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Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company

 Organization

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway Company land books

 Collection
Identifier: S3100
Abstract

The collection contains three land books containing land locations, land and timber sales information, deed dates and records of land payments of the properties held by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway.

Dates: 1883-1943; Majority of material found in 1883-1900, 1913-1943

Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company illustrated calendars

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: S2403
Abstract

The collection contains illustrated calendars issued by the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company.

Dates: 1978-1987

Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railway records

 Collection — Box 1 IP
Identifier: S3776
Abstract

The collection contains photographs, slides, and negatives, 1901-1954; Weekly Activity Letters to the Board of Directors from the General Manager, 1949-1980; speeches by General Manager Fred Voss, 1954-1961; and a small amount of Duluth, Missabe, and Northern employee information, primarily car shop employees, 1894-1902.

Dates: 1894-1980

Endion on the Move videotape

 Collection
Identifier: S3789
Abstract

The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway depot, the Endion Station, located at 1504 South Street, Duluth, was relocated in the summer of 1986 to the area of waterfront development called the Corner of the Lake. This video is the raw footage of the relocation of the building from its original site to the Corner of the Lake area near Canal Park.

Dates: 1986 June

Merritt family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3120
Abstract

The collection contains personal and financial correspondence, letterpress books, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, manuscripts written about local and family history, financial records, legal papers, maps, photographs, one audio cassette of an interview, and reference materials.

Dates: 1823-1992

A Railroad in Change transcript

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S2340
Abstract

The collection consists of the transcript of a slide lecture, which described the history of the Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Railroad and the predominant role it played in the development of the Vermilion and Mesabi Ranges; the eventual decline of red ores; and the growth of the taconite pellet industry in Minnesota.

Dates: 1979

Railroad Maps and Drawings

 Collection
Identifier: S3739
Abstract

Maps and drawings relating to Duluth & Iron Range Railroad, and Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railroad.

Dates: 1892-1920

Zweifel-Roleff Studio photograph collection for DM&IR and Oliver Iron Mining

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: S3744
Abstract

The collection consists exclusively of negatives. The nearly 1000 negatives cover the dates 1942-1954 and were apparently made for the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range railroad and the Oliver Iron Mining Co.

Dates: 1942-1954

Additional filters:

Subject
Railroads 7
Iron mines and mining 4
DM&IR 3
Iron ranges 3
Iron ranges--Minnesota 3