Members of the U.S. Steel Traffic Committee take a boat ride on the "Erma D" on a calm Lake Vermilion. 18 passengers are visible, most dressed in hats, suits and ties.
A group photo at Wadman's Place on Lake Vermilion shows them eating chicken bouillon for lunch from rimmed metal plates. A large copper boiler sits on the picnic table next to them.
The merchant mill building at the Minnesota Steel Co in Duluth is unfinished in this winter photograph, which does not seem to have been taken in August during the U.S. Steel Traffic Committee visit.
The structure of the main open hearth furnace building at Minnesota Steel Co. in Duluth appears mostly complete. Large flues for construction of the blast furnace lie on the ground in the foreground. The auxiliary buildings are under construction.
The members of the U.S. Steel Traffic Committee visited the Indian School at Lake Vermilion. They posed with some of the students and staff in front of the school.
This book frontispiece introduced the photographs of an August 17, 18, and 19, 1912 visit of the U.S. Steel Traffic Committee to Minnesota's Iron Range.