Photographer Paul Benjamin Gaylord took the earliest images of Duluth including this view showing trees cut and rudimentary housing and dock construction.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Pendleton Block lower side between first and second avenue west; people; Thomas Dowse Real Estate and Insurance; Superior street; boardwalk; J. C. Merritt dentist
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Winter view of workers constructing a dyke across Superior Bay starting from the end of Rice's Point to Minnesota Point over which a rail track would be laid.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Superior street and first avenue east looking west; building signs on upper side; Globe Hotel and Restaurant boardwalk;the buildings at the right in the foreground are about 201-205 East Superior Street just east of Second Avenue East, they burned in the spring of 1875
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Sawyer and Davis building wholesale grocers third avenue west and Superior street; barrels and boxes; driver, horses and loaded wagon; two men; African American child
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Northwest corner of Lake avenue and Superior street shoe and boot store of G. Poirier; workers; street; boardwalk; aprons; signs like boots; adjacent businesses
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of Duluth hillside from Superior street approaching third avenue west; Duluth Carriage Works; church behind Carriage Works is original First Methodist third avenue west and second street erected 1870
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
New York Boot and Shoe Store and identified workers; aprons; boots hanging by laces in front of door; awning; open window with women and girl; boy; boardwalk
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections