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Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Washburn

Date: 1896
Description: Bird's-eye view of Washburn, with twenty vignettes around side, water in foreground with docks and lumber corral. Thirty-three locations identified in key ...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Washburn

Date: 1910
Description: Bird's-eye view looking east, with Washburn Harbor at center and Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior covering most of the upper image. Streets with buildings...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1907
Description: View down Main Street, including storefronts with signs advertising ice cream, baked goods, clothing and shoes. Caption reads: "Main Street, Iron River, Wi...
Postcard

Washburn Business District

Date: 
Description: View down street with numerous businesses on both sides along the sidewalks. Caption reads: "Street Scene, Washburn, Wisconsin.
Photograph

W.H. Lemke General Store

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of W.H. Lemke's store, which features dry goods, carpet, and more.
Photograph

D.W. Corning Groceries on Street Corner

Date: 
Description: Panoramic view of a street corner. Commercial buildings are along the street on the left, including D.W. Corning Groceries. A large group of people are on ...
Photograph

Cable Main Street

Date: 1935
Description: View across street of automobiles parked in front of a hardware store and a drugstore on Main Street.
Postcard

Main Street Shopping Center

Date: 
Description: Color postcard of the Main Street Shopping Center, with a food market, a drug store and Post Office.
Photograph

Airplane View of Mason

Date: 1931
Description: Aerial view taken from an airplane overlooking the town of Mason. Farm fields, roads, trees, houses and other buildings are visible.
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1932
Description: Elevated view of one automobile parked on Main Street near a park (the Legion Memorial Park), trees, an American flag, street lights, and various buildings...
Photograph

Aerial View of Washburn

Date: 1935
Description: Aerial view, taken from an airplane, overlooking the streets, houses, stores, trees and railroad cars.
Photograph

Phillips 66

Date: 1938
Description: View across road of the Route 66 service station. Automobiles and a Phillips 66 Chequamegon Oil Co. truck are in the parking lot. Signs around the Route 66...
Photograph

Meyer's Cafe

Date: 1936
Description: View across street of a wooden corner building with large plate glass windows and a sign advertising Meyer's Cafe. An advertisement is painted on the side ...
Photograph

Legion Memorial Park

Date: 1932
Description: Elevated view of one automobile parked on Main Street. The Legion Memorial Park is across the street. There is a hospital building in the background. Trees...
Photograph

Mason Mercantile Company

Date: 1932
Description: Exterior view of the brick front facade of the Mason Post Office and and Mason Mercantile Co. There is an automobile parked on the far left side of the bui...
Photograph

Drummond High School

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior view of a two-story brick building, the Drummond High School. There is some decoration around the windows, front doors, and in the brickwork. The ...
Painting

Bayfield Main Street, 1870

Date: 1885
Description: Main Street in Bayfield in 1870 with four cows standing in the street.
Photograph

Airplane View of Cable

Date: 1932
Description: Aerial view of town.
Photograph

State Bank of Drummond

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior view of the front facade of a building. The left side has a sign that says: "State Bank of Drummond" and the window on the right says: "Soda and I...
Photograph

Street in Iron River

Date: 1933
Description: View looking down middle of street, with a row of trees along the sidewalk on the left, and on the right utility poles, and a sign for the Park Hotel. In t...

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