The American Exchange National Bank staff assembled with the bank's founder Hamilton M. Peyton who is in the front row with the white side burns. Peyton was bank president from 1879-1921. The bank merged with First National Bank and renamed First and American National Bank in 1929. It became First American National Bank in 1958, First National in 1974 and Norwest in 1983. In 1998 Norwest merged with Wells Fargo and elected to take the more familiar name Wells Fargo.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Fred Lounsberry Stationers office at 408-411 West First Street was at this location from 1911 to 1929. Workers include: Fred H. Lounsberry, Alice Lind, Signe Peterson, Esther Lounsberry, Edith Anderson and Ben Bredeson.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The trading floor of the original board of trade building on Superior Street. The board of trade was organized in 1881 with 12 members. The principal business was to establish prices, as most of the trading was done by commission merchants outside. This building opened January 6, 1886. It burned in 1894.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections