Topic: Transportation / Type: Text / Date Created: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1900">1900</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1909">1909</span>

Creator:: McGilvray, Thomas F.
Date Created:: 1905?
Description:: This booklet describes the planning and building of the Duluth Aerial Ferry Bridge in 1904-1905. Many photographs and drawings illustrate the progress and describe the working of the bridge. Details on dimensions, specifications, and costs of operation are provided.
Contributing Institution:: Duluth Public Library
Type:: Text
Format:: Booklets

Creator:: Twin City Rapid Transit
Date Created:: 1906
Description:: Advertisement for new double-decker streetcar service from Minneapolis to Excelsior.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:: Text
Format:: Advertisements

Creator:: Twin City Rapid Transit
Date Created:: 1906
Description:: Large fold-out brochure promoting tours of the Twin Cities via the streetcar company's streetcars and boats, with photos, drawings, maps and text.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:: Text
Format:: Pamphlets

Creator:: Norton Mattocks
Date Created:: 1906?
Description:: Fifteen page illustrated pamphlet titled The Only One Of Its Kind Duluth Aerial Ferry Bridge Duluth, Minnesota. No page numbers.
Contributing Institution:: University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:: Text
Format:: Pamphlets

Creator:: Twin City Rapid Transit
Date Created:: 1906?
Description:: Multi-page brochure promoting sightseeing tours of the Twin Cities
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:: Text
Format:: Pamphlets

Creator:: Minnesota State Highway Commission
Date Created:: 1907
Description:: The State Highway Commission of Minnesota was organized January 12th, 1906, under the provisions of chapter 163, General Laws of 1905. The first annual report contains a report on highway commissions of the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts; a report of the state engineer George W. Cooley for the year ending December 1, 1906 (statistics and general information; Experimental Road No.1, locally known as the State Farm Road); pictures showing the evolution of a mud road by the use of the common drag - Blue Earth County; appendixes (State Highway Commission Circular no. 1); index; and a map showing location of proposed State Roads as provided for by the Resolutions of County Boards. Submitted by Gustave Scholle, Chairman, J.B. Galarneault, Charles Halvorson. [35 pp. + Appendix (1 folded, one-sided map, 17 x 21 in.)]
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT Library
Type:: Text
Format:: Reports

Creator:: Twin City Rapid Transit
Date Created:: 1908?
Description:: Large fold-out brochure promoting tours of Lake Minnetonka and Big Island Park via the streetcar company's streetcars and boats, with photos, drawings, maps and text.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:: Text
Format:: Advertisements

Creator:: Minnesota State Highway Commission
Date Created:: 1909
Description:: Contains a report of the state engineer George W. Cooley about work done by counties under State Aid for the two year period ending December 31st, 1908 (The first allotment of State Aid Funds was made March 5th, 1907), experimental road work, road material resources of the state, bridges and bridge accidents, Minnesota river floods, state boundaries, topographical features, opinions of the Attorney General furnished to the Highway Commission during 1907 and 1908, appendixes (Office of the State Highway Commission Circular no. 2 & 3, Bulletin no. 3); index; pictures of roads and bridges; map of Minnesota showing state roads. Submitted by Gustave Scholle, Chairman, J.B. Galarneault, Charles Halvorson. [96 pp. + 12 leaves of photos + 4 folded, one-sided plans, 9 x 14 in. + 1 map, 15 x 21 in. ]
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT Library
Type:: Text
Format:: Reports

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