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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men stand staring at a giant pickerel fish laying on a long, wooden horse-drawn sled. The scene takes place in an industrial district, including a lumb... |
| Date: | 05 03 1908 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the Filtz and Sons Box Factory. Logs are stacked in the foreground. Caption reads: "Filtz and Sons Box Factory, Cadott, Wisconsin.... |
| Date: | 08 03 1905 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a scene of the Fox River near Lawrence University. The Main Building at Lawrence University can be seen in the background on the r... |
| Date: | 05 02 1910 |
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| Description: | The postcard shows billowing smoke from the Hurley, Wisconsin Windsor mine shaft. Two men who were in the mine at the time lost their lives. A group of boy... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A large open area completely filled with cut pine logs. There is a forest in the background. Caption reads: "Pine Logs, Drummond, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across snowy ground towards a steam-belching train engine on the right pulling flatbeds of stacked logs near a forest of tall pines. Caption reads: "L... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view across field toward the lumber mill. Caption reads: "Dan'l Shaw Lumber Company Mill, Eau Claire, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Reproduction by the Museum and Local History Department of the Eau Claire Public Library of a black and white photograph of a lumbering crew filling the sp... |
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| Description: | Tinted view of the Planing Mill, with Cedar Creek running alongside. There is a bridge on the left. Caption reads: "Planing Mill from Park Street, Cedarbur... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the railroad bridge over the Rock River at Ft. Atkinson. Wilcox Lumber is on the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "C. & N.W. Railway Bri... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a lumber mill, with industrial buildings and stacks of lumber in the yard. Caption reads: "Mills at Fosterville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Glidden. The lumber mill is in the foreground. A church and a water tower are on the horizon. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View of a street with a lumber office and a church on the left, and dwellings on the right. A man and a dog are on the sidewalk. A tree-covered hill is in ... |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view from the shoreline towards a lumber raft. Caption reads: "Steamer Kit Carson Towing Largest Lumber Raft ever taken down the Mississippi R... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View of a portable mill, a wagon, and lumber in a forest clearing. Caption reads: "Portable Mill at Butler's Camp, Mattoon, Wis." |
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| Description: | View of rows of stacked wooden palettes. A wood plank sidewalk is between them. Caption reads: "Row of Wis. Timber & Land Cos., Lumber Piles, Mattoon, Wis.... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Brooks & Ross Sawmill & Dam, Schofield, Wis. 1909." The dam and millpond with the sawmill behind it. There are multiple buildings wit... |
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