Duluth MN Photos and Photography from Perfect Duluth Day

Superior Street, Sept. 11, 1907, Part 3: Spalding Hotel and Surrounding Businesses

Jun 07, 2026 No Comments

This series takes a detailed look at life on Superior Street on the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1907. The first part of the series provided background details on a photograph shot that day where the street intersects Fifth Avenue West. Part three focuses on the businesses around the Spalding Hotel, including a fight with the city over on-street parking policies by a watchmaker whose pocket watches are still prized by collectors today.

History, Photos Detroit Publishing Company, Spalding Hotel

Superior Street, Sept. 11, 1907, Part 2: The Windsor Hotel and Surrounding Businesses

May 03, 2026 No Comments

This ten part series takes a detailed look at life on Superior Street on the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1907 based on a single photograph. The first part of the series provided background details on the photograph itself. Part two focuses on the bottom right corner of the photograph, relating to the contentious history between the city and the owner of the Windsor Hotel and telling the stories of the surrounding businesses.

History, Photos Detroit Publishing Company

Superior Street, Sept. 11, 1907, Part 1: Introduction

Apr 05, 2026 4 Comments

Superior Street, 1907.

The image above comes from a high resolution scan of Superior Street looking east toward Fifth Avenue West. It has been shared online many times before, including on Perfect Duluth Day. For those who have wondered about the businesses visible and half-hidden in the photo and the stories behind them, this series has some answers. Using the Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub to match photo elements with newspaper articles, it describes a maritime birth, a crooked pawn shop owner, and an ingenious inventor in its tales of both incredible wealth and stark poverty on Superior Street in 1907.

History, Photos Detroit Publishing Company

Looking out from Enger Tower circa 1965

Dec 22, 2025 No Comments

This uncredited photo shows a view of Duluth from Enger Tower looking out over Observation Hill to the downtown and waterfront. It is dated 1965.

History, Photos

Lakewalk Panorama

Dec 07, 2025 No Comments

Photos Duluth Lakewalk, Lake Superior

Selective Focus: November Aurora in the City

Nov 06, 2025 No Comments

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Northern lights were visible throughout the region last night, including areas in Duluth where excessive artificial light normally wash out the low-intensity glow of the aurora. Collected here are a few Instagram posts highlighting scenes from the night sky.

Photos Instagram, Northern Lights, Selective Focus

Selective Focus: Fall Colors 2025

Oct 03, 2025 No Comments

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The annual tradition of overloading Instagram with autumn scenery is well underway. Visit the Minnesota Department of Natural Resource’s Fall Color Finder to find areas of the state awash with fall colors.

Featured here is Perfect Duluth Day’s collection of select images from Instagram showcasing nature’s 2025 palette.

Photos Fall Colors, Instagram, Selective Focus

Duluth tourism concept art

Sep 27, 2025 No Comments

I made these dank memes.

Photos Lake Superior

Lakewalk Panorama

Sep 22, 2025 No Comments

Photos Duluth Lakewalk

Lakewalk Panoramas

Aug 25, 2025 No Comments

In which I appear in panoramic shots by Allen Richardson.

Photos Duluth Lakewalk

Lakewalk Photobomb

Jul 23, 2025 No Comments

(Photo by Allen Richardson)

Photos Duluth Lakewalk

Weird clouds on July 11

Jul 14, 2025 No Comments

Images taken over the span of a few minutes as dark rollers split off the main cloud bank like sideways funnel clouds, conflicting air masses in turbulence. (This kind of thing scared the heck out of me when I first moved here.)

Photos Lake Superior, Weather and Climate

Dollhouse City Lift Bridge

Jul 12, 2025 No Comments

Photos of the Richardson brothers Dollhouse City taken by their mommy Nell Richardson, except the last image by the Richardson brothers. Dollhouse City is a Duluth-based psychogeographical freakout representing the city and oh yeah the universe in fractal miniature. It is our joint toy collection plus the toys of my adult daughter which I never discarded, including most of the dollhouses. This three-sided collection was displayed locally at many of Sarah Heimer’s Dioramarama shows.

Art, Photos Aerial Lift Bridge, Geeky

Essentia Health campus vs. a panel from ‘Ronin’

Jun 05, 2025 2 Comments

Essentia Health campus in Duluth on Aug. 4, 2022. Steve Kuchera / Duluth News Tribune

Panel from Frank Miller’s “Ronin” as shown in the Comics Journal.

In the graphic novel Ronin, by Frank Miller, an AI named Virgo grows its organic technology over and through a dystopian New York City. As the story progresses, the city completely transforms. I wondered if I could find a photo of the expanding hospital complex that matched this comic panel.

Photos Comics and Cartoons, Essentia Health

View of Downtown Duluth from Observation Hill in 1965

May 13, 2025 2 Comments

This photo is dated 1965; photographer unknown.

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Superior Street, Sept. 11, 1907, Part 3: Spalding Hotel and Surrounding Businesses

Superior Street, Sept. 11, 1907, Part 2: The Windsor Hotel and Surrounding Businesses

Superior Street, Sept. 11, 1907, Part 1: Introduction

Looking out from Enger Tower circa 1965

Lakewalk Panorama

Selective Focus: November Aurora in the City

Selective Focus: Fall Colors 2025

Duluth tourism concept art

Lakewalk Panorama

Lakewalk Panoramas

Lakewalk Photobomb

Weird clouds on July 11

Dollhouse City Lift Bridge

Essentia Health campus vs. a panel from ‘Ronin’

View of Downtown Duluth from Observation Hill in 1965

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