West Duluth (Duluth, Minn.)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Manley Patrick Burns papers
Collection
Identifier: S2421
Abstract
The collection contains photographs of Duluth, primarily West Duluth, gathered from a variety of sources.
Dates:
1880-1967
Paul B. Gaylord photographs
Collection
Identifier: S2395
Abstract
The collection contains photographs and glass plate negatives of Duluth, Minnesota taken by photographer Paul Gaylord.
Dates:
1869-1875
George A. Newton photographs
Collection
Identifier: S2381
Abstract
The collection consists of cabinet cards and unmounted, primarily, albumen prints stamped with Newton's name or his advertisement. It is assumed he made the photographs.
Dates:
circa 1880-1900
Emery A. Houghton photographs
Collection
Identifier: S3796
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 36 photographs, 28 of them in an album. Subjects of the photographs include: views of Duluth, Central High School, view of West End, Duluth Imperial Mill Co., snow scenes, logging camp and lumbering scenes, buildings, Whaleback ships, Incline Railroad at 6th Avenue West, grain elevators, Park Point bathers chute, train wreck and lake vessels. Most of these images are duplicated in the General photograph collection. Many of the photographs are stamped Eclipse View...
Dates:
circa 1895-1906
Richard H. Hudelson labor history research collection
Collection
Identifier: S6143
Scope and Contents
The collections contains research materials compiled to write Dr. Hudelson's book published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2006 titled By the Ore Docks: A Working People’s History of Duluth
Dates:
1880-2006; Majority of material found in 1883-1978
International Institute, Duluth (Minn.) records
Collection
Identifier: S3014
Abstract
The collection, arranged alphabetically by subject, contains reference materials, correspondence, photographs, minutes, and bulletins.
Dates:
1926-1963
Interstate 35 oral history interviews
Collection
Identifier: S6172
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of audio and/or video recordings of individuals who were involved with planning, opposition, or design and construction of Interstate 35 (I-35) through Duluth in the 1960s through the 1990s. Interviews included discussion of associated features of the project such as the lakewalk and the rose garden.The collection also includes brief biographical information and photographs of the narrators and transcripts of the interviews. All materials are in digital format....
Dates:
2014
Albertine Johnson oral history interview
Collection
Identifier: S2319
Abstract
The collection consists of three audio recordings of interviews with Albertine Johnson. The interviewer was her son, Rudy Johnson. Interviews took place on September 7, 1977 and May 7, 1978.
Dates:
1977-1978
Joint Committee of Civic Organizations for Steel Base records
Collection
Identifier: S3016
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence,1906–1923; legal materials; news clippings, 1918–1924; and pamphlets. Legal materials include petitions and complaints to the Federal Trade Commission and miscellaneous resolutions.
Dates:
1906-1924
Lake Superior Paper Industries In Harmony videotape
Collection
Identifier: S4497
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a single videocassette. The video contains a documentary on Lake Superior Paper Industries entitled In Harmony. Besides featuring a tour through Lake Superior Paper Industries and describing the company’s product, it highlights the benefits of sound forest management. The color video is 10:38 minutes long. It was produced in March 1991, and it is in good condition.
Dates:
1991
Charles E. Lovett papers
Collection
Identifier: S3041
Abstract
The collection contains diaries, news clippings, photographs, and reference materials.
Dates:
1873-1925
Master Painters' Association records
Collection
Identifier: S4494
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of price lists for the work of professional painters for 1910, 1911, 1917. Title of each three page list is Minimum Prices for Painting, Tinting, Finishing, etc. The 1910 lists include: ceilings, new woodwork outside, old painted wordwork outside and inside, floor painting, brick or stone-new-solid measurement, old brick or stone painted, sanding, metal roofing, wall painting new-inside smooth plastered walls, graining, hardwood finishing, oil finish,...
Dates:
1910-1917
Kenneth J. Moran photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: S6060
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of images and negatives made by or collected by Kenneth Moran. To the extent possible, photographers are identified. Images, by subject, size (oversized), and photographer's names are arranged in one alphabetical sequence. Original or copy negatives are noted. Separation sheets and "see" or "see also" references direct researchers to a photographer's work held in a separate NEMHC collection.
Dates:
1900-1996; Majority of material found in 1958-1966
Morgan Park Good Fellowship Club records
Collection
Identifier: S2366
Abstract
The collection contains minutes, reports by the relief committee which visited Club members who were ill or in need of financial assistance, correspondence, files from the credit union operated by the Club, fuel deduction lists indicating individuals who participated in the Club's program for the joint purchase of heating fuel, financial records, photographs, and architectural drawings.
Dates:
1917-1962
Lyman E. Nylander photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: S2420
Abstract
The Collection consists of 5x7" and 8x10" black and white silver gelatin prints exposed and printed by Mr. Nylander. The images are primarily of Duluth street scenes, buildings, churches on the Iron Range, as well as military monuments and markers in Duluth and out East.
Dates:
1950-1972
Bert Onsgard family photographs
Collection
Identifier: S6118
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one CD containing electronic images made from photographs and newspaper clippings. It contains photos of family members, Hotel Nettleton, zoo animals, the Duluth Zoo, amusement rides, and Onsgard Printing. Included are three photos of classrooms with children in the 1950s from Longfellow and McArthur schools. Accompanying documents on the CD: Brief biographical information on Katherine Brown Onsgard Onsgard Identification Information consisting of copies...
Dates:
1898-1994
Red Cliff Lumber Company photograph album
Collection
Identifier: S4516
Scope and Contents
The album is a nearly day-by-day visual log of new construction of a mill at the Duluth waterfront, presumably at 39th Avenue West. All of the black and white 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch photographs are captioned and dated. There is one 8 x 10 inch undated, not captioned photograph. Buildings and scenes named are: machine shop, pile driving, cribs, foundation, dredge, slip, boat house, office building, RR track, dock, transformer building, bridge, as well as various view shots.
Dates:
1913 April 10-1913 December 2
Omar H. Simonds scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: S3149
Scope and Contents
The collection contains four scrapbooks.
Dates:
1889-1909
Union Match Company minutes
Collection
Identifier: S3082
Scope and Contents
The collection contains minutes of stockholders' and board of directors' meetings, January 1916-May 1924.
Dates:
1916-1923
West Duluth Centennial Committee records
Collection
Identifier: S6156
Scope and Contents
The collection contains minutes, contracts, correspondence, color snapshot photographs of the two days of events in West Duluth and at Bayfront Park, and a copy of the West Duluth Centennial Memory Book: West Duluth Duluth United for a Century 1894-1994.
Dates:
1993-1994
West Duluth Commercial Club records
Collection
Identifier: S3008
Abstract
The collection contains minutes, 1913–1933; a membership dues ledger, 1909–1916; a book of banquets, 1913–1915; correspondence, 1908–1917; and news clippings, 1898–1928.
Dates:
1898-1933
West Duluth Village Justice of the Peace records
Collection
Identifier: S3705
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a docketbook with index for April 17 – Aug. 8 1885. It also contains a Record of charters delivered to Officers from April 14th 1886 – May 19, 1887
Dates:
1885-1887
West Duluth slides
Collection
Identifier: S4522
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 127 slides on the history and development of West Duluth, including reproduced historic images and views from the 1980s likely photographed by Robert VanKleek. Included are: businesses, the Civic Center, the Oneota neighborhood, schools, hotels, stores, houses, churches, and buildings in West Duluth. The color slides are in good condition. These slides may have been used to illustrate public presentations by VanKleek on the history of West Duluth. The text...
Dates:
circa 1870-1990
William E. Wickstrom papers
Collection
Identifier: S4509
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 14 photographs of Dr. William WIckstrom’s family and John and Maria Wickstrom’s friends, as well as a written transcript of an interview by Dr. Richard Hudelson narrated by Dr. William Wickstrom about local labor history and the Carneys. The interview is not recorded on cassette and is nine pages of Dr. Richard Hudelson's written notes. The interview took place on September 24, 1991, and is about the Scandinavian Socialist Local from 1917-1923. The...
Dates:
1913-1918
Zinsmaster Baking Company records
Collection
Identifier: S6041
Scope and Contents
The collection contains four scrapbook volumes of newspaper clippings of company advertisements, bread industry advertisements, and related newspaper stories on Zinsmaster and its competitors (1919-1934). There are also black and white 8x10 photographs of the silver trophy and four wrapped loaves of Zinsmaster's bread (March 22, 1925), Duluth Zinsmaster Co. open house at the plant, one colored architect’s rendering of Zinsmaster plant (11X14), and one original architectural ink drawing of the...
Dates:
1919-1977; Majority of material found in 1919-1934
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