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 caption of this post card says Clear span, 400 feet; clear height, 136 feet; total height above water, 186 feet. This view shows the waterfront when it was warehouses and wharves, docks, railroad freight sheds and slips. This view is probably from Skyline boulevard which, at this time, would have been called Rogers' Boulevard. William Rogers was the first parks department commissioner. In December 1959 the Duluth City Council and Mayor E. Clifford Bork changed the name of Rogers parkway and Skyline Boulevard to Skyline Parkway.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
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
This is the Superior Street base station of the incline, which was located in the vacant right of way of 7th Avenue West. From 1901 to 1911, the incline ran with a single car, instead of two before and after that period.
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.
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.
Looking directly up the incline from an elevated position across Superior Street. The decked roof car is on the west track, half a block up the hill. Printed in Germany.
Three elevators and the depot are present. A railroad freight car is being unloaded on the platform. Today the elevators are gone and the depot has been moved to the lake park and is now the Lincoln County Pioneer Museum
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.
Twin City Rapid Transit Co. leased and electrified the Milwaukee Road's branch line from Hopkins to Deephaven. This photo shows a streetcar passing Gibbs Lake.
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. "
Looking northwest at a streetcar posed with crew. Postcard message reads, "This is taken at the end of the car line on Lake Avenue close to the Aerial Bridge."