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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... |
| Date: | 03 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Men operating a belt-driven sawmill powered by a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor on the property of W.A. Moorhead. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Three employees working at the Hess Cooperage sawmill, quarter sawing oak logs to make staves and heads for barrels. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Hess Cooperage employees cutting quarter sawn pieces of oak into barrel staves and heads at the sawmill behind the cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A Hess Cooperage employee cutting barrel heads and staves from quarter blocks of oak on a huge saw blade at the sawmill behind the cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 09 1938 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 14 1938 |
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| Description: | Men working outdoors at a sawmill powered by an International PD-80 Diesel power unit purchased by the A.B. Carroll Lumber Company. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 03 1938 |
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| Description: | Men work in a sawmill powered by International T-20 and PD-40 power units owned by Andrew Hedstrom. |
| Date: | 05 12 1939 |
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| Description: | International P-40 power unit under a shed at a sawmill. Logs are piled near the sheltered work area, and a man works beside them. |
| Date: | 10 18 1937 |
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| Description: | Workers saw logs at a sawmill site in a wooded area. The equipment was powered by an International PD-80 power unit. |
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| Description: | View across water toward a sawmill amidst palm trees. Lumber is piled high in numerous stacks. Five men are standing on a platform that juts out from a roo... |
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| Description: | View of lumber transported from the mill and across the assorting table, where it is then moved and sorted into different groups. Men stand on the lumber o... |
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| Description: | Blacksmith posed shoeing a horse in the snow-covered lumberyard of a sawmill, while another man holds the horse's reins. A third man is posed standing next... |
| Date: | 08 22 1943 |
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| Description: | The sawmill for the engineers at the military camp on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The soldiers are just ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A steam tractor provides power for a portable sawmill owned by Jake Karken. The large sawblade is still as men pose for the photographer. There is a team o... |
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