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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: | 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... |
| 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Lumber is loaded onto the bed of an International D-30 truck parked at a lumber mill. A team of oxen pulling a load of timber stands near piles of cut lumb... |
| Date: | 07 07 1938 |
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| Description: | An International DR-60 motor truck owned by the Lewis Lumber Company hauls a load of logs over a wooden bridge spanning cutover land. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Fennimore, primarily the train depot. There is a windmill near railroad cars, and dwellings are in the distance. |
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| Description: | View across yard of men and children posed near what is probably Warrens Mill. Men and children are posed standing, sitting in lumber wagons, on horses, an... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Title at top: "G.F. Sanborn Company Timber and Farming Lands." Map shows acreages, roads, railroads, and swamps in parts of Vilas and Oneida counties. |
| Date: | 05 12 1902 |
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| Description: | Alexander Krueger, Ernst Goetsch, Paul C. Goetsch, and an unidentified man hauling wood to the Lime Kiln. The wood is piled up on a cart and pulled along t... |
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| Description: | Albumen print of the office of the W.J. Young & Co. Steam Gang Saw Mill. Several people are standing on the porch and a nearby wooden structure. A horse-dr... |
| Date: | 03 23 1922 |
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| Description: | Two horses are pulling an open sleigh with a man at the reins through cutover land with many tree stumps. |
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