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Wolf River Paper and Fiber Company

Date: 
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.
Postcard

Log Train, Drummond, Wis.

Date: 1920
Description: View across snowy ground towards a steam-belching train engine on the right pulling flatbeds of stacked logs near a forest of tall pines. Caption reads: "L...
Photograph

Oxen Pulling a Wagon Filled with Logs

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Description: A team of eight oxen pulling a wagon filled with logs. One man is standing by the side of the oxen, while three other men wearing large hats and an African...
Photograph

Trainload of Logs

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Description: Several men are posing among logs on the ground near a train engine, which has continuous track (caterpillar) wheels and is pulling a load of logs on sledg...
Historic Marker

Beef Slough Historic Marker

Location: State Hwy 35
Nearby City: Alma, Buffalo County
Body of water: Mississippi River
Photograph

Log Hauling Train

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Description: Train pulling a long load of logs through the woods. Horses replaced oxen teams and are used along with wood burning trains to haul logs.
Print

Porters Mills Post Office Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Post Office in Porters Mills, Wisconsin, with a man putting mail into post office boxes, a padlocked mail bag that serves as a signboard ...
Photograph

Newspaper in the Raw

Date: 08 1963
Description: Elevated view of newspaper pulp wood stacked along the Fox River near the Combined Locks Paper Company. A crane is moving the logs, and workers are standin...
Photograph

Lumbering — TD-24 Tractor

Date: 1950
Description: View down road towards a man using a TD-24 tractor. Mountains are in the background. Subject: "Lumbering — TD-24 Tractor." Where Taken: "Pac." Information ...
Photograph

TD-24 — Lumbering

Date: 1950
Description: View down road towards a truck loaded with logs. The sign painted on the driver's side door reads: "Lloyd E. Larson, Arcata, Calif." Subject: "TD-24 — Lumb...
National or State Registers Record

426 Tainter Avenue

Community: Rice Lake
County: Barron
Historic Name: Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad Passenger Station
Reference Number: 07000588
National or State Registers Record

700 4th St W

Community: Menomonie
County: Dunn
Historic Name: Menomonie Omaha Depot
Reference Number: 100002856
Print

John J. Sherman Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of John J. Sherman, a real estate broker and tax, title, collection, and passenger agent in Wausau, Wisconsin, with images of men felling trees ...
Photograph

Log Running on the Chippewa River

Date: 1904
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...
News Release

Soo Line Railroad Bridge Listed in the State Register of Historic Places

For Immediate Release (September 21, 2021)
National or State Registers Record

317 West 7th Street

Community: Neillsville
County: Clark
Historic Name: Omaha Hotel
Reference Number: 13000101
Photograph

Sorting Logs

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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...
Photograph

View of Wausau, Wisconsin

Date: 1866
Description: Elevated view taken from the extreme end of Clark's Saw and Planing Mill. An old flour mill can be seen behind the bridge, and to the extreme right are thr...
Postcard

"The Old Way" & the New Way of Hauling Logs to Mill

Date: 
Description: View towards a train hauling many flatbed cars of logs. There is an inset photograph of a person on top of a stack of logs on a sleigh being pulled by an o...

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