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Lumberyard in Ruby

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of men, women, and a child posing on boards at a lumbering and sawmill operation. The camp was operated by Edward Hahn, who named the communi...
Photograph

View up the Eau Claire River

Date: 1900
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"...
Photograph

Marinette Church, Sawmill and Lodge

Date: 1900
Description: Composite of views of Oakwood Beach Lodge, Pioneer Presbyterian Church and a sawmill.
Photograph

Schofield Mill

Date: 1900
Description: Dam and mill at on the Wisconsin River.
Photograph

Interior of Lumber Mill

Date: 1900
Description: Two men using sawing machinery to make boards inside "Big Mill."
Photograph

Machinery Inside Lumber Mill

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of large room filled with machinery inside a lumber mill.
Map or Atlas

Map of Ashland County & Part Bayfield County, Wisconsin, Showing Wisconsin Central Rail Road Lands Corrected to February 15th

Date: 1900
Description: This 1900 map shows the township and range system, sections, cities and villages, railroads, roads, vacant land and land sold by the Wisconsin Central Rail...
Map or Atlas

Map of Shawano County, Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: Shows lands belonging to Wisconsin Timber and Land Co., towns, post offices, saw mills, creameries, camps, churches, schools, farm houses, town halls, rail...
Photograph

Man Standing by a Sawmill

Date: 1900
Description: Man standing in front of a sawmill waterway. In the background on the opposite shoreline are the sawmill buildings.
Photograph

View of Sawmill

Date: 1900
Description: Semi-panoramic view of a river town showing extensive sawmill operations.
Map or Atlas

Military Reserve : The Following Are the Boundaries of the Lands Which Have Been Occupied by the Troops of the U.S. at Fort Howard, Green Bay

Date: 1900
Description: This photostat of a manuscript map originally drawn in 1829 shows landownership, buildings, including Fort Howard and U.S. sawmill, swamps, public barns an...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Town of Astor (Green Bay), Brown County, Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1900
Description: This photostat map shows private claim owners, natural meadows, roads, saw and grist mills, and Fort Howard. The upper right corner includes annotations an...
Map or Atlas

Private Claims at Green Bay

Date: 1900
Description: This photostat map was probably originally created in 1835 and shows in addition to private claims, mills, roads, and trails. Green Bay and the Fox River a...

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