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American Excelsior Company
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Aspen logs are stacked in rows in front of the buildings of the American Excelsior Company. There are large frame buildings on the left, and a water tower and smokestack in the center, and on the right a silo.
July 1936
Wisconsin. Department of Agriculture and Markets
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WHi 130919
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