Aerial view of Duluth harbor, waterfront, canal park and Minnesota Point to about Sixteenth Street at the far right. At the far left on the waterfront are the Huron Portland Cement silos. This property would become LaFarge corporation property.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
This image is made up of multiple aerial photographs that were aligned and hand mounted on a wooden board. The area is approximately bounded by Minnesota Highway 62, Interstate 494, and Minnesota Highway 100. It includes the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Richfield, and the eastern portion of Edina.
Brainerd railroad shops aerial view toward northeast including the $1,500,000 car shops under construction and roundhouse. The Roundhouse was demolished in the 1960s.
The aerial view includes all or parts of sections 26, 27, 28, 33, 34 and 35; the Mustinka River, the village of Wendell and the railroad running southwest/northeast.