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Sawmill, N.C. Foster

Date: 1905
Description: Sawmill with trees, stumps, and lumber in the snow.
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."
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Sawmill and Pond, Minden Lumber Co.

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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...
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Alexander Stewart Lumber Company

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Description: A view of the Alexander Stewart Lumber Company, at 502 3rd Street. Several men are fishing off the bridge/dam over the river.
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Peshtigo Company Sawmill

Date: 1890
Description: View of the Peshtigo Company sawmill including the old wooden dam in the foreground. There are logs in the water on the left.
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Lumber Operation

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

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

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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...
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Building a Silo

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Description: Three men pause in their work of building a silo nest to a barn. The steel rings of the silo are in place, with wood scaffolding.
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Farmstead

Date: 10 2013
Description: View across farmyard towards a silo standing in a corner made by two barn buildings. The barn is made of wood on a stone foundation, and is showing signs o...
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Tractor Powering Sawmill

Date: 1920
Description: Men using a sawmill powered by a tractor. There is a silo in the background on the right.
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Rice Lake Plant

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of a lumber plant, with large stacks of lumber stacked around it. A lake is behind the plant.
Postcard

Sawmill & Dam

Date: 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Brooks & Ross Sawmill & Dam, Schofield, Wis. 1909." The dam and millpond with the sawmill behind it. There are multiple buildings wit...
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Wall Spalding Saw Mill

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Description: View of a saw mill and silo. Several logs are floating on the river in the foreground. A bridge is on the right. Another building is in the distance. Capti...

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