Photograph

Looking landward

Duluth, Minnesota · December 1870

What the picture shows

The shoreline, the wooden town, and the hillside behind it, with the lake in the foreground of the photograph.

Documented context

The Library of Congress dates the item December 1870, published about 1871. A photograph of the young city on its hill, not the 1883 bird’s-eye lithograph.

Photographer: Caswell & Davy, named on the sheet
Source: Library of Congress panoramic photographs, LCCN 2007662356. The published sheet is titled “A View of Duluth, Minnesota. Looking landward. Taken December, 1870.” A small map of the head of Lake Superior is printed on the same sheet. It was not cropped off.
License: Public domain.

SCARCE connections

Views · Duluth lithograph, 1883 — a drawing

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