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| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Painting depicting Chippewa Falls and the first sawmill on the Chippewa River, built by Jean Brunet. The residence of H.S. Allen, one of the owners of the... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of the Rockdale mill, a grist and sawmill built in 1847 by Thomas and Nathan Van Horn. A group of people are standing on a sidewalk or loading dock on... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View from high bank across the river of the Ingram and Pinkum sawmill (left), Ingram and Kennedy mill (right), later incorporated as the Empire Lumber Co. ... |
| 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: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the five-story tall mill erected at the outlet of the Yahara Creek by Leonard J. Farwell. This engraving appears in Statistics of Dane County,... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Shell Lake looking towards the sawmills. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The Nekoosa-Edwards Paper company. Established about 1896 by John Edwards. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A view of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company mill. Established about 1896 by John Edwards. Caption reads: "Nekoosa Mill". |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A view of Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company mills. Established about 1896 by John Edwards. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The sawmill of Gilbert E. Porter and Delos R. Moon was located on the Chippewa River approximately three miles southwest of the city of Eau Claire. In 1873... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a sawmill area and Lake Winnebago in the foreground. The square building with the "cupola" was the Revere House. A manuscript notation, very... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View across water toward the sawmill and various outbuildings located on the Oconto River. Steam is rising from a large pipe over over the main building, a... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Large piles of logs waiting to be processed into lumber sit next to the Oconto River. In the background stand what appear to be piles of cut lumber. Captio... |
| Date: | 07 30 1865 |
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| Description: | An exterior view across water of Robert Stephenson & Company Mill, which was a steam mill. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | A view at the mouth of the Menominee River showing Ludington Wells and Van Schaick's mills. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | The Ramsay & Jones Mill with logs in the water in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A view of Rudolph Herrling's sawmill and log yard in front of the Herling farm. |
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