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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland. |
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| Description: | Workers loading pine logs in northern Wisconsin when there was still virgin timber for logging. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of land operations of commercial fishing operation with fish net drying reels and buildings on Apostle Islands. |
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| Description: | Lumberjacks eating in a cook shanty; probably early twentieth century. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man, sitting on a wooden bench, and a woman, sitting on the ground, are enjoying a picnic on the shore of the Flambeau River. There is an open plaid meta... |
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| Description: | View down dirt road through cut-over and burned-over terrain. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A view of the tailings pile, on the left, and on the right, the shaft house of an abandoned mine. The shaft house has been sided with corrugated metal pane... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Aspen logs are stacked in rows in front of the buildings of the American Excelsior Company. There are large frame buildings on the left, and a water tower ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Loading a large white pine log cut on the Menominee Indian Reservation onto a truck. The log was hauled to the Wisconsin State Fair for a display about the... |
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| Description: | Inset of head and shoulders portrait of "Queen Marinette" along with a depiction of her home, which was one of the earliest houses in Marinette. She was th... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Stacks of logs cover a large flat area in the foreground, and in the distance is a complex of buildings at a sawmill. There are many large stacks of lumber... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | A worker is driving a Plymouth "dinky" locomotive out of the entrance of a sand mine. One full car is behind the engine. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards three ore boats at the Soo Line Railroad dock being loaded with iron ore. The first in line is the William B. Pilkey. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across river towards the tunnel leading to the bottom of the shot tower shaft at Tower Hill State Park. There is a rustic bridge on the right leading ... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a two-story, long brick building with a raised basement and awnings over the windows. The building houses the offices of the Fai... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Cars are parked on the street in front of the 1915 brick Parker Pen factory and office building. There is a large water tower on the left. The building was... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Canoes and small sailboats are pulled up on the shore or tied up to the piers extending from the wharf at Ellison Bay. There is a small warehouse on the wh... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men, left, are standing near the circular blade of a sawmill which is set up in a forested area. A third man in the center is peering over a pile of lu... |
| Date: | 08 1937 |
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| Description: | Lumber is stacked in three large piles behind a small wooden shed. There is machinery in front of the shed on the right, and what appears to be a saw pit o... |
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