The parallel concrete piers jut out into the lake forming the canal leading to the harbor. Since its remodeling into a lift bridge in 1930, every vessel passes under the Aerial Lift Bridge's raised span. In this view the span is down, and traffic and people cross it as a roadbed. The South Pier is at the left, the North Pier is at the right. Minnesota Point's light sand beach draws residents and tourists in all seasons but especially throughout the summer months. The harbor is still the location of warehouses and coal docks. You can see the light road that is Skyline Parkway parallel to the horizon running the length of Duluth. The Civic Center is at the center of this shot. The St. Louis County Courthouse is in the middle with the Federal Building to the left of the courthouse, City Hall to the right, and the St. Louis County Jail to the left and set back from the courthouse. The Civic Center was designed by Daniel Burnham and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
This image shows a view from about Ninth Avenue West and waterfront at the top right corner of the shot to First Avenue East and Second Street at the lower left corner of the shot. Duluth Terminal and Cold Storage Company is at Ninth Avenue West and Railroad Street or 400 South Ninth Avenue West. The 1892 Central High School and its clock tower occupy the block on Second Street between Lake Avenue and First Avenue East in the foreground. The Canal Park area and the waterfront warehouse districts are still very industrial. The arena auditorium will not open until August 1966, in the area still filled with scrap in the middle-top of this photograph. Railroad and Commerce streets run parallel to the hillside below Superior Street and the area is well described by their names.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
A Pittsburgh Steamship Division vessel is just about to move under the lift span of the bridge. If the crew looks toward the hillside it will see Minnesota Slip, Industrial Slip, remnants of the North Western Fuel Company coal dock, Northern Pacific Railroad docks 5 and 6, the site of Fifth Avenue West and Commerce Street that once was the bustling warehouse district and includes the Lakes Transit Company, F.A. Patrick building, Northern Drug wholesale building, and the electric company power station. The Flame Restaurant is the light rectangular building near the water's edge. Remnants of the Whitney Brothers rock crushing business are at the far right in the lake.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
This view is from just below First Street looking down Second Avenue West. Glass Block department store and the Sellwood building are on the corners of Superior Street and Second Avenue West. Railroad Street and ice filled slips are between downtown and the bridge. Minnesota Point extends beyond the bridge at the top of the image. Glass Block was built in 1893 and three floors added in 1902. It closed in 1981. The Sellwood was built in 1908 and still stands.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of Downtown Duluth from Fourth Avenue West including the Duluth Harbor, Aerial Lift Bridge, Minnesota Point, and LakeSuperior. Duluth City Hall and the St. Louis County Courthouse and jail are visible in the center right. Just below the Lift Bridge are the tall Alworth building and the wider Medical Arts building, both on the lower side of Superior Street. Along the waterfront are Minnesota Slip, Industrial Slip, the North Western Fuel Company coal dock, to the right is the Northern Cold Storage Building, 702 West Railroad Street. A number of lake vessels are grouped together in the center of the harbor.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Skyline Parkway began in 1888 as Terrace Parkway or Rogers Boulevard. It was extended under Mayor Samuel F. Snively. Today, Skyline Parkway Drive stretches about 27 miles. In December 1959 the Duluth City Council and Mayor E. Clifford Bork changed the name of Rogers parkway and Skyline Boulevard to Skyline Parkway. The smokestack at the far left is part of the Duluth steam plant. It heats hundreds of downtown buildings. To the left of the smokestack is Hotel Duluth, which opened to great fanfare on May 21, 1925. Hotel Duluth became senior housing and was renamed Greysolon Plaza in October 1981.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of West Duluth facing downtown Duluth and LakeSuperior. The image includes the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range railroad ore docks, grain elevators on Rice's Point, the Aerial Lift Bridge, Minnesota Point, and LakeSuperior. Wade Stadium is visible in the center of the picture to the left of the ore docks, with Wheeler Field, 3501 Grand Avenue, to the left of the stadium. Denfeld High School, 4405 West Fourth Street, is in the center of the bottom portion of the image with the West Junior High below it at the southwest corner of North Central Avenue and West Sixth Street. The Interstate Bridge connects Duluth and Superior, Wisconsin at Rice's Point. The Duluth Missabe and Iron Range railroad tracks are at the lower left, continuing to the ore docks where three vessels are waiting to be loaded with ore.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of the harbor from above, possibly from Skyline Drive. The long, low Northern Pacific Railroad freight sheds are between Minnesota and Industrial slips. A laker is in Minnesota Slip. The coal dock area will be the construction site for the Duluth Arena Auditorium in 1963. Hearding Island is off Minnesota Point in the harbor. The island is the uninhabited site that has been called Bird Island by Park Point residents and Harbor Island by Duluth Bird Club members. The name Hearding Island is for William Hellins Hearding (England, 1826-1893, Milwaukee) who surveyed the Duluth-Superior harbor in 1861 as assigned by Captain (later a general in the Civil War) George C. Meade. The survey, completed in a little over two months, included the St. Louis River up to Fond du Lac, and the bay including Minnesota Point and the mouth of the Nemadji River. Rice's Point is at the middle left of the image showing a number of grain elevators.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Minnesota Slip (water), on some 1920s maps called Lake Avenue Slip, is bounded by the Northern Pacific Railway Dock No. 6, and the businesses and warehouses on the harbor edge of Canal Park. The Marshall-Wells water towers are a feature standing tall next to the DeWitt Seitz Company building that stands today. The DeWitt-Seitz Co., whose plant, factory, warehouse and offices were at 390 S. Lake Avenue, was one of Duluth's prosperous businesses. The company, organized in 1905 by Henry F. Seitz and C E. DeWitt, manufactured all grades of mattresses and box springs, and included wholesale and jobbing of furniture and floor coverings. The DeWitt-Seitz best grade mattress and box spring, known as the Sanomade, carried the slogan "Remember the Name, the Rest is Easy." It was used and advertised all over the country. Its wholesale furniture and jobbing business covered Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and Michigan, North Dakota and parts of South Dakota and Montana. Including salesmen, the company employed a total of 60 persons in its nine story building that still stands as the DeWitt-Seitz Market Place in Canal Park. F. S. Kelly Furniture Co. bought the furniture stock of the DeWitt-Seitz Co in June of 1961. DeWitt-Seitz continued manufacturing mattresses and reorganized the firm, but the mattress company was sold in 1962.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The 1952 Dodge County Extension Service annual report contains two documents: 16-page Annual Extension Review, Analyses, Interpretation and Presentation Summary; and 94-page Extension Narrative Report. The Narrative Report includes: Statistical Summary (page 1); General Weather (pages 2-3); Organization Committee, budget and resources, program planning (pages 4-6); Projects Goals and Methods (pages 7-10); Planning for National Plowing Contest leaders, committees with designations, names include committee donors organizations assisting (pages 11-14); Red Cross, Dairy Council (page 15); Dairy increase production, DIHA annual summaries, officers with picture, Brucellosis Council officers, meeting with picture, ring test (pages 16-24); Sheep Beef farmers making change from dairy to beef (pages 24-25); Swine only upper one third doing a good job (pages 25-26); Poultry larger flocks, improved housing, community nests, earlier hatching (pages 26-27); Crop Production highly diversified, 2 registered and 37 certified seed providers, seed treatment, silage management, six year rotation test (pages 28-32); Gardens seeds and varieties (pages 33-34); Soil Conservation meetings, picture of officers, tree planting County Ministerial Group Tour (pages 35-39); National Plowing Contest 2000 trees planted, air tour committee members, 405 visiting planes (pages 39-40); Marketing mild quality, swine production, two pictures (pages 41-46) Home Management lessons, names of local leaders, Freezer Varieties, Pots and Pans, Inheritance and Wills, picture of lesson meeting (pages 47-52); Farm Management loans, Income Tax Meeting, management meeting program (page 53); Farmstead Improvement picture of windbreak, Water systems (pages 56-58); Safety Scotchlite program, picture at safety meeting (pages 59-60); Insects, Rodent, Weed Control (pages 61-62); Other agencies War Mobilization (page 63); 4-H adult council, project leader names, 4-H Policy, club names, location map Clubs (pages 64-67); 4-H Organization of clubs new club Mantorville Meadow Larks, project meetings, Federation meetings, demonstrations with names (pages 68-74); 4-H Statistics, County Fair, contests, band member names, talent show program with names, all other 4-H activities (pages 75-84); 4-H Agriculture projects picture of Ervin Erler (pages 85-92); Summary, Outlook and Recommendations (pages 93-94).
Contributing Institution:
Dodge County Extension Office, University of Minnesota Extension
United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey
Date Created:
1952
Description:
Babbitt NE quadrangle topographic map (N4737.5-W9145/7.5) featuring handwritten notations by Ray Segar in red ink and pencil regarding logging railroad lines, and logging camps in the area northeast of Babbitt. The hand written notations include information on the following: Dunka River Lumber Railroad line; logging camps noted with ‘C’; Dunka River Lumber Company.
Architectural drawing (pencil on linen) showing basement floor plan, heat radiators and room occupancy of the Union Depot, Duluth, Minnesota built in 1892. Also known as the St. Louis County Heritage and Arts Center, home of the LakeSuperiorRailroadMuseum. Scale: 1/8"" = 1' .
The report contains the commissioner's report and legislative recommendations, the divisional reports and tables. Tables are organized as financial statements of funds, receipts and expenditures, construction tables, federal aid tables, maintenance tables and reports from counties. Contains obituaries for deceased employees and list of national awards for traffic safety work awarded to the Department of Highways.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT Library
The report contains the commissioner's report and legislative recommendations, the divisional reports and tables. Tables are organized as financial statements of funds, receipts and expenditures, construction tables, federal aid tables, maintenance tables and reports from counties. It is noted in the report that the Department of Highways' work will change due to the passage of the Federal Aid Highway Bill, which provided for the national interstate system.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT Library
United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey; State of Minnesota, Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Commission
Date Created:
1950
Description:
Biwabik NE quadrangle topographic map (N4737.5-W9215/7.5) featuring handwritten notations by Ray Segar in red ink and pencil regarding logging railroad lines and camps in the area between Tower and Biwabik.
United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey; State of Minnesota, Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Commission
Date Created:
1950
Description:
Biwabik NW quadrangle topographic map (N4737.5-W9222.5/7.5) featuring handwritten notations by Ray Segar in red ink and pencil regarding logging railroad lines and camps in the area between Britt and Biwabik.
United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey; State of Minnesota, Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Commission
Date Created:
1950
Description:
Biwabik quadrangle topographic map (N4730-W9215/7.5) featuring handwritten notations by Ray Segar in red ink and pencil regarding logging railroad lines and camps in the area between Biwabik and Palo. The hand written notations include information on the following: logging camps noted with ‘C’.
A Como-Harriet streetcar approaches Linden Hills Boulevard on the west side of Lake Harriet. Streetcars of the Minnesota Streetcar Museum now operate here.
United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey; State of Minnesota, Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Commission, Kaarlo J. Otava, Commissioner
Date Created:
1955
Description:
Cramer quadrangle topographic map (N4730-W9100/15) featuring handwritten notations by Ray Segar in red ink and pencil regarding logging railroad lines and camps in the area north of Finland. The hand written notations include information on the following: Duluth & Northeastern Railroad line (D&NM), logging camps noted with ‘C’.
United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey
Date Created:
1955
Description:
Dark Lake quadrangle topographic map (N4737.5-W9245/7.5) featuring handwritten notations by Ray Segar in red ink and pencil regarding logging railroad lines and camps in the Dark Lake area of the Superior National Forest. The hand written notations include information on the following logging camps noted with ‘C’.
United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey
Date Created:
1955
Description:
Dewey Lake NW quadrangle topographic map (N4737.5-W9252.5/7.5) featuring handwritten notations by Ray Segar in red ink and pencil regarding logging railroad lines and camps in the Dewey Lake area. The hand written notations include information on the following: Swift Refrigerator Lines (SRL) and logging camps noted with ‘C’.
United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey
Date Created:
1955
Description:
Dewey Lake quadrangle topographic map (N4730-W9252.5/7.5) featuring handwritten notations by Ray Segar in red ink and pencil regarding logging railroad lines and camps in the Dewey Lake area. The hand written notations include information on the following: Virginia Railroad Line and logging camps noted with ‘C’.
United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey
Date Created:
1955
Description:
Dewey Lake quadrangle topographic map (N4730-W9245/7.5) featuring handwritten notations by Ray Segar in red ink and pencil regarding logging railroad lines and camps in the Dewey Lake area. The hand written notations include information on the following: logging camps noted with ‘C’.