Greetings from Duluth...
“...and Superior, Western Lake Superior’s
North & South Shores, Minnesota’s Arrowhead Country,
and Michigan’s Isle Royale.
During an Independence Day picnic on Minnesota
Point in 1866, newspaper publisher Dr. Thomas Foster (who
produced Duluth’s first paper, the Minnesotian) gave
a grand oration, during which he called Duluth the “Zenith
City of the Unsalted Seas.” It was a speech filled with
optimism; by January 1869 just fourteen families lived at
the base of Minnesota Point. The town, first officially established
in 1856, had already gone bust once. It would rise with the
help of financier Jay Cooke to once again become a city in
1871, only to go bust again a few years later. It wouldn’t
regain its status as a city until 1888.
Zenith: A Postcard Perspective of Historic Duluth
follows the Lake Superior region’s colorful history
from the last ice age to early native cultures, the Dakota
and the Ojibwe, and French and British fur traders through
to the birth of Duluth and Superior, their various boom and
bust years, the advent of the mining and lumber industries,
and on to 1939, when Enger Tower went up and the Incline Railway
came down—and when modern color photography cards replaced
the art of the hand-tinted, lithographic postcard.
Zenith: A Postcard Perspective of Historic Duluth,
brings the western Lake Superior region’s history to
colorful life through more than 475 vintage postcards and
20 historic paintings and etchings of:
• Duluth’s Waterfront: Bridges, Ships & more
• Duluth’s Boomtown Buildings
• Duluth’s Parks and Historic Landmarks
• Breathtaking Views from Skyline Parkway
• Superior’s Buildings, Parks & Landmarks
• Arrowhead Industry: Mining, Logging, Shipbuilding,
etc.
• Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park
• Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
• South Shore Towns, Rivers, Waterfalls & State
Parks
• North Shore Towns, Rivers, Waterfalls & State
Parks
Order your copy of Zenith: A
Postcard Perspective of Historic Duluth today!
Softcover edition just $19.95 plus shipping
and handling
Product code: X30-9 | secure shopping with PayPal
208 pages • 500 illustrations •
11 x 8.5 inches landscape • ISBNs 1-887317-30-9 &
978-1-887317-30-6
Limited run slip-cased
hard-cover edition!
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Order Now—Limited supply!
We printed just 350 copies of this
elegant hard-cover edition, covered with linen paper,
gold-foil stamped, and packaged in a matching slipcase.
It's endpapers are duotoned reproductions of 1883
Henry Wellge etchings of Duluth (front) and Superior,
Wisconsin (back). A must-have for any Duluth history
fan, vintage postcard enthusiast, or lover of fine
books.
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Hardcover edition just $29.95 plus shipping
and handling!
Product code: X29-5 | secure shopping with PayPal
208 pages • 500 color illustrations • 11.5 x
9 inches landscape • ISBNs 1-887317-29-5, 978-1-887317-29-0
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