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IHC Farm Engines Catalog Cover

Date: 1911
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for IHC farm engines. Features a color illustration of a Titan tank-cooled skidded oil engine floating above a farmstead wi...
Postcard

Alexander Stewart Lumber Company

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view toward the lumber company. A bridge over a river is in the foreground. Caption reads: "Looking South from City Hall Tower, Wausau, Wis."
Photograph

Bundled Sisal Leaves at the Decorticating Plant

Date: 1949
Description: A long line of bundled sisal leaves on carts outside an International Harvester Plant. The processing factory was located on an International Harvester pla...
Photograph

Sawmill and Pond, Minden Lumber Co.

Date: 
Description: View looking down hill toward the sawmill and logs floating in the pond. Company outbuildings are on the left, with a smokestack and silo. A water tower is...
Photograph

Pit Silo Derrick

Date: 1915
Description: Pit silo derrick with self dumping skip attached.
Photograph

Priesgen Barn

Date: 2004
Description: This antique Dixie gas pump is on the LeRoy and Mary Priesgen property at N7502 Doyle Road. They have lived here since 1960.
Print

Seasons Greetings

Date: 1948
Description: Holiday card of the history of the State of Wisconsin, 1848-1948. Shows a map of Wisconsin with many historical and themed elements. Image was created by w...
Photograph

Man on Land Leveler

Date: 1915
Description: Man standing on a grader pulled by a team of mules along a dirt road. Cows, a fence and farm buildings are in the background.
Photograph

National Zinc Separating Company Plant

Date: 1925
Description: Railroad tank cars on railroad tracks outside the plant. There are two large round storage tanks behind the tank cars.
Photograph

International S-Series Truck on Job Site

Date: 10 01 1980
Description: An International S-Series truck with a trailer on a dirt road in front of a newly-constructed silo and several barns and farm buildings.
Photograph

Raccoon Hunters

Date: 1955
Description: "This photo, taken by the light of the full moon, shows coon hunter Alfred 'Butch' Muche patiently waiting for his fellow hunters. Kodak Super XX film was ...
Photograph

Lumber Operation

Date: 
Description: View from hill of lumber operation, with stacks of timber and a sawmill in operation, probably McKenna in eastern Jackson County.
Photograph

Goodyear Mill

Date: 
Description: Lumberyard with railroad lines and a sawmill, probably the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle, or a mill located in McKenna.
Photograph

Goodyear Mill

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a large group of men posing standing in front of a sawmill, probably the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle, or a mill located in ...
Photograph

Goodyear Mill

Date: 
Description: View down railroad tracks entering a lumberyard, with a silo on the right, and chimney on the left. Possibly the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle...
Photograph

Lodi Canning Company

Date: 1925
Description: View down hill of the exterior of the Lodi Canning Company. The building features two stories and a large chimney.
Photograph

Southeast Construction Company

Date: 06 1988
Description: "Workmen from Southeast Construction Company are laying a 10-inch gas line that begins at Pine Bend, MN and will end at Granville, IL."
Photograph

Soo Road Overpass

Date: 06 1995
Description: "An overpass over Hwy 41 is being built for Soo Road. The camera faces west with the Tom O'Connor farm in the distance."
Photograph

New Water Tower

Date: 04 17 1997
Description: "Shirley Widmer poses on the now completed water tower base."
Photograph

Carl Benter Rental Units

Date: 1997
Description: "Looking southeast of the water tower are Carl Benter rental units."

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