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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Workers push logs floating in the Wisconsin River into alignment to enter a building for processing. |
| 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: | 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holt Lumber Company sawmill, built in 1840. |
| 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: | 03 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Men working at a sawmill. An International PD-80 power unit is used to power machinery. |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of William Bonifas Lumber Mill showing the mill buildings, a water tower, "Railroad Crossing" sign, an automobile, lumber stacked on railroad cars, an... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1937 |
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| Description: | Lumber is stacked in three large piles behind a small wooden shed. There is machinery in front of the shed on the right, and what appears to be a saw pit o... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Stacks of logs cover a large flat area in the foreground, and in the distance is a complex of buildings at a sawmill. There are many large stacks of lumber... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Building an empire? The sawmill breaks down and what a crowd of onlookers to 'supervise' repairs." |
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