Panorama view Two Harbors, Minnesota, 1917 – Vintage Photo Print
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A window into the past: Panorama view Two Harbors, Minnesota, 1917, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Panorama view Two Harbors, Minnesota, 1917
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Two Harbors, on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Lake County, Minnesota, was a shipping town in 1917, and its economy rested on iron ore. Trains hauled ore down from the Mesabi Range to the lakefront ore docks, where it was loaded into steel freighters bound for ports on the Great Lakes. The United States entered the First World War that spring, and wartime demand kept the docks and the railroad busy. The town's name came from its two sheltered harbors, and its residents lived with the constant noise of trains, the smell of coal smoke, and the rhythm of the shipping season, which closed when the lake froze. In a view like this one, the waterfront and the rail yards were the parts of town that people would have recognized first.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Minnesota |
| Original scan | 5,092 × 767 px · prints to 17 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | MN Panorama view Two Harbors 1917 |
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