This booklet describes the steel and wire-making process at the Minnesota Steel Plant in Morgan Park in the 1920s. Topics include raw material for wire making, the galvanizing department, the barb wire and woven fence department, the wire nail department, and the steel plant. The booklet includes photographs of Morgan Park homes, the Lake View Store in Morgan Park, and one of the community's infant playgrounds. A small map of Morgan Park shows locations of steel plant offices, the school, churches, the hospital, and community garages.
In addition to numerous photographs and some written history, this large book provides information on the town of Duluth, Minnesota, in 1887, including sections on the geographic situation, the harbor, the St. Louis River and water power, churches and schools, railways, the grain market, the Board of Trade, and banking. Photographs include many birds-eye views of Duluth, Rice's Point, grain elevators, the Exchange Building, the Duluth National Bank Building, the Duluth Boat Club House, the Board of Trade Building, the Fargusson Block, the Grand Opera House, the Hotel St. Louis, the Spalding Hotel under construction, and individual homes of R.S. Munger and John P. Johnson.
This circa 1890 book contains about 70 photographs of scenes of Duluth, Minnesota. A four-page text at the beginning describes the city of the 1890s, including boulevards and drives, educational institutions, harbor and shipping, commerce and manufacturing, and railroads. Some of the photographs show the Paladio Building, the Board of Trade, Minnesota Point from the Spalding Hotel, the Phoenix Block, Central High School, the Hardy School, and residences of J.D. Ensign, Col. C.H. Graves, Robert C. Ray, O.G. Traphagen, and W.C. Sargent.
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.
United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce, 42nd Congress, 2nd session
Date Created:
1872
Description:
This 62-page document, from the 42nd Congress, 2nd Session, reproduces letters regarding the digging of the canal that connected the Duluth harbor with Lake Superior in 1871. The first letter, from William W. Belknap, Secretary of War, describes the process that was followed to dig the canal. Following letters, often exchanged between engineers or politicians and J.J. Egan, city attorney for Duluth, contain a discussion of the legality of the canal being dug as well as a discussion of the building of a dike to keep the waters of the St. Louis River from flowing through the canal and filling the Superior, Wisconsin, entry with silt. (United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce, 42nd Congress, 2nd session, no. 60 Senate Executive Document.)
This 64-page booklet, published by the Minnesota State Board of Immigration, extolls the value of Northeastern Minnesota as a land ideal for agriculture and livestock. The booklet describes a fertile new country with unique conditions unparalleled elsewhere." It also describes "established railways and rich markets within its own borders; contiguous to the most populous cities between Chicago and the North Pacific Coast. The booklet describes the various crops that can be raised successfully and the projected profit per acre. Includes numerous photographs of farms and livestock.
The April 1954 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. ""Ore, Iron, and Men"" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The April 1955 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. "Ore, Iron, and Men" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The April 1956 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. ""Ore, Iron, and Men"" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The April 1957 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. "Ore, Iron, and Men" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The April 1953 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. "Ore, Iron, and Men" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The April 1951 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. "Ore, Iron, and Men" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The April 1952 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. "Ore, Iron, and Men" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The April 1958 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. "Ore, Iron, and Men" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The April 1959 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. ""Ore, Iron, and Men"" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The April 1960 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. ""Ore, Iron, and Men"" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The April 1962 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. "Ore, Iron, and Men" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The August 1952 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. "Ore, Iron, and Men" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The August 1954 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. "Ore, Iron, and Men" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The August 1955 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. ""Ore, Iron, and Men"" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The August 1956 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. ""Ore, Iron, and Men"" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The August 1957 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. "Ore, Iron, and Men" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.
The August 1953 issue includes newsworthy items of interest from the Eastern, Canisteo, Hibbing-Chisholm, Duluth and Gogebic (Ironwood, Michigan) Districts. "Ore, Iron, and Men" was a monthly magazine published by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, from 1950-1963. It recorded the trends of iron mining and the steel industry, and the employees who worked in the Oliver Mine districts. It also recorded the events, activities and milestones of the employees families.