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1. Aerial Lift Bridge: Aerial View from Lake Superior, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1959?
- Description:
- The parallel concrete piers jut out into the lake forming the canal leading to the harbor. Since its remodeling into a lift bridge in 1930, every vessel passes under the Aerial Lift Bridge's raised span. In this view the span is down, and traffic and people cross it as a roadbed. The South Pier is at the left, the North Pier is at the right. Minnesota Point's light sand beach draws residents and tourists in all seasons but especially throughout the summer months. The harbor is still the location of warehouses and coal docks. You can see the light road that is Skyline Parkway parallel to the horizon running the length of Duluth. The Civic Center is at the center of this shot. The St. Louis County Courthouse is in the middle with the Federal Building to the left of the courthouse, City Hall to the right, and the St. Louis County Jail to the left and set back from the courthouse. The Civic Center was designed by Daniel Burnham and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
2. Map of Duluth: Duluth-Superior Harbor Chart No. 966, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Date Created:
- 1955
- Description:
- head of lakes; harbor; depths; acres of state land; sailing directions; visibility of lights; streets; railroads; business district; Minnesota Point; Superior Bay; Superior Wisconsin; Superior Entry
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Cartographic
- Format:
- Maps
3. Endion Roundhouse, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Zweifel-Roleff Studio
- Date Created:
- 1954?
- Description:
- Mikado Number 1303 stands on the turntable at Endion Roundhouse located along the shore of Lake Superior with Duluth and the aerial bridge in the background.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
4. Whitney Brothers Gravel Business Structure, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Starkey, George Fairchild, 1916-2001
- Date Created:
- 1959
- Description:
- Winter view of the remnants of the Whitney Brothers rock crushing business that stand in Lake Superior off the shore at Canal Park near the Aerial lift bridge. William A. Whitney and E. Harvey Whitney of Superior, Wisconsin, had a sand and gravel processing business. The largest concrete form was the dredging or crushing building. The structure was built in 1919. A tunnel ran from the building to Minnesota Point. There was a conveyor belt and railroad spur adjacent to the concrete building. Sand from the Apostle Islands and gravel from Grand Marais were carried to Duluth on a small vessel named LIMIT. There was also a tug the WILLIAM A. WHITNEY.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
5. Aerial Lift Bridge: View from downtown, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1959?
- Description:
- This view is from just below First Street looking down Second Avenue West. Glass Block department store and the Sellwood building are on the corners of Superior Street and Second Avenue West. Railroad Street and ice filled slips are between downtown and the bridge. Minnesota Point extends beyond the bridge at the top of the image. Glass Block was built in 1893 and three floors added in 1902. It closed in 1981. The Sellwood was built in 1908 and still stands.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
6. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Duluth Harbor and West Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1950?
- Description:
- View of West Duluth facing downtown Duluth and Lake Superior. The image includes the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range railroad ore docks, grain elevators on Rice's Point, the Aerial Lift Bridge, Minnesota Point, and Lake Superior. Wade Stadium is visible in the center of the picture to the left of the ore docks, with Wheeler Field, 3501 Grand Avenue, to the left of the stadium. Denfeld High School, 4405 West Fourth Street, is in the center of the bottom portion of the image with the West Junior High below it at the southwest corner of North Central Avenue and West Sixth Street. The Interstate Bridge connects Duluth and Superior, Wisconsin at Rice's Point. The Duluth Missabe and Iron Range railroad tracks are at the lower left, continuing to the ore docks where three vessels are waiting to be loaded with ore.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
7. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Duluth Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1956?
- Description:
- View of the harbor from above, possibly from Skyline Drive. The long, low Northern Pacific Railroad freight sheds are between Minnesota and Industrial slips. A laker is in Minnesota Slip. The coal dock area will be the construction site for the Duluth Arena Auditorium in 1963. Hearding Island is off Minnesota Point in the harbor. The island is the uninhabited site that has been called Bird Island by Park Point residents and Harbor Island by Duluth Bird Club members. The name Hearding Island is for William Hellins Hearding (England, 1826-1893, Milwaukee) who surveyed the Duluth-Superior harbor in 1861 as assigned by Captain (later a general in the Civil War) George C. Meade. The survey, completed in a little over two months, included the St. Louis River up to Fond du Lac, and the bay including Minnesota Point and the mouth of the Nemadji River. Rice's Point is at the middle left of the image showing a number of grain elevators.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
8. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Duluth from Skyline Parkway, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1954?
- Description:
- Skyline Parkway began in 1888 as Terrace Parkway or Rogers Boulevard. It was extended under Mayor Samuel F. Snively. Today, Skyline Parkway Drive stretches about 27 miles. In December 1959 the Duluth City Council and Mayor E. Clifford Bork changed the name of Rogers parkway and Skyline Boulevard to Skyline Parkway. The smokestack at the far left is part of the Duluth steam plant. It heats hundreds of downtown buildings. To the left of the smokestack is Hotel Duluth, which opened to great fanfare on May 21, 1925. Hotel Duluth became senior housing and was renamed Greysolon Plaza in October 1981.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
9. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Minnesota Slip, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1959?
- Description:
- Minnesota Slip (water), on some 1920s maps called Lake Avenue Slip, is bounded by the Northern Pacific Railway Dock No. 6, and the businesses and warehouses on the harbor edge of Canal Park. The Marshall-Wells water towers are a feature standing tall next to the DeWitt Seitz Company building that stands today. The DeWitt-Seitz Co., whose plant, factory, warehouse and offices were at 390 S. Lake Avenue, was one of Duluth's prosperous businesses. The company, organized in 1905 by Henry F. Seitz and C E. DeWitt, manufactured all grades of mattresses and box springs, and included wholesale and jobbing of furniture and floor coverings. The DeWitt-Seitz best grade mattress and box spring, known as the Sanomade, carried the slogan "Remember the Name, the Rest is Easy." It was used and advertised all over the country. Its wholesale furniture and jobbing business covered Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and Michigan, North Dakota and parts of South Dakota and Montana. Including salesmen, the company employed a total of 60 persons in its nine story building that still stands as the DeWitt-Seitz Market Place in Canal Park. F. S. Kelly Furniture Co. bought the furniture stock of the DeWitt-Seitz Co in June of 1961. DeWitt-Seitz continued manufacturing mattresses and reorganized the firm, but the mattress company was sold in 1962.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
10. Aerial Lift Bridge: Aerial View of Downtown Duluth, Duluth Harbor, and Canal Park, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1950?
- Description:
- This image shows a view from about Ninth Avenue West and waterfront at the top right corner of the shot to First Avenue East and Second Street at the lower left corner of the shot. Duluth Terminal and Cold Storage Company is at Ninth Avenue West and Railroad Street or 400 South Ninth Avenue West. The 1892 Central High School and its clock tower occupy the block on Second Street between Lake Avenue and First Avenue East in the foreground. The Canal Park area and the waterfront warehouse districts are still very industrial. The arena auditorium will not open until August 1966, in the area still filled with scrap in the middle-top of this photograph. Railroad and Commerce streets run parallel to the hillside below Superior Street and the area is well described by their names.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
11. Aerial Lift Bridge: Ore Boat Entering Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1952?
- Description:
- A Pittsburgh Steamship Division vessel is just about to move under the lift span of the bridge. If the crew looks toward the hillside it will see Minnesota Slip, Industrial Slip, remnants of the North Western Fuel Company coal dock, Northern Pacific Railroad docks 5 and 6, the site of Fifth Avenue West and Commerce Street that once was the bustling warehouse district and includes the Lakes Transit Company, F.A. Patrick building, Northern Drug wholesale building, and the electric company power station. The Flame Restaurant is the light rectangular building near the water's edge. Remnants of the Whitney Brothers rock crushing business are at the far right in the lake.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
12. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Downtown Duluth and Harbor from the Hillside, Duluth, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
- Date Created:
- 1954?
- Description:
- View of Downtown Duluth from Fourth Avenue West including the Duluth Harbor, Aerial Lift Bridge, Minnesota Point, and Lake Superior. Duluth City Hall and the St. Louis County Courthouse and jail are visible in the center right. Just below the Lift Bridge are the tall Alworth building and the wider Medical Arts building, both on the lower side of Superior Street. Along the waterfront are Minnesota Slip, Industrial Slip, the North Western Fuel Company coal dock, to the right is the Northern Cold Storage Building, 702 West Railroad Street. A number of lake vessels are grouped together in the center of the harbor.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Black-and-white photographs
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