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West Duluth (Duluth, Minn.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Manley Patrick Burns papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
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 — Multiple Containers
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 — Box SC
Identifier: S3796
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1895-1906

Richard H. Hudelson labor history research collection

 Collection
Identifier: S6143
Abstract

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 — Multiple Containers
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
Abstract

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. The collection also includes brief biographical information and photographs of the narrators and transcripts of the interviews.

Dates: 2014

Albertine Johnson oral history interview

 Collection — Item tapes
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 — Box VHS
Identifier: S4497
Abstract

The collection consists of a single videocassette. The video contains a documentary on Lake Superior Paper Industries entitled In Harmony.

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 — Box SC
Identifier: S4494
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1910-1917

Kenneth J. Moran photograph collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S6060
Abstract

The collection consists of images and negatives made by or collected by Kenneth Moran.

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 — Box Oversize
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 — Box CD
Identifier: S6118
Abstract

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. The CD also includes some accompanying documents.

Dates: 1898-1994

Red Cliff Lumber Company photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: S4516
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1913 April 10-1913 December 2

Omar H. Simonds scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: S3149
Abstract

The collection contains four scrapbooks.

Dates: 1889-1909

Union Match Company minutes

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S3082
Abstract

The collection contains minutes of stockholders' and board of directors' meetings, January 1916-May 1924.

Dates: 1916-1923

West Duluth Centennial Committee records

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S6156
Abstract

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 — Multiple Containers
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 — Box 1
Identifier: S3705
Abstract

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 — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S4522
Abstract

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. These slides may have been used to illustrate public presentations by VanKleek on the history of West Duluth.

Dates: circa 1870-1990

William E. Wickstrom papers

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S4509
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1913-1918

Zinsmaster Baking Company records

 Collection — Item IP items on shelf
Identifier: S6041
Abstract 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), one original architectural ink drawing of the...
Dates: 1919-1977; Majority of material found in 1919-1934