File:Aerial transfer bridge (ferry), Duluth, Minnesota, ca.1920 (CHS-5034).jpg

Summary

Aerial transfer bridge (ferry), Duluth, Minnesota, ca.1920

Photograph of the aerial transfer bridge (ferry), at Duluth, Minnesota, ca.1920. The bridge stands several stories tall and was built to ferry people from one side of the canal to the other. In the middle of the metal truss bridge, suspended from a moving metal under-carriage, is the ferry car that transports passengers. People can be seen waiting on the right side of the canal, near a building. On the left side of the lake are a few buildings and houses. In the foreground, there is a pier-like walkway.; "Completed in 1905, Duluth's new Aerial Transfer Bridge carried up to 62-1/2 tons including automobiles, horses and wagons, and pedestrian traffic. It took 5 cents and about one minute to transit the 300-foot wide ship canal one way, and a crossing was made about every 5 minutes when demand was heavy. Two 40 horsepower electric motors beneath the suspended car or 'gondola' pulled cables which moved it from side to side while hanging from tracks mounted on the fixed truss overhead. In the event of a power failure, the motorman could hand-power the gondola across the canal." -- unknown author.

Call number: CHS-5034

Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946

Filename: CHS-5034

Coverage date: circa 1920

Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Format: glass plate negatives

Type: images

Geographic subject (city or populated place): Duluth

Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections

Accession number: 5034

Microfiche number: 1-57-; 1-121-22

Archival file: chs_Volume79/CHS-5034.tiff

Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960

Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Geographic subject (country): USA

Format (aacr2): 2 photograph : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.

Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California

Subject (adlf): transportation features

Project: USC

Repository email: specol@usc.edu

Contributing entity: California Historical Society

Date created: circa 1920

Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries

Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs

Geographic subject (state): Minnesota

Legacy record ID: chs-m12638; USC-1-1-1-12792

Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.

Subject (file heading): Transportation -- Water -- Ferries; General Subjects -- Transportation -- Water

Subject (lcsh): Ferries; Lakes

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