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1. View of Duluth on the shore of Lake Superior, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gaylord, Paul B., 1847-1903
Date Created:
1869 - 1871
Description:
Photographer Paul Benjamin Gaylord took the earliest images of Duluth including this view showing trees cut and rudimentary housing and dock construction.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

2. Oliver Iron Mining Company Office, Hibbing, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1906-03
Description:
Identified Oliver Iron Mining company workers stand on the steps of the Hibbing office building with General Manager Pentecost Mitchell.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

3. Duluth Board of Trade annual dinner, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, L. Perry, Jr., 1912-1988
Date Created:
1955-02-07
Description:
Members of the Duluth Board of Trade sit at their annual dinner in the main dinning hall of the Kitchi Gammi Club.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

4. Men of the Duluth Board of Trade, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1895?
Description:
Members, including incorporator G. G. Barnum, Sr., and workers of the Duluth Board of Trade sit on the trading floor and pose for the photographer.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

5. Minnesota Federation of Architectural and Engineering Societies, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Blakemore, William
Date Created:
1927-02-04
Description:
Member meeting of a professional association of Minnesota architects and engineers at a Duluth hotel.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

6. No. 1, Log Rollway and Sawmill Red Cliff Lumber Company, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Maher, James
Date Created:
1902?
Description:
Red Cliff lumber company sawmill was located at 512 39th Avenue West from 1902-1913. A rollway is an artificially inclined surface used by lumberjacks to slide logs into a waterway for transport.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

7. View of Twenty-first Avenue West and Third Street, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1907
Description:
A covered wagon of The Duluth Ice Company pulls onto West Third Street at the intersection with Twenty First Avenue West.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8. Kelley-How-Thomson workers, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1928?
Description:
Duluth's Winter Frolic, held three consecutive years from 1926-1928, engaged many businesses.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

9. Fifteenth Annual Meeting Lake Superior Mining Institute Congress, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1910-08-26
Description:
Minnesota and Duluth delegates join fellow mining engineers in a Chicago hotel for their annual meeting.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

10. Judge Gary and party, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1901-06-08
Description:
Judge Elbert H. Gary, lawyer and president of the Federal Steel Company founded in 1898, and his colleagues after an annual meeting of Minnesota Iron Company held in Duluth, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

11. McDougall-Duluth shipyard employees, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1920?
Description:
The McDougall-Duluth shipyards occupied abut 50 acres at St. Louis riverfront near Spring street and Penton boulevard where it employed 3,500 men in 1919-1922.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

12. West End business men, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1913-04-06
Description:
Businessmen of the West End of Duluth formed a business group.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

13. Trading floor at the Duluth Board of Trade, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1913-03-17
Description:
Members and workers of the Duluth Board of Trade on the trading floor where samples of commodities fill tables.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

14. Testimonial Dinner in Honor of Mr. Julius Howland Barnes, New York, New York

Date Created:
1920-04-22
Description:
Black-tie dinner at the Hotel Commodore in New York city to honor Julius H. Barnes of Duluth.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Logging camp with oxen, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1900?
Description:
Unidentified logging camp, crew, sleds and ox teams to pull them.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. T.G.A.M.B.A.Y.C. (The Get As Much As You Can Club), Hibbing, Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.
Date Created:
1906
Description:
The Get As Much Business As You Can club was a unique organization of railroad men who met annually and claimed Duluth, Minnesota as the group's home.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. View of Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1905-10
Description:
View from the Duluth hillside toward the business district of downtown Duluth including the new Aerial Bridge.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. View of Proctor railroad yard, Proctor, Minnesota

Date Created:
1920?
Description:
The small city of Proctor, just west of Duluth, was established as Proctor Knott in 1894, named for J. Proctor Knott then governor of Kentucky.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. View of Garfield Avenue and West Superior Street, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1909
Description:
A man stands at the intersection of Garfield Avenue and 1600 West Superior Street, with Piedmont Avenue running uphill in the background.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

20. Unidentified Train Yard, Northern Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.; Fletcher, George W.
Date Created:
1910?
Description:
A steam locomotive and open rolling stock are seen near an unidentified depot or train sheds adjacent to houses in a northern Minnesota location.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

21. No. 1, Log Rollway and Sawmill Red Cliff Lumber Company, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Maher, James
Date Created:
1902?
Description:
Red Cliff lumber company sawmill was located at 512 39th Avenue West from 1902-1913. A rollway is an artificially inclined surface used by lumberjacks to slide logs into a waterway for transport.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

22. Assembling Zenith Washing Machines, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1930?
Description:
Zenith is the name of products of the Marshall-Wells Hardware Company of Duluth.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

23. Duluth and Iron Range Railroad locomotive 60, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1893
Description:
Duluth and Iron Range (D & IR) railway locomotive number 60 and a workman are photographed because the No. 60 was the first class "J" 4-8-0 type to haul heavy tonnage.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

24. Vessel "Alden Barnes Fiertz" on Lake Superior, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Taylor, Capt. W. J.
Date Created:
1940-02
Description:
A photograph signed to Julius Barnes from Commodore McLean of the "Alden Barnes Fiertz" vessel of The Barnes Motorship Fleet.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

25. Consolidated Elevator Company's grain elevator D, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940?
Description:
Consolidated Elevator Company built elevators B, C, D 1884 with a 1.2 million bushel capacity, and G from 1878-1945 in the Duluth harbor parallel to downtown Duluth and perpendicular to Rice's Point.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

26. Iroquois W. L. T. Company, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.; Fletcher, George W.
Date Created:
1902
Description:
The 1901 passenger steamer S. S. Iroquois in the Lake Superior waters at Duluth ran the Isle Royale Route.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

27. F. M. Osborne at Ore Dock, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.; Fletcher, George W.
Date Created:
1902?
Description:
Early vessel near ore dock ready for loading.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

28. Mountain Iron Mine, Mountain Iron, Minnesota

Date Created:
1902
Description:
Marion Model K steam shovel with a two and a half cubic yard dipper working along side a 25 ton wooden ore car for the Oliver Iron Mining Company in the open pit Mountain Iron mine.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

29. Mahoning Mine, Hibbing, Minnesota

Date Created:
1903
Description:
Mahoning mine on the Mesabi Iron Range at Hibbing was one of the most prolific on the Range shipping iron ore from 1895 to1973.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

30. Adams Mine, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1902
Description:
Colorized view of the Adams mine site with worker housing.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

31. Scott-Graff Lumber Company, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1900?
Description:
Scott-Graff Lumber Company goods loaded on horse drawn wagons in front of the company buildings at 2402 West Michigan Street in downtown Duluth.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

32. Colorized view of logging with oxen, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890?
Description:
Oxen were always used in pairs in logging operations. Use of oxen was phased out after about 1900.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

33. Logging camp with horse teams, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1900?
Description:
Unidentified logging camp, crews and horse teams.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

34. Mahoning Mine, Hibbing, Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.; Fletcher, George W.
Date Created:
1894
Description:
The Mahoning open pit iron ore mine on the Mesabi Range in Hibbing is worked with a pair of steam shovels.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

35. Shenango Mine, Chisholm, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
Aerial view of Shenango open pit iron ore mine with roads, equipment, and buildings.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

36. Chandler Mine No. 3, Ely, Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.; Fletcher, George W.
Date Created:
1891
Description:
The headframe at the Chandler underground mine Number 3 in Ely stands behind the growing ore stock piles.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

37. Ore Dock Railroad Tracks, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.; Fletcher, George W.
Date Created:
1902?
Description:
Three ore docks with the 1896 Rockefeller steamer Sir William Siemens ready to load at one.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

38. Oliver Iron Mining Company staff, Hibbing, Minnesota

Date Created:
1904
Description:
Gathering of the officers, superintendents, captains, foremen, engineers, and engineer's helpers of the Hibbing Chisholm district offices of the Oliver Iron Mining Company on the occasion of the promotion of Pentecost Mitchell from general superintendent to president.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

39. Minnesota Iron Company, Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.; Fletcher, George W.
Date Created:
1891
Description:
The Minnesota Iron Company, incorporated in 1890, was engaged in underground iron ore mining on the Vermilion Range that ran between Tower and Soudan on the west and Ely and Winton on the east of the range.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

40. Spruce Mine, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
Aerial view of Spruce open pit iron ore mine with roads, equipment, and buildings.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

41. United States Steel mill, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1956?
Description:
Aerial view of the Duluth steel plant complex.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

42. Locomotive in mine pit, Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.; Fletcher, George W.
Date Created:
1891?
Description:
An unidentified underground mine pit with a steam locomotive Number 1 of the Duluth and Iron Range railway at work, probably at Tower or Ely, Minnesota, on the Vermilion Iron Range.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

43. Steel Plant, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1920?
Description:
View from the Duluth hillside toward the Morgan Park neighborhood and the U. S. Steel plant in Morgan Park.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

44. Oliver Iron Mining Company Men, Hibbing, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1926
Description:
Principals of the Oliver Iron Mining Company are frequently photographed at meetings and other gatherings.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

45. Oliver Iron Mining Company electric shovel, Hibbing, Minnesota

Date Created:
1945?
Description:
A Bucyrus Erie 170-B electric shovel stripping ore in an open pit mine on the Mesabi Iron Range.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

46. Hull-Rust Mine, Hibbing, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940?
Description:
The Hull-Rust-Mahoning mine established in 1892 in Hibbing is one of the largest open pit iron ore mines in the world, with a 1.5 by 3.5 mile footprint and depths up to 600 feet. It supplied as much as a fourth of all the ore mined in the U. S. during its peak production during WWI and WWII.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

47. Garfield Avenue sawmill and lumber, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1900?
Description:
View of a Garfield Avenue lumber mill, perhaps Alger Smith, with a streetcar in the foreground.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

48. Cosmopolitan National Convention, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1928-08-28
Description:
Families of insurance salesmen standing with U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. Grace Coolidge and others.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

49. Trout Lake Beneficiation plant, Coleraine, Minnesota

Date Created:
1918?
Description:
Trout Lake beneficiation (or benefication) plant near Coleraine was completed in 1909-1910, to raise the iron content of lean, sandy ores. Beneficiation (or benefication) is one of a variety of process that treats the raw iron ore to separate the ore into the usable mineral and the part of the ore that is unusable (gangue).
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

50. Razing the Glass Block Store, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Hyvarinen, Virginia
Date Created:
1981
Description:
View from Second Avenue West of the rubble that was the Glass Block store at 128 West Superior Street. The four floor retail giant in downtown Duluth had dozens of departments. It was located at this location from 1893. The store opened in 1887 at Panton and Watson.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs
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