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Tower Avenue

Date: 1920
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...
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Tower Avenue

Date: 1920
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...
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State Normal School

Date: 1905
Description: Caption reads: "State Normal School, Superior, Wis." Shrubs in front have been shaped into the letters: "NORMAL".
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Hotel Superior Fire

Date: 06 16 1940
Description: A crowd of people view the aftermath of a fire that destroyed the four story brick Hotel Superior and a dozen stores and offices. Nine fire companies attem...
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Hotel Superior Fire

Date: 06 1940
Description: Crowds stand in the street watching as a fire burns in the four story, brick Hotel Superior. Automobiles are parked at the curb and more people are walking...
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Hotel Superior Fire

Date: 06 18 1940
Description: A crowd of people are standing in the street watching as a fire burns in the four story, brick Hotel Superior and a dozen stores and offices. Nine fire com...
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Hotel Superior Fire

Date: 06 18 1940
Description: Crowds standing in the street watching as a fire burns in the four story, brick Hotel Superior. People are being rescued with a ladder and others have esca...
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Hotel Superior Fire

Date: 06 18 1940
Description: A crowd of people view the aftermath of a fire that destroyed the four story brick Hotel Superior and a dozen stores and offices. Nine fire companies attem...
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Great Northern Elevator "S" Annex

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Great Northern Elevator, Superior, Wis." The steel and reinforced concrete grain elevator was built by the Great Northern Railroad in...
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C.ST.P.M. & O.R.R. Station

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "C.ST.P.M. & O.R.R. Station, Superior, Wis." A girl stands in the doorway of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway trai...
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Douglas County Historical Museum

Date: 1939
Description: Text on front reads: "Douglas County Historical Museum, A.A. Roth Memorial, Superior, Wis." This home housed the Douglas County Museum from 1939 to 1963. T...
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Palace Theatre

Date: 1932
Description: Text on front reads: "Palace Theatre, Superior, Wis." A brick theatre with many windows and ornate decorative elements on the exterior. A child is on the s...

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