Opened in 1882 by the Minnesota Mining Company, Breitung pit was part of the first iron ore mine on the Vermillion Range. Ore from this pit made up the first commercial shipment of Minnesota Iron Ore out of the Agate Bay ore docks, Two Harbors, Minnesota July 31, 1884.
Looking directly up the incline from an elevated position across Superior Street. The decked roof car is on the west track, half a block up the hill. Printed in Germany.
Image of a group of men posing for a photograph next to a hoist and derrick system. Man standing on deck tips a steel bucket into a large pile of iron ore. Identified as hoist at Shaft Number 3 at the Cincinnati Mine, first hoist on the Mesabi Range. Mine was owned by the Standard Ore Company of Duluth. Photograph shows the first bucked of ore hoisted from the site.
This book contains forty-eight lack and white photographs of businesses, buildings and streets in the Gary and New Duluth neighborhoods of Duluth, Minnesota, primarily along Commonwealth Avenue.
Central Duluth; East Hillside; 4th to 18th Avenues East; Lake Street to 3rd Street; neighborhood; street names; buildings; schools; parks; Washington Avenue
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections