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| Description: | Men posed standing around the temporary shelter of a steam-powered open-air saw, probably using a steam tractor for power. |
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| Description: | Men posed using a steam-powered open-air saw, probably using a steam tractor for power. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Logs are stacked beside a sawmill in a winter landscape. The mill has a tall smokestack and stands near the shore. |
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| Description: | A sawmill with workmen sitting outdoors in front of the mill. One man sits on a stack of logs, the other three men stand on a roof which is open sided and ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards a saw mill operated by the U.S. Corps of Engineers. Soldiers are loading logs to be processed on to a horse-drawn s... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Map shows township borders, marshes, pine timber, roads, railroads, and mills. The townships are are shown in blue/green, pink, and yellow. The map include... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the saw mill. Lumber is stacked in front of several buildings and railroad tracks. Caption reads: "Saw Mill, Bayfield, Wis." |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | 90,000 feet of pine logs floating in the storage/sorting pond at the Arpin Lumber Company sawmill. The sawmill and other buildings are in the background. O... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Ed McDill's sawmill crew. Left to right: George Dickerman, George Norton, Charles Norton, Jesse Dickerman and, in a derby, Ed McDill, the owner. The boys a... |
| Date: | 05 1902 |
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| Description: | Two teams of yoked oxen pulling carts used to transport logs to, and lumber from sawmills. There is a large, wood frame two-story building in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 05 1902 |
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| Description: | View across yard towards six oxen pulling a lumber wagon along a road near a sawmill. A man is standing beside the oxen holding a long whip over his should... |
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| Description: | View towards three men posing standing near a steam-powered open saw mill next to piles of logs. |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a group of men sitting near an open steam-powered saw mill. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View from hill of the McKenna Sawmill, surrounded by stacks of lumber. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | This map shows townships, land parcels, schools, rivers, lakes, creameries, churches, cemeteries, roads, post offices, town halls, saw mills, roads and sto... |
| Date: | 07 13 1925 |
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| Description: | View down slope towards a tractor powering a sawmill in a forest. There is a valley and hills in the background. |
| Date: | 08 1937 |
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| Description: | Lumber is stacked in three large piles behind a small wooden shed. There is machinery in front of the shed on the right, and what appears to be a saw pit o... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Stacks of logs cover a large flat area in the foreground, and in the distance is a complex of buildings at a sawmill. There are many large stacks of lumber... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men, left, are standing near the circular blade of a sawmill which is set up in a forested area. A third man in the center is peering over a pile of lu... |
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