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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railway 236 with loads, Rainy Junction Yard, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:
1944
Description:
D.M. & I.R. steam locomotive number 236 departing Rainy Junction Yard with a train of loaded ore cars. The Rouchelou plant is in the steam behind the locomotive.
Contributing Institution:
Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

6. 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

7. Duluth Missabe and Iron Range 232 with ore train at unknown location, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940 - 1950
Description:
D.M. & I.R. steam locomotive 232 with an empty ore train on a slight curve at unknown location. Baldwin 2-8-8-4, Mallet or Yellowstone type.
Contributing Institution:
Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8. Duluth Missabe and Iron Range 232 with ore train at Coleraine Junction, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940 - 1950
Description:
D.M. & I.R. steam locomotive 232 with a loaded ore train on a curve at Coleraine Junction with the tower and signals in the view.
Contributing Institution:
Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

9. Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railway Ore Dock 6, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry
Date Created:
1940 - 1950
Description:
View of the D.M. & I.R. Ore Dock 6 in the Duluth Harbor. Moored at the dock are "D.M. Clemson" and an unidentified ore boat. Each ore boat has a bumboat beside it (a bumboat is a floating supply store). The Clemson is being loaded. Also in the photograph is Steam Locomotive 205.
Contributing Institution:
Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

10. 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

11. Iron ore cars at the ore docks, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1919?
Description:
railroad cars, iron ore cars, breakrod and platform, Duluth Missabe and Northern Railway Ore Docks
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

12. Iron ore cars, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1919-05-10
Description:
railroad cars, iron ore cars, breakrod and platform, Duluth Missabe and Northern Railway Ore Docks
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

13. 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

14. Underground mine on Vermilion Range, Ely or Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1915?
Description:
main drift in an underground iron mine
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Prince of Wales Mine, Michigan

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1915?
Description:
Prince of Wales Mine
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. Iron mine, St. Louis County, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1915?
Description:
Iron Mine
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. Test Pit on the Cuyuna Iron Range, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1913
Description:
Test Pit; diamond drilling crew and equipment; Cuyuna Iron Range #32; capitalists and financiers;
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. Test Pit on the Cuyuna Iron Range, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1913
Description:
Test Pit; diamond drilling crew and equipment; Cuyuna Iron Range #32
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Test Pit on the Cuyuna Iron Range, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1913
Description:
Test Pit; diamond drilling crew and equipment; Cuyuna Iron Range #32
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

20. Pumping water from an open pit mine, St. Louis County, Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1913
Description:
Crew pumping water from an open pit mine; electric floating pump on raft; mining equipment; landscape; Cuyuna Range #32
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

21. Oliver Iron Mining tressel and ore cars, northern Minnesota

Creator:
McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957
Date Created:
1911-06-14
Description:
Oliver Iron Mining trestle and ore cars, stairway, mine site?, rail road
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. Open pit iron mine, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1900?
Description:
Mine pit
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

28. 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

29. First Carload of Ore from the Mesabi Range on display, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1892-10-30
Description:
A line men standing in front of the first carload of ore from the Mesabi Range, on display at the Union Depot in Duluth, Minnesota. People include a policeman, railroad employees, businessmen, workers and a couple of younger males.
Contributing Institution:
Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. Duluth and Iron Range Railroad Steam Shovel 02, unknown location, St Louis County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1909
Description:
D&IR steam shovel 02 digging surface material and loading into small narrow gauge sidedump railcars.
Contributing Institution:
Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

34. Steam Shovel at Britton Pit on the Mesabi Range, near Two Harbors, Minnesota

Date Created:
1890 - 1898
Description:
Image of a group of workers standing on steam powered shovel 146 shoveling iron ore in open air pit.
Contributing Institution:
Lake County Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

35. Vermilion Range, Mine Number 8, Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; miners and equipment; Minnesota Mine No 8
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

36. Underground mining, Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; miners and equipment; tramming and stone stockpile near Tower Minnesota
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

37. Underground mining on Vermilion Iron Range, Ely or Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; equipment
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

38. Underground mine on Vermilion Range, Ely or Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; miners; equipment
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

39. Underground mine on Vermilion Range, Ely or Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; miners and equipment
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

40. Underground mine on Vermilion Range, Ely or Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermillion iron range underground mining; miners; drills; equipment
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

41. Underground mine on Vermilion Range, Ely or Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; miners; equipment; the home of Bessemer ore near Tower Minnesota
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

42. Dump at Chandler Mine, Ely, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; dump at Chandler mine Ely; miners; equipment
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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