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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: | 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: | 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: | 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 ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View looking at the automobiles parked in front of the stores along Main Street. Storefront signs on the left say: Mercer Auto Company, Mercer Garage, Good... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View looking at automobiles and storefronts down one side of Main Street. On the left corner is the downtown gas station with a sign for Firestone. Other s... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Elevated view overlooking Mercer. Roads, trees and buildings are visible. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View looking down Main Street showing automobiles, light poles, and storefronts. Signs are visible for the "Drugstore" and "The Store." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View of sixteen men members of the Montreal Fireman's Association, most wearing uniforms and hats, next to an early fire truck. |
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