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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View up the Eau Claire River from the Dewey Street Bridge. The view shows the dam and linen mill and the site of the lower sawmill (called the "steam mill"... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Sawmill with trees, stumps, and lumber in the snow. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from hill towards the Small mill, with adjacent stream. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Three employees working at the Hess Cooperage sawmill, quarter sawing oak logs to make staves and heads for barrels. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess, Eddie Hess, and Foots Hess (l to r) of the Hess Cooperage pose with a large oak log which will be cut into staves and heads for barrels. Houses ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Sawmill, for cutting barrel heads and staves out of oak logs, behind the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Hess Cooperage employees cutting quarter sawn pieces of oak into barrel staves and heads at the sawmill behind the cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A Hess Cooperage employee cutting barrel heads and staves from quarter blocks of oak on a huge saw blade at the sawmill behind the cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Five employees(l to r Joe Hess, Eddy Hess, Tony Hess, Frank "Foots" Hess Jr. and Frank Hess Sr.) of the Hess Cooperage, cut a large oak log to make headers... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A sawmill run on the Menominee Indian Reservation. |
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| Description: | Indians (Native Americans) unloading logs at the sawmill on the Menominee Reservation. |
| Date: | 04 1973 |
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| Description: | View of Austin Creek mill race as it enters the sawmill building. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Clark's Saw and Planing Mill in the right foreground which is now the site of the electric plant. Behind Clark's is Plummers Mill where the Vocational Scho... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Composite of views of Oakwood Beach Lodge, Pioneer Presbyterian Church and a sawmill. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Shell Lake looking towards the sawmills. |
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| Description: | Lantern slide illustration of a sawmill(?) in 1863 near a railroad line with a steam train approaching. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Small town completely dependent on the sawmill. When the sawmill closed down, the town disappeared. |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | At a small sawmill near Shell Lake, farmers shovel sawdust which will be mixed with a whey product and applied to fields for grasshopper eradication during... |
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