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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view down curving road and fields toward the works. Caption reads: "Milwaukee Vinegar Works And Red Star Yeast Company, Cudahy, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Color-enhanced postcard with an elevated view of the dam and swing bridge over the lock on the Fox River. Caption reads: "Birdseye View of Dam and Bridge o... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of elevated view of the Wilcox Stone Mill, and part of Broadway showing the rear view of B.F. Smith's store below the hand-drawn arro... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of elevated view of the back of mills lining the bridge. Coal kilns are below the hand-drawn arrow at top right. "Sawmills, gristmill... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of logs floating in river, looking east between falls and railroad bridge. In the upper right corner is a large number of logging pylons... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men standing on logs are looking at the log jam in the river. Caption reads: "Breaking Log Jam in the Chippewa River" |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of log jam. A sand bluff is across the river in the upper left corner. Caption reads: "Log Jam on Chippewa River." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the log storage yard at the Fountain-Campbell Company. Snow is on the ground. Caption reads: "Fountain-Campbell Company, Dona... |
| Date: | 09 30 1907 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the McKinley Concentrating Mill. Caption reads: "McKinley Concentrating Mill, Dodgeville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east and upstream from the shoreline towards the wide Chippewa River. The water level is nearly up to the railroad tracks in the fore... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A large open area completely filled with cut pine logs. There is a forest in the background. Caption reads: "Pine Logs, Drummond, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across snowy ground towards a steam-belching train engine on the right pulling flatbeds of stacked logs near a forest of tall pines. Caption reads: "L... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Color photographic postcard view of the Cana Island U.S. Lighthouse surrounded by a green lawn. There is a hand pump near the building. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards train flatbeds stacked with large pine logs. There is a man standing further down the tracks looking towards the flatbe... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Color enhanced postcard view of fisherman's shacks on the outlet of Logan's creek on the shore of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | View towards a fishing dock on an outlet along the shoreline of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Eau Claire, looking northwest. Caption reads: "Bird's Eye View Eau Claire—Looking Northwest, Eau Claire, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A colored photographic postcard view of a large log jam in the Dells Pond at Eau Claire. There are "booms" and several men standing on logs. Caption reads:... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard of a stone quarry. Caption reads: "Eau Claire, Wis." and "Stone Quarry." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view across field toward the lumber mill. Caption reads: "Dan'l Shaw Lumber Company Mill, Eau Claire, Wis." |
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