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Soldiers' Grove

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

Bird's-Eye View of Superior

Date: 1913
Description: Bird's-eye map of Superior. "The New Steel Center."
Photograph

Kids Drawing

Date: 05 02 1964
Description: Sitting on the school lawn, students draw Highway 51, Marathon Mill, Rib mountain and the Wisconsin River.
Photograph

Spring Log Running

Date: 1904
Description: Logs floating down the Chippewa River in front of the "Big Mill".
Photograph

Lumber Mill

Date: 1906
Description: View from rocky shoreline of a lumber mill on the banks of the Chippewa River. Smoke is coming out from a smokestack.
Photograph

Lumber Mill on Shoreline of Chippewa River

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view from steep shoreline opposite a lumber mill on the far shore of the Chippewa River, with a bluff rising above it to the right. Boulders are o...
Map or Atlas

Map of Langlade County, Wisconsin

Date: 1909
Description: A map of Langlade County, Wisconsin that shows townships and ranges, towns, cities and villages, wagon roads, churches, schools, sawmills, town halls, chee...
Map or Atlas

Lincoln County, Wisconsin : Your Opportunity in the Banner County of the State

Date: 1915
Description: This 1915 map of Lincoln County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, cities and villages, lakes and streams, residences, churches, school ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Price County, Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: This 1914 map of Price County, Wisconsin, shows land for sale by the Good Land Company and Dewitt van Ostrand of Phillips. Also shown are the township and ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Ashland County & Part Bayfield County, Wisconsin, Showing Wisconsin Central Rail Road Lands Corrected to February 15th

Date: 1900
Description: This 1900 map shows the township and range system, sections, cities and villages, railroads, roads, vacant land and land sold by the Wisconsin Central Rail...
Map or Atlas

Map of Taylor County, Wisconsin

Date: 1909
Description: This 1909 map of Taylor County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, settlers houses, schools, churches, saw...
Map or Atlas

Eagle River Land Company, Dealer in Farming Lands, Eagle River, Wisconsin

Date: 1908
Description: This 1908 map shows the town and range grid, sections, cities and villages, acreages, settlers, schools, wagon roads, railroads, saw mills, and lakes, stre...
Photograph

Engineer Sawmill

Date: 08 22 1943
Description: The sawmill for the engineers at the military camp on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The soldiers are just ...
Photograph

Sawmill

Date: 1932
Description: A steam tractor provides power for a portable sawmill owned by Jake Karken. The large sawblade is still as men pose for the photographer. There is a team o...
Map or Atlas

Military Reserve : The Following Are the Boundaries of the Lands Which Have Been Occupied by the Troops of the U.S. at Fort Howard, Green Bay

Date: 1900
Description: This photostat of a manuscript map originally drawn in 1829 shows landownership, buildings, including Fort Howard and U.S. sawmill, swamps, public barns an...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Town of Astor (Green Bay), Brown County, Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1900
Description: This photostat map shows private claim owners, natural meadows, roads, saw and grist mills, and Fort Howard. The upper right corner includes annotations an...
Photograph

Tractor-Powered Sawmill

Date: 07 13 1925
Description: View down slope towards a tractor powering a sawmill in a forest. There is a valley and hills in the background.
Photograph

Tractor-Powered Sawmill

Date: 07 13 1925
Description: View looking up slope towards a tractor-drawn sawmill. There is a tree-lined ridge in the background.
Photograph

Menominee Indian Reservation Sawmill

Date: 1957
Description: View from shoreline of logs floating in the water of Neopit Mill Pond. The sawmill is across the water, partially obscured by tall piles of logs.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Tomahawk

Date: 1901
Description: A Sanborn map of Tomahawk featuring the Bay Mill Company's lumber yard.

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