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Dining Room at Lumber Camp

Date: 1885
Description: Dining room, probably at D. Sullivan's lumber camp.
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Weber Works Lumberyard

Date: 08 29 1907
Description: Elevated view of workers with a rail cart full of stock lumber in the lumberyard at International Harvester's Weber Works in Auburn Park. The factory was o...
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Man Delivering Lumber with International Model H Truck

Date: 1918
Description: African American driver delivering a load of lumber with an International Model H semi-truck. The truck was owned by Farrar Lumber Company. The company was...
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Lumberyard

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Description: A lumberyard at about E. Lincoln Avenue and S. Burrell Street in Bay View, looking west to St. Josaphat's Basilica.
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English Lumberyard Trucks

Date: 1930
Description: Men stand next to two International trucks loaded with lumber at W.R. Barton and Son Ltd. Timber Merchants in England.
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P&H 3-Ton Monorail Hoist

Date: 1912
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist with lumber handling unit operated by a man. There is a small shed in the background. The I-beam is stamped "P...
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P&H Monorail Hoist with Lumber Handling Unit

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Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger monorail hoist with lumber unit. The sign on the cab reads "Pawling & Harnischfeger Co., Milwaukee, Wis." and there is a man in the...
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MEC&MC Monorail Hoist with Lumber Handling

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Description: Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company monorail hoist with lumber handling unit on a monorail track with an operator in the cab at Long Bell Lumb...
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MEC&MC Lumber Crane in Lumber Storage Area

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Description: Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company lumber crane in a lumber storage area at the Long Bell Lumber Company. The sign on the crane reads "The Mi...
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MEC&MC Lumber Crane

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Description: Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company lumber crane at the Long Bell Lumber Company. The cab is stamped "Milwaukee Electric Crane & Mfg. Co., 5 T...
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MEC&MC Lumber Crane in Lumber Yard

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Description: View from water of Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company lumber crane in an unknown lumber yard. The cab is stamped "Milwaukee Electric Crane & ...
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Lumber Yard

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Description: Elevated view of workings of the Port Hammond Lumber Company, including monorail hoists, tracks and men working with large stacks of lumber. There are larg...
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Pulling Lumber with I-4 Tractor at Duke Lumber Company

Date: 1947
Description: Man operates an International I-4 tractor while another man loads lumber onto the trailer at the Duke Lumber Company. Another man is standing under an open...
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Returning Stranded Logs to Main Channel

Date: 1887
Description: Men on shoreline are returning logs with horses, which have been stranded on a sandbar, to the main channel of the Mississippi River. Beef Slough Company w...
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Interior of Lumber Mill

Date: 1900
Description: Two men using sawing machinery to make boards inside "Big Mill."
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Crane Lifting Logs at Logging Camp

Date: 1904
Description: At Hein's logging camp, a crane mounted on a railroad train lifts logs onto a flatbed railway car. Other logs are stacked on the snowy ground. A number of ...
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Logging Sled at the Landing

Date: 1904
Description: Five men stand on or nearby a sled loaded with logs and pulled by two horses at the landing at Hein's logging camp. There is snow on the ground.
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Huge Sledload of Logs

Date: 1895
Description: Two men stand at Hein's Lumber Camp atop a load of logs on a sled to which is hitched four horses, claimed to be the largest load of logs ever hauled by fo...
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Four-Horse Log Load

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Description: Numerous men stand on and around a large pile of logs and a sled stacked with logs pulled by four horses at the C & M Ry Company's camp. There is snow on t...
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Lumber Planing Mill

Date: 1899
Description: Several wagon loads of lumber stand in the yard of a planing mill.

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