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Postcard

Bridge at Foot of Mirror Lake

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard of the bridge near a mill. Caption reads: "Bridge at Foot of Mirror Lake, Delton, Wis."
Photograph

Mill During Flood

Date: 10 13 1911
Description: Elevated view of a mill during a flood, with a man standing on the left between a bridge and the mill. A house is on the side of a tree-covered hill on the...
Photograph

Cold Stone Mill

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Description: Waterside view of mill buildings including diverted water stream.
Photograph

The Mill at New Ashford

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Description: View from below of the mill at New Ashford with the waterfall below. Caption reads: "Mill at New Ashford from Williamstown, Mass."
Photograph

Portrait of Man and Women at Waterfall and Old Mill

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Description: A portrait of two women and one man who are sitting on rocks near the waterfall. There is an old mill above them on the right.
Photograph

Parkers Mill

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Description: View across water with rocky shoreline toward the Parkers Mill. There is a rocky cliff in the background on the left. Caption reads: "Parker's Mill, Mason ...
Photograph

Hillsboro Mill

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Description: View from dirt road of a group of people (possibly employees) standing around the loading dock of the Hillsboro Mill. There is a steep, snow-covered hill i...
Postcard

Glen Lock Dam and Mill

Date: 1909
Description: View across river toward the mill and dam. Caption reads: "Glen Lock Dam and Mill, Chippewa Falls, Wis."
Map or Atlas

Town of Milltown, Polk County

Date: 1900
Description: This photocopy map shows landownership and mills in T35N, R17W as it appeared in 1885. Rice Lake, Little Balsam Lake, and Half Moon Lake are labeled.
Postcard

Grist & Pulp Mill

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Description: Zeeland Mills on the Fox River. Little Chute is across the river on the hill. A bridge and a dam are in the river, with industrial buildings on the far sho...
Photograph

Prentice Creek Mill

Date: 1890
Description: Group portrait of five men standing on and near a horse-drawn wagon in front of a grist mill, a stone building on the side of a hill.
Photograph

Log Building at Walnut Grove

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Description: View towards the mill. There is an exterior chimney to the left of the door, and a wooden walkway leads up to the closed door on the right. A fence leads t...
Photograph

McCormick Mill at Walnut Grove Restoration Project

Date: 09 15 1937
Description: View looking up towards the back of the log mill building, which is built into the side of a hill. There are three small window openings. Two wheelbarrows ...
Photograph

McCormick Mill Restoration Project

Date: 09 1937
Description: View of side of the McCormick Mill, built into the side of a hill on the right. There are small windows, one on the lower level, and another on the upper l...
Photograph

McCormick Mill Restoration Project

Date: 09 1937
Description: View of side of the log McCormick Mill, built into the side of a hill on the left. On the ground level is a doorway near the corner on the left, and a smal...
Photograph

McCormick Mill Restoration Project

Date: 09 1937
Description: View looking up towards the back of the log mill building, which is built into the side of a hill. There are three small horizontal openings in the log wal...
Photograph

Tail Race — Walnut Grove

Date: 03 26 1938
Description: Handwritten on back: "Lower end of tail race." The Blacksmith Shop is on the far left, and the reconstruction of the mill is just behind it. In the center ...
Photograph

South Side of Mill — Walnut Grove

Date: 03 26 1938
Description: A man is working near the mill. Handwritten on back: "South side of mill showing pit for water wheel."
Photograph

Mill Building — Walnut Grove

Date: 03 26 1938
Description: Two men are looking toward the back of the mill building which is on the right. Behind the man on the right is the Blacksmith Shop. In the distance are fen...
Photograph

Mill Building — Walnut Grove

Date: 05 09 1938
Description: View looking up towards the back of the mill building with stone foundation built into the side of the hill. The mill is partially constructed of logs, not...

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