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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Superior Shipyards showing steamers "Moran", "Northwest" and "Northland. Caption reads: "Ship Yards — McDougall Whaleback. West Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of Tower Avenue, looking north. A drugstore is on the corner (right), as well as an auto parts store. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An early view of the Richard Ira Bong Memorial - a P-38, although not a plane that Bong himself flew. The plane was acquired from the Air Force by the loca... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Elvated view of war hero Richard Ira Bong (center, in flight jacket) on leave in Poplar, with friends, relatives, and admirers. The group is walking down a... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Superior. "The New Steel Center." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Superior, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota on opposite shore of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 09 10 1939 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards the Central Avenue depot and the railroad crossing. |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | The steel and reinforced concrete grain elevator built by the Great Northern Railroad at Superior about 1900. This contemporary photograph was taken to acc... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of bridge and Brule River monument. Placed where the Brule River is crossed by the Memorial Highway from Superior to Brule and Ashland (Highway 2). |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Aerial bridge and harbor, with a large boat passing underneath. A lamppost and a beacon are along the walkway towards the bridge on the left. Caption reads... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across street toward the Courthouse and Post Office. Caption reads: "U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of Tower Avenue at 13th Street. A furniture store and a hotel are along the left side of the street. Caption reads: "Tower Avenue at 13th Street, Supe... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Tower Avenue. Caption reads: "Tower Avenue, Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk looking across Tower Avenue. A theater is in the right foreground, a furniture store is located on the left side of the street and a sho... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View across street toward the Superior Hotel on a street corner. Caption reads: "Superior Hotel, Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | View of a stockade and blockhouse replica built on the site of the original stockade erected in 1862 during a small Sioux Indian uprising in nearby Minneso... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the main building of the Superior State Teachers' College. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Young Men's Christian Association building on a street corner. Caption reads: "Y. M. C. A. Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the harbor. Caption reads: "The Harbor, Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from road toward the dormitory. Caption reads: "Dormitory at State Normal, Superior, Wis." |
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