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| Date: | 1850 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | Knapp-Stout and Company Sawmill on the Red Cedar River, with dam and logs in the foreground. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Wooden building with a shed-like extension to a hill, creating a covered overhang for a path beneath. |
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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... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Emerson Brothers Sawmill with large piles of cut trees in the foreground. |
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| Description: | View from roof of wagons lined up by the Herrling sawmill. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A view of Rudolph Herrling's sawmill and log yard in front of the Herling farm. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| 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... |
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