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8751. Aerial View Downtown, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1977?
Description:
The circular plaza feature of the Duluth Public Library is at the left of the open site where the building will stand. On Michigan Street is the St. Louis County Heritage and Arts Center and the 1977 Depot Theater at the far right. The Flame restaurant is at the top left.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

8752. Aerial photograph looking southwest in downtown Mora, Minnesota

Date Created:
1883 - 1895
Description:
A photographic negative bird's eye view looking Southwest in downtown, Mora Minnesota. The view includes the Railroad, and some of the businesses.
Contributing Institution:
Kanabec County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Aerial photographs

8753. Aerial Map of Mora, Minnesota

Date Created:
1971
Description:
A aerial photographic map of Mora Minnesota showing the potential growth area, pointing out several different streets, Highways, the Fair Grounds, and the Central Business Area.
Contributing Institution:
Kanabec County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Aerial photographs

8754. Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Canal Park, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1972-09
Description:
View from the top of the Aerial Lift Bridge looking over Canal Park toward Duluth's hillside taking in a vista to Leif Erikson Park. Pedestrians could ride on the lift span of the Aerial Bridge for a short time in the late 1960s for fifty cents. There was an enclosure to stand within. In 1966, the City Council approved a resolution to permit club members to have free rides on the bridge during 1966 and 1967. To be a club member you had to contribute at least one dollar to the fund to floodlight the bridge. Contributors received a membership card. Between September 13 and 16 the fund gained three thousand dollars. The cost to floodlight was twenty-one thousand dollars. The floodlights were first lit on November 17, 1966. Minnesota's U.S. Representative John A. Blatnik pulled the switch to light the bridge. Chief bridge operator Alfred L. Hass said in 1960 that the longest the bridge remained open (span up) was an hour and 27 minutes one night in 1937 when a fog on the lake lifted and 13 ships entered and departed in quick succession. The greatest number of ships to pass under the span in one day was 80, requiring 36 lifts, on April 19, 1937. The building in the shadow of the bridge is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Building constructed in 1906. The new bridge is owned and operated by the City of Duluth on permit authorized by Congress. The Ship Canal and grounds are under the authority of the Lake Superior Area Office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

8755. Aerial Lift Bridge: Vessel exits the harbor, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1945?
Description:
Unidentified vessel and crew leave the Duluth harbor. They will pass under the raised lift span of the bridge in calm water. Minnesota Point is at the right with homes visible on Minnesota Avenue. The 6-foot tall lighthouse at the right is 107-years old. It was offered for sale in August 2008 by the federal government with limitations. Its formal name is South Breakwater Inner Light Tower and was owned by the federal government. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The towers light was first lit in 1901. It was bought in December 2008 by Steve Sola and Matt Kampf of Duluth. Their winning bid was more than $31,000. Mr. Sola grew up on Park Point, Kamps in Hibbing, but lived many years on Cape Cod before moving to Duluth. In an interview the men said they didn't know what they were going to do with it. The federal authorities will not allow the structure to be relocated.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8756. Aerial Lift Bridge: Ramon De Larrinaga arrives, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1959-05-03
Description:
On the morning of May 3, 1959, crowds along the north pier of the Duluth Ship Canal salute the arrival of the British-registered merchant vessel Ramon de Larrinaga, the first upbound ship to traverse the newly opened St. Lawrence Seaway. The ship loaded grain at the Peavey and Cargill elevators before departing for Montreal and a voyage across the North Atlantic.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8757. Aerial Lift Bridge: Ore boat exiting harbor, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1945?
Description:
View of the Aerial Lift Bridge with lift span raised to allow the William B. Schiller to leave the harbor. Built in 1910, the Schiller was laid up in 1974 and sold for scrap in 1978.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8758. Aerial Lift Bridge: Lift span up, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
The counterweight is visible through the north tower's structural elements. Two counterweights move in opposition to the bridge. The bridge span weights about 1,000 tons. The two counterweights weigh about 500 tons each. When the bridge span goes up the counterweights go down.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8759. Aerial Lift Bridge: Aerial View of Duluth Canal and Harbor

Date Created:
1944-1952
Description:
On Monday, July 1, 1929, the suspended car made its last trip across the canal. The bridge's modification to operate with a lift span began on April 8, 1929, with a low bid of $448,000 by the Kansas City Bridge Company. The Aerial Lift Bridge was first operated on March 19, 1930. The bridge has a clearance of 138 feet when the lift section is completely up and when down it is 16.5 feet above the water. The length of the span is 386 feet and weighs 900 tons. The distance from the water to the lower edge of the truss is 172 feet 7 inches; to the top of the truss it is 227 feet. During the shipping season it makes about 25 lifts a day. The new bridge is owned and operated by the City of Duluth on permit authorized by Congress. The Ship Canal and grounds are under the authority of the Lake Superior Area Office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8760. Aerial Bridge: View of Minnesota Point, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1920?
Description:
This photograph may have been shot from Seventh Street and about Lake Avenue. The bright narrow strip in the lower middle of the image is Lake Avenue leading to the Aerial Bridge. The rectangle and three dots parallel to the piers of the canal are the remnants of the Whitney rock crushing enterprise. The Whitney Brothers, of Superior, Wisconsin, had a sand and gravel processing business that was functioning in 1919. The concrete form that is still in the water was the dredging/crushing building. A tunnel ran from the building to the Point. There was a conveyor belt and railroad spur adjacent to the concrete building. Sand from the Apostle Islands and gravel from Grand Marais were carried to Duluth on a small vessel named Limit. The business also used a tug the William A. Whitney. The Limit was secured to the concrete building and the load of sand or gravel was unloaded into the steel hopper using a jaw-like clam shell, steam powered device. The belt conveyed the materials to shore and it dropped into a tunnel where trucks were ready. On Federal lake charts it is referred to as cribs. Telephone lines are in this photograph. In 1880, the first telephones were installed in Duluth by Walter Van Brunt for C. H. Graves and Company. In 1881, the Duluth Telephone Company was incorporated with $10,000 capital. In 1882, the first telephone directory was issued for 30 subscribers. In 1898, long distance lines between Duluth, Cloquet and Carlton were strung. In 1899, Duluth had 794 telephones. In 1900, the Zenith telephone Company (independent) started operations in competition with Duluth Telephone Company. The tower is the Central High School clock tower. The 1892 school has been the Central Administration Building for ISD 709 since the late 1970s.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8761. Aerial Bridge: Entrance To Duluth-Superior Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915?
Description:
The caption of this post card says The Aerial Bridge, Span 393 feet 9 inches, 135 feet high from water line. Cost $100,000. Entrance to Duluth-Superior Harbor. The white building at the left is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Building constructed in 1906.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

8762. Aerial Bridge Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1905?
Description:
This post card was mailed in 1906, but the image is from an earlier year. In the 1890s commercial fishing on Lake Superior was feeding Duluth and the entire Midwest with major operators: A. Booth and Sons (whose sign is visible at the left), Lake Superior Fish Company, H. Christiansen and Sons.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

8763. Aerial Bridge Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1904
Description:
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
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

8764. Aerial Bridge: Bird's Eye View of Duluth, Minnesota From Boulevard Drive

Date Created:
1910
Description:
A photograph turned into a printed post card that was mailed rolled.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Panoramas

8765. A. Ellingson's order, P. M. Mark Medicine Company, Fosston, Minnesota

Date Created:
1933-08-10
Description:
Receipt for an order taken on August 10, 1933 by an employee of the P. M. Mark Medicine Company of Fosston, Minnesota, for A. Elingson [i.e. Ellingson] of High Landing [i.e. Highlanding], Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
East Polk Heritage Center
Type:
Text
Format:
Invoices

8766. A. E. Clark Store, Villard, Minnesota

Date Created:
1909
Description:
Exterior view of the A. E. Clark Store in Villard.
Contributing Institution:
Pope County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

8767. Advertising card for Mark's Original Extract of Cider with a handwritten liniment recipe on the back from P. M. Mark Medicine Company, Fosston, Minnesota

Description:
Advertising card for Mark's Original Extract of Cider, from the P. M. Mark Medicine Company of Fosston, Minnesota promises "big profits for you." On the back is a handwritten recipe for liniment with ingredients and quantities.
Contributing Institution:
East Polk Heritage Center
Type:
Text
Format:
Advertisements

8768. Advertising card for Edwin Clark with logo "Merchant Miller," Melrose, Minnesota

Description:
Advertising card for Edwin Clark's mill in Melrose, Minnesota, with a picture of his mill, buildings and Sauk River dam.
Contributing Institution:
Melrose Area Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Advertisements

8769. Advertisement for Grieger and Reiter, Lewisville, Minnesota

Description:
Photographic dvertisement for Grieger and Reiter, Harness, Hardware and Farm Implement dealers.
Contributing Institution:
Watonwan County Historical Center
Type:
Text
Format:
Advertisements

8770. Advertisement for Ben and Myrtle Huntley Entertainers featuring Howard Huntley, Winona, Minnesota

Description:
Howard Huntley in little boy clothing with "I'm Growing So's Pa's Show."
Contributing Institution:
Winona County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

8771. Adriatic Mine, Mesaba, Minnesota

Date Created:
1909
Description:
Adriatic mine at Mesaba Minnesota; headframe; water tower
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8772. Adriatic Mine location, Mesaba, Minnesota

Date Created:
1909
Description:
Adriatic Location houses at Mesaba Minnesota
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8773. Adams Mine, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1902
Description:
Colorized view of the Adams mine site with worker housing.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8774. Adam Jefferson Quarry, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:
1898
Description:
Adam Jefferson Quarry stone.
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8775. Adam Jefferson Quarry, Mankato, Minnesota

Date Created:
1850
Description:
View of a dirt road into the Adam Jefferson Quarry.
Contributing Institution:
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs
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