Duluth from Point of Rocks, Minnesota, 1913 – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic image of Duluth from Point of Rocks, Minnesota, 1913 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: [Bird's-eye view of Duluth showing harbor from Point of Rocks]
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Duluth from Point of Rocks, Minnesota, 1913
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Duluth, Minnesota, in 1913 was a shipping city at the western tip of Lake Superior, with its fortunes tied to iron ore from the Mesabi Range, which railroads hauled to the docks for lake freighters. Grain elevators, sawmills and flour mills lined the waterfront, and the harbor depended on the ship canal opened in 1871 and the aerial transfer bridge completed in 1905. The city had grown to nearly 80,000 residents by the 1910 census, many of them immigrants from Scandinavia, Italy and Eastern Europe who worked the docks, mills and rail yards. Locals took pride in the nickname "Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas," a booster phrase that reflected their confidence in a port they believed would rival older inland centers. From the high ground at Point of Rocks, this view took in the ships, tracks and rooftops that made that confidence seem earned.
| Created / published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Creator | gallagher, l. p. (louis perry) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Minnesota |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,198 × 884 px · prints to 17 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Bird's-eye view of Duluth showing harbor from Point of Rocks] |
| Reference | MN Duluth from Point of Rocks 1913 |
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