View of downtown and waterfront from third avenue west and Superior street to seventh avenue west looking east from third street; Minnesota Point; canal; slips; 1892 Union Depot; 1895 Torrey building; 1893 Manhattan building
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Superior street and first avenue east looking west; building signs on upper side; Globe Hotel and Restaurant boardwalk;the buildings at the right in the foreground are about 201-205 East Superior Street just east of Second Avenue East, they burned in the spring of 1875
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of hillside from south of Michigan street at about seventh avenue west looking northwest; railroad; Kelly Furniture 710 west Superior street; H P Jones and Co Clothing 627 west Superior street
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Modern Samaritan Life Insurance Company are offering their product at an unidentified event. The Modern Samaritans, fraternal insurance society founded in Duluth about 1897, had a number of Duluth chapters. By 1925, they were located in Samaritans Hall at 12 East Superior Street. The group hosted annual events including picnics, Ladies Night, theatricals and more.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Modern Samaritan Life Insurance Company workers are offering their product at an unidentified event. The Modern Samaritans, fraternal insurance society founded in Duluth about 1897, had a number of Duluth chapters. By 1925, they were located in Samaritans Hall at 12 East Superior Street. The group hosted annual events including picnics, Ladies Night, theatricals and more.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
These are the unidentified men and boys who worked for the Stevens Tug Line. Mr. Darwin E. Stevens' fleet was located at the foot of Twenty-first Avenue West in the Duluth harbor. The Joe D. Dudley tug is at the far left, the Mystic is next, and the Minni Karl is at the far right. The Cupid and the Henry T. Brower are not in this shot.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
38 ton tug PATHFINDER with crew in Duluth harbor; was in service by 1895; Minnesota Point in background; light house on pier; dock; she rescued crew from wrecked Henry Steinbrenner in 1953
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
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).
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Torrey building entrance at third avenue west and Superior street; brownstone by Traphagen and Fitzpatrick built in 1892; stone carving; Hotel St. Louis; business signs; Miller's Cafeteria; Carnegie Coal Dock and Fuel Company;
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Built as a Masonic Temple in 1889, Second Avenue East and Superior Street, it was also a theater. The top floors and the iconic onion bulb feature of the Temple Opera building were removed in the 1940s. The avenue entrance was removed. The truncated building still stands.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Looking to Temple Opera at second avenue east and Superior street; small frame buildings in foreground; may be construction site; Temple Opera was built in 1889
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Superior street east from seventh avenue west; building materials; small businesses in foreground; Union Depot and train sheds; Lyceum Theater; Spalding Hotel; Minnesota Point and businesses J B Sutphin Cold Storage
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Superior street looking east from second avenue west showing upper side of street; horses and wagon; people; horse drawn streetcar; Banning Block; Duluth Clothing House; Suffel and Co.;
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Superior street looking east from fourth avenue west; Grand Opera Bay View Hotel First and Amer National bank; horse drawn streetcars horse drawn wagons
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections