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Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Marinette

Date: 1881
Description: Bird's-eye map of Marinette, with insets.
Photograph

Soldiers' Grove

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of Soldiers' Grove with a bridge in the foreground.
Map or Atlas

A Bird's-Eye View of the City of Ashland, Wis. County Seat of Ashland Co.

Date: 1886
Description: Bird's-eye view of Ashland, on the shores of Lake Superior, with insets of The Apostle Islands Chequamagon Bay & Ashland, and Distances from Ashland.
Painting

Chippewa Falls

Date: 1850
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...
Map or Atlas

Appleton Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: Birds-eye drawing of Appleton, Outagamie Co., depicting street names and street layout, houses, the Fox River, the court house, jail, school houses, Lawren...
Photograph

Buettner Mill

Date: 1948
Description: Elevated view from shoreline towards the opposite shoreline towards the Buettner mill on the left, and the river with a dam, on the right. In the backgroun...
Photograph

Shell Lake

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of Shell Lake looking towards the sawmills.
Photograph

Buildings at a Logging Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Buildings at a logging camp or sawmill operated by the International Harvester Company. A horse is in the right foreground.
Photograph

Logging Camp Housing

Date: 1912
Description: A woman stands in the doorway of the first in a line of houses at an International Harvester logging camp or sawmill.
Photograph

Two Buildings at Logging Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Two buildings, including the office of Dr. A.B. Allston (left), at an International Harvester logging camp or sawmill. People can be seen standing on the p...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Lumber Mill

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Description: Elevated view of the lumber mill and surrounding area. In the foreground is a pond with logs floating in it. Along the shoreline are the buildings and comp...
Photograph

Emerson Bros. Sawmill

Date: 1908
Description: Emerson Brothers Sawmill with large piles of cut trees in the foreground.
Photograph

At the Mouth of the Menominee River

Date: 1887
Description: A view at the mouth of the Menominee River showing Ludington Wells and Van Schaick's mills.
Photograph

Herrling Sawmill and Farm

Date: 1890
Description: A view of Rudolph Herrling's sawmill and log yard in front of the Herling farm.
Photograph

Rudolf Herrling Farm

Date: 1903
Description: Rudolf Herrling farm looking west from the sawmill platform. Three men are near horses and carts in a fenced-in area. In the background is the farmhouse.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

McKenna Mill

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Description: Lumberyard full of logs and a sawmill in the distance, probably McKenna in eastern Jackson County.
Photograph

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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