Historic Color Lithographic Images of Arrowhead Industry

Scroll down for a list of images of iron mines and mining, the logging and lumber industry; ore docks, coal docks, grain elevators, lumber and flour mills, shipbuilding, and commercial fishing villages. If you are looking for something specific, please contact us by phoning 218-310-6541.

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Commercial Fishing
North Shore Fishing Villages

Iron Mining

Vermillion Range:
Ely Shaft House
Vermilion Shaft house
DM&IRR 3 Spot
DM&IRR diesel eng.
DM&IRR diesel train
DM&IRR Camp Francis

Mesabi Range
Buffalo-Susquehana
Hull Rust
Hull-Rust Sellers
Hull Rust Mahoning
Mahoning
Commodore
Mesabi Mt.
Norman
Hemitite
Shafthouse, Eveleth
Spruce Mine, Eveleth
Mountain Iron mine

Underground Mining
Cage descend
Blasting fuses
Drilling
Driving drift
Top slice method
Men Shoveling
Electric train
Crew
Shaft house

Surface/Strip Mining
Strip Mining
Overburden
Shoveling, Steam
Shoveling, loading train
Shoveling, electric

Misc.
Prospecting for Ore
Crushing House

Ore Docks
Duluth
Two Harbors
Superior
Loading Ore Boats
Loading Whalebacks

Grain Trade
Grain Elevators (Duluth & Superior)
Flour Mills (Duluth & Superior)

Coal Docks
Duluth
Superior

Logging/Lumber Industry
Lumberjacks
Lumber Camp Life
Lumber Mills
Lumber Trains