Ardith Pounds presents the 2005 Blair Historical Picture Calendar to Library Director Ruth Peterson on behalf of the Blair Historic Preservation Alliance. The calendar is available from the Friends of the Blair Public Library and a number of other area locations.
The cover of the 2005 calendar features a 1958 photo of Washington Street looking west from the 16th Street intersection.
Other photos include the 1912 laying of the Fire Hall cornerstone, the 1872 three-story mansard-roofed schoolhouse and the adjacent, still-standing 1899 school building, a gas station operated by Dana College students in the early years of the Depression, and several early residences.
The calendar can be purchased at the Blair Area Chamber of Commerce, Blair West Pharmacy, the Public Library, Pounds Printing, Blair Book and Supply, Swerve Gallery, Blair Super Foods, and the Washington County Museum.