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| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | The Mississippi River Logging Company's railroad grade two miles south of Weyerhaeuser over Soft Maple Creek, built about 1875-76. |
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| Description: | A possible stereovies of a river with logs along the shore. Possibly the Hatfield and Railroad bridges in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of logs floating in river, looking east between falls and railroad bridge. In the upper right corner is a large number of logging pylons... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the third railroad bridge over the Black River. Logs are lodged in the river. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the Fairchild & Northeastern steam locomotive pulling a load of logs over the Black River bridge near Greenwood. A man is standing o... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | A brochure with a map of Wisconsin that also includes information (in English, German, Norwegian, and Swedish) pertaining to the state, such as its timber ... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a log jam under a railroad bridge about half a mile from the Black River Falls Dam. On the opposite shoreline, men sit atop a fence.... |
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| Description: | Stacks of logs are in the foreground with a man in a hat near the river. There is a chimney billowing smoke near the factory. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of two men posed standing on log sorting piers half a mile above the Railroad Bridge on the Black River. There is a large log jam behin... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View up the Eau Claire River from the Dewey Street Bridge. The view shows the dam and linen mill and the site of the lower sawmill (called the "steam mill"... |
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