Postcards from Duluth’s ore docks
Duluth’s first ore dock was built in 1893, just east of 34th Avenue West. The Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway built several docks there for loading iron ore from the Iron Range for shipment to steel plants in the East. The first five docks were built of wood, which was gradually replaced by steel and concrete.
Postcard text: “Sixty percent of the iron ore mined in the United States comes from the great Minnesota iron ranges just north of Duluth. This ore is brought by rail to the Duluth harbor, where it is transferred to awaiting freighters for shipment to lower lake ports.”
Message to Mr. & Mrs. R.J. Johnson of Des Moines, Iowa, postmarked Aug. 7, 1941:
The first card made me curious about the word “aeroplane,” which I see nowadays is found in British English and not American.
Here’s a chart of “aeroplane” vs. “airplane” use in American English books over the years, according to Google. Looks like there were a lot of mentions of airplanes about 1943.
Do they have a similar chart for skimobile?
Postcard text: This view is at the Missabe Ore Docks at Duluth, Minn. The freighter Horace Johnson is getting ready to load iron ore, and then will proceed to the steel mills in the lower lake ports. Photo by Red Peterson.
Message to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kane and family of Cedar Radids, Iowa, postmarked July 17, 1957: