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Group of Workers Posing on Flat Cars Loaded with Lumber

Date: 09 21 1914
Description: Group portrait of men posing while standing and sitting on two small flat cars linked to each other. One of the cars is loaded with lumber. Another set of ...
Print

A.H. Kayser Lumber Yard Advertisement

Date: 1901
Description: An advertisement for the A.H. Kayser lumberyard at 204 East Washington Avenue.
Photograph

Knapp, Stout and Company Lumber Mill

Date: 1899
Description: Elevated view looking north towards Menomonie, the Knapp, Stout and Company lumber mills.
Photograph

Weber Works Lumber Yard

Date: 03 12 1909
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...
Photograph

International Model 63 Truck at Willard Battery Service Store

Date: 07 14 1927
Description: International Model 63 truck loaded with lumber, and parked in a muddy street outside the "Ishmael and Curtis Willard Battery Service" building. A sign on ...
Photograph

Wooden Sidewalk

Date: 1906
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.
Photograph

Small Factory Building

Date: 08 20 1961
Description: Three large rows of stacked logs are piled outside a small factory building.
Photograph

Laufenberg Lumber Co.

Date: 05 1981
Description: View across road of building on East Main Street.
Photograph

International C-60 Trucks with Logs

Date: 1936
Description: Men use two International C-60 trucks to haul logs down a dirt road in a wooded setting.
Photograph

Columbus Wagon Loaded with Lumber

Date: 07 10 1916
Description: Man riding atop stack of lumber chained to a horse-drawn Columbus wagon on dirt road. An automobile is ahead on the right.
Photograph

The Baldwin Lumber Co.

Date: 1920
Description: Aerial view of the Baldwin Lumber Company, which sits next to a river. The main building consists of two long, rectangular structures that sit perpendicula...
Drawing

Men Building a Plank Road

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Description: A pencil drawing of men building a road with wooden planks.
Photograph

South Side Manufacturing Company in Winter

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Description: Elevated view from road of a building on the grounds of the South Side Manufacturing Company, surrounded by a lean-to stacked with lumber. Two horses stand...
Map or Atlas

1858 Map of Racine County, Wisconsin

Date: 1972
Description: This map on 5 sheets features a title page sheet with business directory and shows section numbers, roads, railroads, saw mills, churches, blacksmith shops...
Photograph

John Barnes Roofing Company Truck

Date: 07 19 1937
Description: View from street towards a man at the John Barnes Roofing Company loading lumber onto the bed of an International D-30 truck parked in front of a company b...
Photograph

Group of Men Posed with Railroad Train

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Description: View from steep bank of a large group of men posed standing with shovels by a railroad train with flat cars covered with sand or dirt. Man of the men are h...
Map or Atlas

Map of Iowa County Wisconsin

Date: 1870
Description: A map of Iowa County, Wisconsin mounted on cloth that shows the villages of Avoca, Mifflin, Linden, Arena, Helena Station, Highland, Dodgeville, as well as...
Map or Atlas

Map of Iron County, Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: A map of Iron County, Wisconsin, shows vacant Wisconsin Central Rail Road lands, settlers houses, land sold by Wisconsin Central R.R., schools, churches, s...
Map or Atlas

Map of Iron County, Wisconsin

Date: 1898
Description: A map of Iron County, Wisconsin, shows vacant Wisconsin Central Rail Road lands, settlers houses, land sold by Wisconsin Central R.R., schools, churches, s...
Map or Atlas

Map of Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Date: 1926
Description: Relief shown by hachures. Shows local streets, roads, railroads, businesses, Half Moon Lake, Chippewa River, and log reservoir.

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