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Log Drive on Wisconsin River

Date: 1913
Description: Eight men are in a boat driving logs down the Wisconsin River.
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Loading Logs from Skids

Date: 02 1914
Description: Loggers moving logs onto a horse-drawn wagon in the snow.
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Kids Drawing

Date: 05 02 1964
Description: Sitting on the school lawn, students draw Highway 51, Marathon Mill, Rib mountain and the Wisconsin River.
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W.L.L. & T. Logging Operations

Date: 02 1914
Description: Two men dressed in business attire stand in the snow in front of logs cut as part of W.L.L. & T. logging operations.
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Dam and Lumbermill

Date: 1900
Description: View of the Wausau mill and dam next to the river, where logs were first sorted.
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Raft Construction

Date: 1865
Description: Raft construction on the water.
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Log Yard at Ringle

Date: 1968
Description: Log yard along State Highway 29 near Wausau in Marathon County.
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Rural Cheese Factory

Date: 04 30 1971
Description: The cheese factory owned by Bernard Herndel located on rural State Highway 13 in Marathon County.
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Wausau Sandpaper Factory

Date: 1880
Description: View of the Wausau Sand Paper Company, about 1903-1905, at Second and Thomas streets.
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View of Wausau, Wisconsin

Date: 1866
Description: Elevated view taken from the extreme end of Clark's Saw and Planing Mill. An old flour mill can be seen behind the bridge, and to the extreme right are thr...
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Alexander Stewart Lumber Company

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view toward the lumber company. A bridge over a river is in the foreground. Caption reads: "Looking South from City Hall Tower, Wausau, Wis."
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Clark's Saw and Planing Mill

Date: 1880
Description: Clark's Saw and Planing Mill in the right foreground which is now the site of the electric plant. Behind Clark's is Plummers Mill where the Vocational Scho...
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Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company Plant

Date: 10 02 1961
Description: View of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company plant. The sky is cloudy and smoke obscures some of the stacks. Railroad cars can be are on the righ...
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Marathon Paper Mills

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of the Marathon Paper Mills from across the river. Caption reads: "Scene at the Marathon Paper Mills, Wausau, Wis."
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Moore & Galloway Lumber Company Camp and Workers

Date: 1891
Description: Lumber company workers pose in front of buildings at the Moore & Galloway Lumber Company camp, about a quarter of a mile east of Pike Lake. The man in a wh...
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Horses with a Go-Devil

Date: 1910
Description: Two logging workers pose with their team of horses who are hitched to a go-devil, used for skidding logs to a road or landing.
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Cereal Mills Company

Date: 1939
Description: An exterior view of the Cereal Mills Company, located at 112-118 West Scott Street. A railroad and a highway bridge are in the foreground.
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Town of Emmet Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Constructed of red brick and capped by a steeply pitched gable roof accented with gently flared eaves, this one-story station, built in the mid-1920s, rese...
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Hatton Lumber Camp

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Description: Winter view of Hatton Lumber Company Camp, including a number of buildings and a man riding on a horse-drawn sled.
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Rock Quarry

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Description: A young man sits atop a large boulder in a rock quarry.

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