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Raftsman's Series No. 1408: Cook and Cookie Before Dinner

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Description: Stereograph of a group of men on a raft. The man in the foreground is sitting and peeling potatoes. The young man splitting wood is Ashley Bennett, son of ...
Photograph

Raft Over Dam at Munger's Mill

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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.
Photograph

Lappley Feed Mill and Lumberyard

Date: 04 1923
Description: Lappley Feed Mill and lumberyard. Caption reads: "Lappley Feed Mill and Lumber Yard Fitchburg, Wis."
Painting

Wisconsin Centennial Mural

Date: 1948
Description: Center panel of the completed mural at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The image depicts wheat farming, one of the state's earliest and largest industrie...
Photograph

Group of People near Waterfall

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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.
Photograph

Power Unit at Lumber Site

Date: 1938
Description: A man sits on a metal barrel near an International I-30 tractor modified into a P-30 power unit. The power unit was used with a Skagil hoist at a lumber si...
Photograph

Warrens Mill

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Description: View across yard of men and children posed near what is probably Warrens Mill. Men and children are posed standing, sitting in lumber wagons, on horses, an...
Photograph

Sawmill

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Description: View across yard of men and boys posing in the doorway of a sawmill. There is a row of barrels across the top of the roof.
Photograph

Lumberyard

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Description: View of men in the Kleinpel lumberyard posing in the midst of work. There are about two dozen men standing on wagons, inside buildings, and on a large stac...
Postcard

Wagon Bridge and C.L. & B. Co.'s Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view looking east and upstream from the shoreline towards the wide Chippewa River. The water level is nearly up to the railroad tracks in the fore...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Sun Prairie

Date: 12 1912
Description: Sanborn Map of Sun Prairie. The map highlights the public and parochial schools, the exhange, and church buildings, etc.
Postcard

Row of Wis. Timber & Land Cos., Lumber Piles

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Description: View of rows of stacked wooden palettes. A wood plank sidewalk is between them. Caption reads: "Row of Wis. Timber & Land Cos., Lumber Piles, Mattoon, Wis....
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Juneau

Date: 1897
Description: A Sanborn map of Juneau.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Sauk City

Date: 1892
Description: A Sanborn fire insurance map of Sauk City which was drawn up in 1892.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Sauk City

Date: 1900
Description: A Sanborn fire insurance map of Sauk City created in 1900.

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