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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Men use two International C-60 trucks to haul logs down a dirt road in a wooded setting. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A view from water of the Thunder Lake Lumber Co., one of the largest sawmills in Rhinelander. It was located on Lake Creek and operated until 1937. |
| Date: | 07 10 1916 |
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| Description: | Man riding atop stack of lumber chained to a horse-drawn Columbus wagon on dirt road. An automobile is ahead on the right. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the West Ward of town including the hospital. View features many large wooden buildings built on a hillside with a lumber yard in the fore... |
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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: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the mill, dam, and railroad tracks, and forests surrounding the area. The lumber mill itself, with main building complex and smokestack is... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Lithographed poster depicting an elevated view of the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner factory and surrounding area. Text in the upper left corner reads, "Ch... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of three women and two men, all posing sitting on a wooden platform, perhaps in a lumber yard. A large open shed structure and stacks of t... |
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| Description: | A view of the Alexander Stewart Lumber Company, at 502 3rd Street. Several men are fishing off the bridge/dam over the river. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of the Peshtigo Company sawmill including the old wooden dam in the foreground. There are logs in the water on the left. |
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| Description: | A composite image of three photographs of sawmills and a saw graphic. The sawmills pictured are R.W. Merryman and Co.'s Mill (top), Sawyer & Goodman Co.'s ... |
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| Description: | A composite image of three photographs of sawmills with decorative graphics. The mills are N. Ludington Co.'s Old White Mill (top), the H. Witbeck Co.'s Mi... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 03 1941 |
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| Description: | An International K-5 truck drives on a snow-covered hillside road in Eagle Lake, Ontario, Canada to deliver cut logs. |
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