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1. Acacia fraternity house, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1970 - 1979
Description:
Exterior view of Acacia's fraternity house.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

2. Aerial Lift Bridge: Aerial View from Lake Superior, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
Date Created:
1970?
Description:
An ore boat is steaming through the canal into Duluth harbor. The canal was cut beginning in 1871, and this bridge was built in 1904-1905 and modified with the lift span (which is up in this photo) in 1929. Canal Park is to the right of the Aerial Lift Bridge. Today a tourist destination, Canal Park was originally an industrial site. In this photograph Canal Park is in transition. You can see some demolition as well as some new parking facilities very near the pier including green space for residents and tourists to get near the vessel traffic and the bridge. The Aerial Lift Bridge is the largest tourist draw in Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

3. Aerial Lift Bridge: Civic Center Fountain at Night, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Nylander, Lyman E., 1906-1972
Date Created:
1970
Description:
The Priley Fountain, is a feature of the Civic Center that draws residents, downtown workers, and visitors. Joseph Carl Priley (1902-1981), born in Duluth, was elected in 1953 to the office of Finance Commissioner of the City of Duluth. He was elected Second District County Commissioner in 1958, serving until his retirement in December 1974. "Petunia Joe" instituted a civic beautification program which received national attention and a letter of appreciation from Lady Bird Johnson. On July 26, 1970, Mayor Ben Boo dedicated the courthouse fountain and circular drive to Mr. Priley for his courthouse flower gardens. He was also a well known musician, playing the viola in the Duluth symphony. In 1986, Duluth city officials announced they would extend the streetscape project to include the Civic Center. The $900,000 project involved paving Priley Drive and the sidewalks with bricks, renovating the fountain, and planting trees and shrubs.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

4. Aerial Lift Bridge: Civic Center Fountain, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Nylander, Lyman E., 1906-1972
Date Created:
1970
Description:
The Priley Fountain, is a feature of the Duluth Civic Center that draws residents, downtown workers, and visitors. Joseph Carl Priley (1902-1981), born in Duluth, was elected in 1953 to the office of Finance Commissioner of the City of Duluth. He was elected Second District County Commissioner in 1958, serving until his retirement in December 1974. "Petunia Joe" instituted a civic beautification program which received national attention and a letter of appreciation from Lady Bird Johnson. On July 26, 1970, Mayor Ben Boo dedicated the courthouse fountain and circular drive to Mr. Priley for his courthouse flower gardens. He was also a well known musician, playing the viola in the Duluth symphony. In 1986, Duluth city officials announced they would extend the streetscape project to include the Civic Center. The $900,000 project involved paving Priley Drive and the sidewalks with bricks, renovating the fountain, and planting trees and shrubs.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

5. Aerial Lift Bridge: Colytto Arriving in Duluth-Superior Harbor D-118, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
Date Created:
1970?
Description:
This post card caption says D-117 Foreign Vessel entering Duluth Canal and passing under the famous Aerial Lift Bridge. Duluth is the westerly terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway. It looks like this is the Dutch vessel Colytto. The lift span is up. The sand beach of Minnesota Point is at the right with waves moving toward it. The neighborhood on Minnesota Point is called Park Point. There are a number of spots along the Point where access to the beach is especially popular, but life guards and a beach house are only at "the end" where you can also find playing fields including a place for polo. The address is 5000 Minnesota Avenue for the recreation area, and it is not truly at the end of the Point. Further along is the Sky Harbor Airport and further yet is the bird sanctuary.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

6. Aerial Lift Bridge: Colytto Arriving in Duluth-Superior Harbor D-118, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
Date Created:
1970?
Description:
This post card caption says Dutch Ship Colytto - 475 feet-long and 62-feet wide with a tonnage capacity of 9075 tons arrives at Duluth coming through the canal and under the famous Aerial Lift Bridge. Duluth is the westerly terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway. This is an ocean general cargo vessel. Its derricks and booms enable it to load various package cargoes. The St. Lawrence Seaway is the common name for a system of locks, canals and channels that permits ocean-going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the North American Great Lakes, as far as Lake Superior. Legally it extends from Montreal to Lake Erie, including the Welland Canal. The seaway is named after the Saint Lawrence River, which it follows from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean. Proposals for the seaway started in 1909, but were met with resistance from railway and port lobbyists in the United States.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Aerial of Excelsior Amusement Park and Excelsior Commons, Excelsior, Minnesota

Date Created:
1967 - 1970
Description:
Aerial view of the Excelsior Amusement Park and Excelsior Commons.
Contributing Institution:
Lake Minnetonka Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

12. Aerial view of campus, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1970 - 1979
Description:
Aerial view of the St. Cloud State University campus.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

13. Aerial view of campus, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1970 - 1971
Description:
Aerial view of the St. Cloud State University campus.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Aerial photographs

14. Aerial view of campus, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1969 - 1970
Description:
Aerial view of the St. Cloud State University campus.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Aerial photographs

15. Aerial view of campus, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1970?
Description:
Aerial view of the St. Cloud State University campus.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Aerial photographs

16. Aerial view of campus, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1969 - 1971
Description:
Aerial view of the St. Cloud State University campus.
Contributing Institution:
St. Cloud State University
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Aerial photographs

17. Aerial view of city of New Prague, Minnesota

Date Created:
1970
Description:
Postcard shows an aerial view of New Prague and the surrounding countryside.
Contributing Institution:
New Prague Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

18. Aerial view of city of New Prague, Minnesota

Date Created:
1970
Description:
Image shows an aerial view of city of New Prague facing northwest. On the upper left of the image is the New Prague Mill, the center of the photograph shows the mill pond, and on the lower right is Saint Wenceslaus church.
Contributing Institution:
New Prague Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Aerial view of Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1970 - 1980
Description:
A view from the air of Ely. Includes the new Vermilion Community College in lower right corner, and Shagawa Lake at the top.
Contributing Institution:
Ely-Winton Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

20. Aerial view of Forest and Union Streets, Mora, Minnesota

Date Created:
1970?
Description:
A aerial view of Forest and Union Street in Mora, Minnesota capturing the Feed Mill, Creamery, Coop gas Station, Post Office until 1996, Theater, Antiques Shop, Sundstrong Drugstore, Anthony's Hardware, and Stalkes Clothing Store.
Contributing Institution:
Kanabec County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Aerial photographs

21. Aerial view of intersection of Main Street and First Avenue, New Prague, Minnesota

Date Created:
1965-1970
Description:
Image shows an aerial view of Main Street, including the Suel Printing Building and the Standard Station.
Contributing Institution:
New Prague Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

22. Aerial view of Lake Valentine, Arden Hills, Minnesota

Date Created:
1960 - 1980
Description:
Aerial view of Lake Valentine and the Bethel College and Seminary campus.
Contributing Institution:
The History Center, Archives of Bethel University and Converge Worldwide - BGC
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

23. Aerial view of Lake Valentine, Arden Hills, Minnesota

Date Created:
1960 - 1980
Description:
Aerial view of Lake Valentine at Bethel University.
Contributing Institution:
The History Center, Archives of Bethel University and Converge Worldwide - BGC
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

24. Aerial view of Lake Valentine, Arden Hills, Minnesota

Date Created:
1960 - 1980
Description:
Aerial view of Lake Valentine at Bethel University.
Contributing Institution:
The History Center, Archives of Bethel University and Converge Worldwide - BGC
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

25. Aerial View of Pearl Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950 - 1975
Description:
Aerial view of Pearl Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Aerial photographs
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