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St. Paul Flax Twine Mill Building

Date: 1910
Description: St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill. The factory was owned and operated by the International Flax Twine Company (originally Minnie Harvester Company), a subsidiar...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls.
Photograph

View of Wausau, Wisconsin

Date: 1866
Description: Elevated view taken from the extreme end of Clark's Saw and Planing Mill. An old flour mill can be seen behind the bridge, and to the extreme right are thr...
Photograph

Scouler & Jacobson Lumber Company

Date: 1905
Description: View looking east of logs floating in the pond at Scouler & Jacobson Lumber Company. Logs were dumped into the pond from the rollways on the left and sent ...
Photograph

Fire Damaged Building

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Description: Exterior view of a burned-out stone building with a missing roof next to a pond.
Photograph

Mill Pond

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Description: A peaceful view of a pond and mill, featuring a small dog sitting in a boat, which rests on the shore.
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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...
Postcard

Menominee Indian Reservation Mills

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Description: Mill on the Menominee Indian Reservation between Antigo and Shawano. Two young boys are standing in the foreground on the shoreline looking at logs ready f...
Postcard

Weeds Mill

Date: 1885
Description: Photographic postcard view of Weeds Mill. The mill has smokestacks and logs piled on the pond shoreline waiting for processing. A steam locomotive is on th...
Photograph

New Dam

Date: 1913
Description: View looking down on construction site of a dam. Two pulley-operated hoists are erect. Men pose from the top of the dam.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Montello

Date: 09 19 1909
Description: Sanborn Map of Montello, Page 2.
Photograph

IH Stationary Engine and Water Pump in Garden

Date: 10 1906
Description: An International Harvester stationary engine appears to be powering a water pump, perhaps for irrigation. In the background is a pond.
Photograph

Arpin Lumber Co. Sawmill

Date: 1890
Description: 90,000 feet of pine logs floating in the storage/sorting pond at the Arpin Lumber Company sawmill. The sawmill and other buildings are in the background. O...
Photograph

Alexander, Jennie, and Edgar in a Rowboat

Date: 1906
Description: Alexander, Jennie, and Edgar Krueger in a rowboat on the quarry pond. The remnants of the old kiln stand on the hill above the pond.
Photograph

Boat on Quarry Pond

Date: 04 07 1901
Description: Alexander Krueger and Ernie Buelke fishing in a rowboat on the quarry pond.
Photograph

Fishing on Quarry Pond

Date: 04 07 1901
Description: Ernie Buelke fishing from a rowboat on the quarry pond.
Postcard

Log Jam in Dells Pond

Date: 1910
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:...
Map or Atlas

Map Showing Territory 4 Miles North, 8 miles East, 7 Miles South, and 6 Miles West of Harshaw, Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows logging roads, railroads with spur lines, trails, rapids, lumber camps, Indian villages, summer resort, lakes, rivers, and ponds.
Photograph

Lawson Plant Exterior

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior view from field across pond towards Alfred Lawson's aircraft plant, with buildings and smokestacks. Men are working with a pile of lumber on the l...
Photograph

Reclaimed Marsh Land on a University of Wisconsin Farm

Date: 06 30 1895
Description: A man is standing in the right foreground near a tall plant, perhaps corn. In the center is a square-shaped pond with high banks. A man is in the backgroun...

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