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| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Group of boys at a woodworking session in the basement shop at Neighborhood House, with boys posing with various tools and planks of wood. In the far backg... |
| Date: | 07 07 1915 |
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| Description: | Ink on tracing cloth. Includes signed certifications from the surveyor, notary public, and Wisconsin Realty Company. From the E.P. Sherry papers relating t... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Shows landownership, buildings, and swamps around Rest Lake in Vilas County, Wisconsin. Relief shown by contours. "May 1917." From the E.P. Sherry papers r... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Relief shown by hachures. Shows local streets, roads, railroads, businesses, Half Moon Lake, Chippewa River, and log reservoir. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two men working outdoors using a hand saw to saw a piece of timber. In the background other people are working among stacks of timber. There is a large bui... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Tramway and railroad leading into Solombola, Russia. In the foreground are a group of people, some sawing wood and others standing by the railroad. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A steam tractor provides power for a portable sawmill owned by Jake Karken. The large sawblade is still as men pose for the photographer. There is a team o... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered logs of billets of the 310th U.S. Army Corps of Engineers near Arkhangelsk, Russia surrounded by pine trees. There are pine boughs... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards a saw mill operated by the U.S. Corps of Engineers. Soldiers are loading logs to be processed on to a horse-drawn s... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View looking down at the remains of an old dam. Driftwood has been caught up at the broken wood pilings on the far shoreline. The river is flowing fast, an... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Several old timbers are exposed on Mud Branch Road. A one-mile stretch of the road was originally constructed as a corduroy road because of "quick sand" in... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View of field with a damaged blockhouse constructed of logs, and a smaller outbuilding in the distance. It appears the roof of the fortification has sustai... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View looking down log bridge which is in the process of being built by a group of soldiers. The bridge crosses over a gully. In the distance is a horse-dra... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A blockhouse fortification built using a timber frame and large stones, with sandbags stacks near the entrance. There appear to be a wires strung along pol... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a reinforced railroad bridge over a river. There are stone foundations on both banks supporting the railroad bed. Wood has been stac... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from steep shoreline of a railroad bridge repaired with timber stacked all the way up from the riverbed to reinforce the truss of the bridge.... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Soldiers from the 310th U.S. Army Engineer Corps unloading lumber from barges. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Looking toward the Pinega River, showing the stairs and path to its shoreline, as well as a stacks of logs piled up along the shore. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a suit and hat is standing in a roadway through "the narrows." In the background is a steep ridge. Also in the background are stacks of wood ... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Cut sample pine log mounted as an exhibit in Irvine Park. |
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