The caption on this post card says JOHN A BLATNIK BRIDGE A Foreign Ship enters the Duluth-Superior Harbor Westerly Terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway. The Port Authority Terminal is shown in the background. This is the Interstate Bridge. The original Interstate toll bridge was built in 1897, property of the Duluth-Superior Bridge Company, a subsidiary of the Great Northern Railroad. It was replaced by the this High Bridge or the Blatnik Bridge as it was renamed in 1971.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The Duluth incline located in the vacant right of way of 7th Avenue West connected Superior Street on the west end of downtown with the Highland streetcar line at 8th Street, 500 feet higher. Intermediate stations a block apart are visible. This is the view from the top.
The Duluth incline located in the vacant right of way of 7th Avenue West connected Superior Street on the west end of downtown with the Highland streetcar line at 8th Street, 500 feet higher. Intermediate stations a block apart are visible. Both incline cars are visible at the top and bottom. Streetcars on Superior Street pass.
Two of Twin City Rapid Transit's express boats (Harriet and Minnehaha) meet at the Wildhurst Dock to connect passengers with a streetcar to Minneapolis.
Whaleback is an unusual ship design with steel hulls (body of the vessel) and rounded decks (boat, hurricane, main -which is the lowest full-length deck in a ship's hull, and spar are all decks at different levels) which was introduced by the inventor Captain Alexander McDougall of Duluth in 1888. It was a very stable vessel. American Steel Barge Company, a New York corporation engaged in shipbuilding and transportation on the Great Lakes as well as on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, purchased all of the patents for McDougalls whaleback vessels for $25,000. The only remaining whaleback is the Meteor, which is now a museum at Barker's Island in Superior, Wisconsin.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Group photo of trainmen on the steps of Lake Street Station. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Possible identities include: 1490 Karl Hovlan hired 1914; 2654 Charles J. Beckstrom 1910-1947; 1783 Samson Jordal hired 1912; 1847 Peter J. Lovegren hired 1914; 1897 William Pearson hired 1914; 2243 Conrad Severson 1911-1917.
Crew members posed with streetcar at the Lake Harriet loop. Written at the top of the postcard, "This is a picture I have finished myself have I improved any? C. B. "