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Dantzler Lumber Company Fleet

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Description: View of the fleet owned by Dantzler Lumber Company. Several large sailing vessels are docked, and nearby is a canoe with two passengers. Caption reads: "Lu...
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Columbus Wagon Loaded with Lumber

Date: 07 10 1916
Description: Man riding atop stack of lumber chained to a horse-drawn Columbus wagon on dirt road. An automobile is ahead on the right.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a logging camp, with a dozen or so men posing by the wagons, piles of logs and machinery. There are both logs and milled lumber. ...
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West Ward

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Description: Elevated view of the West Ward of town including the hospital. View features many large wooden buildings built on a hillside with a lumber yard in the fore...
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Men Standing Near Logs

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Description: A view of two men standing on, and two men in front of, numerous logs. One man holds a long ruler for measuring the logs' diameters. A small covered work ...
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Great Northern Paper Company

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of timber in a canal, with a pile of wood in the foreground, at Great Northern Paper Company, which was incorporated in 1898 and soon became ...
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Campbell's Mill

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Description: Elevated view of Campbell's Mill, which specialized in lumber. Situated in the midst of the forest are smokestacks, railroad tracks, and several buildings....
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The Brooks Scanlon Co.

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Description: Elevated view of the Brooks Scanlon Company, which specialized in lumber. The complex sits on a river. The lumber is lying out on the tops of roofs and in ...
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Sawmill and Pond, Minden Lumber Co.

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Description: View looking down hill toward the sawmill and logs floating in the pond. Company outbuildings are on the left, with a smokestack and silo. A water tower is...
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A Mill in Grand Rapids

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Description: View from shoreline toward the Grand Rapids lumber mill with a smokestack on the opposite shoreline.
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Mill, Cloquet Lumber Co.

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Description: View across water covered with logs toward the mill. Smoke and steam is coming from a smokestack and chimneys. The mill building has smaller outbuildings c...
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Northern Lumber Mill

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Description: View from shoreline across water toward the mill. To the right of the main building are two smaller structures, with a watertower and silo behind. Two smok...
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Lumber Yard

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Description: Elevated view from hill toward a lumberyard, with small workers' homes on the left. A dirt path and wooden fence surround the lumberyard, which is filled w...
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Northern Lumber Mill and Railroad Yards

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Description: Elevated view of the railroad tracks, lumberyard, and mill of Northern Lumber Mill. In the foreground is a long line of railroad cars sitting on the tracks...
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Lumber Mill

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Description: Elevated view of the lumber mill and surrounding area. In the foreground is a pond with logs floating in it. Along the shoreline are the buildings and comp...
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Kalb Glibbert Lumber Co.

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Description: View toward the lumber mill. The mill complex is on the far shoreline, with two smokestacks. The building on the left side has a track the extends from th...
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Siler Lumber Co.

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Description: Elevated view across water toward the lumber mill. On the left is a boat, moving away from the loading dock. Smoke and steam emanate from various building ...
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Loading Lumber, Bound for San Francisco

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Description: View of lumber being loaded onto a boat with men on the boat and on the dock. On the dock is a small building, with a group of men, two in suits, leaning a...
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The Assorting Table

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Description: View of lumber transported from the mill and across the assorting table, where it is then moved and sorted into different groups. Men stand on the lumber o...
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Girl Feeding Chicks

Date: 03 1914
Description: A girl wearing a dress and boots is standing outdoors in a yard near a house to feed chickens and chicks. In the background on the left a child is playing ...

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