This post card was mailed in 1906, but the image is from an earlier year. In the 1890s commercial fishing on Lake Superior was feeding Duluth and the entire Midwest with major operators: A. Booth and Sons (whose sign is visible at the left), Lake Superior Fish Company, H. Christiansen and Sons.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
521 west Superior street; interior of Bergstein's clothing store and workers; cases; stock; ceiling; merchandise; hats; pants; sign for overalls; boxes
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View of second avenue west and Superior street buildings on upper side of street; pedestrians; streetcar; George A. Gray Company became Wahl department store
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
This is the West Duluth plant of the Zenith Furnace Company. West Duluth is a neighborhood of Duluth. Captain August B. Wolvin bought the aging blast furnace at this Fifty-seventh Avenue West location, modernized it and organized Zenith Furnace to operate it. It produced pig iron. It was incorporated in 1902. The plant produced 175 tons of product in 24 hours. In one month in 1916, a record of 310 tons of pig iron was produced in 24 hours. The site covers 80 acres and includes a coal dock. Coal gas, ammonia, and coal tar are by-products. It employed 350 men with a payroll of $35,000 a month in 1916.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Martin J. Burke is in the doorway of the business at 330 East Superior Street. The Burke brothers' French cleaning and dying business moved around downtown Duluth.
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August Lofgren was a Duluth pharmacist operating businesses in West Duluth and the West End, eventually using the name Lion Drug Store at 2031 West Superior Street. Pictured here is clerk Arvid Trulson, right.
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August Lofgren was a Duluth pharmacist operating businesses in West Duluth and the West End, eventually using the name Lion Drug Store at 2031 West Superior Street.
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West Duluth; West Duluth Cement Block Works; H. C. Brown owner; fifty-sixth Avenue west and Grand Avenue; manufacturer of concrete blocks, sills, lintels, water tables, porch piers, caps and bases; workers; workmen; tents; concrete blocks; equipment; manufacturing site; telephone poles; railroad
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Superior street businesses; Alworth building 306 to 308 west Superior street was built in 1909 and is Duluth's tallest building with 16 stories; photo number 1912
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An addition is being built to the Cook Home. Cook Home began as the county almshouse, poor farm, and tuberculosis sanatorium in the 1880s. It grew and its name was changed over the decades.
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Hoffs Millinery Shop; 326 west first street or in George A. Gray Company department store; Maria P. Hoff proprietor; two women; hats on stands; mirror and rocking chair; seating; stove pipe; light fixture; glass cases
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View of Superior street downtown from fifth avenue west; Lyceum theater; signs, people, vehicles; electric streetcar; five globe streetlamps; Delmonico restaurant
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Freimuth's was at the corner of Lake Avenue and West Superior Street. In 1900 the address of the dry goods store of Ignatz Freimuth was given as 2-10 West Superior Street. It was razed May, 1968.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth; Millinery; 314 North Central; Madame Rock Millinery shop; Mrs. Rock, Mrs. Plows; shelves of hats; display of hats; hat stands; feathers; hat boxes; display case of spools of ribbon; chairs; rug;
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West Duluth; Elliott and Company horse drawn wagon at 5609 and 5615 Grand Avenue; worker; horses are facing Ray Abbott house on right; Mrs. Davidson's millinery off at left; Elliott processed meat; meat packing; Emil J. Zauft contractor sign; brick street
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Workers in the workroom where chocolate covered caramels are being made. John Wahl had a wholesale confectionery for many years at different locations.
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Workmen in their Wahl Company workroom with wrapped boxes of chocolates. John Wahl had a wholesale confectionery for many years at different locations.
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Morgan Park; Boarding Camp; workers; men cooks in white aprons; boy; people; building; lumber; temporary housing; two story building with tar paper covering held in place with metal studs or nail heads; windows; chimneys
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Bystanders near Knox five and dime store fire at 102-104 west Superior street; fire fighters and equipment; Brocklehurst Business College; Rathskeller; Tredway Drugs
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West Duluth; Parade with open wagon decorated as float; Grand Avenue Bakery Float; July Fourth Parade; Fleisher Brothers are painters but their names is under the sign for the bakery; we assume the Fleisher's company painted the sign for the float; horse drawn wagon; people; men and women; white uniforms and chef's hats or toques; children; flags
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The Chicago Shipbuilding Company of Chicago, a subsidiary of the American Shipbuilding Company, built the steamer William E. Cory for the Pittsburgh Steamship Company in 1904. The vessel dimensions are 569' X 56' X 31'. She sailed from Chicago on her maiden voyage August 12, 1905 bound for Duluth to load iron ore. The aerial bridge was new. Bids were opened March 25, 1901, but only one was received. The Duluth Canal Bridge Company was awarded the contract but abandoned the work. In February 1904, the Modern Steel Structural Company of Waukesha, Wisconsin was issued a contract. Work began July 20, 1904. On February 23, 1905, with local dignitaries at hand, the bridge was first operated. Regular service began the next day according to newspaper accounts. The city engineer's report for 1905 stated that the bridge was "completed and commenced operation on May 5, 1905, and a few problems were corrected in running the bridge over the next few days." The Aerial bridge was completed in February 1905. The aerial bridge transporter or gondola or transfer car roadway was 17 feet by 50 feet with sidewalks seven feet by 50 feet, the cabins were 30 feet long. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office building with flag above it was built in 1906. Also visible in the image are the National Biscuit Company 517 Lake Avenue South, Blanchet Hotel 520 Lake Avenue South, and Wieland Flats 502-512 St. Croix Avenue
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The weekly newspaper Labor World was founded by Sabrie Akin in 1896. Akin served as the publisher until her death in 1900. Plumber William McEwen bought the paper in 1900 and continued as the owner and publisher until his death in 1933. This photograph shows Labor World staff in their office in Duluth's Manhattan Building, 410-416 West Superior Street. Still in existence, Labor World is currently published by Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections