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| Date: | 08 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Damaged pump house after an oil tank explosion at Timlin Lumber Company, 2702 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for 1940 International Model D-40 and DS-40 trucks. Features a color illustration of lumber workers loading a truck. |
| Date: | 06 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Ray B. Drives Lumberyard, 3420 Gregory Street, burned with only the west end standing after a $10,000 fire swept the structure. The fire cause was unknown ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Center panel of the completed mural at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The image depicts wheat farming, one of the state's earliest and largest industrie... |
| Date: | 02 14 1947 |
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| Description: | The aftermath of a blazing fire involving five railroad cars of building materials at the F.L. Chase Lumber Company's main building in DeForest. |
| Date: | 02 14 1947 |
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| Description: | The main building at the F.L. Chase Lumber Company in DeForest destroyed by a blazing fire. |
| Date: | 05 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Firemen at the scene of the Doyon Lumber Company fire, 638 West Mifflin Street. The Fiore coal silos are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Yardman Don Hoffman helps Bill Morton pick out plywood for his soap box racer at C.C. Colling Lumber Yard on University Avenue. |
| Date: | 02 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Seated at the speakers' table at the Wisconsin Retail Lumbermen's banquet are (from left to right): Ralph E. Nuzum, Viroqua, president; D. Lee Watts, Madis... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man pulling logs with an International TD-18 Diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor). The tractor was owned by the Pacific National Lumber Company and was e... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man operating an International TD-18 Diesel TracTractor (crawler tractor) in a logging operation. The tractor was owned by the Pacific National Lumber Co... |
| Date: | 06 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby participant, Warren Slightam, age 13, with Marshall "Marsh" Parkinson, yard manager of the J.J. Fitzpatrick Lumber Company, which is sponsor... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Men using a crane to load logs onto the trailer of an International W-6564-OH truck. A man is swinging from the crane's cable over the logs on the truck. A... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | An International Model KB-6-F truck used by Baker-Thomas Company parked near the front of a library building. Two men stand on the bed of the truck with st... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Man operates an International I-4 tractor while another man loads lumber onto the trailer at the Duke Lumber Company. Another man is standing under an open... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A man stands on the bed of an International K-5 truck loaded with cut lumber while another man stands nearby. The Roseland Lumber & Coal Company building i... |
| Date: | 03 1941 |
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| Description: | An International K-5 truck drives on a snow-covered hillside road in Eagle Lake, Ontario, Canada to deliver cut logs. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Men use two pieces of lumber to unload or load cut logs from the back of a truck outfitted with snow chains near Blairhampton in Ontario, Canada. On the ri... |
| Date: | 01 1940 |
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| Description: | An International D-500-F truck owned by H.F. Ratcliff Wood & Logs travels along a snow-covered road through a wooded area. |
| 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... |
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