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| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background. |
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| Description: | A Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway bridge under construction. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from Oshkosh Avenue across icy river towards the Pluswood factory in the distance. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Frozen Wisconsin River from the east bank looking west, marked to show the future location of the power dam. Logs and stumps indicate prior clearing of th... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
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| Description: | View of logs and ice in the river, probably the Ice Gorge of 1876. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Jones Island fishing community in Milwaukee Harbor. Several shacks are visible as well as many fishing nets on net rollers. Ice on the wat... |
| Date: | 12 12 1975 |
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| Description: | Northwest view from 9th Street of the bridge over Little Lake Buttes des Morts. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logging crew posed outside a log cabin in winter. Several horses are at the back of the group. The foreman, Mike Baltus, is possibly at fr... |
| Date: | 03 1941 |
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| Description: | An International K-5 truck drives on a snow-covered hillside road in Eagle Lake, Ontario, Canada to deliver cut logs. |
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| Description: | A lumber mill complex on the banks of the Chippewa River. Patches of ice are on the river. Numerous logs lie on the shore opposite the mill and on the ice. |
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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: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a crane lifting machinery to workers at the top of the bridge during construction. Words on the crane reads, "Stevens Brothers and S... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | The entrance to the bridge during construction. A worker works on the side of the bridge on the right. Other workers in the middle of the bridge lay boards... |
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| Description: | Three men posed standing on the porch of a small brick building with a tall smokestack, probably the City Water Pumping Station at Town Creek, surrounded b... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a one-story wood cottage or cabin with a stone chimney and icicles handing off the roof. The ground and roof are covered in snow, and a pa... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Logs are stacked beside a sawmill in a winter landscape. The mill has a tall smokestack and stands near the shore. |
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| Description: | Group of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. In the background a man stands with an ox, and another man displays a team of two horses. |
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| Description: | Group of men and children posed in front of large piles of snow-covered logs, ready to be dumped from landings into the river after the spring thaw. |
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