Chisholm 60 days after fire, Minnesota, 1908 – 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 rare historic image captures Chisholm 60 days after fire, Minnesota, 1908 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Chisholm, Minn., Nov. 5th 1908, taken sixty days after the fire
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Chisholm 60 days after fire, Minnesota, 1908
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Chisholm, Minnesota, in 1908 was a young mining town on the Mesabi Range, founded only a few years earlier as the iron ore boom drew thousands of workers north from the Lake Superior ports and from across Europe. Its residents depended on the nearby pits and the railroads that hauled ore to the docks at Duluth and Two Harbors, and the town's population had grown faster than its buildings. A major fire had swept through the business district, and this view, taken about two months afterward, shows how much of the commercial core was still being cleared and rebuilt. Local people would have measured the town's recovery against the steady demand for ore, which kept mining crews employed while merchants and property owners raised new frame and brick storefronts.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | dahl, e. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Minnesota |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,050 × 910 px · prints to 14 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Chisholm, Minn., Nov. 5th 1908, taken sixty days after the fire |
| Reference | MN Chisholm 60 days after fire 1908 |
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