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| Date: | 03 17 1908 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard showing the results of a boiler explosion at the Kempf Planing Mill. Written on the left is text that reads: "Kempf Planing Mill, 3 K... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a group of workers, horses, and a dog posing at railroad siding at C.W. Begg's Mill. Caption reads: "C.W. Begg's Mill at Siding, C... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across the Chippewa River towards an industrial red brick building, that is six stories tall in the center section, with a large smokestack at the cen... |
| 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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the train station of Dane, with three women and two men standing on the platform. Two sets of tracks stretch to the hor... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard view of an old mill and stream. Caption reads: "The Old Mill at Delafield, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a wagon crossing the bridge over the Fox River at De Pere. Caption reads: "Greetings from De Pere, Wis." and "Bridge, Fox River." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Color postcard of the Columbus Canning Company along the river. Caption reads: "The Columbus Canning Co., Columbus, Wis." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the wood yard and office. The stone structure on the right is the remnant of the National Furnace Company, an iron ore smelting company. C... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across water towards wooden buildings on the left and right, and a bridge over the foot of Mirror Lake. There is a woman in a rowboat on the lake in t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of elevated view of the Wilcox Stone Mill, and part of Broadway showing the rear view of B.F. Smith's store below the hand-drawn arro... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of elevated view of the back of mills lining the bridge. Coal kilns are below the hand-drawn arrow at top right. "Sawmills, gristmill... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of elevated view of the Dells of the Wisconsin River, at the foot of Mirror Lake. There is a bridge in the foreground, and a building... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline looking up at the bridge, and the dam. There is a building at the base on the bridge on the opposite shoreline on the right, and anothe... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from the south shore of the Chippewa River, looking west, showing choppy, churning rapids, and a silhouette of the Big Mill and smokestack. |
| Date: | 09 30 1907 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the McKinley Concentrating Mill. Caption reads: "McKinley Concentrating Mill, Dodgeville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Color enhanced postcard view of fisherman's shacks on the outlet of Logan's creek on the shore of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | View towards a fishing dock on an outlet along the shoreline of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 09 09 1905 |
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| Description: | In the foreground is a dam with the river cascading over it. On the right side of the dam is a mill consisting of four closely spaced buildings. "Eau Clair... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A workman is standing on the platform of a wooden derrick at the granite quarry. A two-story wood frame building is behind the derrick. Large granite block... |
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