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R.L. Polk & Co.'s Directory Map of the City of Ashland, Wisconsin

Date: 1888
Description: This map shows wards and includes the Chequamegon Bay and Washburn. An inset map shows the Ashland region, its railroads, and a few of its iron mines.
Map or Atlas

City of Ashland

Date: 1900
Description: This map is shows land in white and water in blue and is indexed for parks, points of interest, schools, churches, and recreational areas. The map shows lo...
Map or Atlas

Map of Ashland, Ashland Co., Wis.

Date: 1924
Description: This map is pen, pencil, and watercolor on paper and shows land ownership by name, local streets, railroads, and part of Chequamegon Bay. The map includes ...
Map or Atlas

Ashland, Wis.

Date: 1900
Description: This map is pencil and ink on tracing cloth and shows local streets, railroads, harbor line, and part of Chequamegon Bay.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Ashland

Date: 06 1923
Description: A Sanborn map of Ashland.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Ashland

Date: 06 1923
Description: Sanborn map of Ashland, which includes Chequamegon Bay.
Photograph

Ashland Pier

Date: 09 14 1962
Description: View from pier, lined with rocks, towards town. There are industrial buildings along the shoreline, and up a small rise is a building with a tower, and on ...
Photograph

Ashland Pier

Date: 09 14 1962
Description: View across water towards jetty and dock, with three lampposts, from south east.
Photograph

Female Students of Northland College

Date: 
Description: Outdoor group portrait of seven female students at Northland College. A few of the women are holding donuts, and a woman in the center is getting ready to ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Ashland County, Wisconsin, and Portions of Ontonagon County, Mich., Gogebic County, Mich. and Lincoln County, Wis., Showing the Mining Districts

Date: 1985
Description: This map shows mining, White River, Silver Creek, Bad River, Agogic Lake, Chequamegon Bay, smaller lakes, the Bad River Indian Reservation, and communities...
Photograph

Portaging by White River

Date: 
Description: Man sitting at the aft of a canoe in a wooded river area. There is an outboard motor leaning against a tree in the center of the image. Handwritten text ca...
Photograph

Ore Boat

Date: 1935
Description: Aerial view of crew members standing and sitting on the deck of the ore boat Captain Thomas Wilson in Ashland harbor.
Postcard

Loading Freighters

Date: 1935
Description: View from shoreline towards three ore boats at the Soo Line Railroad dock being loaded with iron ore. The first in line is the William B. Pilkey.
Photograph

White River Bridge

Date: 1895
Description: Stereograph of the side cliff view of the railroad White River bridge, showing the support beams and river underneath. It is six miles south of Ashland. Th...
Photograph

Unidentified Couple

Date: 06 19 1890
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman and man posing together. The man is sitting in a chair holding a hat and an umbrella. The woman i...
Postcard

Old Faithful Spring, Prentice Park, Ashland, Wisconsin

Date: 1930
Description: A child is holding out a bowl to a pillar from which water is cascading down into a spring. In the background, two other children are walking up a dirt pat...
Photograph

Precarious Perch

Date: 1978
Description: A girl is riding her bike through a puddle created by melting snow. She is holding her feet up off the pedals, away from the splashing water.
Photograph

Copper Falls

Date: 1950
Description: Copper Falls plunging over rocks on the Bad River in Copper Falls State Park.
Photograph

Dogsled Team

Date: 1978
Description: A musher on a dogsled with 10 dogs pulling in tandem. This is a race because he is wearing a number. Low hills with trees are in the background.

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