Construction and identified workers at Cascade Park first avenue west and Piedmont avenue; Piedmont (renamed Mesaba avenue); horses; stonework; house; women and baby
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Intersection of Chestnut Street and 6th Avenue West, looking east. Kelly Furniture can be seen to the left and Range Auto Parts to the right. "Welcome" banners for Veterans of Foreign War are hanging above the street.
A group photo at Wadman's Place on Lake Vermilion shows them eating chicken bouillon for lunch from rimmed metal plates. A large copper boiler sits on the picnic table next to them.
Portrait photograph of children attending a child's birthday party. The families represented by the children in this photo where children of the first generation of Jewish settlers that had arrived at the turn of the century, mainly from Lithuania by way of Superior, Wisconsin. The Jewish community in Range towns was relatively tight-knit. Each of the larger towns, including Virginia, Hibbing, Chisholm and Eveleth had a synagogue at one time or another, and much of the community life revolved around activities related to them.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives