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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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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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View up the Eau Claire River

Date: 1900
Description: View up the Eau Claire River from the Dewey Street Bridge. The view shows the dam and linen mill and the site of the lower sawmill (called the "steam mill"...
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Logs at Sawmill

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of an International Harvester sawmill, with logs stacked on railroad cars on a railroad track.
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Scouler & Jacobson Lumber Company

Date: 1905
Description: View looking east of logs floating in the pond at Scouler & Jacobson Lumber Company. Logs were dumped into the pond from the rollways on the left and sent ...
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Logging with a T-20 Crawler Tractor

Date: 03 09 1938
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...
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International PD-40 and T-20 at Sawmill

Date: 03 03 1938
Description: Men work in a sawmill powered by International T-20 and PD-40 power units owned by Andrew Hedstrom.
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International P-40 Power Unit at Sawmill

Date: 05 12 1939
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.
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Men Working at Alberta Sawmill

Date: 03 07 1938
Description: Men working at a sawmill. An International PD-80 power unit is used to power machinery.
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Three Men With Machinery

Date: 09 1910
Description: Three men are standing with machinery, likely a sawmill, peripherally related to the Leighton-Wyoming mining operation.
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Men Working at Sawmill

Date: 09 1910
Description: Three men working outdoors at a sawmill in the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. In the background is a two-story industrial building.
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Emerson Bros. Sawmill

Date: 1908
Description: Emerson Brothers Sawmill with large piles of cut trees in the foreground.
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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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Spring Log Running

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

Date: 1906
Description: View from rocky shoreline of a lumber mill on the banks of the Chippewa River. Smoke is coming out from a smokestack.
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Lumber Mill on Shoreline of Chippewa River

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view from steep shoreline opposite a lumber mill on the far shore of the Chippewa River, with a bluff rising above it to the right. Boulders are o...
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Man Standing by a Sawmill

Date: 1900
Description: Man standing in front of a sawmill waterway. In the background on the opposite shoreline are the sawmill buildings.
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View of Sawmill

Date: 1900
Description: Semi-panoramic view of a river town showing extensive sawmill operations.
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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...
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...

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