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Beloit, Wisc. Upper Bridge

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Description: East facing view from the Upper Bridge, featuring the Beloit water tower in the distance.
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Oxen Pulling a Cart

Date: 05 1902
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...
Photograph

Alabama Sawmill

Date: 05 1902
Description: Alexander Krueger and Ernst Goetsch standing along a railroad track leading to a sawmill. The mill stais at the end of the tracks, which is lined with tree...
Photograph

Lumber Wagon

Date: 05 1902
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...
Postcard

C.W. Begg's Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard of a group of workers, horses, and a dog posing at railroad siding at C.W. Begg's Mill. Caption reads: "C.W. Begg's Mill at Siding, C...
Postcard

Big Mill

Date: 1909
Description: Colorized view of Big Mill, a lumber sawmill on the Chippewa river, next to a churning rapids. In the foreground are loose logs, whitewater, river boulders...
Photograph

Steam Powered Saw Mill and Workers

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Description: View towards a group of men posing standing by a pile of logs on snow-covered ground in front of a steam-powered saw mill.
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McKenna Sawmill

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

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Description: View towards men standing and sitting near a wooden structure, perhaps a sawmill.
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Group of Men at Sawmill

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Description: Elevated view of a group of employees assembled in front of a sawmill.
Postcard

Mill Scene, Kelly, Wisconsin

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Description: View of a sawmill. A man is standing near a horse on the right. The building in the back has many broken windows. Caption reads: "Mill Scene, Kelly, Wiscon...
Photograph

Sawmill

Date: 08 1937
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...
Photograph

Logging Operation at Sawmill

Date: 09 30 1927
Description: Man using a McCormick-Deering tractor among trees at the C.W. O'Halloran Co.
Photograph

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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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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Engine for Powering Sawmill

Date: 04 14 1928
Description: A man is standing under an open-sided shed. An engine in the foreground is powering a sawmill.
Photograph

Sawmills

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-24 - Sawmills." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "UD-24 power unit in sawmill."
Photograph

Sawmills — UD-14A Power Unit

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Sawmills — UD-14A Power Unit." Where Taken: "SE." Information with photograph reads: "L.C. Wilson, Dundee, Miss. has no trouble obtaining lumber ...
Postcard

Portable Mill at Butler's Camp

Date: 1908
Description: View of a portable mill, a wagon, and lumber in a forest clearing. Caption reads: "Portable Mill at Butler's Camp, Mattoon, Wis."

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