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| 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: | 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: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a sawmill and the distant town in the background. Stacks of logs are in the lumberyard. Along the bottom is a New Year's greeting in Germa... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Small town completely dependent on the sawmill. When the sawmill closed down, the town disappeared. |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holt Lumber Company sawmill, built in 1840. |
| 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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the old mill building on the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "The Old Mill, Osceola, Wis." |
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