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1. Unidentified photography studio (exterior), possibly Glenwood, Iowa

Date Created:
1890
Description:
Four men and a boy standing in front of an apparent photography studio, possibly in Glenwood, Iowa.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

2. Iron mining operation's tramway, Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
Head frame for iron mine (possibly Pioneer Mine).
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

3. Iron ore mine loading pocket, Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
Clear view of the shaft tower, loading pocket, and tramway and the nearby engine house and boiler house.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

4. Loading pocket and tramway, Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
Men can be seen both on top and down below.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

5. Loggers hauling felled trees, Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
Two loggers using oxen to haul logs through the winter forest.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

6. Logs stacked next to stream, Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
Forest brook with many logs laying contiguous on both sides
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

7. Rail cars filled with iron ore, Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
A building (a house?) can be seen in the background, with stacks of timber in the foreground.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8. Rapids near Winton Lumber Company, Winton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
Two fallen trees laying across a stream.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

9. Residential area, possibly Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
Buildings and private residences and what appears to be a boiler house in the background.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

10. Shaft tower and loading pocket, Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
Behind the piled iron ore, a mining location can be seen in the background.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

11. Shaft tower and loading pocket, Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
Residential areas can be seen both to the left and the right in the background.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

12. Steam Locomotive Number 2000, Ely, Minnesota.

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
Steam locomotive number 2000 (thought to be world's largest locomotive at the time).
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

13. Tower shaft, engine house, and boiler house, Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
Tower shaft, engine house, and boiler house.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

14. Tramway, tower shaft, boiler house, and engine house, Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
A man on a horse-drawn wagon can be seen in the foreground.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Tramway, tower shaft, boiler house, and engine house, Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
This may be tower shaft "A" at the Pioneer Mine.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. White Iron Lake Iron Company's engine house, Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
Its sign reads, "White Iron Lake Iron Co. / of Duluth, / Vermillion [sic] Iron Dist. / Sect 2, T [6]2, R 12."
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. William Opie's photography studio (interior), Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1910
Description:
Interior shows all manner of framed photographs and work desk.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. William Opie's original photography studio (exterior), Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:
1891
Description:
Front exterior view of William Opie's original Ely photography studio.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. First shipment out of the Mountain Iron Mine, Mountain Iron, Minnesota

Date Created:
1893
Description:
Mountain Iron Mine in winter, featuring steam shovel, executives, and iron miners.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

20. Lone Jack Mine, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1893
Description:
Lone Jack Mine, featuring facility and logging.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

21. Shaw Mine, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1893
Description:
Shaw Mine, featuring Boiler House across from DMIR (Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range) freight shed.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

22. Mesabi Mountain Mine, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1893 - 1894
Description:
Missabe Mountain Mine, featuring railroad tracks, train, and steam shovel.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

23. Canton Mine, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:
1893 - 1899
Description:
View of the Canton Mine, featuring the ore loader.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

24. Canton Mine, near Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:
1893 - 1899
Description:
Canton Mine Location, featuring houses and early residents.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

25. Jackson & Company General Merchandise and Camp Supplies, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1893 - 1900
Description:
Exterior view of the Jackson & Company, General Merchandise and Camp Supplies.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

26. Group portrait with alcohol barrels, Minnesota

Date Created:
1893 - 1910
Description:
Group portrait of eleven men at a bar, posed in front of barrels of wine and alcohol. The location of this photograph is unknown; but the Iron Range includes parts of the following Minnesota counties: Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and St. Louis.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

27. Horses pulling a load of 36 logs, northern Minnesota

Date Created:
1893 - 1915
Description:
Horses pulling a load of 36 logs, featuring three loggers. The location of this photograph is unknown; but the Iron Range includes parts of the following Minnesota counties: Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and St. Louis.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

28. Drake and Stratton Works at the Biwabik Mine, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:
1893 - 1923
Description:
Biwabik Mine with Drake and Stratton Works, featuring railroad cars.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

29. Main Street, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1893-05
Description:
Virginia Main Street, looking East before the first fire.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

30. Post Office 1893 Fire, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1893-06-18
Description:
Stereograph, featuring men with horses before the smoking post office.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Stereographs

31. Biwabik Mine, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:
1894
Description:
Biwabik Mine, featuring railroad tracks and trains.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

32. Franklin Mine, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1894
Description:
Franklin Mine, featuring ore loader, and logs.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

33. Iron King Mine, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1894
Description:
Iron King Mine, featuring facilities, railroad cars and mining equipment.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

34. Norman Mine pit, Franklin, Minnesota

Date Created:
1894
Description:
Norman Mine, featuring shaft in background.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

35. Stripping at the Sauntry Mine, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1894
Description:
Sauntry Mine, featuring steam shovel #215.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

36. Ohio Mine from the east side of the Norman Pit, Franklin Village, Minnesota

Date Created:
1894 - 1919
Description:
View of the Ohio Mine from the Norman Mine pit.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

37. Biwabik Mine east, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:
1895
Description:
Biwabik Mine, featuring railroad engine #3.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

38. Laborers posting in cut section, Vriginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1895
Description:
Laborers posing in cut out section of rock for future DMIR (Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range) railroad line.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

39. Main Street, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:
1895
Description:
Biwabik main street, featuring 'Faber Beer' and 'California Liquor' signs.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

40. Main Street, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1895
Description:
Eveleth Main Street, later to become the site of the Adams Mine and Spruce Mine.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

41. Norman Mine, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1895
Description:
View of the Norman Mine, featuring wooden ore cars being loaded.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

42. Norman Mine, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1895
Description:
Norman Mine, featuring iron ore being milled and loaded.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

43. Steam Shovel at work in the Biwabik Mine East, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:
1895
Description:
Biwabik Mine, featuring steam shovel and iron miners.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

44. Street scene, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1895
Description:
Men wearing hats standing before a house, featuring a water tower in the distance.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

45. Town view, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:
1895
Description:
City of Biwabik, featuring houses, water tower, and railways.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

46. West Biwabik Mine, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:
1895
Description:
Biwabik Mine with Drake and Stratton Works, featuring railroad tracks.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

47. West Biwabik Mine, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:
1895
Description:
Biwabik Mine, featuring mining equipment and railroad car.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

48. Boriin & Lauri Livery, Chisholm, Minnesota

Date Created:
1895 - 1905
Description:
Group of people standing before the Boriin & Lauri Livery stable.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

49. Iron miners O. Korby and A. Monto with a drilling rig, Buhl, Minnesota

Date Created:
1895 - 1905
Description:
Early iron miners O. Korby and A. Monto stand beside a drilling rig.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

50. Portrait of open pit iron miners, northern Minnesota

Date Created:
1895 - 1905
Description:
Unidentifed open pit mine, featuring two iron miners, in coats and helmets, with picks. The location of this photograph is unknown; but the Iron Range includes parts of the following Minnesota counties: Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and St. Louis.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs
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