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Sawmill on the Ocklawaha

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Description: View across water toward a sawmill amidst palm trees. Lumber is piled high in numerous stacks. Five men are standing on a platform that juts out from a roo...
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Campbell's Mill

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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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The Brooks Scanlon Co.

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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 ...
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A Mill in Grand Rapids

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Description: View from shoreline toward the Grand Rapids lumber mill with a smokestack on the opposite shoreline.
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Mill, Cloquet Lumber Co.

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Description: View across water covered with logs toward the mill. Smoke and steam is coming from a smokestack and chimneys. The mill building has smaller outbuildings c...
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Lumber Yard

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Description: Elevated view from hill toward a lumberyard, with small workers' homes on the left. A dirt path and wooden fence surround the lumberyard, which is filled w...
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Northern Lumber Mill and Railroad Yards

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Description: Elevated view of the railroad tracks, lumberyard, and mill of Northern Lumber Mill. In the foreground is a long line of railroad cars sitting on the tracks...
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Lumber Mill and Dam

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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...
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Emerson Bros. Sawmill

Date: 1908
Description: Emerson Brothers Sawmill with large piles of cut trees in the foreground.
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Big Lumber Mill Across the River

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Description: The Big Lumber Mill seen from across the Chippewa River under cloudy skies, with smoke coming out of several smokestacks
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Men Posed Outdoors in front of a Wooden Building

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Description: Two men posed standing outside a wooden building with a tall smokestack, probably a power plant for a sawmill. Two men are posed sitting in two wagons, eac...
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Lumber Operation

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Description: View from hill of lumber operation, with stacks of timber and a sawmill in operation, probably McKenna in eastern Jackson County.
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Goodyear Mill

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Description: Lumberyard with railroad lines and a sawmill, probably the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle, or a mill located in McKenna.
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Goodyear Mill

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Description: Elevated view of a large group of men posing standing in front of a sawmill, probably the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle, or a mill located in ...
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McKenna Mill

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Description: Large group of men posed standing near and on a wagon stacked with timber which is on top of a platform in front of a sawmill. Railroad cars are behind the...
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Goodyear Mill

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Description: View down railroad tracks entering a lumberyard, with a silo on the right, and chimney on the left. Possibly the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle...
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Warrens Mill

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Description: View across yard of men and children posed near what is probably Warrens Mill. Men and children are posed standing, sitting in lumber wagons, on horses, an...
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Group in front of Sawmill

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Description: Two men, two women, a girl, and a dog posed standing next to a man displaying two oxen. In the background are two men posed sitting on a wagon loaded with ...
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Group in front of Sawmill

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Description: View down hill of a large group of men, some displaying horses, in front of a sawmill and its power plant. One of the men is holding a dog, and two of the ...
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Group in front of Sawmill

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Description: Large group of men, women, and children posed standing and sitting in front of an open sawmill.

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