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Burned Cedar Stumps

Date: 05 26 1963
Description: Burned cedar stumps in a swamp with a farm in the distance.
Postcard

Allis-Chalmer's Company

Date: 1910
Description: Aerial view of the factory surrounded by fields, roads, and several houses, as well as the railroad tracks that go around the building. Caption reads: "Wes...
Photograph

Lumber Mill

Date: 
Description: Cutover land near a lumber mill. Logs and boards are stacked near the building in the background.
Photograph

International Harvester Demonstration Farm

Date: 1920
Description: View of a farmhouse, barn, water tower, and other buildings on an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. The IHC logo is on the water tower ta...
Photograph

Emerson Bros. Sawmill

Date: 1908
Description: Emerson Brothers Sawmill with large piles of cut trees in the foreground.
Photograph

Farm Home

Date: 1895
Description: Two women, a man and a child posing on a road adjoining their homestead, with stumpland and a forest behind them.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 684-689

Date: 
Description: "I am the man with measuring pole on my shoulder. At the age of 21 years I was sawing log in the woods. Since then I have seen the old time way go and the ...
Photograph

Stump Fence

Date: 1930
Description: A field is demarcated by tree stumps piled in a wide row. Beyond the piled stumps is a field with stumps still in the ground. There is a farm building on t...

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