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Stacking Wood inside Deering Works Stock Yard

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Description: Four employees hoisting planks of wood onto large stacks with a portable electric winch in the stock yard at International Harvester's Deering Works.
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McCormick Works Stock Yard

Date: 1900
Description: Small carts, stacks of lumber, and rail cars in a snow-covered yard at the McCormick Reaper Works. The original caption reads: "Foundry #28, Wheel Room, Bl...
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Wisconsin Central Railroad Depot

Date: 1891
Description: Elevated view across railroad tracks of the Wisconsin Central Railroad depot. Virtually the entire population of Sherry is thought to be standing on the pl...
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Six P&H 3-Ton Monorail Hoists

Date: 1912
Description: Six Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoists at a lumber mill (probably Pacific Lumber Co.). There are men on the ground as well as operating the cran...
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P&H 5-Ton Monorail Hoist Loading Lumber onto Barge

Date: 1913
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends over the dock to permi...
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Lumber Yard

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Description: Elevated view of workings of the Port Hammond Lumber Company, including monorail hoists, tracks and men working with large stacks of lumber. There are larg...
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International PD-80 Diesel Power Unit

Date: 1938
Description: An International PD-80 diesel power unit used to power an A.B. Carroll Lumber Company sawmill. Several men are at work on the site; trees, and what appears...
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Horse-Drawn Carriage Amid Tornado Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: Side view of a group of people looking at the debris left by a tornado from a covered horse-drawn carriage. In the foreground the roof of a houselies on th...
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Tornado Relief Effort Operations

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: Elevated view of people working with the relief effort in the aftermath of a tornado. Boxes of supplies are piled near a man in the foreground, and a man h...
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Ramsay & Jones Mill Yard

Date: 1887
Description: Mill workers in the yard at Ramsay & Jones Mill.
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Lumber Planing Mill

Date: 1899
Description: Several wagon loads of lumber stand in the yard of a planing mill.
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Depot and Train

Date: 1913
Description: View down railroad tracks of Cross Plains train depot. A man in the foreground walks away from the depot. A train, exhausting steam, is stopped at the plat...
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Bonifas Lumber Mill

Date: 1930
Description: View of William Bonifas Lumber Mill showing the mill buildings, a water tower, "Railroad Crossing" sign, an automobile, lumber stacked on railroad cars, an...
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McCormick Works and Industrial Canal

Date: 1900
Description: View of factory buildings and smokestacks from across a river or industrial canal. The factory is probably the McCormick Reaper Works as seen from across t...
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Lumber Sheds at Weber Works

Date: 1904
Description: Men load pieces of lumber from rolling carts onto piles in open-air sheds at Weber Works in Auburn Park.
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Group in front of Sawmill

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Description: View down hill of a large group of men, some displaying horses, in front of a sawmill and its power plant. One of the men is holding a dog, and two of the ...
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Row of Factories

Date: 1920
Description: The back lot of a row of factories. Alongside the buildings, there are piles of raw materials, lumber slabs, carts, and a parked car.
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Men Posing in the New Street

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view of group gathered and posed on a new street. Behind the group is a large pile of lumber, wooden sidewalks, and what appear to be newly-constr...
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Oxen Pulling a Cart

Date: 05 1902
Description: Two teams of yoked oxen pulling carts used to transport logs to, and lumber from sawmills. There is a large, wood frame two-story building in the backgroun...
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Lumber at Railroad Yard

Date: 11 20 1920
Description: Elevated view of lumber stacked in a railroad yard. A man is standing inside a New York Central Lines railroad car in the background on the left. Two men a...

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