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Filter: Year of 1910-1919
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Co. main line logging railroad tracks “through virgin pine timber” south of Trout Lake. |
| Date: | 09 1919 |
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| Description: | View of a locomotive on the logging railroad spur, with the engineer. Three men are standing on the tracks. An automobile is parked below on the left in fr... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of an International Harvester sawmill, with logs stacked on railroad cars on a railroad track. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Logging company's railroad tracks and construction crew in a forest. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Taken on logging railroad, Lakeshore and Eastern Railroad, owned and operated by the Kneeland-McLurg Lumber company, Phillips, Wisconsin. Photograph is tak... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Two men hauling large logs with an International G-61 truck. Railroad flat cars loaded with logs are in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two workers perched on a steam locomotive pulling railroad cars loaded with logs. The coal car bears the name "Deering Southwestern Railway." The railway w... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Steam crane loading lumber onto a railroad car for use at an International Harvester sawmill. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Housing for employees of logging and lumber operations associated with International Harvester. The housing consists of small one-room shacks in a wooded a... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mogul 8-16 tractor used to power a lifting outfit to load large logs onto freight car. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mogul tractor is used to power a lifting outfit to load large logs onto freight car. |
| Community: | Gordon |
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| County: | Douglas |
| Historic Name: | Gordon Soo Line Depot |
| Reference Number: | 17193 |
| Community: | Marshfield |
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| County: | Wood |
| Historic Name: | SOO LINE DEPOT |
| Reference Number: | 28176 |
| Lumberman, Businessman, Politician, Educator and Philanthropist |
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| Read about lumberman, businessman, politician, educator and philanthropist James Huff Stout of Menominee, who founded the Stout Institute |
| A Collection of Photographs |
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| Photographs of Winther Motor company offer insight into early 20th century manufacturing. |
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