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| 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: | 1901 |
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| Description: | An advertisement for the A.H. Kayser lumberyard at 204 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a view along the Fox River. A pier with pilings is along the right, with industrial buildings. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett pulling an oar on a Wisconsin raft. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett pulling an oar on a Wisconsin raft. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of several men working at dusk, knee deep in water attending to the raft. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the raft's crew. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A man tying a rope around a log on a lumber raft. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Men stand next to two International trucks loaded with lumber at W.R. Barton and Son Ltd. Timber Merchants in England. |
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| Description: | Aerial view of University Avenue near the Veteran's Administration Hospital. At the bottom is the J.S. Timlin Lumber Company. |
| Date: | 03 23 1909 |
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| Description: | Five International Harvester Auto Buggies with men sitting inside are on a dirt road in front of the Spooner Lumber Company. Caption reads: "Delivery of I.... |
| Date: | 06 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby participant, Warren Slightam, age 13, with Marshall "Marsh" Parkinson, yard manager of the J.J. Fitzpatrick Lumber Company, which is sponsor... |
| Date: | 07 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the exterior of Fitzpatrick Lumber Company at 3230 University Avenue, with a Fitzpatrick semi-truck in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Man operates an International I-4 tractor while another man loads lumber onto the trailer at the Duke Lumber Company. Another man is standing under an open... |
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| Description: | View of a flat bottom boat known as an "Alligator," which was used in "booming and towing" logs on rivers. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a power house and lumber treating plant. Partly due to the growing lumber industry, East Radford's population grew from 300 in 1880 to 3,0... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Campbell's Mill, which specialized in lumber. Situated in the midst of the forest are smokestacks, railroad tracks, and several buildings.... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Brooks Scanlon Company, which specialized in lumber. The complex sits on a river. The lumber is lying out on the tops of roofs and in ... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Men on shoreline are returning logs with horses, which have been stranded on a sandbar, to the main channel of the Mississippi River. Beef Slough Company w... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A man stands on the bed of an International K-5 truck loaded with cut lumber while another man stands nearby. The Roseland Lumber & Coal Company building i... |
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