Photographer Paul Benjamin Gaylord took the earliest images of Duluth including this view showing trees cut and rudimentary housing and dock construction.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Roger's Boulevard was a lengthy drive at the top of the hillside for visitors and residents in carriages and wagons to enjoy views of Duluth all along its length.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Mayor Eugene R. Lambert, Fred R. Lewis General Chairman and others, noted the 1856 naming and platting of Duluth in a local centennial celebration August 2-12, 1956.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Musicians of the orchestra under the baton of conductor Paul Lemay when it was the Civic Symphony. It became the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra January 15, 1974.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The Flaaten family came to Duluth in 1890 from Norway. Five brothers: Gustav violin, conducting, composition 1876-1929, Jens 1869-1922, Alphin cellist 1888-1953, Roy conductor and Henry were singers, musicians, composers, and music teachers of the Flaaten Conservatory of Music the Normanna Chorus and the Orpheus Singing Society.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Members of the Safety Committee of the Duluth Missabe and Northern Railway (D.M. & N.) Company pose at an outing at the Duluth Auto Club site on Pike Lake.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
A man, possibly photographer Cook Ely, sitting in his room interior with furnishings, photographs, fireplace, rugs, and personal belongings including a G.A.R. item, IOOF items, fraternal photo, family photos, Christian Endeavor medallion, probably 1904, and possibly a link with First Presbyterian church.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Red Cliff lumber company sawmill was located at 512 39th Avenue West from 1902-1913. A rollway is an artificially inclined surface used by lumberjacks to slide logs into a waterway for transport.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The cast of a production of "The Talk of the Town" posed on the Lyceum theater stage with an elaborate backdrop, Japanese lanterns, and stage curtains.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Judge Elbert H. Gary, lawyer and president of the Federal Steel Company founded in 1898, and his colleagues after an annual meeting of Minnesota Iron Company held in Duluth, Minnesota.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The McDougall-Duluth shipyards occupied abut 50 acres at St. Louis riverfront near Spring street and Penton boulevard where it employed 3,500 men in 1919-1922.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Located at 2010 East Superior Street, Trinity Episcopal church Bishop James D. Morrison, guest clergy and members of the congregation stand across the front of the building.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of the garden, carriage house, and house built in 1905 at 2307 East Superior Street of First National Bank president and local philanthropist A. L. Ordean who died in 1928 at 72.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of the Georgian style house designed by Emmet S. Palmer and William A. Hunt architects and built in 1905 at 2307 East Superior Street for First National Bank president and local philanthropist A. L. Ordean who died in 1928 at 72.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Brownstone home designed by architect I. Vernon Hill and built in 1902 at 2029 East Superior Street for George Howard Crosby iron mining investor on the Mesabi and Cuyuna Ranges.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Duluth letter carriers in uniform standing on the steps of the main entrance to the Federal Building at Fifth Avenue West and First Street downtown that was often called the Post Office because it held the postal service department.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Red Cliff lumber company sawmill was located at 512 39th Avenue West from 1902-1913. A rollway is an artificially inclined surface used by lumberjacks to slide logs into a waterway for transport.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Duluth and Iron Range (D & IR) railway locomotive number 60 and a workman are photographed because the No. 60 was the first class "J" 4-8-0 type to haul heavy tonnage.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Consolidated Elevator Company built elevators B, C, D 1884 with a 1.2 million bushel capacity, and G from 1878-1945 in the Duluth harbor parallel to downtown Duluth and perpendicular to Rice's Point.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
People from Duluth attended the twelfth annual meeting of the Great Lakes Harbors Association at a Detroit hotel to discuss the St. Lawrence Seaway proposal.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Built in 1919 as a home for pregnant young girls to live, attend school, and train for parenting at 1230 East Ninth Street until the child was born. The Bethel Home ceased these services in the early 1970s.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Located at 2010 East Superior Street, Trinity Episcopal church Bishop James D. Morrison, guest clergy and members of the congregation stand across the front of the building.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Episcopal clergy, Bishop James Dow Morrison, and congregants at the cornerstone placement event for their new Pro-Cathedral building on Superior Street.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The "North West" with passengers aboard deck was built in Cleveland, Ohio in 1894 by the Globe Shipbuilding Company but operated by the Northern Steamship Company of Buffalo, New York until 1911 when she burned.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Parade of members of the Toboggan and Snowshoe Association in their white hats and coats along Superior Street in downtown Duluth. The orignal image was taken February 22, 1886 by Carl Thiel and Edward H. Foster and was later copied by Hugh McKenzie.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Duluthians and nine city councilors, seated at decks with President Hicken presiding, will see a transition to the new nonpartisan Commission form of city government in April 1913 replacing the aldermanic form.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Episcopal clergy, Bishop James Dow Morrison, and congregants at the cornerstone placement event for their new Pro-Cathedral building on Superior Street.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
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.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
An unidentified group of couples and their dog in a decorated log cabin with insignia and oars linked to the Duluth Yacht Club which was organized in 1890, incorporated 1905, declined, and was absorbed in 1909 by the Duluth Boat Club.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
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.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
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.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
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.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections