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
Pendleton Block lower side between first and second avenue west; people; Thomas Dowse Real Estate and Insurance; Superior street; boardwalk; J. C. Merritt dentist
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Two men standing in a fishing boat holding fish, the man on the right may be Ojibwe, end of birch bark canoe, hundreds of fish in foreground on the beach, may be Duluth or Grand Marais, may be fish drying stands in background, may be in a cove
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Lakeside Lester Park; George B. Sargent built this house in 1873 at Forty-Fifth Avenue East and London Road; it was later the home of his son William C. Sargent; winter; snow; porch; chimneys; modified mansard-style roof; architectural details; dormers; clapboard; stone foundation; brick work
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Sawyer and Davis building wholesale grocers third avenue west and Superior street; barrels and boxes; driver, horses and loaded wagon; two men; African American child
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Neighborhoods of Duluth, Central Hillside; Luke Marvin House. The Marvins were an early Duluth family and long associated with First Presbyterian Church and Duluth government and development. Queen Anne style house includes a wrap around porch with a child and a woman on the steps.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Northwest corner of Lake avenue and Superior street shoe and boot store of G. Poirier; workers; street; boardwalk; aprons; signs like boots; adjacent businesses
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of Duluth hillside from Superior street approaching third avenue west; Duluth Carriage Works; church behind Carriage Works is original First Methodist third avenue west and second street erected 1870
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
New York Boot and Shoe Store and identified workers; aprons; boots hanging by laces in front of door; awning; open window with women and girl; boy; boardwalk
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Waterfront slip at foot of Lake avenue near Buchanan street; coal deck; vessel Emerald; Minnesota Point houses; William Up ham and Co dredges and tugs; railroad cars; Northwestern Lime Co
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections