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Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Minnesota Point, Harbor, Rice's Point and St. Louis Bay
Minnesota Point; Park Point; harbor basin; St. Louis Bay; Rice's Point; waterfront; grain elevators; Clure Public Marine Terminal; Peavey elevators; Occident elevators; Nicholson car dock; Capitol 4 and Capitol 6 elevators; Carnegie coal dock; Norris grain elevators E, H, and I; Northwestern Hanna No 3 coal dock; General Mills Elevator A; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Building; ship canal; slips; ore docks
The aerial lift bridge is owned and operated by the City of Duluth on Congressional permit. The Ship Canal and grounds are under the authority of the Lake Superior Area Office of the U.S. Army Corps of...
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Aerial Lift Bridge: Interstate Bridge With The Span Open
Interstate Bridge; draw spans; bridges; Peavey Elevator; Duluth Harbor; ore boats; ore vessels; lakers; Duluth Port Terminal; Clure Public Terminal; Minnesota Point
The Interstate Bridge between Duluth and Superior, originally called the ""Duluth-Superior Bridge"", was owned by the Great Northern railroad but never used by them. It was used by the Soo Line from 1909...
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Aerial Lift Bridge: View of South Lake Avenue Approach to Bridge
Lake Avenue; South Lake Avenue; Canal Park; hardware company; Standard Salt and Cement; boardwalk; historic district; bus stop
Lake Avenue is perpendicular to Superior Street in downtown Duluth. Lake Avenue runs up and down the hillside. In Duluth, you are either directed ""up the hill"" or ""down the hill"", ""away from the Lake""...
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Aerial Lift Bridge: St. Clair Enters the Harbor
shipping; Ship Canal; laker; vessel traffic; freighter; grain elevators; Canal Park
View of the St. Clair, 770-foot vessel, passing under the bridge's lift span into the harbor. To handle Great Lakes cargo, a special type of vessel has evolved, the North American ""laker,"" the largest...
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Aerial Lift Bridge: Sea Smoke on Lake Superior
Canal Park; Blatnik Bridge; High Bridge; Interstate Bridge; Comfort Inn Hotel
View of the rising sea smoke at sunrise. Sea smoke is a cloud over the sea, which could otherwise be called fog, and is usually formed when very cold air moves over warmer water. We see this phenomena...
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Aerial Lift Bridge: Sea Smoke on Lake Superior
Canal Park; Blatnik Bridge; High Bridge; Interstate Bridge
View of the rising sea smoke at sunrise. Sea smoke is a cloud over the sea, which could otherwise be called fog, and is usually formed when very cold air moves over warmer water. We see this phenomena...
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Aerial Lift Bridge: Close-up of the Aerial Bridge Lift Span
Canal Park
View of the lift span taken from the southeast corner of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers building (1906). The canal's piers have walkways, and there are benches for visitors to linger to watch the ships...
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Aerial Lift Bridge: Atlantic Hope Berthed at General Mills Elevator
harbor; grain elevator; General Mills grain elevator; saltie; Liberian ship; Atlantic Hope; shipping
The Arlantic Hope is a Liberian bulk carrier built in 1965. She is next to the General Mills grain elevator purchased in 1943 from Consolidated Elevator, Company, in the Duluth harbor. James Ford Bell...
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Aerial Lift Bridge: Aerial View from Lake Superior
Canal Park; ore boats; lake vessels; Duluth hillside; housing; Arena Auditorium, DECC, Radisson Hotel; Civic Center; The Flame Restaurant; Hotel Duluth; Minnesota Slip; First Methodist Church; Copper Top Church; Duluth Heights
An ore boat is steaming through the canal into Duluth harbor. The canal was cut beginning in 1871, and this bridge was built in 1904-1905 and modified with the lift span (which is up in this photo) in...
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Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Canal Park
Downtown Duluth; Canal Park; industries; cars; trucks; slips; lake vessels; ore boats
This area is below Superior Street. Superior Street is the main street in downtown Duluth. Minnesota Slip (water), on some 1920s maps called Lake Avenue Slip, is the parking spot for four lake vessels...
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Aerial Lift Bridge: Canada Steamship Line Vessel Noronic Leaving Duluth Harbor
passenger vessels; recreation; tourism; Noronic; piers; Canal Park; Minnesota Point
Noronic was the largest Canadian passenger steamship vessel on the Great Lakes. It was owned and operated by the Canada Steamship Lines Limited. On September 16, 1949, docked in the Toronto harbor, the...
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Aerial Lift Bridge: Tug Office and Aerial Bridge
tugboats; shipping
The small red building is an office for the Great Lakes Towing Company. Organized on July 7, 1899, in Cleveland, the Great Lakes Towing Company was founded by prominent Great Lakes ship owners. Great Lakes...
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Aerial Lift Bridge: The Famous Aerial Lift Bridge, Duluth, Minn.
Ship Canal; lake traffic; lake vessel; ore boat; freighter; piers; Canal Park
D-5 The caption of this post card says One of the nation's top attractions is Duluth's famous aerial bridge which must be raised for each approaching steamer into the harbor, and stretches the mainland...
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Aerial Lift Bridge: Aerial Lift Bridge Over Canal Entrance to Duluth-Superior Harbor
Ship Canal; freighter; lake traffic; ore boat; piers; streetlights; tourists; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Building
The caption for this post card says The famous Aerial Lift Bridge, at the entrance to the Duluth -Superior harbor, is the largest of its kind in the world. The 900-ton span, lifted by electrical energy...
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Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Minnesota Point, Harbor, Rice's Point and St. Louis Bay
Minnesota Point; Park Point; harbor basin; St. Louis Bay; Rice's Point; waterfront; grain elevators; Clure Public Marine Terminal; Peavey elevators; Occident elevators; Nicholson car dock; Capitol 4 and Capitol 6 elevators; Carnegie coal dock; Norris grain elevators E, H, and I; Northwestern Hanna No 3 coal dock; General Mills Elevator A; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Building; ship canal; slips; ore docks
The aerial lift bridge is owned and operated by the City of Duluth on Congressional permit. The Ship Canal and grounds are under the authority of the Lake Superior Area Office of the U.S. Army Corps of...
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Neighborhoods of Duluth: Central Hillside View of Duluth
Central Hillside; view of Duluth looking northeast; largest building at the left is First Presbyterian church is 300 East Second Street; Lake Superior; houses; buildings; businesses; streets; telephone poles; sidewalks; pedestrians
Central Hillside; view of Duluth looking northeast; largest building at the left is First Presbyterian church is 300 East Second Street; Lake Superior; houses; buildings; businesses; streets; telephone...
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Neighborhoods of Duluth: West Duluth Doric Theater
West Duluth; Doric Theater; 5715 Grand Avenue; largest one floor theater in the city in 1936 with 1042 seats, J. B. Clinton and C. S. Kent owners, C. W. Kaake, manager; was in West Duluth and might have been the West Duluth theater; formal opening after newly remodeled November 29, 1941; closed October 10, 1958; converted to commercial use in early 1970s; upper side of Grand Avenue; car; ticket booth; Music Photoplays; Reine Rodman Organ
West Duluth; Doric Theater; 5715 Grand Avenue; largest one floor theater in the city in 1936 with 1042 seats, J. B. Clinton and C. S. Kent owners, C. W. Kaake, manager; was in West Duluth and might have...
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Moose in dense vegetation
Moose
Head and shoulders of moose with antlers in velvet; the largest animal of the deer family
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Whaleback ROCKEFELLER launch in shipyard
Whaleback; FRANK ROCKEFELLER; shipyard
Whaleback FRANK ROCKEFELLER launch in shipyard; bystanders; one of the largest whalebacks 366 foot 2,759 ton steamer; worth more than $225,000;damaged November 2, 1905
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