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| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Jim Short steering a raft riding the rough waters of the river. |
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| Description: | Several men on a raft going over the dam at Munger's Mill. There is a railroad bridge in the background. |
| Date: | 12 21 1882 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Kaukauna, from the Appleton Post Annual Review. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View up the Eau Claire River from the Dewey Street Bridge. The view shows the dam and linen mill and the site of the lower sawmill (called the "steam mill"... |
| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877. |
| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877. |
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| Description: | Group of four men and a girl standing on the opposite shoreline by the falls, with probably the Charter Oak Mill on the right on Squaw Creek. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the mill, dam, and railroad tracks, and forests surrounding the area. The lumber mill itself, with main building complex and smokestack is... |
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| Description: | A view of the Alexander Stewart Lumber Company, at 502 3rd Street. Several men are fishing off the bridge/dam over the river. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of the Peshtigo Company sawmill including the old wooden dam in the foreground. There are logs in the water on the left. |
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| Description: | View from hill looking down on a group of log cabins inhabited by "dam tenders" on the shore of the icebound Chippewa River. A logging dam in is in the rig... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Shows limits of drainage basin, dams, rapids, roads, and railroads in parts of Iron and Vilas Counties, Wisconsin. From the E.P. Sherry papers relating to ... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Shows city limits, railroads, mills, schools, cemeteries, dams, parks, lumber yards, log canals, log reservoir, Chippewa River, Eau Claire River, and Half ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of Big Mill, a lumber sawmill on the Chippewa river, next to a churning rapids. In the foreground are loose logs, whitewater, river boulders... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view across river towards the North Western Lumber Company's mills. Caption reads: "North Western Lumber Co's. Mills, Eau Claire, Wis." |
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| Description: | View across water towards a large building above a waterfall. Ice is coating the sides of the river. A bridge is in the foreground on the left. Railroad ca... |
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