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| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Hurley with insets Mining at the Colby, Hurley in 1885, and North Front of Silver Street. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Burton House, (also referred to as the Ridge House by Edna Ferber in her novel, "Come and Get It") with horse-drawn carriages in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across road toward the court house. Caption reads: "Court House, Hurley, Wis." |
| Date: | 09 18 1961 |
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| Description: | Main street of the town, shown during reconstruction for use as a motion picture set. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of the hotel across from the Mercer Supply Company. There is a small dog in the right foreground. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Benedict & Co. engineers. As shown by development to March 1st 1887. Inset: Map of northern Wisconsin showing location of range. Lands in red. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Rest Lake Dam of Manitowish River, Manitowish. Photograph taken from Vance Lake Highway (old Highway 51, now Highway W). |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Gus Savera built his service garage along Highway 77 in the mid-1940s. It was constructed out of cinder blocks and featured bright blue trim. |
| Date: | 10 03 1961 |
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| Description: | Caption on negative jacket reads, "The 20th Century Fox motion picture studio crew at work filming 'Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man,' based on Ernes... |
| Date: | 09 18 1961 |
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| Description: | Several men constructinbg a movie set in a small, downtown area. |
| Date: | 09 18 1961 |
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| Description: | View of a downtown area reconstructed for a movie location set. Several contemporary automobiles are seen in the background. Men are working on on two diff... |
| Date: | 10 03 1961 |
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| Description: | View of a downtown street, altered by 20th Century Fox motion picture studio for scenes in the movie "Young Man." For filming, local people dressed the par... |
| Date: | 03 1899 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of man wearing an overcoat and hat stands with a shovel at the far end of a snow tunnel shoveled through a tall snowbank. |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Three women hide their faces as they walk in front of State Agents after exiting their place of business during a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establi... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | View up Silver Street in Hurley. |
| Date: | 08 02 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Silver Street in Hurley at 4:30 a.m., Sunday morning, showing busy street and all establishment's lights blazing. After the sweeping raid ... |
| Date: | 07 15 1906 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the south of a crowd gathered to witness and celebrate the laying of the cornerstone of the new St. Mary of the Seven Dolors Catholic Ch... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View from street of man seated on a horse-drawn wagon on Silver Street, which is parked in front of (from left to right) Joseph Rainieri Meat Market, Egan ... |
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| Description: | Alec Nelson and his wife and two children pose in front of their house at 215 Lake Drive on Germania Hill. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Automobiles and trucks parked along Main Street in Mercer. Storefront signs on the left side read: Sweet Shop, Drug, The Store, Coffee Shop, and Rugee's Me... |
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