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Logging Scene at Park Falls
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Stacks of logs cover a large flat area in the foreground, and in the distance is a complex of buildings at a sawmill. There are many large stacks of lumber in the background. Three smokestacks and a water tower are on the right. There are railroad tracks overgrown with weeds in the foreground on the right.
July 1936
Wisconsin. Department of Agriculture and Markets
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WHi 130917
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