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Duluth Harbor with the aerial lift bridge, Duluth, Minnesota, circa 1910

Subjects
Bridges & DamsTown & City ViewsWaterfronts & Harbors
Card type
Lithograph
Date
Postmarked December 18, 1908 (Golden Age)
Front of Duluth Harbor with the aerial lift bridge, Duluth, Minnesota, circa 1910, 1908 lithograph postcard
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Back of Duluth Harbor with the aerial lift bridge, Duluth, Minnesota, circa 1910, 1908 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

A high vantage looks down over the rooftops and yards of a lakeside town toward a broad harbor, where long ore docks and warehouses line the water and a steel transporter bridge spans the ship channel in the distance. The card labels the scene "DULUTH Harbor." The structure shown is the Aerial Lift Bridge of 1905, originally built as a transporter bridge carrying a suspended gondola across the Duluth Ship Canal; it was rebuilt as a vertical-lift bridge in 1930. The long timber docks visible along the water were used to load iron ore from the Mesabi Range into lake freighters.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Friend; - Should 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, 1908, 20:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Louis J. Kuehn

Makency, MN

Postcard record

Postmarked, Roosevelt, MN
PublisherRaphael Tuck & Sons
ConditionGood
Place addressedLouis J. Kuehn, Makency, MN
Place depictedDuluth Harbor, Duluth, MN
Stamp1c George Washington, 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 1908. 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 the aerial lift bridge, Duluth, Minnesota, circa 1910, postcard, n.d.. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/duluth-harbor-with-the-aerial-lift-bridge-duluth-minnesota-c. Accessed October 25, 2026.