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Great Northern Grain Elevator
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The steel and reinforced concrete grain elevator built by the Great Northern Railroad at Superior about 1900. This contemporary photograph was taken to accompany the elevator's nomination to the national Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). On the left is annex 3, with annex 1 on the right, both of which were built during the 1920s. Freight cars of the Canadian National Railroad can be seen to the right near the conveyor line, as Canadian oats were the primary use of the elevator at the time this photograph was taken.
1997
Lowe, Jet (photographer)
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WHi 25083
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Great Northern Elevator "S" Annex
1907
Text on front reads: "Great Northern Elevator, Superior, Wis." The steel and reinforced concrete grain elevator was built by the Great Northern Railroad in Superior in 1898. At the time it was the ...
Cargill Elevators and Great Northern Yards
Cargill Elevators and Great Northern Yards. Caption reads: "Cargill Elevators and Great Northern Yards, Superior, Wis."
Great Northern Elevator
1932
Text on front reads: "G.N. Elevator, Superior, Wis." The steel and reinforced concrete grain elevator was built by the Great Northern Railroad in Superior in 1898. At the time it was the largest gr...
Great Northern Grain Elevator
1910
Caption reads: "The Great Northern. One of the largest Elevators in the World, Superior, Wis."
Long Line of Grain Elevators in Canada
November 22, 1927
A long line of grain elevators are behind railroad tracks. Railroad cars are sitting on the tracks.
