Duluth Denfeld Class of 1961 - Photos of Duluth Pre 1940
Pictures in Gallery: 238
Over 24 pages of photos were lost. Although I have the photo's on file I do not have the dates, sources or appropriate narratives. We will start this section over and I will try to do a few a week with the necessary information and sources.
Duluth Masonic Temple corner stone was laid in 1904 at 4 West Second Street (Lake Ave. & 2nd. st) Â The temple is still used today minus the domes which were removed in about 1940. Hugh McKenzie Ph...
1870 City of Duluth council approves 50,000 dollars in bonds to dig the ship canal through MN. Point. This is a picture of bond # 90 of the 100 bonds sold in 500 dollar amounts. Z...
Fur Post reconstruction located in Chambers Grove at 133 Ave. West and Superior St. in 1935. Â Fond Du Lac post card image. Short lived and slowly went to ruin. Zenith Web Site
Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad was completed in 1870. This is the first freight depot located at the base of Third Ave. East. MN Historical Society Image
Duluth Kelleys were the first National Football League team from Duluth their major supporter was Kelley Duluth Hardware in 1923.  In 1926 Ernie Nevers joined the team and renamed it the  Duluth ...
Actor Tommy Cook was born in Duluth in 1930 and spent the first 6 years of his life here. Went on to California and became the actor Little Beaver in the 12 part series 'The Adventures of Red...
Picture of Merritts & Elys. Merritts arrived in Duluth in 1855, and along with the Elys surveyed Oneota in 1856 currently close to 42nd ave. West. Oneota is an Ojibwe word meaning ' the rock ...
Original Sacred Heart Catholic Church, located at 201 W. Fourth St., burned down in 1892. The wood structure was replaced by a brick building at the same site named the Sacred Heart Cathedral. &nbs...
First Wave of Swedish immigrants land in Duluth June 1869 from the steamer Norman. Recruited to build the Northern Pacific Railroad. Some of the recruits were families. The NP Railroad built ...
Duluth made a post card of its lynching of innocent men in June 1920. The details of this atrocity are to complex to state here. Please go to the Zenith Web site for the complete story
