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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking up the Wisconsin River, with Wausau in the background. There are railroad cars on a bridge on the right. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Joseph Spensley's smelting furnace, built in 1861. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | View of Superior, with a large group of men posting in a road in the foreground, and various buildings behind them. |
| Date: | 05 05 1894 |
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| Description: | View from a boat on the Monangahela River of a coal tipple. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the coke ovens at the Lehigh Coal and Iron Company. A group of men are posing in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Northwestern Lumber Company mill. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Red Cedar (or Menomonie) River and the Knapp, Stout & Co., mills from the top of present day Meadow Hill Dr. looking Southeast. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking north towards Menomonie, the Knapp, Stout and Company lumber mills. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin River shoreline, showing lumber rafts "tied up over Sunday." |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Rice Lake. A partially constructed building is in the right foreground. Unpaved roads and a sidewalk lead to commercial buildings and dwel... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking northwest from Racine City Hall. Caption reads: "Bird's-Eye View from City Hall, Northwest." |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Munger's Mill and dam, with men standing on and around the dam. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Small town completely dependent on the sawmill. When the sawmill closed down, the town disappeared. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of John Lawler's pile-pontoon railway bridge over the Mississippi River. Three men are standing and sitting on the bridge in the foreground. Bu... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The Nekoosa-Edwards Paper company. Established about 1896 by John Edwards. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Steamboats docked in the Portage Canal, which was hand dug beginning in 1849 and completed in 1851. There are industrial buildings on either side of the ca... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A straw lead furnace, an open hearth furnace where lead sulphite (Galena) was roasted. Located on the Rountree branch of the Little Platte River, Richard S... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a sawmill area and Lake Winnebago in the foreground. The square building with the "cupola" was the Revere House. A manuscript notation, very... |
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