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Map or Atlas

Flouring Mill of John Ochsner

Date: 1877
Description: A page from an illustrated historical atlas showing four residences, a hotel and the flouring mill of John Ochsner.
Postcard

Below the High Bridge After the Flood

Date: 07 23 1912
Description: Text on front reads: "Below the High Bridge After the Flood. Wausau, Wisconsin." Railroad cars were swept away when dams at Brokaw and Merrill failed on th...
Photograph

Flour Delivery Truck

Date: 11 02 1928
Description: A flour delivery truck is backed up to a loading dock. Two men are working with full flour sacks on a cart in the open doorway. The sign on the truck bed r...
Photograph

Delivery Trucks

Date: 02 24 1928
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck for Robin Hood Flour. The truck bed has a stake body, and is filled to the top with sacks of flou...
Photograph

Grain Delivery Truck

Date: 06 05 1928
Description: View towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a Gillespie Grain Co. Ltd. truck, with an open truck bed loaded with sacks of oats. In the background is...
Photograph

UD-24 — Cotton Gins

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-24 — Cotton Gins." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by the Potosi Mill & Elev. Co., Potosi, Mo. All power for mi...
Photograph

UD-24 — Cotton Gins

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-24 — Cotton Gins." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by The Luxora Gin Co., Luxora, Ark. Used to provide power for ...
Photograph

Thatched Roof Watermill

Date: 09 22 1927
Description: View from grassy shoreline towards a watermill with a thatched roof.
Photograph

Doughboy Mills Factory

Date: 02 05 1942
Description: Model of Doughboy Mills, Inc. and grain elevator.
Photograph

UD-16 - Industrial Power

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-16 — Industrial Power (Misc.)." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Bowman Milling Co., Pocahontas, Mo. Used to po...
Print

Dow Flour Mill Letterhead

Date: 1890
Description: Dow Flour Mill letterhead, with an engraving of the mill building, with a locomotive, a ship on the lake, and the dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Photograph

Jaeger Rye Mill

Date: 07 1971
Description: View looking upriver towards the Jaeger Rye Mill, also known as the Danville Mill, on the left in front of a small dam. Trees are along the banks of the Cr...
Photograph

Yahara River Mill

Date: 1850
Description: A grist mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill, called Farwell's Madison Mills was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. The origina...
Print

Southwestern Milling Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Southwestern Milling Company, with the company logo for premium Aristos flour ("The Flour with a Flavor") on the left and a girl feeding ...
Photograph

The Model Roller Mills

Date: 1884
Description: View across river of the Model Roller Mills, with the date 1884, with a railroad trestle is on the left. The mill wheel is turning.
Photograph

Wonewoc Mill Company

Date: 
Description: A view of the Wonewoc Mill Company where they manufacture White Swan Flour. Sacks of flour and two men sitting on the loading dock. A woman walking away on...
Photograph

Men Standing by Brendemuel's Feed Mill

Date: 1905
Description: Fred Brendemuehl and Emil Lubich in front of Brendemuehl's feed mill.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map Detail of Catfish Creek Area

Date: 1885
Description: A detail of a Sanborn map including Catfish Creek and Westport Road by Lake Mendota.
Photograph

Lewis Factory and Globe Milling Company

Date: 04 29 1900
Description: View of the Globe Milling Company, built in 1848, and the Lewis Factory on the Rock River. In the distance is a dam, bridge, and barbershop.
Photograph

Old Mill

Date: 1930
Description: The rear of the Lemonweir River flour mill and its water reservoir.

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