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Workers Cut Wood with Portable Sawmill

Date: 12 31 1923
Description: Three workers using a portable sawmill to cut wood, possibly at a fairgrounds. A McCormick-Deering industrial tractor is in the background.
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Logging with a T-20 Crawler Tractor

Date: 03 09 1938
Description: Men using an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor), PD-80, and P-300 owned by Sam Seppala of Grand Marais, to log white pine. The original capti...
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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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Lumber Operation

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Description: View from hill of lumber operation, with stacks of timber and a sawmill in operation, probably McKenna in eastern Jackson County.
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Goodyear Mill

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Description: Lumberyard with railroad lines and a sawmill, probably the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle, or a mill located in McKenna.
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McKenna Mill

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Description: Lumberyard full of logs and a sawmill in the distance, probably McKenna in eastern Jackson County.
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Goodyear Mill

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Description: Elevated view of a large group of men posing standing in front of a sawmill, probably the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle, or a mill located in ...
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McKenna Mill

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Description: Elevated view of a large group of men, children and horses posed standing in front of a sawmill, probably a mill located in McKenna.
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Men Posed by Saw

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Description: Men posed using a steam-powered open-air saw, probably using a steam tractor for power.
Book or Pamphlet

Farquhar Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Farquhar Machinery catalog cover featuring Art Nouveau style flower design, and two illustrations. On the top left is an Ajax Centre Crank Engine mounted o...
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McKenna Sawmill

Date: 1890
Description: View of the McKenna Sawmill. Workers are posing in front.
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...
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.
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Logging Operation at Sawmill

Date: 09 30 1927
Description: Men are working under an open-sided roofed building among trees at the C.W. O'Halloran Co. A tractor is being used to belt-drive machinery.
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Logging Operation at Sawmill

Date: 09 30 1927
Description: Men are working at a sawmill at the C.W. O'Halloran Co. There is a tractor in the background that is being used to belt-drive machinery.
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International A Tractor — Material Handling

Date: 1950
Description: A man is driving an International A tractor. Subject: "Material Handling — Int. Super A." Information with photograph reads: "An International A tractor pu...
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Saw Rig at Kearns

Date: 1910
Description: Six men and two boys are posing near a portable saw mill. There is a steam tractor at left, with a long belt driving a large circular saw blade at right, w...

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