Aerial Lift Bridge: Aerial View of Duluth and Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota
This aerial view is one of many taken by Wayne Gatlin. The shape of Minnesota Point and the harbor are clear. Duluth-born Mr. Gatlin enlisted in the aviation cadet program in 1942. Later he flew 55 combat missions for the 360th Fighter Group in England and downed an ME-262 jet fighter. In 1948, he joined the Texas Air National Guard but eventually transferred to Duluth, where he became operations officer for the 179th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. Gatlin flew jet fighters while stationed at Duluth during the Korean War. He was the high individual scorer at the 1954, 1955 and 1956 [...]
Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Minnesota Point, Harbor, Rice’s Point and St. Louis Bay, Duluth, Minnesota
The aerial lift bridge is owned and operated by the City of Duluth on Congressional permit. The Ship Canal and grounds are under the authority of the Lake Superior Area Office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Minnesota Point, also called Park Point, is a well-known Duluth neighborhood that has a population of about 1,500; it is a major year-round recreational area with beaches and an airport. You can see the light edge of the sand beach parallel to the edge of the photograph. Minnesota Point is located at the western tip of Lake Superior, at the mouth of [...]
Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Minnesota Point, Harbor, Rice’s Point and St. Louis Bay
The aerial lift bridge is owned and operated by the City of Duluth on Congressional permit. The Ship Canal and grounds are under the authority of the Lake Superior Area Office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Minnesota Point, also called Park Point, is a well-known Duluth neighborhood that has a population of about 1,500; it is a major year-round recreational area with beaches and an airport. You can see the light edge of the sand beach parallel to the edge of the photograph. Minnesota Point is located at the western tip of Lake Superior, at the mouth of [...]
Aerial Lift Bridge: View of Duluth Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota
View of the harbor from above, possibly from Skyline Drive. The long, low Northern Pacific Railroad freight sheds are between Minnesota and Industrial slips. A laker is in Minnesota Slip. The coal dock area will be the construction site for the Duluth Arena Auditorium in 1963. Hearding Island is off Minnesota Point in the harbor. The island is the uninhabited site that has been called Bird Island by Park Point residents and Harbor Island by Duluth Bird Club members. The name Hearding Island is for William Hellins Hearding (England, 1826-1893, Milwaukee) who surveyed the Duluth-Superior harbor in 1861 as assigned [...]
Horace S. Wilkinson at Ore Docks, Two Harbors, Minnesota
Great Lakes freighter Horace S. Wilkinson near ore dock ready for loading. ~ Photo Credit: University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Twentieth Avenue west hillside houses, Duluth, Minnesota
view from second street to St. Louis bay; Rice's Point; houses between eighteen and twentieth avenue west; people ~ Photo Credit: University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Whaleback 101 under construction, Duluth, Minnesota
Stern of whaleback 101 under construction at McDougall shipyard at Rice's Point; workers; grain elevator C in background ~ Photo Credit: University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Whaleback launch in shipyard, Duluth, Minnesota
Whaleback barge 101 launching in Rice's Point shipyard about 400 Garfield avenue; bystanders; Adams school; hillside houses and businesses ~ Photo Credit: University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View in Duluth from Rice’s Point on Garfield Avenue, Duluth, Minnesota
This photograph by Paul B. Gaylord, taken from the Duluth hillside, shows Rice's Point, Garfield Avenue, and the harbor ca. 1885. ~ Photo Credit: Duluth Public Library
Looking South down Garfield Avenue to the First Presbyterian Church and Railroad Roundhouse, Duluth, Minnesota
This photograph by Paul B. Gaylord from the 1880s or early 1890s looks to the south from Duluth's hillside to Rice's Point and shows the 1871 railroad roundhouse to the east of Garfield Avenue and the steeple of Second Presbyterian Church at 1515 West Superior Street. ~ Photo Credit: Duluth Public Library