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
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.
Artistic representation of the Twin City Rapid Transit's Lake Minnetonka line. It was marketed as "The Great White Way" due to the arc lights hanging from the overhead wires.
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."
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. "