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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men, women, and a child posing on boards at a lumbering and sawmill operation. The camp was operated by Edward Hahn, who named the communi... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Workers push logs floating in the Wisconsin River into alignment to enter a building for processing. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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"... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a sawmill and the distant town in the background. Stacks of logs are in the lumberyard. Along the bottom is a New Year's greeting in Germa... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of lumber yards and sawmills. Telephone poles have been touched out in lower left of foreground. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| 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 ... |
| 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: | 02 22 1938 |
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| Description: | Men use machinery inside a sawmill powered by an International PA-40 power unit. The mill was owned and operated by Bert Rubeck & Son. |
| Date: | 02 22 1938 |
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| Description: | Men operating machinery in a sawmill powered by an International PK-40 power unit. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A view from water of the Thunder Lake Lumber Co., one of the largest sawmills in Rhinelander. It was located on Lake Creek and operated until 1937. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two men using sawing machinery to make boards inside "Big Mill." |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Logs floating down the Chippewa River in front of the "Big Mill". |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View from rocky shoreline of a lumber mill on the banks of the Chippewa River. Smoke is coming out from a smokestack. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 1928 |
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| Description: | The sawmill at Newport in winter, with logs and lumber stacked nearby. |
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