Northland Foods manufactured and distributed Jeno Paulucci's Chun King brand oriental food. Luigino "Jeno" Francisco Paulucci was born July 7, 1918 to Ettore and Michelina Buratti Paulucci in northern Minnesota. Jeno was the founder of Chun King in 1946. Manufacturing was done at 525 Lake Avenue South beginning in 1954. In 1966 he sold the Chun King Corporation to the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for $63 million. Jeno's Incorporated transferred its operations to Wellston, Ohio late in 1981, and its headquarters to Sanford, Florida in 1983.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
A view (for a 1961 Photo Contest) of the Duluth-Superior high bridge's first span being lowered into place after construction began two years before on November 28, 1958.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
East Hillside; Street; Tenth Avenue East and Fourth street looking west; street lamps; streetcar tracks; houses; corner store; business; Wick's Market; grocery store; pedestrians; bicycle; street cleaner; people waiting for streetcar; streetcar in the distance; church steeple in the distance; power lines for streetcars
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Forty-Fifth Avenue West and Third Street looking east; this photograph was used as a court exhibit to document some type of accident; houses; businesses; telephone poles; streetcar tracks
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections