Topic: Business and Industry / Physical Format: Black-and-white photographs / Location: and Saint Louis

1. American Exchange Bank, Virginia, Minnesota

Creator:: Pederson, Bert O., 1874-1959
Date Created:: 1920 - 1929
Description:: Exterior view of American Exchange Bank, 401 Chestnut Street. Incorporated in March 1904, it was reorganized as American Exchange National Bank in November 1919.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

2. Automatic switch at the Spruce stockpile, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1923-01-05
Description:: Automatic switch (no. 4) at the Spruce stockpile.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

3. Automatic switch at the Spruce stockpile, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1923-01-20
Description:: Automatic switch (no. 4) at the Spruce stockpile.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

4. Bangor Mine, showing stokers in operation, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1914-02-03
Description:: Bangor Mine, featuring boiler with stokers.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

5. Bangor Mine stokers installed on all boilers, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1914-02-25
Description:: Bangor Mine, featuring boiler with stokers.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

6. Blast furnace stoves, gas washer, ore and coke ovens at Minnesota Steel Company, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:: United States Steel Corporation
Date Created:: 1912-08
Description:: The coke ovens, still under construction, stand tall in the center of this photo taken at the Minnesota Steel Company in Duluth.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Museum of Mining
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

7. Chestnut Street and Mathews Hotel, Virginia, Minnesota

Creator:: Pederson, Bert O., 1874-1959
Date Created:: 1917 - 1920
Description:: View of Chestnut Street, featuring Mathew's Hotel and the Chicken Kelly's stand.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

8. Chestnut Street, Virginia, Minnesota

Creator:: Pederson, Bert O., 1874-1959
Date Created:: 1930 - 1935
Description:: Aerial view of 6th Avenue West and Chestnut Street, featuring Pure Gasoline sign.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

9. Corsica Mine, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1923-07-09
Description:: Marion Model 300 steam shovel operating in Corsica Mine.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

10. Corsica Mine pit dumps, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1923
Description:: Corsica open pit mine, filled with water
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

11. Corsica Mine pit dumps, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1923
Description:: Corsica Mine, featuring laborers loading railroad cars and water tower
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

12. Crane moving mining equipment, Hibbing, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1900 - 1914
Description:: A mining crane moving equipment.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

13. Electric welder safety guard, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1923
Description:: Electric welder safety guard.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

14. Eveleth-area stockholders in Oliver Iron Mining Company, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1920 - 1929
Description:: Group portrait of Eveleth-area stockholders in Oliver Iron Mining Company
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

15. Fayal Mine, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1897 - 1901
Description:: Fayal Mine, featuring facilities, mining equipment and tree stumps.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

16. First dipper falls at Corsica Pit Mine, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1923-07-09
Description:: Marion Model 300 steam shovel operating in Corsica Mine.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

17. 16-inch continuous and 8-, 10- and 12-inch merchant mill at Minnesota Steel Company, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:: United States Steel Corporation
Date Created:: 1912-08
Description:: The merchant mill building at the Minnesota Steel Co in Duluth is unfinished in this winter photograph, which does not seem to have been taken in August during the U.S. Steel Traffic Committee visit.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Museum of Mining
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

18. Iron King Mine, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1894
Description:: Iron King Mine, featuring facilities, railroad cars and mining equipment.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

19. Main open hearth furnace building at Minnesota Steel Company, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:: United States Steel Corporation
Date Created:: 1912-08
Description:: The structure of the main open hearth furnace building at Minnesota Steel Co. in Duluth appears mostly complete. Large flues for construction of the blast furnace lie on the ground in the foreground. The auxiliary buildings are under construction.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Museum of Mining
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

20. Main Street, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1895
Description:: Eveleth Main Street, later to become the site of the Adams Mine and Spruce Mine.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

21. Main Street, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1893-05
Description:: Virginia Main Street, looking East before the first fire.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

22. Marion electric shovel, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1912 - 1924
Description:: Marion type 37 electric shovel loading railroad cars.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

23. Marion electric shovel, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1912 - 1924
Description:: Marion Type 37 electric shovel loading railroad cars.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

24. Marion shovel, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1912 - 1924
Description:: Marion type 37 electric shovel operating at the iron mine in Biwabik.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

25. Mining facility, Hibbing, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1918
Description:: Mining facility, featuring wooden tower.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

26. Mining facility in winter, Hibbing, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1918
Description:: Mining facility in winter, featuring dump trestle and electric lines.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

27. Missabe Mountain mine, Virginia, Minnesota

Creator:: Pederson, Bert O., 1874-1959
Date Created:: 1930 - 1939
Description:: Bird's-eye view of the Missabe Mountain mine.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

28. Negaunee Mine, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1920
Description:: Negaunee underground iron mine, featuring eight iron miners standing beside an ore car.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

29. Pioneer Mine Shaft A, Ely, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1911
Description:: Pioneer Mine, featuring 'A' shaft.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

30. Safety bracket for lamp chord, Leonidas, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1923-01-26
Description:: Safety bracket for lamp chord, eliminating a tripping hazard.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

31. Safety platform for cleaning skips, Spruce Mine, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1923-06-01
Description:: Close-up view of safety platform for cleaning skips.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

32. Safety platform for cleaning skips, Spruce Mine, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1923-06-01
Description:: Side view of safety platform for cleaning skips.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

33. Shaw Mine, Virginia, Minnesota

Creator:: Pederson, Bert O., 1874-1959
Date Created:: 1917 - 1928
Description:: Shaw Mine, featuring steam shovels and railroad tracks.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

34. Side dump ore car at the Sparta Mine, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1898
Description:: Ore car that can tilt sideways for easy dumping, used at the Sparta Mine.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

35. Steam Shovel at Oliver Mine on the Mesabi Range, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1890 - 1892
Description:: Image of a steam powered shovel sitting on a railroad track. Land is barren, multiple tracks cross the landscape. Town of Virginia extends beyond the boundaries of the mine, separated by a fence. Note the rows of iron ore cars in the background. Oliver Mining Company owned this mine.
Contributing Institution:: Lake County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

36. Summer maintenance at Spruce Mine, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1923
Description:: Summer maintenance of open-pit paths at Spruce Mine.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

37. Summer maintenance of open-pit paths, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1923
Description:: Summer maintenance of open-pit paths at Spruce Mine.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

38. The 1st dipper falls at Corsica Pit Mine, Biwabik, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1923-09-07
Description:: Marion Model 300 steam shovel operating in Corsica Mine.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

39. Virginia & Rainy Lake Company's Mill & The Virginia Brewery, Virginia, Minnesota

Date Created:: 1900 - 1914
Description:: Aerial view of Virginia & Rainy Lake Lumber Company & the Virginia Brewery.
Contributing Institution:: Iron Range Research Center
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs