Postcards Posts

Postcard from the Boulevard Around Duluth

This postcard of Skyline Parkway, from well before it was called Skyline Parkway, is dated July 12, 1905 — 120 years ago today. It is not clear what part of Skyline is featured in the image.

Postcard from Superior Street Looking East

This undated postcard, published by Zenith Interstate News Company, shows Superior Street in Downtown Duluth looking northeast from between Fourth and Fifth avenues west.

Postcards from North Shore Drive / State Highway No. 1

The images in this post are all touched up versions of photos from postcards for sale by eBay seller Llvintage. They appear to be circa 1925. Two depict scenes from North Shore Drive with Duluth captioned as the location, though they might have been shot outside Duluth city limits.

Postcard from the Moonlight Over Lake Superior

This postcard, unmailed and undated, shows Downtown Duluth at night, circa perhaps the 1930s.

Postcards from the Androy Hotel

Superior’s Androy Hotel opened 100 years ago today — May 15, 1925. It was advertised as the largest and only fireproof hotel in Superior.

Postcard from Lake Superior in Action at Grand Marais

Postcard from the Same Old Place in West Duluth

This postcard image, touched up a bit from an eBay listing, shows The Same Old Place tourist information center and cabins at Fairmount Park in West Duluth.

Our Home in West Duluth

This photo is dated April 19, 1910 — 115 years ago today. It shows a house with two adults standing against a wooden fence and a child sitting on the fence. The image is from a postcard with writing indicating the house was in West Duluth.

Postcard from Mining on the Range

This undated postcard shows an unidentified mine on Minnesota’s Iron Range, obviously not in Duluth despite what the caption on the front indicates. The card was published by the Souvenir Postcard Company of New York and Berlin.

Postcard from Along the Rocky Shores of Isle Royale

This undated postcard, published by E. C. Kropp Company, shows a rocky shore at Isle Royale, about 150 miles northeast of Duluth. The fourth-largest lake island in the world was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a National Park on April 3, 1940 — 85 years ago today.

Postcard from the Hotel Duluth in 1965

This postcard of the Hotel Duluth, now known as Greysolon Plaza, was mailed March 27, 1965 — 60 years ago today.

Postcard from the ‘new Alworth Building’

This postcard was mailed 115 years ago today — March 10, 1910. It shows the “new Alworth Building” at 306 W. Superior St., which was indeed new; the postcard was mailed two months before construction of the building was completed.

Postcard from the Barney B. Barstow

There isn’t a lot of information online about the Barney B. Barstow of Duluth, featured in this undated postcard published by Gallagher’s Studio of Photography. But there are a few tidbits that suggest the vessel gets its name from a Superior attorney who, according to the June 1969 issue of Maritime Reporter Magazine, was one of eight directors at Fraser Shipyards, serving as secretary.

Greetings from Duluth, Minnesota

This undated postcard, published by Gallagher’s Studio of Photography circa the 1960s, shows the Duluth Harbor from Observation Hill.

The caption on the back reads:

Duluth, Minn.
Vessels from all the world’s ports arrive here after transiting the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes.

Postcard from the Riverview Motel circa 1955

This postcard shows the Riverview Motel in West Duluth, which was replaced in the early 2000s by Westgate Townhomes.