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| Description: | View down dirt road towards the Lappley Bros. Lumber Yard. There are houses on the right and in the far background. There are horses and carriages parked a... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls. |
| Date: | 08 20 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Madison skyline from University of Wisconsin Field House, overlooking the Wisconsin State Capitol and, in the foreground, Gateway Lumber... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a sawmill and the distant town in the background. Stacks of logs are in the lumberyard. Along the bottom is a New Year's greeting in Germa... |
| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | The Mississippi River Logging Company's railroad grade two miles south of Weyerhaeuser over Soft Maple Creek, built about 1875-76. |
| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877. |
| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across river towards the town. Caption reads: "Ladysmith, Wis." Logs are floating in the water in the foreground. |
| 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: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a... |
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| Description: | Cutover land near a lumber mill. Logs and boards are stacked near the building in the background. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Men using a crane to load logs onto the trailer of an International W-6564-OH truck. A man is swinging from the crane's cable over the logs on the truck. A... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Men use two pieces of lumber to unload or load cut logs from the back of a truck outfitted with snow chains near Blairhampton in Ontario, Canada. On the ri... |
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| Description: | Elevated view across railroad tracks of a lumber yard. A two-story building on the right has a sign that says: "Lovejoy & Ringham". There are fences, a sto... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view town. There are barns, homes, a church's steeple and a lumberyard. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Fire insurance map of the McCormick Reaper Works, a factory of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. |
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| Description: | View from roof of wagons lined up by the Herrling sawmill. |
| Date: | 07 23 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men from the Alliance Lumber Company Limited load lumber onto the bed of an International D-35 truck. The truck features a 179-inch wheelbase. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | An International D-246-F truck owned by the C.D. Ray Logging Company parked under what appears to be a loading device constructed from a tree stump and log... |
| Date: | 01 1940 |
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| Description: | An International D-500-F truck owned by H.F. Ratcliff Wood & Logs travels along a snow-covered road through a wooded area. |
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