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| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from steep shoreline of a log jam of about 150 million feet of logs, stopped at the piers of Pound, Halbert, and Co., which stood in about 40... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Log jam on the St. Croix River at the Head of the Dalles. The jam was about five miles long, and 50,000,000 board feet of white pine was piled up. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Mill dam and sash factory. "The Northwester Gateway. Excursion to Lake Superior, June 1867. Photographed and Published by J. Carbutt, 131 Lake St., Chicago... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Prairie du Sac. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the sternwheel steamer "E. Rutledge," owned by Weyerhaeuser & Denkmann's Rock Island Lumber Company, picking up a raft of logs at Be... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a log jam near the Dalles on the St. Croix River. Caption at bottom reads: "St. Croix Riv. and Bridge, St. Croix Falls." |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Elevated view taken from the extreme end of Clark's Saw and Planing Mill. An old flour mill can be seen behind the bridge, and to the extreme right are thr... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew maneuvering logs through rapids below a dam, probably on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | A view at the mouth of the Menominee River showing Ludington Wells and Van Schaick's mills. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | A brochure with a map of Wisconsin that also includes information (in English, German, Norwegian, and Swedish) pertaining to the state, such as its timber ... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | This map shows camps, forts, logging camps, lakes, roads, railroads, the Wisconsin River, and Lac Du Flambeau Indian Reservation. Some points of interest a... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of a man standing on a log among a large pile of logs spread out on the snow-covered ice of a lake. He is leaning on the handle of what may be a cant ... |
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