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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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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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Railroad Tie Mill

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Description: William Rogalsky's railroad tie mill, showing workers and logs ready to be milled. Photographer Charles J. Ruppenthal was known to have been active in Tige...
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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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Farmers Cut Wood with Farmall F-30 Tractor

Date: 03 07 1938
Description: Men operating a belt-driven sawmill powered by a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor on the property of W.A. Moorhead.
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Town of Moscow From Cornfield

Date: 1875
Description: View, through a cornfield, of people, a store, a sawmill and wagons. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound ...
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Workers at Lumberyard

Date: 1874
Description: Elevated view of a man with a wheelbarrow standing amid vast stacks of cut wood in the yard of a pulp mill.
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Rockdale Mill

Date: 1885
Description: View of the Rockdale mill, a grist and sawmill built in 1847 by Thomas and Nathan Van Horn. A group of people are standing on a sidewalk or loading dock on...
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Hess Cooperage Sawmill

Date: 1952
Description: Three employees working at the Hess Cooperage sawmill, quarter sawing oak logs to make staves and heads for barrels.
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Hess Brothers with Large Oak Log

Date: 1952
Description: Joe Hess, Eddie Hess, and Foots Hess (l to r) of the Hess Cooperage pose with a large oak log which will be cut into staves and heads for barrels. Houses ...
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Employees Cutting Log to Make Barrels

Date: 1952
Description: Five employees(l to r Joe Hess, Eddy Hess, Tony Hess, Frank "Foots" Hess Jr. and Frank Hess Sr.) of the Hess Cooperage, cut a large oak log to make headers...
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Unloading Logs

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Description: Indians (Native Americans) unloading logs at the sawmill on the Menominee Reservation.
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Making Grasshopper Bait

Date: 07 1938
Description: At a small sawmill near Shell Lake, farmers shovel sawdust which will be mixed with a whey product and applied to fields for grasshopper eradication during...
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McCormick-Deering 10-20 Tractor Powering Sawmill

Date: 02 30 1923
Description: Men cutting logs with a saw powered by a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor.
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International Harvester Sawmill

Date: 1912
Description: Buildings and boats on water at or near an International Harvester logging camp or sawmill. A man is standing on a crane on the right side of the image, an...
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Two Buildings at Logging Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Two buildings, including the office of Dr. A.B. Allston (left), at an International Harvester logging camp or sawmill. People can be seen standing on the p...
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Elevated View of Men at Sawmill

Date: 1912
Description: Elevated view of two men with donkeys stand on railroad tracks at an International Harvester sawmill lumberyard.
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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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International PD-80 Diesel at Sawmill

Date: 09 14 1938
Description: Men working outdoors at a sawmill powered by an International PD-80 Diesel power unit purchased by the A.B. Carroll Lumber Company.
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International PD-80 Diesel Power Unit

Date: 1938
Description: An International PD-80 diesel power unit used to power an A.B. Carroll Lumber Company sawmill. Several men are at work on the site; trees, and what appears...

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