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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Lumber is loaded onto the bed of an International D-30 truck parked at a lumber mill. A team of oxen pulling a load of timber stands near piles of cut lumb... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Two men load lumber onto a trailer attached to an International D-40 owned by City Lumber and Fuel Yards of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Stacks of lumb... |
| Date: | 10 17 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men load a piece of lumber onto the bed of an International D-35 truck owned by McDonell and Conyers Lumber Company of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Additio... |
| Date: | 11 30 1937 |
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| Description: | Mr. Allan K. Wood stands beside an International C-300 truck owned by Wood Lumber Company. Piles of lumber are stacked in the background, and there is a ma... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Men load pieces of lumber from rolling carts onto piles in open-air sheds at Weber Works in Auburn Park. |
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| Description: | View from what appears to be a lumber yard of men posed standing on the newly constructed Harrison Street bridge that replaced one destroyed in the flood o... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Minocqua Lumber Company, with a footer of two houses near the water's edge with a forest in the background that extends along the left-ha... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Menominee Indian Mills of Neopit, Wisconsin, a mill "under supervision of the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affa... |
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| Description: | View across yard of men and children posed near what is probably Warrens Mill. Men and children are posed standing, sitting in lumber wagons, on horses, an... |
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| Description: | View across yard of men and boys posing in the doorway of a sawmill. There is a row of barrels across the top of the roof. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional card advertising the large amounts of hemlock bark in Northern Wisconsin. The image shows three men sitt... |
| Lumberman, Resort Operator and Humorist |
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| Biography of Eugene Shepard, whose "Hodag" monster hoax made Oneida County a tourist attraction. |
| Lumberman, Financier and Congressman |
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| Biography of Isaac Stephenson who was a lumberman, financier and congressman. |
| Wisconsin Civil War Officer, Lumberman |
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| Brief biography of Col. Joseph Bailey, the lumberman famous for his creative application of dams during the failed Civil War Red River Campaign of 1864. |
| Lumberman and Timber Mogul |
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| Biography of Frederick Weyerhaeuser, the lumberman and timber mogul who founded the Weyerhaeuser Company and became the 8th richest American ever. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Lumber company scrip issued by Knapp, Stout & Co., Barron County, Wisconsin, between about 1878-1890. (Museum object #N4001) |
| Buffalo and O-Sho-Ga Protest Forced Removal |
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| Discover how two Ojibwe chiefs traveled to Washington DC and negotiated with President Millard Fillmore to keep rights to their land. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two timber sawyers standing posed with their tools in a forest. Both men wear heavy mittens, and the man on the left is carrying a saw across his left shou... |
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