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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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. 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

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. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

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. 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
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