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Mill Dam and Sash Factory

Date: 1867
Description: Mill dam and sash factory. "The Northwester Gateway. Excursion to Lake Superior, June 1867. Photographed and Published by J. Carbutt, 131 Lake St., Chicago...
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Soldiers' Grove

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of Soldiers' Grove with a bridge in the foreground.
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Lumberyard in Ruby

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of men, women, and a child posing on boards at a lumbering and sawmill operation. The camp was operated by Edward Hahn, who named the communi...
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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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Saw Mill

Date: 1861
Description: Exterior view of a small sawmill.
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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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Kids Drawing

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

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Description: Knapp-Stout and Company Sawmill on the Red Cedar River, with dam and logs in the foreground.
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Menominee Reservation Sawmill

Date: 1910
Description: Sawmill on a Menominee Indian reservation, with logs floating in the water in the foreground. Caption reads: "Menominee Indian Mills."
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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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Bridge, Dam and Mill in Moscow

Date: 1875
Description: View of a bridge, dam and mill. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound branch of the Pecatonica River to run ...
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View Along the Baraboo River

Date: 1868
Description: View of the Baraboo River and surrounding structures.
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Sawmill

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph image of a sawmill.
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Sawmill

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph view of Bayfield with a sawmill in the foreground.
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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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Buettner Mill

Date: 1948
Description: Elevated view from shoreline towards the opposite shoreline towards the Buettner mill on the left, and the river with a dam, on the right. In the backgroun...

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