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River Front and Listman's Mills

Date: 1920
Description: View across water toward the Mississippi River front showing Listman's Mills. Caption reads: "River Front and Listman's Mills, La Crosse, Wis."
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Nagowicka Roller Mills

Date: 1920
Description: Nagowicka Roller Mills and mill race. Three people are standing on the opposite bank with the mill in the background.
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Nagowicka Roller Mills

Date: 1920
Description: Nagowicka Roller Mills and mill race on river. Ducks are entering the water.
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Pewaukee Lake Mills

Date: 1925
Description: A view of Pewaukee Lake Mills. Asa Clark, a Vermont pioneer who settled in the town of Pewaukee in 1837, erected a sawmill in 1838 at the outlet of the lak...
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Pewaukee Lake Mills

Date: 1925
Description: View of Pewaukee Lake Mills. Asa Clark, a Vermont pioneer who settled in the town of Pewaukee in 1837, erected a sawmill in 1838 at the outlet of the lake....
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Crowd Watching Feed Grinder Demonstration

Date: 1923
Description: A man surrounded by onlookers is pouring a bag of feed into a grinder powered by an International Harvester stationary engine. A man in the background is w...
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Mill at Lemonwier

Date: 1925
Description: A large wooden building with side wing and covered porch, this mill was built in 1853-4 by Newell Dustin. There is a cupola behind the chimney. According t...
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Kingston Mill

Date: 1925
Description: The three-story wooden mill building, built about 1848 by Snow and Walden. The building has twelve over twelve windows and an addition on the left.
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Stone Mill

Date: 04 1926
Description: Old stone mill, with a smaller wooden addition on the left. Water is passing through the flume.
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Stone Mill

Date: 06 19 1925
Description: Exterior of stone mill. An automobile of the period is parked under the front portico, and there is a wooden wing in the rear. A sign in front advertises "...
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Meadows Stone Burr Grain Mill

Date: 1920
Description: A Meadows stone burr grain mill powered by an International Harvester engine grinding wheat into flour at what appears to be an outdoor fair or exhibition....
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Flume and Mill House

Date: 1927
Description: Two men are standing in front of a stone mill house and wooden flume. Another man is just visible crouching inside the doorway of the mill house. The flume...
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Thatched Roof Watermill

Date: 09 22 1927
Description: View from grassy shoreline towards a watermill with a thatched roof.
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Delivery Trucks

Date: 02 24 1928
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck for Robin Hood Flour. The truck bed has a stake body, and is filled to the top with sacks of flou...
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Grain Delivery Truck

Date: 06 05 1928
Description: View towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a Gillespie Grain Co. Ltd. truck, with an open truck bed loaded with sacks of oats. In the background is...
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Flour Delivery Truck

Date: 11 02 1928
Description: A flour delivery truck is backed up to a loading dock. Two men are working with full flour sacks on a cart in the open doorway. The sign on the truck bed r...

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