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| Date: | 05 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Farmer cutting wood with a circular saw powered by a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Lake Shore Lumber Company of Oshkosh's mill waste lumber slab dump. Leander Choate, owner of mill, used this marsh for his waste lumber which was piled at ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Billboard for International motor trucks on Diversey Avenue outside of Deering Works. The billboard lettering reads: "Use International for Low-Cost Haulin... |
| Date: | 03 12 1909 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road towards four men standing outside of the Weber Works lumberyard. The men are standing near a gate in the fence surrounding industr... |
| Date: | 05 11 1902 |
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| Description: | Looking up the Milwaukee River to the Humboldt Avenue bridge, with the North Avenue dam in the background. |
| Date: | 01 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Men use a saw powered by an International Harvester stationary engine. The men are handling logs while two children are looking on. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View down a wooden sidewalk, next to a dirt road. Some piles of wood are in the road near a portion of the sidewalk that is under construction. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | External view from a field of the Wisconsin Lumber Company's "Deering Store." A number of other buildings surround the store. |
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| Description: | Cutover land near a lumber mill. Logs and boards are stacked near the building in the background. |
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| Description: | Winter view of Hatton Lumber Company Camp, including a number of buildings and a man riding on a horse-drawn sled. |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch, Harold Gauer, Tom Amilie, and two unknown men at Amlie's home. Taken to illustrate campaign brochure of Amlie talking to "farmer types." |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Group of men working with a tractor-powered husker and shredder in a farm yard. Men are standing on wagons, and there is a pile of boards in the yard. Part... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Three man stand in a small clearing on a steep rocky hill amid fallen trees. The small waterfall behind the men was the water power for the Leighton-Wyomin... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Deadbroke Mining Company nestled in a valley. In the foreground are a small number of dwellings and roads, and cut lumber. Caption reads: ... |
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| Description: | View toward the lumber mill. The mill complex is on the far shoreline, with two smokestacks. The building on the left side has a track the extends from th... |
| Date: | 03 1914 |
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| Description: | A girl wearing a dress and boots is standing outdoors in a yard near a house to feed chickens and chicks. In the background on the left a child is playing ... |
| Date: | 04 23 1926 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a barnyard littered with old farm machinery and piled wood. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across canal of the McCormick Reaper Works factory, rail yard, and surrounding buildings. Men in the foreground are stacking piles of lumber. After 19... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Emerson Brothers Sawmill with large piles of cut trees in the foreground. |
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