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Logs in Ashland Harbor

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland.
Photograph

Marathon Paper Mills Company

Date: 1930
Description: View of the Marathon Paper Mills Company in winter. In 1956, Marathon sold the Ashland plant to the American Can Company, before that, the Menasha Company ...
Photograph

Ore dock of Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad

Date: 1885
Description: View of the ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad. Large logs, buildings and a railroad bridge are in the foreground.
Photograph

Commercial Fishing Operation

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of land operations of commercial fishing operation with fish net drying reels and buildings on Apostle Islands.
Photograph

La Pointe Light

Date: 
Description: La Pointe Light on Long Island (Apostle Islands), Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior.
Photograph

Shingle Mill Near Mellen

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior view of the shingle mill near Mellen, with five men, probably employees, posing on and near the outdoor stairway of a building. From bottom to top...
Photograph

Shingle Mill

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior view of the Scott & Taylor shingle mill.
Photograph

Shingle Mill Workers

Date: 1895
Description: Shingle mill workers posing outside the cook shanty while the mill was shut down for repairs. They are, left to right as numbered on the photograph: 1. Joh...
Photograph

Lumber Mill Machinery

Date: 
Description: A room full of machinery in the "Big Lumber Mill."
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Mellen

Date: 09 1909
Description: Sheet 1 of a Sanborn map of Mellen.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Mellen

Date: 09 1909
Description: Sanborn map of Mellen, Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Mellen

Date: 09 1909
Description: Sanborn map of Mellen, Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Mellen

Date: 09 1909
Description: Sanborn map of Mellen.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Ashland

Date: 06 1923
Description: A Sanborn map of Ashland.
Postcard

Bird's-Eye View of Glidden, Wis.

Date: 1908
Description: Elevated view of Glidden. The lumber mill is in the foreground. A church and a water tower are on the horizon.

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