This 1890 atlas embraces the corporations of West Duluth and Lakeside and the platted lands adjoining; also acreage maps of the territory in the State of Minnesota, within a radius of about twelve miles, showing the property of the different land and improvement companies. The atlas shows houses, businesses, government buildings, schools, and churches. It includes an index of correct titles of all Duluth additions, divisions, and sub-divisions.
Julius Howland Barnes founded Klearflax Linen Looms, Incorporated, and was president of the board. This was the manufacturing plant at 63 Avenue West and Grand. Barnes sought a way to utilize flax straw, then largely burned in Minnesota fields were it was produced. He planned to make toweling, but that proved unworkable. Flax made a durable and artistic rug. In 1933, only 60 people were employed in the mill. They diversified, and 200 were employed with a payroll of $30,000 a month. The plant used no coal, but was steam heated using waste products from raw materials. Looms were invented to accommodate the flax material after it had been cleaned, steamed, dried, combed and carded, and spun into yarn. The company also utilized wool and cotton. The company gained national prominence when it began to advertise in magazines like Vogue, Good Housekeeping and Ladies Home Journal. One rug was in the main entry of New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel and showed little wear after an estimated 10 million people had walked across it. Another was made in 1939, weighing a half-ton, cost $300,000, was 15x30 feet, of special design, for the Finnish capital at Helsinki. Barnes sold the company to Romos enterprises of Ohio in April 1953.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth Bank; unsure which bank interior this is, could be Western State Bank of Duluth at 317 Central Avenue or Citizens State Bank of West Duluth at 331 Central Avenue; bank cages; bank safe; light fixtures; windows; clock; tellers cages
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; fifty-sixth Avenue west and Cody Street; 601 North fifty-sixth Avenue west at Cody; Bell Brothers Funeral Home fleet of hearses and staff; garages; glass block construction; vehicles; businessmen; undertakers; morticians
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Bilsey and Peterson General Store 203 Central Avenue; Nels C. Bilsey, Oscar Peterson, grocers; store and food products; Roosevelt and Central; Carl Hoagland; Oscar Peterson; Tom Murphy; Agnes Bell; Anna Peterson; Albert Peterson; canned goods on shelf; meat counter; scale; sawdust on floor; wooden crates of food;
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth Businesses at Central Avenue; Pekin Caf? 330 North Central Avenue; National Tea Company grocery 328 North Central Avenue; car; coffee 39 cents; bread 9 cents; store windows; canned food; sidewalk; street; City Drug Store 332 Central Avenue; Hotel Cody 332 Central Avenue
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth Candy Shoppe; 327 North Central Avenue; Louis A. Zervas and Hannah Zervas confectioner; workers; clothing store next door; awning; building architectural details; building 1922; store windows; sidewalk
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; West Duluth Cement Block Works; H. C. Brown owner; fifty-sixth Avenue west and Grand Avenue; manufacturer of concrete blocks, sills, lintels, water tables, porch piers, caps and bases; workers; workmen; tents; concrete blocks; equipment; manufacturing site; telephone poles; railroad
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth Street view; looking south on Central Avenue across Grand; Fifty-fifth (Central is Fifty-fifth) and Grand Avenue; gas stations; signs; cars; trucks; Farmer Outlet produce 416 North Central Avenue; Pioneer National bank 331 North Central Avenue; Sam's Pizza 403 North Central Avenue; Northern Pacific Railroad tracks (NY Ry); Zenith Furnace became Interlake Iron is in distance at Fifty-eighth Avenue west
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth Citizens State Bank; 331 Central Avenue; incorporated in 1912; President H. H. Peyton; clock; burglar alarm sign on exterior wall; Wieland Hardware Company; street lamps; snow; barber pole
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth Cody Hotel; stucco; street; business district; street lamps; drug store; Pekin Caf?; National Tea Company grocery store; people; street light
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Cody Hotel 332 Central Avenue frame three-story building with brownstone details between first and second story; Captain Forrest Maloney proprietor; fire escape; awnings tied back; Cody Hotel Buffet, Duluth's Brewing and Malting Company's Beer; window displays; signs El Roi-Tan Perfect Cigars; Buffet; J. H. Erickson Tailor; Men's Furnishings; barber pole; men; fire hydrant
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth Dominion Tar and Chemical Company; Dominion Tar existed from about the 1920s-1940s; Fifty-Eighth Avenue west and Northern Pacific Railroad tracks; Dominion was subsequent to Zenith Furnace Company which functioned from 1904-1920s and both were linked to Interlake (Steel), 1920-1964; winter; snow; telephone poles
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Duluth Brass Works Company and National Iron Company; wood sidewalk; power lines; Fifty-first Avenue West and Ramsey Street; construction materials on left
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Duluth Brass Works Company; Fiftieth Avenue West and southwest corner of Ramsey Street; car out; icicles on roof; snow; brick building; building razed for highway construction in 1962
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Duluth Brass Works Company; staff; workers; Fiftieth Avenue west and Ramsey; building was razed for highway construction in 1962; manufactured brass castings; Babbitt and Randolph Patent; brick building; streetcar tracks in dirt street; telephone pole; smoke stack; fire hydrant
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad; number 6 Dock Construction; pile foundation; pile driving; workers; workmen; winter; snow; ore dock; Lake Superior; photograph number 23; equipment; March 22, 1917
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad; Junctions of Steel with Concrete wall approach; number 6 dock construction; steam equipment; steel girders being placed by crane; workers; workmen; equipment; building materials; railroad tracks; photograph number 26; April 6, 1917
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections