Fog in the harbor masks Canal Park, leaving the top span of the Lift Bridge visible above the Duluth Arena. In the lower left corner of the picture is the Medical Arts Building, 324-330 West Superior Street. Photographer, Elizabeth Jo Goodsell, was a Duluth community activist and a physical education teacher at Duluth East High School. She lived on Minnesota Point and was an avid photographer.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
This cartoon, published on July 16, 1912, shows a man standing outside a grocery store, looking at displays of rain gear. The store's proprietor stands in the doorway.
Football players are rolled into a huge snowball by members of the opposite team pushing toward the goalpost. A "sectional view," or cross-cut, of the snowball appears in the upper left-hand corner.
A man wades through Lake Excelsior in the pouring rain as various animals comment on his plight. This cartoon appeared in the Minneapolis Journal on May 24, 1909.
Front Street, Mankato, Minnesota, with snow, street car, horse and cart, people, and businesses, including The Mankato Music and Stationery Company, Ideal Restaurant, and Bee Hive.
Handwritten 4 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She writes of missing Maud, the health of mutual friends, the reverend's wife, her reading, and local news.
Handwritten 8 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Evanston Illinois. Nellie writes of her interest in Maud's sons, a tragic death in Stillwater, local news and the health conditions of mutual friends.
Handwritten 3 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Stillwater, Minnesota. She congratulates Maud on her son's engagement.
Handwritten 3 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She congratulates Maud on Billie's engagement.
Handwritten 8 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Marine Mills, Minnesota. She writes about the weather, mutual friends, books she is reading, local happenings in Stillwater and how much she misses Maud.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Waukesha, Wisconsin. She writes of her own serious tooth infection, church, news and health of friends, and missing Maud.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Waukeshau, Wisconsin. She thanks Maud for the Buffalo papers, reminisces about deaths in her family, writes of the condition of Stillwater lakes, local business news and news, travels and health of mutual friends.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Bayfield, Wisconsin. She writes of missing Maud, church, Stillwater history, Native Americans, the weather, friends' health and travels, and local news and marriages.
Handwritten 5 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Stillwater, Minnesota. She writes of loneliness, the difficulties of being a woman, her reading, her concern about Europe during the war and her concern for Maud's boys.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Helen "Nellie" McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Waukesha, Wisconsin. She writes of the weather, church, the doctor's car accident, the club, returning soldiers, and the health of mutual friends.
Handwritten 4 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer to Mrs. Osborne Conrad congratulating her on the birth of her baby. Faith is the daughter-in-law of Nellie's friend Maud Conrad. A lengthy newspaper clipping about Nellie McCluer titled ""Stillwater's Grand Old Lady 91, Head of Club 42 Years"" is enclosed with the letter.
Handwritten 6 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Buffalo, New York. She writes of her concern for Maud's sister, how much she misses Maud herself, the weather, mutual friends who are ill, her dread of the war, her reading club, the book she is currently reading and her concern that her personal physician is out of town.
Handwritten 8 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Buffalo, New York. She writes of her happiness for Maud, her memories of Buffalo, the health and news of friends, the weather, local business news and the church.
Handwritten 8 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She writes of missing Maud, her views on widows and widowers remarrying, local deaths, the health of friends and local news.
Handwritten 7 page personal letter from Helen "Nellie" McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She writes of missing Maud, the news and health of friends, the country's spending, church, the president of the United States.
Handwritten 8 page personal letter from Nellie McCluer of Stillwater, Minnesota, to her friend Maud Conrad, currently living in Buffalo, New York. She writes of missing Maud, the weather, mutual friends, confirmation, a wife's financial situation after her husband's suicide, her friends' health and travels, local weddings and other news and the club.