Taconite Amendment bumper sticker, 1964. To promote a “yes” vote on the taconite amendment to rewrite the tax structure that affected taconite operations, advocates made bumper stickers to advertise their cause.
Taconite Harbor, 1956. Taconite Harbor was built to ship ore mined and processed at Erie Mining Company in Hoyt Lakes to steel mills on the Great Lakes. Concentrated ore was shipped from Hoyt Lakes to Taconite Harbor on a private railroad.
Taconite prospectors at Sulphur Camp, ca. 1916. To access Sulphur Camp, prospectors would have to take a rail cart, pictured here, from Mesaba Station. Seated to the far left is E. W. Davis.