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U.S. Leather Company Tannery

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Description: The U.S. Leather Co. tannery in Medford. Caption reads: "U.S. Leather Co. Tannery, Medford, Wis."
Photograph

Log Driving Crew

Date: 1910
Description: Logging crew standing on planks and logs possibly in a sorting works on the Yellow River. One man holds a ledger and the others hold long cant hooks.
Photograph

Hemlock Bark

Date: 1895
Description: The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional card advertising the large amounts of hemlock bark in Northern Wisconsin. The image shows three men sitt...
Map or Atlas

Map of Taylor County, & Part of Lincoln County, Wisconsin Showing Wisconsin Central Rail Road Lands

Date: 1887
Description: This 1896 map shows the township and range system, sections, cities and villages, railroads, roads, vacant land and land sold by the Wisconsin Central Rail...
Map or Atlas

Map of Taylor County, Wisconsin

Date: 1909
Description: This 1909 map of Taylor County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, settlers houses, schools, churches, saw...
Map or Atlas

Map of Taylor County, Wisconsin

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Description: This map of Taylor County, Wisconsin, shows soil types, the township and range grid, sections, settlers houses, schools, churches, saw mills, tanneries, ro...
Map or Atlas

Map of Taylor County Drawn to Accompany an Article by Ray Bundick, 'The disappearance of Father Menard'

Date: 1960
Description: This manuscript map of Taylor County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, lakes and streams, "Chippewa trails, Indian trails" Indian villages and...
Map or Atlas

Map of Rib Lake

Date: 1979
Description: A color map of Rib Lake, Wisconsin.
Postcard

Fountain-Campbell Company

Date: 1914
Description: Photographic postcard view of the log storage yard at the Fountain-Campbell Company. Snow is on the ground. Caption reads: "Fountain-Campbell Company, Dona...
Postcard

"The Old Way" & the New Way of Hauling Logs to Mill

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Description: View towards a train hauling many flatbed cars of logs. There is an inset photograph of a person on top of a stack of logs on a sleigh being pulled by an o...
Photograph

Steam Skidder Train Engine

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Description: Several man posing by a steam skidder which is hauling logs.
Postcard

Loading

Date: 06 06 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Rib Lake, Wis.", "Loading." and "Brown Photo." A lumberjack is standing on a load of logs pulled by a team of horses. Three more men ...
Postcard

Warehouses and Depot

Date: 09 10 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Ware-houses and Depot, Stetsonville, Wis." View across railroad tracks towards a train station with a depot, warehouses, cattle loadi...

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