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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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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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Men at Sawmill

Date: 10 18 1937
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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Interior of Lumber Mill

Date: 1900
Description: Two men using sawing machinery to make boards inside "Big Mill."
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The Hotz Sawmill

Date: 01 1928
Description: The sawmill at Newport in winter, with logs and lumber stacked nearby.
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Engineer Sawmill

Date: 08 22 1943
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 ...
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Sawmill Inside Shed

Date: 1914
Description: Drawing of a sawmill inside three-sided roofed shed, open to the front. Attached to a barn along the back wall.
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Tractor-Powered Sawmill

Date: 07 13 1925
Description: View down slope towards a tractor powering a sawmill in a forest. There is a valley and hills in the background.
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Logging Operation at Sawmill

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

Date: 08 13 1928
Description: A man is standing in a sawmill. An engine in the background on the left is powering the sawmill.
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Sawmill Breaks Down

Date: 1935
Description: Original caption reads: "Building an empire? The sawmill breaks down and what a crowd of onlookers to 'supervise' repairs."

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