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Hemlock Bark

Date: 1895
Description: The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional card advertising the large amounts of hemlock bark in Northern Wisconsin. The image shows three men sitt...
Photograph

Jones Lumber and Merchandise

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Description: Three men displaying four horses in front of a storefront, probably the Jones Lumber and Merchandise on Water Street.
Map or Atlas

Rust-Owen Lumber Company Land Department : Drummond, Wisconsin

Date: 1917
Description: This map, which highlights the land for sale by the Rust-Owen Lumber Company in the towns of Drummond, Cable and Grandview, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, sho...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Headwaters of the Turtle River

Date: 1900
Description: Shows limits of drainage basin, dams, rapids, roads, and railroads in parts of Iron and Vilas Counties, Wisconsin. From the E.P. Sherry papers relating to ...
Map or Atlas

Maps of Trude Lake

Date: 1925
Description: Shows buildings, piers, winter and summer levels, and resort lands. Depths shown by isolines. Relief shown by contours. From the E.P. Sherry papers relatin...
Map or Atlas

Sherry's Plat of the Village of Templeton : Situated in the SE 1/4 - SE 1/4 Section 23, Township 8 North, Range 19 East, Waukesha County, Wisconsin

Date: 03 29 1888
Description: "Dated this 29th day of March AD 1888." Certifications on verso signed by: William Powrie, county surveyor -- Henry Sherry, landowner -- E.E. Paddock, not...
Map or Atlas

T44 N-R4W : Advance Map

Date: 1920
Description: Shows geology, test pits, shafts, houses, and the Mellen Lumber Co. Ry. in Marengo township, Ashland County, Wisconsin. "This is a preliminary map issued i...
Map or Atlas

City of Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Date: 1889
Description: Shows city limits, railroads, mills, schools, cemeteries, dams, parks, lumber yards, log canals, log reservoir, Chippewa River, Eau Claire River, and Half ...
Photograph

Lumberyard

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Description: View of men in the Kleinpel lumberyard posing in the midst of work. There are about two dozen men standing on wagons, inside buildings, and on a large stac...
Map or Atlas

Timber and Farming Lands Map

Date: 1908
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.
Map or Atlas

Ashland Wisconsin Showing Ashland Lumber Company and Part of Ashland County

Date: 1800
Description: The map is ink and pencil on paper. Map shows the location of the Ashland Lumber Company as well as a portion of Ashland County. Portions of the map are in...
Photograph

Interior of Lumber Mill Office

Date: 1898
Description: Interior of the Knapp, Stout & Co. lumber mill office with posed members of the staff. On the desk in the center of the room is a device with an earpiece h...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Hurley

Date: 09 1891
Description: Sanborn map of Hurley, featuring the Village of Gile and the Montreal River Lumber Company.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Hurley

Date: 1898
Description: Sanborn map of Hurley featuring the Village of Gile.
Photograph

Young Lumber Mechanics

Date: 1921
Description: Group portrait of timber mechanics outdoors at the Forest Products Laboratory.
Photograph

Young Lumberjacks

Date: 1920
Description: Two timber sawyers standing posed with their tools in a forest. Both men wear heavy mittens, and the man on the left is carrying a saw across his left shou...
Photograph

L&M Association Lumber Yard

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Description: Copy photograph of Black River Falls. L & M Association lumber yards is identified in the foreground.
Photograph

Lumber Mill with a Sawdust Burner

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Description: View across field towards a long industrial building with four smokestacks. Probably a lumber mill with a saw dust burner.
Photograph

Hauling Wood to a Lime Kiln

Date: 05 12 1902
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...
Photograph

Lumbermill Scene

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Description: Elevated view of a lumber mill. Piles of milled wood are in the foreground and on the right, with more stacks in the far background behind numerous small b...

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