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Feeding Logs into the Mill

Date: 1930
Description: Workers push logs floating in the Wisconsin River into alignment to enter a building for processing.
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Chippewa Falls Riverfront

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Description: Elevated view of the riverfront, railroad tracks, and river, "as viewed from Joseph McGuire's."
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McCormick Sawmill

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Description: Lantern slide illustration of a sawmill(?) in 1863 near a railroad line with a steam train approaching.
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Logs at Sawmill

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of an International Harvester sawmill, with logs stacked on railroad cars on a railroad track.
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International PD-40 and T-20 at Sawmill

Date: 03 03 1938
Description: Men work in a sawmill powered by International T-20 and PD-40 power units owned by Andrew Hedstrom.
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Men Working at Alberta Sawmill

Date: 03 07 1938
Description: Men working at a sawmill. An International PD-80 power unit is used to power machinery.
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Sawmill and Pond, Minden Lumber Co.

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Description: View looking down hill toward the sawmill and logs floating in the pond. Company outbuildings are on the left, with a smokestack and silo. A water tower is...
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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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Northern Lumber Mill

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Description: View from shoreline across water toward the mill. To the right of the main building are two smaller structures, with a watertower and silo behind. Two smok...
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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

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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...
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Kalb Glibbert Lumber Co.

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Description: View toward the lumber mill. The mill complex is on the far shoreline, with two smokestacks. The building on the left side has a track the extends from th...
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Siler Lumber Co.

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Description: Elevated view across water toward the lumber mill. On the left is a boat, moving away from the loading dock. Smoke and steam emanate from various building ...
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The Assorting Table

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Description: View of lumber transported from the mill and across the assorting table, where it is then moved and sorted into different groups. Men stand on the lumber o...
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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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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.
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Machinery Inside Lumber Mill

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of large room filled with machinery inside a lumber mill.
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Lumber Mill Machinery

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Description: A room full of machinery in the "Big Lumber Mill."
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Lumber Mill on Chippewa River

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Description: View from shoreline of lumber mill on the bank of the Chippewa River, with steam emitting from the smokestacks. A bridge over the river is in the right bac...

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