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Split Rock Lighthouse
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Oversized "Colortone" postcard view across water towards the Split Rock Lighthouse from the waterline, looking up the bluffs, with other buildings along the left. Postcard caption reads: "X-501 — Split Rock Lighthouse on North Shore of Lake Superior. The rugged beauty of Lake Superior's north shore — stretching 150 miles from Duluth to the Canadian border — is world famous. This scenic highway unfolds a thrilling ever-changing panorama of primitive forests, rushing streams, hills and shore line. Picturesque Split Rock Lighthouse, aids Great Lakes navigators approaching the Duluth Harbor and warns them of the dangers of this rocky promontory."
Curt Teich & Co.
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Split Rock Lighthouse
View along rocky shoreline toward the lighthouse. Caption reads: "Split Rock Lighthouse on north shore of Lake Superior."
Wind Point Lighthouse
"Colortone" postcard view of the Wind Point Lighthouse, along with two other buildings. A fence surrounds the buildings, and in the distance a steamship is on Lake Michigan. Caption reads: "Wind Po...
The Twin Ports, Superior, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota
1915
Bird's-eye view of Superior, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota on opposite shore of Lake Superior.
Map of Duluth (Minnesota) and Superior (Wisconsin) showing lines of the Duluth Street Railway Company
1911
This map of Duluth and Superior shows street car routes, railroads and railroad stations, ferries, parks, lighthouses, clubs, schools, mills, and other points of interest. The bottom left of the ma...
Rugged Shore of Stockton Island
circa 1910-1919
Photographic postcard of the rock formations on the shore of Stockton Island, one of the twenty-one islands comprising the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior.
Minnesota Point Light House
1897
Long view of the Minnesota Point lighthouse, built at the entrance to Superior Harbor. It is allegedly the first lighthouse at the head of Lake Superior.
