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Windsled "Hurricane Hazel"

Date: 1946
Description: Windsled "Hurricane Hazel" on Chequamegon. One man is sitting in the windsled, Another man is standing on the ice.
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Steamboat "Fashion"

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Description: Steamboat "Fashion" on the water.
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Radisson-Groseilliers House Historic Site Marker

Date: 1931
Description: View of the Radisson-Groseilliers house historic site marker in the vicinity of Ashland. The marker was unveiled at the mouth of Fish Creek on October 25, ...
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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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Radisson and Groseilliers House Historic Site Marker

Date: 1935
Description: Close-up of the Radisson and Groseilliers house historic site marker, commemorating the first house built in Wisconsin by white men. The house was believed...
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Radisson and Groseilliers House Marker

Date: 1936
Description: View of two men posing on either side of the Radisson and Groseilliers House historical marker. The house was the first built by white men in Wisconsin and...
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Radisson and Groseilliers House Marker

Date: 1944
Description: View of the Radisson and Groseilliers marker at the site of the first house built by white men in Wisconsin. The marker is located in the vicinity of Ashla...
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Railway Passenger Depot

Date: 1900
Description: Railway passenger depot in Ashland (?), Wisconsin.
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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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Great Divide or Watershed Sign

Date: 1930
Description: Great Divide or watershed sign.
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Ashland Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: When the East End Co-op Service Station opened in 1940 at the corner of Sixth Avenue and East Front Street, the owners announced, "Our new, modern equipmen...
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Immaculate Heart Academy Chapel

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Description: View up aisle toward the altar in the chapel in Immaculate Heart Academy. Six women wearing veils kneel in pews, facing the altar. Above the altar are the ...
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Peace March in Ashland

Date: 08 1998
Description: Group of people walking across road during a Nukewatch peace march.
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Standing in front of the Daily Press

Date: 1938
Description: Three men standing on the sidewalk outside of the offices of the Ashland Daily Press.
Postcard

Saron Lutheran Church

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Description: Exterior view of the main facade — white stone and red roof — of the Saron Lutheran Church.
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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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Second Street

Date: 01 1907
Description: View looking down Second Street. Stores and other buildings line both sides of the street, including the Post Office on the left. Cable car tracks are runn...
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Chequamegon Hotel Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Chequamegon Hotel of Ashland, on Lake Superior, with a three-quarter view of the hotel, as seen from the waterfront, set into a cartouche...
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Mellen High School Band in Music Festival Parade

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of the Mellen High School Marching Band in the Music Festival parade marching down Main Street. Students are wearing marching band uniforms a...
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Parade on Main Street

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of students in a school marching band in a parade marching down Main Street. Students are wearing marching band uniforms and are playing inst...

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