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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.
Photograph

Holt's Mill

Date: 1856
Description: View across water toward the sawmill and various outbuildings located on the Oconto River. Steam is rising from a large pipe over over the main building, a...
Photograph

Holt's Mill

Date: 1856
Description: Large piles of logs waiting to be processed into lumber sit next to the Oconto River. In the background stand what appear to be piles of cut lumber. Captio...
Photograph

Rice Lake Lumber Company Mill

Date: 1872
Description: Elevated view of the Rice Lake Lumber Company Mill, taken from a high vantage point. A formation of logs is in the river, and piles of finished boards are ...
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Bird's-Eye View of the Paine Lumber Company

Date: 1902
Description: Two panoramic bird's-eye views of the Paine Lumber Company, including the general plant, sawmill, and lumber yards. Heading at the top says: Home of Wiscon...
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Interior of Lumber Mill

Date: 1900
Description: Two men using sawing machinery to make boards inside "Big Mill."
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Machinery Inside Lumber Mill

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of large room filled with machinery inside a lumber mill.
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Lumber Mill Machinery

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Description: A room full of machinery in the "Big Lumber Mill."
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Spring Log Running

Date: 1904
Description: Logs floating down the Chippewa River in front of the "Big Mill".
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Cutting Logs

Date: 
Description: Stereograph of two men cutting logs ready for stripping and making into pulp at a paper mill. Caption reads, "7981-(b)-Cutting logs ready for stripping and...

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