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| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a man sitting on the steps of Town Hall. The Catholic church is in the background. Caption reads: "Town Hall and Church, La P... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Inn on shoreline of Lake Superior, taken from end of dock. The Old Mission Inn was razed in 1965. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "New Court House, Ashland, Wis." The Neoclassical courthouse was built in 1915 of limestone. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Beaser Avenue School, built in 1899 of brick and brownstone in the Richardson Romanesque style. In the background are dwellings and a church building. ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Front view of the four story high school with a tower above the the entrance. Caption reads: "High School, Ashland, Wis." |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | This building was named the Knight Block and contained retail on the first floor, business offices on the second floor and the Knight Hotel on the third, f... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Soo Line Depot, Ashland, Wis." It was built in 1890 of brownstone in the Richardson Romanesque style. Pedestrians stand on the platform of ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Mammoth Ore Docks, Ashland, Wis." A building and roads are in the foreground. Several ore ships can be seen. |
| Date: | 04 30 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Second Street, Looking East, Ashland, Wis." An unpaved street with two sets of streetcar tracks in the center. Buildings, storefronts... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "St. Joseph's Hospital, Ashland, Wis." Front facade and grounds of the four-story, red brick hospital built in 1905. The basement level is b... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of Second Street, with an automobile on the street, two sets of streetcar tracks, pedestrians on the sidewalk, and a large brick bui... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of Main Street when it was a dirt road. A church is in the background, and telephone poles are along the left side of the road. A streetlight is hangi... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Old Mission Congregational Church. The church was built in 1832 for a mission founded by Frederick Ayer in 1830. It is said to be the o... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The interior of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. It was built in 1841 by Father Frederick Baraga (later Bishop), who established his mission in 1835. A small ... |
| Date: | 09 29 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the Butternut Lake Hotel. The road, fence, trees and screened gazebo are in the center. A man is standing among the trees nea... |
| Date: | 05 29 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of Butternut Lake in the spring, with a pier and latticed boathouse. The opposite shore has trees and foliage. Text below reads: "Spring... |
| Date: | 02 12 1912 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the one-story, white First Methodist Church with double door entrance. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the main facade — white stone and red roof — of the Saron Lutheran Church. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of St. Agnes Church, on the left, and school, on the right. Cars line the street along Lake Shore Drive in front of the buildings. |
| Date: | 07 26 1907 |
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| Description: | Front facade of the three-story brick U.S. Post Office with bell tower. An American flag is flying above the building. Three men are standing next to a tel... |
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