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| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Color drawing of beavers working on and living at their dams. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking up the Wisconsin River, with Wausau in the background. There are railroad cars on a bridge on the right. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View of a mill, sluice and dam on Waumandee Creek. The mill was built by John Oschner in 1863. Two products produced by the mill were White Rose Flour and ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Munger's Mill and dam, with men standing on and around the dam. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men in the midst of dam construction. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A view of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company mill. Established about 1896 by John Edwards. Caption reads: "Nekoosa Mill". |
| Date: | 05 19 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the dam on the Fox River at Buffalo Lake. Houses and other buildings are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 06 18 1864 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of gunboats passing the dam in the Red River near Alexandria. |
| Date: | 05 06 1894 |
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| Description: | Monongahela River view of a dam at Lock #2. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View of Alma from the Mississippi River, with wing dam on right. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew maneuvering logs through rapids below a dam, probably on the Wisconsin 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. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from bridge towards a tall smokestack standing on the left side of the Yahara River where it is flowing out of Lake Mendota. Remnants of the foundatio... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View of the Sugar River below a dam. A man stands in the water fishing. Two others stand on the bank at left and one is seated on the dam. Three sticks are... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "The second view at the Kakalin, from the north side of the river, shows the first or guard lock in the foreground and beyond the dam the large frame build... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center. The first, a double lock around which the village of C... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "....The third view was twelve miles farther up the river [from De Pere], at Rapid Croche, on the border of the present Brown and Outagamie counties. It is... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | " . . . At Grand Chute stood the young settlement of Appleton. Although only a few years old, it already boasted a college, named, as was the village itsel... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | ". . . At De Pere they stopped on the west shore for a broad sketch of the dwellings clustered on both sides of the river. The distant dam, the mills, ware... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map of the Chippewa, Price, Taylor and the northern part of Clark counties, which shows the locations of farmhouses, schoolhouses, churches,... |
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