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Ashland County Court House

Date: 1930
Description: Text on front reads: "New Court House, Ashland, Wis." The Neoclassical courthouse was built in 1915 of limestone.
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Beaser Avenue School

Date: 1910
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. ...
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High School

Date: 1900
Description: Front view of the four story high school with a tower above the the entrance. Caption reads: "High School, Ashland, Wis."
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Knight Hotel

Date: 1907
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...
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Soo Line Depot

Date: 1907
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 ...
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Wheeler Hall

Date: 1930
Description: Wheeler Hall at Northland College, a three story building with basement and attic. Built in 1893 of red brick and brownstone in the Romanesque Revival styl...
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Memorial Hall

Date: 1930
Description: Memorial Hall at Northland College was built in 1926 of brick in the Tudor Revival style.
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Wheeler Hall

Date: 1930
Description: Wheeler Hall at Northland College, a three story building with basement and attic, surrounded by trees. Built in 1893 of red brick and brownstone in the Ro...
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Dill Hall

Date: 1925
Description: Dill Hall, a women's dormitory at Northland College. A clapboard building with wooden shingles, it caught fire in 1926 and was totally destroyed within a h...
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Ore Docks

Date: 1920
Description: Caption reads: "Mammoth Ore Docks, Ashland, Wis." A building and roads are in the foreground. Several ore ships can be seen.
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Prentice Park, Mammoth Spring

Date: 1930
Description: Six girls sit on a stone wall beside Mammoth Spring in Prentice Park.
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Great Divide, or Watershed Marker Unveiling Ceremony

Date: 08 14 1932
Description: Front row: W.E. Dillon, County Highway Commissioner of Ashland; Andrew Good of Gordon Lake at Glidden; Patsy Winter of Ashland and Leo Jerome Driscoll, unv...
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Second Street, Looking East

Date: 04 30 1907
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...
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St. Joseph's Hospital

Date: 1905
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...
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Second Street

Date: 1915
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...
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High School

Date: 1913
Description: High school.
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St. Agnes Church and School

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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.
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Court House

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Description: Exterior of the three-story court house and grounds. Lake Superior is in the background.
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Views of Ashland

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Description: Four views of Ashland, including Ellis Avenue, the Chicago and North Western Depot, Northern Pacific and Omaha trains and West Second Street.
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Town Motel

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Description: View of the yellow and brown Town Motel and parking lot.

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