbor edge of Canal Park. The Marshall-Wells water towers are a feature standing tall next to the DeWitt Seitz Company building that stands today. The DeWitt-Seitz Co., whose plant, factory, warehouse and offices were at 390 S. Lake Avenue, was one of Duluth's prosperous businesses. The company, organized in 1905 by Henry F. Seitz and C E. DeWitt, manufactured all grades of mattresses and box springs, and included wholesale and jobbing of furniture and floor coverings. The DeWitt-Seitz best grade mattress and box spring, known as the Sanomade, carried the slogan "Remember the Name, the Rest is Easy." It was used and advertised all over the country. Its wholesale furniture and jobbing business covered Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and Michigan, North Dakota and parts of South Dakota and Montana. Including salesmen, the company employed a total of 60 persons in its nine story building that still stands as the DeWitt-Seitz Market Place in Canal Park. F. S. Kelly Furniture Co. bought the furniture stock of the DeWitt-Seitz Co in June of 1961. DeWitt-Seitz continued manufacturing mattresses and reorganized the firm, but the mattress company was sold in 1962.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
14. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Duluth Harbor from the East Hillside, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1956 - 1960
- Description:
- This image stretches from the ore docks at 33rd Avenue West to about Eighth Avenue East, incorporating downtown Duluth and portions of the East Hillside, Minnesota Point, Superior, and the Superior harbor. A laker has just passed under the Aerial Lift Bridge and is heading in to the Duluth harbor. Grain elevators on Rice's Point are above the vessel. In the center of the photo is Hotel Duluth, just below what is now called the corner of the lake, with Fitger's Brewery to the left.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
15. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Duluth Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1956?
- Description:
- View of the harbor from above, possibly from Skyline Drive. The long, low Northern Pacific Railroad freight sheds are between Minnesota and Industrial slips. A laker is in Minnesota Slip. The coal dock area will be the construction site for the Duluth Arena Auditorium in 1963. Hearding Island is off Minnesota Point in the harbor. The island is the uninhabited site that has been called Bird Island by Park Point residents and Harbor Island by Duluth Bird Club members. The name Hearding Island is for William Hellins Hearding (England, 1826-1893, Milwaukee) who surveyed the Duluth-Superior harbor in 1861 as assigned by Captain (later a general in the Civil War) George C. Meade. The survey, completed in a little over two months, included the St. Louis River up to Fond du Lac, and the bay including Minnesota Point and the mouth of the Nemadji River. Rice's Point is at the middle left of the image showing a number of grain elevators.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
16. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Duluth Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1952?
- Description:
- Duluth harbor looking at the waterfront, the hillside beyond and the Canal Park area abutting the bridge. At the left on the waterfront are warehouse district buildings and remaining North Western Fuel Company coal docks before you reach slips and Canal Park businesses. At the center of the image is a light building, Hotel Duluth, at Superior Street and Third Avenue East that opened in May 1925. The bay side view of Minnesota Point is at the right with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers vessel yard facility.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
17. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Duluth Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1966?
- Description:
- View from the harbor looking toward the Duluth downtown business district and the hillside. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers vessel yard is at the right. The U.S. Amry Corps of Engineers Building is framed by the Aerial Lift Bridge whose span is raised for the exit of an approaching ore boat. The ore boat is parallel to the new Arena Auditorium, just opened August 1966. The excursion boat business is at the corner of the Arena and Minnesota Slip. The pyramid shaped roof ofthe Pietro Belluschi designed copper top church, First Methodist, at Central Entrance and Skyline Drive is visible. It was completed in 1966. Canal Park is still industrial but will become a tourist destination following redevelopment in the 1980s. The South Breakwater Inner Light Tower or the Canal Park lighthouse is at the far right.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
18. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Duluth Harbor and West Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1950?
- Description:
- View of West Duluth facing downtown Duluth and Lake Superior. The image includes the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range railroad ore docks, grain elevators on Rice's Point, the Aerial Lift Bridge, Minnesota Point, and Lake Superior. Wade Stadium is visible in the center of the picture to the left of the ore docks, with Wheeler Field, 3501 Grand Avenue, to the left of the stadium. Denfeld High School, 4405 West Fourth Street, is in the center of the bottom portion of the image with the West Junior High below it at the southwest corner of North Central Avenue and West Sixth Street. The Interstate Bridge connects Duluth and Superior, Wisconsin at Rice's Point. The Duluth Missabe and Iron Range railroad tracks are at the lower left, continuing to the ore docks where three vessels are waiting to be loaded with ore.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
19. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Duluth from Skyline Parkway, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1970?
- Description:
- Northern City National Bank's NC sign was placed on top of the Alworth building in 1957 where the bank occupied the Alworth's main floor. The sign was permanently removed in 1980 when a bank merger resulted in the new First Bank. The Alworth is Duluth's tallest downtown building at 16 stories. The round or cylindrical building at the right is the Radisson Hotel built in 1970 with an addition in 1975. The top floor of the Radisson holds the Top of the Harbor restaurant that turns 360 degrees while you dine. The Aerial Bridge's lift span is up because an ore boat it about to exit the harbor. Minnesota Point extends into the distance, with Hearding Island to its right in the harbor. Hearding Island is the uninhabited site called Bird Island by Part Point residents and Harbor Island by Duluth Bird Club members. In December 1962, the St. Louis County Historical Society, supported by the Park Point Community Club, petitioned the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (Dept. of the Interior) to use the name Hearding Island on all official and Federal maps designating an island in the Superior Bay portion of the harbor parallel to Minnesota Point from 20-24th Street, Duluth, Minnesota. The Duluth City Council officially named it Hearding Island for local use July 1962, ordinance No. 7323. The name Hearding Island is for William Hellins Hearding (1826-1893) who surveyed the Duluth-Superior harbor in 1861 as assigned by Capt. (later general Civil War) George C. Meade.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
20. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Duluth from Skyline Parkway, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1954?
- Description:
- Skyline Parkway began in 1888 as Terrace Parkway or Rogers Boulevard. It was extended under Mayor Samuel F. Snively. Today, Skyline Parkway Drive stretches about 27 miles. In December 1959 the Duluth City Council and Mayor E. Clifford Bork changed the name of Rogers parkway and Skyline Boulevard to Skyline Parkway. The smokestack at the far left is part of the Duluth steam plant. It heats hundreds of downtown buildings. To the left of the smokestack is Hotel Duluth, which opened to great fanfare on May 21, 1925. Hotel Duluth became senior housing and was renamed Greysolon Plaza in October 1981.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
21. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Duluth from Skyline Drive, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1954?
- Description:
- This view stretches from Harbor View Homes at Lake Avenue and Eleventh street at the bottom of the photograph to Canal Park and then Minnesota Point lying beyond the Aerial Bridge at the left. At the far right are grain elevators in the Duluth harbor.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
22. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Duluth Canal and Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
- Date Created:
- 1944?
- Description:
- A view to the canal with the Duluth business district in the foreground. The 1896 Sacred Heart Cathedral steeple is in the right corner in front of the building that is now the Damiano Center (clothes distribution and soup kitchen). The cathedral, now a music center, and the Damiano are at 211 and 206 West Fourth Street. At the left is the smokestack of the Duluth Steam Plant built in 1932 that continues to provide heat to downtown businesses. To the left of the smokestack is the five-story Freimuth's Department store which opened in 1900 on the corner of Lake Avenue and Superior Street. It was Duluth's oldest family owned firm when it closed in 1961 with 60 employees. The Freimuth's building was razed in May 1968. On the far right on Superior Street are the tall, slim Alworth building (16 stories) dating from 1909, and the light colored Medical Arts building on the site of the St. Louis Hotel. The hotel was razed beginning May 19, 1932. September 1, 1932 contractors broke ground for the Medical Arts building. Signs in Canal Park include Marshall-Wells Hardware Company and Griggs, Cooper and Company. Griggs Cooper was a wholesale grocer and liquor business at 217-219 Lake Avenue South featuring Home brand food.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
23. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Duluth Business District and Canal Park, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1975?
- Description:
- Northern City National Bank's NC sign was placed on top of the Alworth building in 1957 where the bank occupied the Alworth's main floor. The sign was permanently removed in 1980 when a bank merger resulted in the new First Bank. The Alworth is Duluth's tallest downtown building at 16 stories. Minnesota Point extends into the distance. The Arena Auditorium is in the middle of this photograph on the edge of the harbor. Later, the street behind the complex will be renamed Harbor Drive. The Arena Auditorium itself will be expanded and renamed the DECC in 1987. Canal Park, at the far left, is still occupied by industrial businesses in this image. It will not begin to transition to the tourist destination we know it as today until Grandma's Restaurant opens there in a rehabilitated building in 1976. The seven-story Ordean Building is next to the Fifth Avenue West Overpass. The Ordean was built in 1973 and occupies the site of the Spalding Hotel.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
24. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Downtown Duluth and Minnesota Point, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1962?
- Description:
- A vessel enters the harbor in this view of downtown Duluth and Minnesota Point. Fifth Avenue West runs directly from the St. Louis County Courthouse to the waterfront in the lower right corner of this image. At Fifth Avenue West and Superior Street is the Holland Hotel on the right; and on the left the brownstone Spalding hotel building which will be razed in 1963. On the lower left of this view are the tall Alworth building and the wide Medical Arts building both on the lower side of Superior Street.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
25. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Downtown Duluth and Harbor from the Hillside, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1954?
- Description:
- View of Downtown Duluth from Fourth Avenue West including the Duluth Harbor, Aerial Lift Bridge, Minnesota Point, and Lake Superior. Duluth City Hall and the St. Louis County Courthouse and jail are visible in the center right. Just below the Lift Bridge are the tall Alworth building and the wider Medical Arts building, both on the lower side of Superior Street. Along the waterfront are Minnesota Slip, Industrial Slip, the North Western Fuel Company coal dock, to the right is the Northern Cold Storage Building, 702 West Railroad Street. A number of lake vessels are grouped together in the center of the harbor.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
26. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Canal Park, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1962?
- Description:
- This area is below Superior Street. Superior Street is the main street in downtown Duluth. Minnesota Slip (water), on some 1920s maps called Lake Avenue Slip, is the parking spot for four lake vessels in this photograph. Today this slip holds the William A. Irvin ore boat museum. The slip is bounded by the Northern Pacific Railway Dock and the NP's low freight sheds on the right, and by Canal Park on the left. The sign on the brick building next to the Robert N. Joynt vessel says North Star Terminal and Dock Company; Standard Salt and Cement Company. The Marshall-Wells company was located in Canal Park and was in fact the world's largest hardware distributor for decades. The Coast-to-Coast Stores bought the Duluth division of Marshall-Wells-Kelley How-Thomson Company in 1958, which ended the Duluth firm's operation. The Marshall-Wells water towers stand tall next to the De Witt-Seitz mattress manufacturing building. De Witt-Seitz is a mixed-use building today of shops, restaurants, offices and meeting spaces. Zenith was a brand name for many Marshall-Wells products. Everything in this view will transition into a tourist destination.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
27. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Business District to Canal Park, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1960?
- Description:
- The lift span is up; a vessel either just entered the harbor or is soon to exit but the ship is not visible. From the Marshall-Wells sign at the left to the Aerial Bridge is the area known as Canal Park. At the time of this image, there is still a mix of business and industry in this compact area. It is not going to be a tourist attraction until Grandma's Restaurant opens in 1976, followed by dozens of other amenities. Minnesota Slip will hold the 600-foot William A. Irvin ore boat museum in 1986. The Marshall-Wells Company started in 1886 as Chapin and Wells Company a wholesale hardware business. Albert Morley Marshall, son of Seth, bought controlling interest in 1893 and changed the name to Marshall-Wells Company. The company grew to include 14 wholesale offices throughout the northwestern U.S. and Canada. In 1955 Ambrook Industries Inc. of New York bought controlling interest. Kelley-How-Thomson, Marshall-Wells merged January 1, 1958. Kelley-How-Thomson had been a subsidiary of Marshall-Wells since 1955 when Ambrook bought Marshall-Wells and reorganized. The Coast-to-Coast Stores bought the Duluth division of Marshall-Wells-Kelley How-Thomson Company in 1958, which ended the Duluth firm's operation. Coolerator Company began in 1908 as the Duluth Show Case Company. Its name changed to Duluth Refrigerator Company in 1928, and to the Coolerator Company in 1934. It was a subsidiary of the Marshall-Wells Building Corporation.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
28. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Arena Auditorium Construction Site, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Curtis, Charles A., 1936-2002
- Date Created:
- 1965?
- Description:
- View shows Commerce Street in the foreground and Minnesota Point and its sandy beach to the right of the bridge. At the top left, Canal Park businesses and industries fit between Minnesota Slip and Lake Superior. Two cars are crossing the bridge. Ground was broken December 19, 1963 for the Duluth Arena Auditorium. The Arena Auditorium complex opened to great fanfare in August 1966. UMD hockey was played at the arena which, seating 8,000, was also the site of performances of entertainers and rock concerts. The Auditorium was home to the symphony, opera, ballet, and artists like Marcel Marceau. It was renamed the DECC or Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center on August 31, 1987. It was expanded and re-opened June 18, 1990. The Harbor Side Convention Center and Parking Ramp additions were opened January 31, 2001. At the far right are businesses removed for the Fifth Avenue West Overpass, and later, the Great Lakes Aquarium and Bayfront Festival Park.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
29. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from the Corner of the Lake, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Nylander, Lyman E., 1906-1972
- Date Created:
- 1963-04-28
- Description:
- This view is from what is today the Corner of the Lake, but was the vicinity of Michigan Street and South Second Avenue East. It is now at the Lake Walk. The railroad tracks are gone. The wooden building is the edge of the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad freight depot buildings. The concrete structure in the water is the remnant of the Whitney Brothers rock crushing company. Canal Park area was an industrial location until it began a slow transformation in the 1970s to the tourist destination familiar today.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
30. Aerial Lift Bridge: View From the Civic Center, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1974?
- Description:
- A band is playing on the steps of the Federal Building in the Civic Center. The Federal Building is at the right, the St. Louis County Courthouse is behind you and a little to the left. Duluth's City Hall is not visible, but is at the far left, facing the Federal Building. The cylindrical building is the Radisson Hotel. The Arena Auditorium is just in front of the Aerial Bridge. The span is up: a vessel is either outbound or inbound. Cars and pedestrians on either side of the bridge must wait. They are being "bridged" or stopped by the vessel traffic. On the other side of the tree and the child on the bicycle is the civic center pool and fountain.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
31. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from Skyline Parkway, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1973?
- Description:
- This view from Skyline Drive over the central business district of Duluth showing the curve of Minnesota Point is what this woman and two children see. People tend to get out of their cars to enjoy the wide view from Skyline. The Aerial Bridge has already lowered as the ore boat that passed under it now glides into the harbor. Northern Drug Company, or L. W. Leithhead Drug in earlier years, is the multistory building next to the new Fifth Avenue West curving road. The Flame Restaurant and sign are visible on the harbor shore at the tip of the ore boat between the Duluth Arena Auditorium (now called the DECC - Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center) and the circular Radisson Hotel.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
32. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from Skyline Parkway, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
- Date Created:
- 1939?
- Description:
- This view from the crest of the hillside of Duluth shows a vessel steaming toward the aerial bridge. A prominent sign is visible on the bayside of Minnesota Point advertising Marine Iron and Shipbuilding. That business was located for years at the foot of Eleventh Avenue West and bayfront. The first ship launched in the Twin Ports for service in World War II was at the Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Co., April 23, 1941. A Duluth newspaper on July 1, 1966 ,reported that the former Marshall-Wells Building on Lake Avenue South has been purchased by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Co. and Modern Constructors Inc. The assessors office lists the value of the property at $736,000.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
33. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from Skyline Parkway, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1962?
- Description:
- This view from Skyline Drive shows the buildings of downtown Duluth and Canal Park. Minnesota Point stretches beyond the Aerial Lift Bridge. Formerly known as Rogers Boulevard, Skyline Parkway stretches 25 miles from Becks Road east to the Lester River, ending at Lake Superior. Skyline Parkway was designated as a State Scenic Byway in 1998.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
34. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from Skyline Parkway, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1950?
- Description:
- This view from Skyline Drive shows the buildings of downtown Duluth and Canal Park. Minnesota Point stretches beyond the Aerial Lift Bridge. Formerly known as Rogers Boulevard, Skyline Parkway stretches 25 miles from Becks Road east to the Lester River, ending at Lake Superior. Skyline Parkway was designated as a State Scenic Byway in 1998.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
35. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from Skyline Parkway, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1954?
- Description:
- This view from Skyline Drive shows the buildings of downtown Duluth and Canal Park (left). Minnesota Point stretches beyond the Aerial Lift Bridge. In the foreground, the roadway formerly known as Rogers Boulevard, Skyline Parkway stretches 25 miles from Becks Road east to the Lester River, ending at Lake Superior. Skyline Parkway was designated as a State Scenic Byway in 1998.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
36. Aerial Lift Bridge: View From Peace Church, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Nylander, Lyman E., 1906-1972
- Date Created:
- 1964-12-05
- Description:
- A winter view of the Duluth Harbor, the Aerial Lift Bridge, and Lake Superior from 1015 East Eleventh Street, the site of Peace Church. The church has evolved through three names. In 1872, the German congregation chose the name St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church. The first church built that same year at Tenth Avenue East and Third Street still stands as an apartment building, and is the oldest church building in Duluth. In 1934 they changed the church name to St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed. in 1957 it was given the name St. Paul's United Church of Christ. In 1959, the congregation broke ground for the new church at the present site and changed the name to Peace Church.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
37. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from Leif Erikson Park, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1950?
- Description:
- Unidentified vessel leaving the canal. This photograph was part of the Duluth Chamber of Commerce publicity efforts.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
38. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from Leif Erikson Park, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1960?
- Description:
- There are many places along the Lake shore to pause, wade, throw rocks into the water, and enjoy views toward the bridge and Canal Park or across to Wisconsin's south shore which you can see well on a clear day, or up the shore toward Canada.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
39. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from Leif Erikson Park, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Nylander, Lyman E., 1906-1972
- Date Created:
- 1962-07
- Description:
- You can walk down to the Lake at Leif Erikson Park near downtown Duluth. There are large rocks to sit or stand upon and a rocky shoreline. At all seasons, individuals, families, people and their dogs, spend hours at this spot watching the Lake, wading, watching for boats to enter the harbor, watching for loons on the water. On the right of this shot is the bluestone retaining wall below the Fitger's Brewery whose smokestack and water tower are prominent. Fitger's at 600 East Superior Street closed in 1971, but was remodeled and reopened in 1984 as a 48-room inn, with shops and restaurants.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
40. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from Lake Superior with lighthouses, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Moran, Kenneth J.
- Date Created:
- 1980?
- Description:
- View from out in the Lake beyond the canal toward the canal's piers, lighthouses or light structures. There are small pleasure craft in Lake Superior. The South Pier is at the left, the North Pier is at the right. People are watching from the piers. The Paulucci building is at the right in the background. This may or may not be a foggy moment. Duluth can get foggy is a few minutes. It is one of the many Lake effects. We can also experience a 10, 20, even 30 degree temperature swing if you are down by the Lake or up over the hill.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
41. Aerial Lift Bridge: View From Enger Park, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1966?
- Description:
- View from near Enger Memorial Tower in Enger Park. The park is located at Sixteenth Avenue West and Skyline Parkway Drive. The 330 acre Enger Park was dedicated June 15, 1939 by Olav, Crown Prince of Norway. Bert J. Enger (1864-1931) fifth member of Duluth's Hall of Fame, who provided funds for a municipal golf course, left two-thirds of his $185,000 estate to civic enterprises and charitable organizations including: Aftenro Society, Bethany Children's Home, Wesley Methodist church, Norwegian-American Historical Society, Salvation Army, Lighthouse for the Blind, and Miller Memorial hospital maintenance fund. Enger park, acquired partly by gift from Bert Enger, was acquired by the city of Duluth between 1891 and 1928. Enger Tower cost $30,000 to build, is six stories high, 70 feet tall, 583 feet above Lake Superior. You can see 31.4 miles on a clear day. It has a 10 foot conical shaped beacon at the top with 32 vertical tubes. One third of the $185,000 Enger estate, $61,000, was to be used for a civic memorial.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
42. Aerial Lift Bridge: View From Enger Park, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1958?
- Description:
- View from near Enger Memorial Tower in Enger Park. The park is located at Sixteenth Avenue West and Skyline Parkway Drive. The 330 acre Enger Park was dedicated June 15, 1939 by Olav, Crown Prince of Norway. Bert J. Enger (1864-1931) fifth member of Duluth's Hall of Fame, who provided funds for a municipal golf course, left two-thirds of his $185,000 estate to civic enterprises and charitable organizations including: Aftenro Society, Bethany Children's Home, Wesley Methodist church, Norwegian-American Historical Society, Salvation Army, Lighthouse for the Blind, and Miller Memorial hospital maintenance fund. Enger park, acquired partly by gift from Bert Enger, was acquired by the city of Duluth between 1891 and 1928. Enger Tower cost $30,000 to build, is six stories high, 70 feet tall, 583 feet above Lake Superior. You can see 31.4 miles on a clear day. It has a 10 foot conical shaped beacon at the top with 32 vertical tubes. One third of the $185,000 Enger estate, $61,000, was to be used for a civic memorial.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
43. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from East Second Street, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Nylander, Lyman E., 1906-1972
- Date Created:
- 1962-07
- Description:
- Looking toward Canal Park from East Second Street, Calvary Temple Church is at the center right with a white cross. The church address is 412 East First Street. Next door to Calvary is Curran Apartment building with three front stoops at 408 and 410 East First Street. The very top of Hotel Duluth at far right top. This residential area was absorbed by Miller-Dwan Hospital and its parking facilities.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
44. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from Duluth hillside, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
- Date Created:
- 1940
- Description:
- A laker prepares to leave the harbor through the Ship Canal in this view of downtown Duluth, Canal Park and Minnesota Point from the hillside. In the center right of the image is a rear view of the Duluth Civic Center buildings. In Canal Park on the left of the image we can see the DeWitt Seitz and Marshall Wells buildings. Zenith was a brand name used by Marshall Wells.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
45. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from downtown, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1959?
- Description:
- This view is from just below First Street looking down Second Avenue West. Glass Block department store and the Sellwood building are on the corners of Superior Street and Second Avenue West. Railroad Street and ice filled slips are between downtown and the bridge. Minnesota Point extends beyond the bridge at the top of the image. Glass Block was built in 1893 and three floors added in 1902. It closed in 1981. The Sellwood was built in 1908 and still stands.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
46. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from Central Hillside, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1970?
- Description:
- You are overlooking part of Duluth's business district from the hillside. The bridge's lift span is up as an ore boat is approaching the canal to exit the harbor. The tallest blond buildings are the Alworth at the left (built in 1909) and the Medical Arts (1932) to its right. The Arena Auditorium complex (renamed the DECC in 1987) is nearer to the aerial lift bridge in front of the ore boat. At the far left is Canal Park. The tall building is the DeWitt-Seitz, currently full of shops, restaurants, businesses and meeting rooms. The DeWitt-Seitz Co., whose plant, factory, warehouse and offices were at 390 South Lake Avenue was one of Duluth's prosperous industries. The company, organized in 1905 by Henry F. Seitz and C. E. De Witt, manufactured all grades of mattresses and box springs, and the wholesale and jobbing of furniture and floor coverings. The DeWitt-Seitz best grade mattress and box spring, known as the Sanomade and carrying the slogan "Remember the Name, the Rest is Easy," was used and advertised all over the country. Its wholesale furniture and jobbing business covered Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and Michigan, North Dakota and parts of South Dakota and Montana. Including salesmen, the company employed a total of 60 persons in its nine story building that still stands as the De Witt-Seitz Market Place. In 1930, it employed "more than 40 persons" and had a payroll of $100,000. F. S. Kelly Furniture Co. bought the furniture stock of the company in June 1961. DeWitt-Seitz continued manufacturing mattresses and reorganized the firm, but the mattress company was sold in 1962.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
47. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from Central Hillside, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1962?
- Description:
- A laker prepares to enter the Ship Canal in this view of downtown Duluth, Canal Park and Minnesota Point. In the center right of the image is a rear view of the Duluth Civic Center buildings. In Canal Park on the left of the image we can see the DeWitt Seitz and Marshall Wells buildings. Zenith was a brand name used by Marshall Wells.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
48. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from Central Hillside, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1970?
- Description:
- At the far left you can see the tall DeWitt-Seitz Mattress Company building in Canal Park, whose plant, factory, warehouse and offices were at 390 South Lake Avenue was one of Duluth's prosperous industries. The company organized in 1905 by Henry F. Seitz and C. E. DeWitt, and manufactured all grades of mattresses and box springs, and the wholesale and jobbing of furniture and floor coverings. The DeWitt-Seitz best grade mattress and box spring, known as the Sanomade and carried the slogan "Remember the Name, the Rest is Easy," was used and advertised all over the country. Its wholesale furniture and jobbing business covered Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and Michigan, North Dakota and parts of South Dakota and Montana. Including salesmen, the company employed a total of 60 persons in its nine story building that still stands as the DeWitt-Seitz Market Place in Canal Park. In 1930, it employed "more than 40 persons" and had a payroll of $100,000. F. S. Kelly Furniture Company bought the furniture stock of DeWitt-Seitz in June 1961. De Witt-Seitz continued manufacturing mattresses and reorganized the firm, but the mattress company was sold in 1962. The Fifth Avenue West overpass is at the far right. Downtown is between with the Arena Auditorium on the harbor waterfront in the middle of the image.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
49. Aerial Lift Bridge: View down Third Avenue West from Fourth Street, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Nylander, Lyman E., 1906-1972
- Date Created:
- 1958
- Description:
- The 1893 First Methodist Episcopal church occupied the corner of Third Avenue West and Third Street in downtown Duluth until the congregation built the 1965 church building designed by architect Pietro Belluschi that everyone calls the Copper Top church at Skyline and Central Entrance. This brownstone structure closed in November 1966 and was razed in 1969.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
50. Aerial Lift Bridge: View down Fourth Avenue west, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Rykken, Hjalmer C., 1899-1996
- Date Created:
- 1962-07
- Description:
- Looking down Fourth Avenue West from Fourth Street in downtown Duluth. The 16-story Alworth building constructed in a record nine months in 1909-1910 is the tall building at the left. It is at 306 West Superior Street. The 1932 built Medical Arts building is in the middle of the photograph at 324 West Superior Street.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs