On Monday, July 1, 1929, the suspended car made its last trip across the canal. The bridge's modification to operate with a lift span began on April 8, 1929, with a low bid of $448,000 by the Kansas City Bridge Company. The Aerial Lift Bridge was first operated on March 19, 1930. The bridge has a clearance of 138 feet when the lift section is completely up and when down it is 16.5 feet above the water. The length of the span is 386 feet and weighs 900 tons. The distance from the water to the lower edge of the truss is 172 feet 7 inches; to the top of the truss it is 227 feet. During the shipping season it makes about 25 lifts a day. The new bridge is owned and operated by the City of Duluth on permit authorized by Congress. The Ship Canal and grounds are under the authority of the Lake Superior Area Office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The Buena Vista Hotel sits on a hill above its dock and boathouse which advertises boats, bait and tackle, in the neighborhood called the Highlands, postmarked 1901.
Outside view of the Hotel Minnesota Annex in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). It was damaged by a windstorm on March 3, 1904, and totally destroyed in a fire on April 26, 1904.
New Brighton's Long Lake from the west side of the lake, showing the remains of the stockyards industry, pump house, ice houses, and the stockyards water tower.
West Duluth; Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad; number 6 Dock Construction; pile foundation; pile driving; workers; workmen; winter; snow; ore dock; Lake Superior; photograph number 23; equipment; March 22, 1917
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad; Junctions of Steel with Concrete wall approach; number 6 dock construction; steam equipment; steel girders being placed by crane; workers; workmen; equipment; building materials; railroad tracks; photograph number 26; April 6, 1917
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad; Foundation showing Sheet Piling; construction of number 6 dock; winter; snow; ore dock; tug boat; crane; railroad tracks; piling foundation; pile driver; June 21, 1917; photograph number 28
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad; Erecting Approach of number 6 dock; number 6 dock construction; equipment; steel girders being placed; crane; workers with guide wires; workmen; houses; tents; June 21, 1917; photograph number 29
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad; Material Yard of no. 6 dock construction; view of Duluth waterfront land; pilings; building materials; workers; workmen; aerial bridge in distance; grain elevators in distance; railroad yards; railroad tracks; railroad spurs; open iron ore cars; June 21, 1917; photograph number 31
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad; West Duluth Foundation showing Piers of no. 6 dock construction; steam equipment; workers; workmen; ore dock; railroad tracks; July 24, 1917; photograph number 33; forms; concrete structures; barges
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad; Erecting Steel Dock; construction of number 6 dock; equipment; cranes; workers; workmen; concrete; September 1, 1917
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Iron Ore Docks; Duluth Municipal Stadium that would be renamed Wade Stadium; harbor; houses; baseball diamond; cars; Berwind Fuel Company at South Fiftieth Avenue West and NP Railway tracks; ore carriers; ore boats; iron ore docks; Thirty-ninth Avenue west; summer; trees
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of Oliver Iron Mining Company Canisteo District mining activity near Trout lake at Coleraine. OIM's original experimental washing plant to right of center.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Two schooners along side Two Harbors wooden ore dock No 2 in Agate Bay; ore train locomotive on dock; workers; dock built in 1884; dock stood 40 feet above water extended 644 feet into the harbor
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The Robbinsdale Ice and Fuel Ice House on Crystal Lake. Don Johnson is standing nearest the horses. The building was burned down by bottle rockets in 1937.
View from the hillside in front of the St. Louis Hotel faces the Ice Yacht Club and the Minnetonka Yacht Club in St. Louis Bay on Lake Minnetonka, postmarked 1908.
View of Excelsior from Lake Minnetonka shows a paddlewheel boat at the dock, and several buildings, including the Blue Line, the White House Hotel, and the casino.
View of downtown and waterfront from third avenue west and Superior street to seventh avenue west looking east from third street; Minnesota Point; canal; slips; 1892 Union Depot; 1895 Torrey building; 1893 Manhattan building
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections