Detroit Publishing Company

While watching Lost Duluth 2 on WDSE-TV (great show!), I wanted to pass along some awesome old photos that have been scanned in very high resolution and submitted to the wonderful archive site shorpy.com. Anyone who likes looking at good historic photos of Duluth will love these large images. Most of these were taken in 1905 and were published by the Detroit Publishing Co. using glass negatives.
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Here is a really neat photo looking back into the history of Duluth. The first version of our beloved Lift Bridge didn’t really lift at all. It initially was built in 1905 as a very rare transporter bridge.  It wasn’t until 1930 that it was converted into the form we know today.

Aerial Bridge: 1908 [Shorpy.com]

I’m not sure if we’ve ever discussed photos from this site on PDD before, but the vintage photography blog Shorpy just posted some new old shots of Duluth from 1905. There are a few more Duluth photos back in the archives as well, which I dug out for you. Check ’em out:

• Duluth Incline Railway: 1905 (pictured above)
• Duluth, 1905
• Duluth, cont’d 1905
• Strange Span: 1905 (construction of the Aerial Lift Bridge opening of the Aerial Transfer Bridge)
• Fitger Conetops (circa 1960. This shot is upside-down for some reason)
• Mom, 1956
• When Men Were Men and Moose Were Dead