Minnesota and International Railway trestle bridge bent with sway brace and cross brace. Photo by Debra Kellner, ca. 2013. From the photograph collection of the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office, St. Paul (inventory number BL-BKC-012). Public domain.
Minnesota and International Railway trestle bridge facing southwest. Photograph by Debra Kellner, ca. 2013. From the photograph collection of the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office, St. Paul (inventory number BL-BKC-012). Public domain.
Minnesota and International Railway trestle bridge, facing southeast. Photograph by Debra Kellner, ca. 2013. From the photograph collection of the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office, St. Paul (inventory number BL-BKC-012). Public domain.
The Minnesota and International railway trestle bridge at Blackduck is historically significant for its method of construction and the length of timber required to span Coburn Creek and the surrounding marsh. It is the longest bridge on the former Minnesota & International Railway (M & I) and widely recognized as the railway’s most difficult bridge-building project.
The General John Newton prior to her decommission by the Coast Guard, ca. 1958. Photographer likely the US Army Corps of Engineers but not noted on the University of Minnesota's record of this image.
University of Minnesota professor Frank M. "Doc" Whiting brought a unique type of theater entertainment to the Twin Cities with the opening of the Minnesota Centennial Showboat in 1958. For more than fifty years the showboat presented a variety of student theater productions, from melodrama to Shakespeare, in a floating venue on the Mississippi River.
The new Minnesota Centennial Showboat moored at Harriet Island Regional Park, St. Paul, 2014. Viewed across the Mississippi River from Upper Landing Park. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user McGhiever; shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-share Alike 4.0 International license.
The Minnesota Centennial Showboat being towed to a performance site on the Mississippi River, 1965. Photograph by the University of Minnesota Photographic Laboratory.