Western Steel advertised its Western Steel Buildings for protection against fire and weather. It manufactured fire escapes and sheet metal products. It was located at the southwest corner of Prescott and Commonwealth Avenue.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Superior street upper side buildings fifth avenue west intersection; Traphagen's Lyceum theater; Crown restaurant; Tom Madden; horse pulling sleigh of cut wood
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132 West Michigan Street, Cudahy Packing Company building designed by Oliver Green Traphagen, 126 West Michigan Street Thompson Fruits, wholesale, horses and wagons, dray, awnings, workers, Patton and White that became Glass Block
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
A view looking northeast from Second Street and about Ninth Avenue West that shows the Northern Pacific railway freight house on the far right to the Seventh Avenue West incline railway elevated above Second Street on the far left. Minnesota Point stretches to the right prior to the aerial bridge that will be built in 1904-1905.
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Torrey building entrance at third avenue west and Superior street; brownstone by Traphagen and Fitzpatrick built in 1892; stone carving; Hotel St. Louis; business signs; Miller's Cafeteria; Carnegie Coal Dock and Fuel Company;
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Superior street east from seventh avenue west; building materials; small businesses in foreground; Union Depot and train sheds; Lyceum Theater; Spalding Hotel; Minnesota Point and businesses J B Sutphin Cold Storage
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Superior street looking east from second avenue west showing upper side of street; horses and wagon; people; horse drawn streetcar; Banning Block; Duluth Clothing House; Suffel and Co.;
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Superior street looking east from fourth avenue west; Grand Opera Bay View Hotel First and Amer National bank; horse drawn streetcars horse drawn wagons
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Superior street from Lake avenue looking east; Traphagen's Silberstein and Bondy; Fred Scott and Co druggist; Freimuth department store under construction
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May be a parade of merchants; spectators; 409 to 431 addresses of west Superior street looking west Mesaba block; Lyceum; Hotel Brunswick; Jay W. Anderson saloon; streetcar; horse drawn horse; horse drawn wagons
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The six-story Rust Building was home to the Rust Parker coffee roasting business. The Rust-Parker Company was a wholesale grocery and coffee roasting operation located in Duluth operating until 1958.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Ice covered remains of burned Schiller Hubbard Company wholesale and retail tobacco cigar store at 404 west Superior street; Fargusson building; signs for where all building tenants moved to; Schiller to 132 west Michigan street; G. E. Lovett; Northwestern Fuel; G. R. Kimball; Swordling and Hickox; see also 724.2 and 735.2
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Point of Rocks, a rock outcrop, is at Fourteenth Avenue West and Superior street. This rock formation between Eighth Avenue West and Fourteenth Avenue West is the tip of the point of rocks that is a barrier marking the division between east and west end of downtown Duluth.
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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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Horse drawn wagons in front of Oppel building at 119-121 east Superior street; Wirth and Traphagen building built in 1889 by C. H. Oppel grocer; people in windows; women and children; workers; signs; razed in 1987
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The Merritt Block or Merritt building was built by the Leonidas and Alfred Merritt brothers at First Street between St. Paul and Brook in Oneota. It was destroyed by a fire in about 1898.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The Aftenro Society was organized in 1908 by a group of Norwegian women to raise money for the construction of a good Christian old people's home. Their first building was opened in 1921 with 30 residents and was named for the Norwegian word meaning �Evening�s Rest� (Aftenro). The Aftenro home presently continues its function as a home for the aged, in its location at 1423 North Nineteenth Avenue East. In this view of the new building, the entire front grounds area is a vegetable garden.
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Lake avenue businesses; Scott and Holston Lumber company; A. Booth Packing Company office at 434 and 436 Lake avenue south; wagon with barrels Emerson Hovland and Messinger Commission Merchants; mail steamer H. R. Dixon
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J. Adam Bede's Paragrapher newspaper building at west Superior street and Garfield avenue; identified men; Getty and Helm Real Estate; Helm Addition; boys; snow; tailor; livery next door
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Smoldering site and frozen water after the fire burned the opera house at Fourth Avenue West and Superior Street. This is the view from the avenue looking toward Superior street.
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Fitzsimmons-Derrig Company was the business of Charles Fitzsimmons and Andrew A. Warfield. The wholesale fruit business began in 1890 as George W. Martin and Co. with Charles Fitzsimmons as an employee. In 1891 it was Martin, Fitzsimmons and Warfield. In 1892-1893 Fitzsimmons and Warfield, located at 126 West Michigan Street the address of this image. Later Fitzsimmons Derrig and Palmer. Some of the names on the wagons indicate prior partnerships as the company's ownership evolved.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Began in 1890 as George W. Martin and Company followed in 1891 as Martin, Fitzsimmons and Warfield. Fitzsimmons - Derrig Company seems to date from 1894.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Ice covered remains of burned Fargusson building at 402-404 west Superior street; signs for where all building tenants moved to; Schiller; G. R. Kimball; see also 720.2 and 735.2
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Superior street looking east from fifth avenue west; fa?ºade Farguson building; grand opera; sign Gormany photographs and portraits; horse drawn wagons double streetcar tracks
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Downtown from about tenth avenue west looking east; Superior street; street railway car barn; Spalding; horse drawn streetcar; double streetcar tracks; people; coal docks; Kelley Island Lime and Transfer; see 332
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Downtown Duluth from fourth avenue west looking east; Phoenix building under construction at fourth avenue west; first street; First and American National Bank; Washington school at Lake and second street was razed in 1890;
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Marshall-Wells Hardware merchandise is loaded and ready for delivery to various railroad lines for transport. The first horse-drawn sleigh will take the orders packed into it to the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha depot. The truck behind the sleigh is destined for the Soo Line depot. The next in line will be shipped on the Great Northern railway and the one after that will go to the Northern Pacific. The Union Depot served seven railroads including the GN and NP. It still stands as the St. Louis County Heritage and Arts Center. All of the other depots are gone. The Marshall-Wells Company started in 1886 as Chapin and Wells Company a wholesale hardware business. Albert Morley Marshall, son of Seth, bought controlling interest in 1893 and changed the name to Marshall-Wells Company. The company grew to include 14 wholesale offices throughout the northwestern U.S. and Canada. In 1955 Ambrook Industries Inc. of New York bought controlling interest. Kelley-How-Thomson and Marshall-Wells merged January 1, 1958. Kelley-How-Thomson had been a subsidiary of Marshall-Wells since 1955 when Ambrook bought Marshall-Wells and reorganized. The Coast-to-Coast Stores bought the Duluth division of Marshall-Wells-Kelley-How-Thomson Company in 1958, which ended the Duluth firm's operation. Also in the image are the People's Hotel 246 Lake Avenue South, and the Lyceum Theater billboard.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections