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Railroad Tie Mill

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Description: William Rogalsky's railroad tie mill, showing workers and logs ready to be milled. Photographer Charles J. Ruppenthal was known to have been active in Tige...
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Wisconsin & Northern Railroad Engine

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Description: Three men stand in the snow in front of the Wisconsin & Northern Railroad engine #2 (the second locomotive with this number) in the woods on the Menominee ...
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Buettner Mill

Date: 1948
Description: Elevated view from shoreline towards the opposite shoreline towards the Buettner mill on the left, and the river with a dam, on the right. In the backgroun...
Photograph

Wolf River Paper Company

Date: 10 1939
Description: Elevated view of the Wolf River Paper Company factory, including smokestacks and a water tower.
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Loading Big Log

Date: 1936
Description: Loading a large white pine log cut on the Menominee Indian Reservation onto a truck. The log was hauled to the Wisconsin State Fair for a display about the...
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Selective Logging

Date: 03 1938
Description: A large white pine being felled on the Menominee Indian Reservation. This photograph was taken to illustrate the tribe's selective logging practices.
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Wolf River Paper and Fiber Company

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Description: Stacks of logs are in the foreground with a man in a hat near the river. There is a chimney billowing smoke near the factory.
Postcard

School Building

Date: 05 16 1908
Description: Photographic postcard of a two-floor school building with a covered front entrance underneath a bell tower. Snow is on the ground. Caption reads: "School B...
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Collecting Maple Sap in Bags

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Description: A man is collecting maple sap in clear rubber sap bags connected to a tree. Snow is on the ground.
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Collecting Maple Sap at the Maple Crest Maple Syrup Farm

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Description: Two men in a forest are pouring maple sap into metal barrels and buckets at the Maple Crest Maple Syrup Farm. One man is standing in the back of the traile...
Print

Viking Lumber Company Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Viking Lumber Company of Wittenberg, Wisconsin, with a circular trademark, printed in red ink, of a figure with a moustache and beard, wear...
Map or Atlas

Map of Shawano County, Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: Shows lands belonging to Wisconsin Timber and Land Co., towns, post offices, saw mills, creameries, camps, churches, schools, farm houses, town halls, rail...
Postcard

School House

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a school with the students gathered on the board sidewalk. Adults are gathered near the front steps of the entrance to the school...
Photograph

Felling the White Pine

Date: 07 1936
Description: Two men are working together to cut down a large white pine tree on a Menominee Indian reservation.
Postcard

River Scene

Date: 1912
Description: View of a small river with logs piled on the left bank near an industrial building with a smokestack. Caption reads: "River Scene, Leopolis, Wis."
Postcard

Lumber Wagons

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Description: A group of men standing among a row of lumber wagons.
Postcard

Portable Mill at Butler's Camp

Date: 1908
Description: View of a portable mill, a wagon, and lumber in a forest clearing. Caption reads: "Portable Mill at Butler's Camp, Mattoon, Wis."
Postcard

Row of Wis. Timber & Land Cos., Lumber Piles

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Description: View of rows of stacked wooden palettes. A wood plank sidewalk is between them. Caption reads: "Row of Wis. Timber & Land Cos., Lumber Piles, Mattoon, Wis....
Postcard

Tigerton Lumber Company

Date: 05 13 1914
Description: Text on front reads: "Car of 4 1/2 inch, 13 inch and wider, 1st and 2nd Hard Maple Plank." Three men are standing on a horse-drawn lumber wagon full of pla...

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