The suspended car transfer was replaced in 1929 with the Aerial Lift Bridge span. The building at the left is the wholesale grocer Gowan Lenning Twohy.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The post card caption says The Aerial Bridge, Span 393 feet 9 inches, 135 feet high from water line. Cost $100,000. This post card illustration is of a view from the waterfront. At the right is the South Breakwater Inner Light Tower. Houses on Minnesota Point are at the far right. Engineer C.A.P. Turner, of the Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing Company of Minneapolis, designed the Ferry Bridge with Suspended Car Transfer in February 1901, meeting federal specifications. Bids were opened March 25, 1901, but only one was received. The Duluth Canal Bridge Company was awarded the contract but abandoned the work. In February, 1904, the Modern Steel Structural Company of Waukesha, Wisconsin was issued a contract. Work began July 20, 1904.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The post card caption says The Aerial Bridge, Span 393 feet 9 inches, 135 feet high from water line. Cost $100,000. This post card illustration is of a view from the Duluth harbor with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Building at the left and the South Breakwater Inner Light Tower at the right. Houses on Minnesota Point are at the far right. Engineer C.A.P. Turner, of the Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing Company of Minneapolis, designed the Ferry Bridge with Suspended Car Transfer in February 1901, meeting federal specifications. Bids were opened March 25, 1901, but only one was received. The Duluth Canal Bridge Company was awarded the contract but abandoned the work. In February, 1904, the Modern Steel Structural Company of Waukesha, Wisconsin was issued a contract. Work began July 20, 1904. The aerial bridge transporter or gondola or transfer car roadway was 17 feet by 50 feet with sidewalks seven feet by 50 feet; the cabins were 30 feet long.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
This drawing identifies wind forces and their effects on the physical structure. Notes are included on this drawing for example: "Stresses in lower sections of tension diagonals equal or smaller than top sections, but same riveting to be used in detail." The drawing includes a key for live load, dead load, impact, wind at 150 pounds per linear foot, wind stress due to traveler, equivalent to live load. The drawing shows top and bottom laterals. Total weight of the carrier and car is given as 240,000 pounds. The scale is given as 20 feet equaling one inch. Drawing H5421, Sheet 3.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Detailed drawing of four parts of the Aerial Bridge. The end view is a drawing of a tower; part side elevation is of half of the Aerial Bridge with the suspended car transfer. The third drawing is called Section A-A and depicts a tower without the cross structures drawn in. The last drawing is called Section B-B, which is a top down view of one of the towers resting on its footings. All of these drawings have dimensions. The part side elevation includes a very small drawing of the side of the gondola car. The end view includes the phrase "car approaches built by city." The finials are shown on three of the four drawings. Drawing H5421, Sheet 2.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
No. 502 People have always watched the aerial bridge. Engineer C.A.P. Turner, of the Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing Company of Minneapolis, designed the Ferry Bridge with Suspended Car Transfer in February 1901, meeting federal specifications. Bids were opened March 25, 1901, but only one was received. The Duluth Canal Bridge Company was awarded the contract but abandoned the work. In February 1904, the Modern Steel Structural Company of Waukesha, Wisconsin was issued a contract. Work began July 20, 1904. On February 23, 1905, with a full complement of local dignitaries at hand, the bridge was first operated. Regular service began the next day according to newspaper accounts. The city engineer's report for 1905 stated that the bridge was "completed and commenced operation on May 5, 1905, and a few problems were corrected in running the bridge over the next few days." This post card was mailed in 1914.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of the Georgian style house designed by Emmet S. Palmer and William A. Hunt architects and built in 1905 at 2307 East Superior Street for First National Bank president and local philanthropist A. L. Ordean who died in 1928 at 72.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Tree delivery by horse-drawn cart next to Swan J. Turnblad residence, 26th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Completed in 1908, the Swan J. Turnblad mansion was built in the French Chateauesque style. The house became the American Swedish Institute in 1929.
Exterior view of the Swan J. Turnblad residence from Park Avenue and 26th Street. Completed in 1908, the Swan J. Turnblad mansion was built in the French Chateauesque style. The house became the American Swedish Institute in 1929.
Exterior view of the mansion from Park Avenue shortly after the mansion was completed. Completed in 1908, the Swan J. Turnblad mansion was built in the French Chateauesque style. The house became the American Swedish Institute in 1929.
John M. Arend General Blacksmithing and Auto Repairing shop with a sign that reads "Hamburger" in the window in Trosky. A sign over the doors reads, "Wholesale Old Style Lager Beer."
Interior view of the bookcases full of books in the reading room of the Turnblad mansion. Completed in 1908, the Swan J. Turnblad mansion was built in the French Chateauesque style. The house became the American Swedish Institute in 1929.
Interior view of the dining room in Seven Gables at Columbia Park, colorized. Seven Gables is now known as the "Columbia Golf Club Manor." The building was constructed in 1925 in the Colonial Revivial style.
Eagan Minnesota's first fire station, built in 1963 still stands on Rahn Road and was sold in 2018 after the city built a new station as a replacement.
An elderly man in white shirt and tie seated on the top step of the front porch of a house, with a young woman seated or kneeling beside him. The house is partially faced in stone, with a screen door and a window with awning and and flowers in a window box; address number 5053. Found among negatives of the Minneapolis park system's annual playground pageant held in Lyndale Park, but does not appear to be a pageant scene.
Group photograph of the Kanabec County Farm Bureau Officers with their wives. Pictured are: Mr. and Mrs. Hallett, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cross, Mr. Cutler, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Ole Edstrom, Mr. and Mrs. Krisel, Mr. and Mrs. Smith (County Agent), Mr. and Mrs. Walfred Danielson.
This 1925 building at 23 Mesaba Avenue was a memorial to Luke Authur Marvin who died in 1924, son of Luke Marvin, and housed The Bethel Sunday School and Boys and Girls Clubs for many years.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Initially a one-room school, this became the Lebanon Minnesota (now Apple Valley Minnesota) Township Hall located at the Intersection of County Road 42 and Pilot Knob Road. The building was moved to the Dakota City Heritage Village at the Dakota County Fair Grounds, Farmington Minnesota. Del Stelling worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer, covering Savage, Burnsville, Eagan and other areas of Dakota County, Minnesota from 1959 - 1984.
The home of merchant Stephen Schumacher at 202 North Third Street in St. Peter, Minnesota, dominates most of this photograph. The original Lincoln School, located on the north side of West Chestnut Street, between North Third and North Fourth Streets, can be seen at the far left. The school was destroyed by a fire in January of 1913.
plat; 50 to 55 avenues west; streets; West Duluth; Alger Smith Lumber Mill and Dock; Duluth Short Line Railway; Northern Pacific Railway; Wisconsin Central Railway; Polk Street
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Martin H. Johnson's house at 212 West Third Street, porches, picket fence in the foreground, pier, masted schooners and Minnesota Point in the background, white pine
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Minnesota Street (renamed 123rd Street West) Savage, Minnesota. Businesses include the Glendale Township Hall, Gopher Heating and Cooling, the Savage Barbershop, Ekstrom Television, George Allen Dodge, Savage lumber and the Municipal Liquor Store. Also visible is the downtown water tower.
Minnesota Street (renamed 123rd Street West). Businesses include the Glendale Township Hall, Gopher Heating and Cooling, the Savage Barbershop, Ekstrom Television, George Allen Dodge and Savage lumber. Also visible is the downtown water tower.
Public Library under construction; building Carnegie Library; Second Street and First Avenue West; 101 West First Street; bricklayer is working on the dome; construction materials; scaffold; crane; power lines; boardwalk sidewalks; workers; work men; building; construction site; streetcar tracks; dirt street
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Central Hillside; View looking down the hill from Second Avenue East to Lake Superior; street; buildings; tower of First Presbyterian church 300 East Second Street; Masonic Temple Opera House with distinctive onion bulb is at Second Avenue East and Superior Street
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Central Hillside; Street; 321 West First Street; Victor Hotel; Capitol Caf?; Borgen Paint and Hardware 323 West First Street; car; store windows; sidewalk; signs; stone and brick building; Romanesque architecture
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
East Hillside; Street; Tenth Avenue East and Fourth street looking east; street lamps; streetcar tracks; houses; corner store; business; Cudahy's awning; children; fire hydrant
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
East Hillside house; 205 East Third Street; Judge Jehu Baker Middlecoff (1866-1925?) and his widow Jessie Boyd Middlecoff owned this house for many years with their four children, he was a graduate of the University of Michigan, lawyer, and in Duluth a judge of probate court; wrap around porch; balcony; stained glass windows; vines; shrubs; summer
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
East Hillside; courthouse and jail 1884-1924; building designed by architects Traphagen and Fitzpatrick; draped with bunting; street; sidewalk; was later used as Hearding Hospital
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
East Hillside; Street; Tenth Avenue East and Fourth street looking south; cars; Wick's Market; sidewalk; street sign; awnings; street lamps; streetcar tracks; houses; corner store; business; Cudahy's; awning; grocery store; fire hydrant
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
East Hillside; Street; Tenth Avenue East and Fourth street looking north from below Fourth street; sidewalk; corner house with porch and awnings; streetcar tracks; houses; cement bench; Portland Square park; people waiting for a streetcar
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Neighborhoods of Duluth; Morgan Park; distant view of the Morgan Park clubhouse which opened in 1918; the opening was delayed due to wartime labor shortages; it sat on eight acres of land; nearly 3,000 people attended the dedication in January 1918; winter; street lamps; Morgan Park school building
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Morgan Park; view of Hilton Street; houses; houses under construction; Blessed St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church; water tower; steel plant is in the background; yards; summer; 18510
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Morgan Park house construction; most of the construction was done in 1914 and 1915; concrete block construction; street view; shrubs, street lights; building; houses; trees; mailbox
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Morgan Park; single family houses on Beverly Street looking north; workman probably a painter; dirt street; construction in background and more workmen; newly planted small trees
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Morgan Park; houses; view from First Toward Second; vista across middle of Block 9 from First street towards Second street; backdoors; lawns; porches; stairs; potted plants; landscaping; 15115
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Morgan Park; Lake View Building with sign for Park State Bank and Lake View Pharmacy and Lake View Market on windows; Park State Bank was organized by D. H. Lewis and others and it began on the second floor of the Lake View building in 1916 and remained there until February 1919 when the new bank opened nearby
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Morgan Park; eighty-sixth Avenue west and Edward Street; Company housing; single family homes; Spirit Lake; trees; houses; street lights; sidewalks; steps; water; 15355
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections