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Duluth Harbor with Aerial Bridge, Duluth, MN, 1905

Subjects
Bridges & DamsTown & City ViewsWarehousesWaterfronts & Harbors
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1905 (Early)
Front of Duluth Harbor with Aerial Bridge, Duluth, MN, 1905, c. 1905 lithograph postcard
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Back of Duluth Harbor with Aerial Bridge, Duluth, MN, 1905, c. 1905 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

Looking down over rooftops and yards, the view opens onto Duluth Harbor, a broad sheet of water lined with long ore docks and warehouses. A steel transporter bridge spans the ship channel in the distance. The structure is the Aerial Bridge, completed in 1905 as a traveling gondola suspended from a truss; it carried people and vehicles across the Duluth Ship Canal and was rebuilt as a vertical-lift bridge in 1930. The harbor, nine miles long and two miles wide and entered by two canals, was a busy Great Lakes port. Its docks loaded iron ore from the Mesabi Range into lake freighters, and the caption calls it one of the most important commercial places in the world.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Friend; - In case any letters of mine come up your way kindly forward them to Roosevelt, Minn. Yours truly Erick S. Olson

PublisherRaphael Tuck & Sons
DULUTH Harbor. Printed in Germany. --- POST CARD. THE ADDRESS TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE. Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No 2418, "Duluth, Minn." ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN. DULUTH HARBOR is nine miles long and two miles wide, and is entered by two canals, one at Duluth, the other, seven miles south. The Harbor is not only very picturesque, but is one of the most important places in the world in point of commerce. It is lined with docks and warehouses, and numerous passenger and freight steamers ply its waters.
PostmarkedRoosevelt, MN, December 18, 1905, 20:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Mr. Louis J. Luscan

Mahnomen, MN

Postcard record

Postmarked, Roosevelt, MN
PublisherRaphael Tuck & Sons
ConditionGood
Place addressedMr. Louis J. Luscan, Mahnomen, MN
Place depictedDuluth Harbor, Duluth, MN
Stamp1c George Washington, green, perforated on all sides
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, perforated on all sides
NotesPrinted in Germany; handwritten message in ink across the lower front; thin white border; undivided-back era stock. Postmark: ROOSEVELT MINN. DEC 18 8 PM 1905. Undivided back ("THE ADDRESS TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE"); Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No. 2418; front marked "Printed in Germany"; light toning and edge wear.

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Duluth Harbor with Aerial Bridge, Duluth, MN, 1905, postcard, c. 1905. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/duluth-harbor-with-aerial-bridge-duluth-mn-1905. Accessed November 2, 2026.