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Airplane View of Grain Elevators, Lift Bridge and Duluth Harbor

Jul 14, 2020 No Comments

This undated postcard from Zenith Interstate News Company offers a view of grain elevator’s on Rice’s Point, the Duluth-Superior Harbor, Aerial Lift Bridge and other waterfront locations.

The caption on the back reads:

Duluth-Superior Harbor ranks second in the world, second only to New York City in tonnage handled annually. More than ten thousand vessels arrive and depart annually from the Duluth-Superior Harbor. In this picture you see featured part of the great grain elevators and docks in the harbor. There are also the world’s largest iron ore and coal docks in this magnificent harbor.

History Aerial Lift Bridge, Duluth Harbor and Waterfront, Postcards, Rice's Point, Zenith Interstate News Company

Postcard from Duluth’s Waterfront

Apr 08, 2020 No Comments

This undated postcard, published by Zenith Interstate Company of Duluth, with Plastichrome by Colourpicture Publishers of Boston, appears to be circa the early 1960s.

The caption on the back reads:

A Panoramic View of Duluth, Minnesota
The Harbor at Duluth-Superior is the second largest harbor in the world in total tonnage handled annually. More than 10,000 ships arrive and depart annually from the Duluth-Superior Harbor.

History Great Lakes Ships and Shipping Industry, Postcards, Zenith Interstate News Company

Postcard from West Superior Street

Aug 07, 2019 3 Comments

This undated postcard from Zenith Interstate News Company has a very 1960s look to it. The image shows businesses and traffic on the 400 block of West Superior Street in Downtown Duluth, looking northeast.

Postcards from Duluth’s Shipping Canal

Jun 19, 2019 No Comments

There are a bazillion postcards of the Aerial Lift Bridge and various ships, but in this post the aim is to steer attention more to the shipping canal.

Postcards from Silver Creek Cliff

Dec 26, 2018 3 Comments

Before the Silver Creek Cliff Tunnel was built in the early 1990s, Highway 61 wound around the edge of the cliff. Drivers relied on skill and luck to avoid tumbling boulders or anything that might send them plunging over the edge into Lake Superior. The Gitchi-Gami State Trail was later built following the old Highway 61 path.

Postcard from the College of St. Scholastica, 1948

Aug 04, 2018 No Comments

This postcard was mailed Aug. 4, 1948.

Postcard from Skyline Drive at Night

Apr 02, 2018 1 Comment

This postcard image looking out from Skyline Drive at the city’s hillside, downtown, Aerial Lift Bridge, Minnesota Point, Lake Superior and so on has been used a few times as Perfect Duluth Day’s cover photo on Facebook, and more than once has been met with the question, “Who did this painting?” The answer is, we don’t know. Old postcards rarely credit the artist. But maybe someone out there knows.

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