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Log Drive on Wisconsin River

Date: 1913
Description: Eight men are in a boat driving logs down the Wisconsin River.
Map or Atlas

Wausau Looking North

Date: 1891
Description: Bird's-eye map of Wausau, looking north with ninety-eight businesses, industries, churches, schools, and civic buildings identified in location key below i...
Photograph

Spring Runoff at Big Bull Falls

Date: 1916
Description: Water churns under a railroad bridge as the spring thaw swells the Wisconsin River.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Wausau

Date: 1879
Description: This map is a bird's-eye view of Wausau, the County Seat of Marathon County. The map features an index of points of interest.
Photograph

Kids Drawing

Date: 05 02 1964
Description: Sitting on the school lawn, students draw Highway 51, Marathon Mill, Rib mountain and the Wisconsin River.
Photograph

Wisconsin Central Locomotive

Date: 
Description: View of the Wisconsin Central Railroad crossing a railroad bridge at Knowlton.
Map or Atlas

Karte der deutschen Ansiedlung von Marathon City [and Marathon County], Wisconsin

Date: 1943
Description: This photocopy map shows inhabited farms, rivers, roads, and mills in the vicinity of Marathon City [and village of Edgar], including area between the Big ...
Photograph

Dam and Lumbermill

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

Raft Construction

Date: 1865
Description: Raft construction on the water.
Photograph

Wausau Paper Mills

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the Wausau paper mills, with smokestacks in the center, and trees and water in the foreground.
Photograph

Wausau Memorial Hospital

Date: 1945
Description: View of the Wausau Memorial Hospital, with the Wisconsin River in the foreground.
Photograph

View of Wausau, Wisconsin

Date: 1928
Description: Elevated view of the main street with the Wisconsin River in the top left corner. The street just outside the Hall Garage Company is lined with cars.
Postcard

View of Wausau

Date: 
Description: View over rooftops of town. A river is on the left, with a neighborhood on higher ground beyond. Caption reads: "Bird's-Eye View, Wausau, Wis."
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Wausau, Wisconsin

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view looking up the Wisconsin River, with Wausau in the background. There are railroad cars on a bridge on the right.
Postcard

Wreckage Left by Flood

Date: 07 1912
Description: Elevated view across the Wisconsin River, showing the wreckage left by the disastrous flood of July 24, 1912. A power dam on the Wisconsin River above Waus...
Postcard

Stroller's Bridge

Date: 1909
Description: View from shoreline towards Stroller's Bridge. Caption reads: "Strollers Bridge and the Old Wisconse, Wausau, Wis."
Postcard

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."
Photograph

George Stevens Marker

Date: 1929
Description: View of the George Stevens marker with the Wisconsin Auto Supply Company in the background and the Wisconsin River.
Photograph

Old Mosinee Bridge

Date: 
Description: Panoramic view of the old Highway 153 bridge over the Wisconsin River at Mosinee.

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