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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright, monitoring the construction and testing of load-bearing pylons for the Johnson Wax Building. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Workers hooping the curd to make cheddar cheese at the Plymouth Cheese factory. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Loggers using pulley to top load logs on horse-drawn bob sled. |
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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. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sunday morning in a lumber camp bunk house. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
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| Description: | Barn raising. The foundation is constructed from local fieldstone or "pudding stone," found in the nearby fields. A large group of men are is posing holdin... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wisconsin Governor Julius P. Heil, and other officials touring the Allis-Chalmers plant. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of York Iron works. Large group of men posing in yard. The boardinghouse is on a hill in the far background. Early iron was mined at Mayville... |
| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Launching Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, "Christopher Columbus", from the American Steel Barge Company dock. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. Men are lined up along a wall with open windows. They are each using a stand to hold a wheel while wrappi... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Three uniformed employees of the Sinclair Oil Company Service Station, located at 501 East Broadway, standing in front of the station's gas pumps. Two life... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew on river in five bateaux. In the background on the left is a bridge. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior of a lead mine showing two miners kneeling with candles in their hands. |
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| Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
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