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1. Burlington Route Black Hawk railroad car with Lorado Taft, sculptor, Governor Theodore Christianson, and F. E. Williamson, President, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1929
Description:
Burlington Route Black Hawk railroad car with Lorado Taft, sculptor, Governor Theodore Christianson, and F. E. Williamson, President, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

2. Catenaries along the mine railroad track at the Susquehanna Mine, Hibbing, Minnesota

Date Created:
1920 - 1929
Description:
Catenaries support the electric cable which powers ore cars (70-78). The cars were moved with a manned electric engine; no diesel or steam engines were used in this process. The Susquehanna was one of the first electrified mines on the Mesabi Iron Range.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Museum of Mining
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

3. Construction of Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway tunnel at Short Line Park, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1911
Description:
Opening to east portal of Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway tunnel at Short Line Park.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

4. Electrical D-rail sign, Leonidas, Minnesota

Date Created:
1923-08-30
Description:
Electrical D-rail sign in use at Leonidas locomotive repair shop.
Contributing Institution:
Iron Range Research Center
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

5. Iron miners on a railroad car, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1900?
Description:
Miners on railroad car; snow
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

6. Iron miners on a railroad car, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1900?
Description:
Miners on railroad car
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

7. Neighborhoods of Duluth: West Duluth, Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad, Number 6 Dock construction, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1917-07-24
Description:
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
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8. Neighborhoods of Duluth: West Duluth, Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad, Number 6 Dock construction, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1917-04-06
Description:
West Duluth; Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad; number 6 Dock Construction; concrete wall approach; looking north; workers; workmen; houses; winter; snow; equipment; forms; railroad tracks; steam equipment; April 6, 1917; photo number 25; workers with lunch pails; hillside
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

9. Neighborhoods of Duluth: West Duluth, Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad, Number 6 Dock construction, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1917-04-06
Description:
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
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

10. Neighborhoods of Duluth: West Duluth, Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad, Number 6 Dock construction, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1917-06-21
Description:
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
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

11. Neighborhoods of Duluth: West Duluth, Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad, Number 6 Dock construction, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1917-06-21
Description:
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
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

12. Neighborhoods of Duluth: West Duluth, Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad, Number 6 Dock construction, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1917-06-21
Description:
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
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

13. Neighborhoods of Duluth: West Duluth, Interlake Iron Railroad, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1925
Description:
West Duluth; Interlake Iron; railroad; rail cars; coal; smoke stacks; Zenith Furnace company; winter; snow
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

14. Neighborhoods of Duluth: West Duluth, Open Hearth Furnace Building, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1924?
Description:
West Duluth: Open Hearth furnace building; manufacturing; railroad; worker; smokestacks
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Patterson Mercantile Building cave-in, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:
1913
Description:
View of the Mercantile Building and rubble after the building's partial collapse.
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. T.G.A.M.B.A.Y.C. (The Get As Much As You Can Club), Hibbing, Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.
Date Created:
1906
Description:
The Get As Much Business As You Can club was a unique organization of railroad men who met annually and claimed Duluth, Minnesota as the group's home.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. Tunnel entrance, Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway tunnel at Short Line Park, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1911
Description:
Opening to east portal of Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway tunnel at Short Line Park.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. Tunnel entrance with utility car on track, Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway tunnel at Short Line Park, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1911
Description:
Opening to east portal of Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway tunnel at Short Line Park.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. View of Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway tunnel at Short Line Park, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1911
Description:
Opening to east portal of Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway tunnel at Short Line Park.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

20. View of Proctor railroad yard, Proctor, Minnesota

Date Created:
1920?
Description:
The small city of Proctor, just west of Duluth, was established as Proctor Knott in 1894, named for J. Proctor Knott then governor of Kentucky.
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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