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
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.
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
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."
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.
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.
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.