William Upham and Company dredge and six workers in slip east of Duluth Boat Club and Armour Meats; office and dock at Buchanan on Minnesota Point; staff named in 1888 city directory
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
William A. Pryor and Company Abstracts, Real Estate, and Mortgage business; identified men; 16 north third avenue west in First National bank building in 1893
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
An Ojibwe woman is stirring a pot parching wild rice, a birch bark basket is visible in the foreground. This snapshot by Stella Stocker is from her photograph album. Stocker, a musician and music educator, studied American Indian music among the Ojibwe people in Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
In the foreground is the wholesale district on the waterfront of the Duluth harbor. In the background are grain elevators. In this photo, Michigan Street is at the far right in front of the Union Depot. Railroad Street is parallel to Michigan and runs in front of the Duluth Terminal building and Northern Cold Storage Company (with the white steam) at 400 South Ninth Avenue West. The Patrick Building at 302 South Fifth Avenue West and Commerce Street is between the Hickory sign and the Northern Drug Company building. Hickory is the main brand of Kelley-How-Thomson Company. It and Stone-Ordean-Wells are wholesale grocery businesses. The elevated streets are Sixth and Ninth Avenues West. A number of railroad depots and tracks are prominent.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Winter view of the remnants of the Whitney Brothers rock crushing business that stand in Lake Superior off the shore at Canal Park near the Aerial lift bridge. William A. Whitney and E. Harvey Whitney of Superior, Wisconsin, had a sand and gravel processing business. The largest concrete form was the dredging or crushing building. The structure was built in 1919. A tunnel ran from the building to Minnesota Point. There was a conveyor belt and railroad spur adjacent to the concrete building. Sand from the Apostle Islands and gravel from Grand Marais were carried to Duluth on a small vessel named LIMIT. There was also a tug the WILLIAM A. WHITNEY.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
A view of an unidentified village on a lake, located on the White Earth Ojibwe reservation. This snapshot by Stella Stocker is from her photograph album. Stocker, a musician and music educator, studied American Indian music among the Ojibwe people in Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Aerial view of Wheeler Field and playground at 3501 Grand Avenue with its baseball diamonds and tennis courts. Henry Wakeman Wheeler (1821-1906) a first settler, arrived in Duluth in April of 1855; a 28 acre tract of land between 34-37 Avenue West and Grand Avenue was named Wheeler Field for him.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of Wheeler Field in the foreground and Wade Municipal All Sports Stadium in the middleground and the coal dock in the background. Wade is at 101 North 35th Avenue West was dedicated July 16, 1941. It was renamed Wade Municipal Stadium February 3, 1954, to honor the late Frank Wade, former owner of the Duluth Dukes baseball team.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections